Stronger Families, Stronger Futures (SF²)
Serving families in Greater Hartford, our Stronger Families, Stronger Futures (SF²) program connects pregnant people and parents with young children to resources to help families thrive.
Parenting Education & Family Strengthening
Upward Mobility
Upward Mobility is a partnership program that works one-on-one with you and your family and empowers you to achieve life goals. Our team will help you connect to groups and a wide array of supportive community resources.
Reunification and Therapeutic Family Time
Our Reunification and Therapeutic Family Time program provides intensive support services for families with children in DCF custody whose permanency goal is family reunification.
Fatherhood Engagement Services
Fatherhood Engagement Services works to help strengthen father-child bonds and enhance the level of involvement of fathers in their DCF case planning, provision of services and positive parenting.
Head Start Mental Health Consultation
Head Start Mental Health Consultation provides staff, teachers and parents with support for the social-emotional well-being for children in Head Start classrooms across Hartford and Middlesex counties.
Mid-Level Developmental Assessment
Our Mid-Level Developmental Assessment (MLDA) program provides you and your family with timely services to address your concerns and bring your child who is struggling at home or school back to a normal developmental trajectory before problems escalate.
Parenting Education Program (PEP)
Our Parenting Education Program (PEP) helps you and your child adjust in a healthy way after divorce or living apart from a parent/caregiver.
Parenting During and After Divorce (KIDSAFE)
KIDSAFE’s Parenting During and After Divorce classes educate and train parents on how to help children adjust in a healthy way to divorce or living apart from a parent.
Early Childhood Consultation Partnership (ECCP®)
Our Early Childhood Consultation Partnership provides you with relationship-based consultation services to help manage your child’s behavior and improve their success at school.
Community Support for Families
Community Support for Families is a voluntary, family-driven program that helps families strengthen natural and community support systems to maintain safe and healthy home environments, reducing the risk of child abuse and neglect.
Supervised Visitation
Our program provides private supervised visitation services to non-custodial parents so they may visit their children in a neutral and appropriate setting.
Words Count
Words Count is a short-term, play-based program that builds on creativity and caregiver-child bonds to help young children increase their vocabularies and enhance their conversational abilities.
Child First
Child First, designed by Darcy Lowell, MD, helps reduce the impact toxic stress can have on your child’s development by strengthening your relationship with your child and addressing your family’s basic needs, such as shelter, food, medical care or employment.
Parents as Teachers
Our Parents as Teachers home visiting program will help you build parental resilience and knowledge of parenting and child development to help your child thrive and be healthy, safe and ready to learn. Trained professionals will make regular personal home or virtual visits during your child’s earliest years in life, from prenatal through kindergarten.