Village News

Foster Care & Child Welfare

May 28, 2026
Jordan McNally and his husband are just months away from officially adopting their first child — a child who has felt like theirs for about a year now. But Jordan ...
June 14, 2024
At least 5 children a day in Connecticut are being referred to foster care, according to child advocates the I-Team spoke with, but there’s not enough room for them. ...
May 31, 2024
Colleagues at DCF partner-provider The Village for Families and Children (The Village) say their associate Vice President of Permanency, Thomas "TJ" Michalski, is the real deal - he "walks the ...
May 11, 2023
The Village is the largest provider of foster care in Connecticut. Go to TheVillage.org/foster or call 860-236-4511 for more information. ...
November 4, 2021
In an extension of their longstanding partnership The Village for Families & Children and the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) have launched an innovative new Quality Parenting Center ...
June 11, 2021
Over the past year, the Department of Children and Families has seen the number of children in foster care dip from 4,100 to 3,700. But Natalia Liriano, director of the ...