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Children & Teen Mental Health & Wellness

October 18, 2024
The Village’s walk-in, youth mental health Urgent Crisis Center (UCC) in Hartford is extending its hours of operation to meet an increased need for immediate mental health support for children ...
August 30, 2024
Connecticut finds itself in a midst of a mental health crisis. In the past two months, nine youth deaths by suicide have been reported in the state, compared to seven ...
April 16, 2024
U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal says that fighting suicide and declining mental health for young adults and children will need “probably billions” of dollars. At a news conference Monday morning, which ...
February 15, 2024
Murphy spoke of his concern for the way social media impacts young people as he and Lt. Gov. Susan Bysiewicz this week headed a roundtable on the impact of loneliness ...
January 4, 2024
Stress or mental health problems in particular never take a holiday. No one knows that better than the staff inside Hartford’s Urgent Crisis Center for Children. ...
January 2, 2024
As children and teens across Connecticut continue facing mental health crises, NBT Bank is stepping up to help ensure youth have access to care and provide healing to adolescents in ...
October 27, 2023
As we continue to follow the important news out of Lewiston, Maine, we have to remember how stories like these can impact you at home. ...
August 29, 2023
Students across Connecticut are heading back to school. But, the transition from home to the classroom can be challenging, especially after a difficult few years. At The Village for Families ...
August 10, 2023
Children living and attending school at The Village for Families & Children recently had the opportunity to develop a podcast on the importance of mental health for the 2023 NPR ...
August 7, 2023
The Hartford UCC, located at The Village for Families and Children at 1680 Albany Ave. accepts walk-in patients who are welcomed into a colorful, playful waiting room and quickly met ...
August 2, 2023
Children and adolescents who are experiencing a mental health crisis can now receive the vital and immediate support needed to stabilize and begin healing at The Village for Families & ...
August 2, 2023
There is a new resource for Connecticut kids. An Urgent Crisis Center is opening its doors at The Village For Families and Children in Hartford. It’s one of four centers ...
August 2, 2023
Wednesday marked the grand opening of The Village for Families and Children‘s urgent crisis center in Hartford. The centers are designed as walk-in, outpatient clinics for kids who are having ...
August 2, 2023
There are four urgent crisis centers opening statewide to better address the mental health needs of children and teens. ...
July 21, 2023
A couple of refurbished, old red brick houses on Asylum Avenue in Hartford now host two new models of mental health care for teens and children. The facilities are part ...
July 20, 2023
Thursday, a new Urgent Crisis Center for children who experience mental health or behavioral emergencies opened in Hartford. The center will act just like an urgent care, but for mental ...
June 28, 2023
The Village for Families & Children will open Hartford’s first urgent crisis center for children experiencing mental health emergencies next month. ...
Amy Samela gave the I-Team a tour of what will be 1 of 4 urgent crisis centers coming to the state. These are centers created for kids and teens experiencing ...
April 25, 2023
Connecticut Sun WNBA stars teamed up with The Village for Families & Children on Tuesday, April 25 to provide a one-day basketball clinic for kids in Greater Hartford to help ...
March 1, 2023
Hundreds of children affected by trauma will be provided with opportunities to build healthy coping skills through recreational play therapies thanks to a $75,000 grant the LEGO Community Fund U.S. ...
September 10, 2022
Connecticut faces a crisis in children's mental health that only seems to be getting worse here and across the country. ...
May 11, 2022
At The Village for Families & Children, Gov. Ned Lamont and a handful of his agency commissioners highlighted the expected impact of more than $100 million in recently passed funding ...
April 18, 2022
The Village for Families & Children, WNBA stars partner to bring sports to after-school program ...
March 29, 2022
Children ages 3 to 17 can receive free counseling through a unique partnership with KIDSAFE-CT, an affiliate of The Village for Families & Children. The town has already established a ...
November 16, 2021
Trauma-informed and sport-infused therapy training enables additional programs and services to address the ongoing mental health crisis. ...
May 4, 2021
1 year into pandemic, evidence shows certain mental health treatments are improving outcomes and reducing racial disparities ...
November 11, 2019
Study by The Consultation Center at Yale University School of Medicine and The Village for Families & Children demonstrates significant reduction in trauma-related symptoms for Medicaid-eligible children who received EMDR ...