Danbury Regional Child Advocacy Center, Inc.

Incorporated in 1976, the Danbury Regional Child Advocacy Center is a private, non-profit child abuse prevention agency, providing timely and effective services which help high risk parents increase skills and knowledge necessary to prevent out-of-home placement of their children.
 

• The Family Enrichment Service program provides weekly, one-to-one, in home services by trained paraprofessionals.
• Multi-disciplinary Investigation Teams (MIT) convene to improve the investigation, intervention and prosecution of child sexual abuse and serious physical abuse and neglect while minimizing secondary trauma to the child.
• Evening Parent Net classes provide information and parenting skills in collaboration with Danbury schools, courts and the Connecticut Department of Children and Families. Parent Project classes focus on parents of adolescents with challenging behaviors.
• The Volunteer Mentor Program provides role models, support, advocacy and reinforcement of previous learning for families no longer receiving intensive services. Mentors are matched for weekly contact with parents at risk.  
• Grandparents as Parents Support Groups (GAPS) meet weekly with trained and supervised co-facilitators to provide information, support and advocacy.

All Danbury Regional Child Advocacy Center programs are free and child care is provided upon request.  Collaboration with other local and state agencies is critical to the success of these programs. The income of 85% of families in the Danbury Regional Child Advocacy Center programs is below the federal poverty level.  In fiscal year 2009-2010 Family Enrichment Specialists helped 517 clients in 140 families.  Teams assisted 179 clients in 106 families.  Groups provided education and support for 251 clients in 120 families and Volunteer Mentors and Grandparents groups helped 42 clients in 18 families.  

The Danbury Regional Child Advocacy Center serves the towns of Bethel, Bridgewater, Brookfield, Danbury, Kent, New Fairfield, New  Milford, Newtown, Redding, Ridgefield, Roxbury, Sherman, Warren and Washington.