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 Therapeutic Treatment Foster Care (203) 575-4286
The program works with Department of Children and Families (DCF) special needs children aged 3-16 and matches them with foster parents. The program is responsible for recruitment, selection, licensing, training of the foster parents and payments to foster parents. Foster parents receive supportive services, home based therapy and linkage to long term counseling. Foster parents participate in parent training and support groups. The project focuses on placement of youth with emotional and or behavioral problems and is a licensed as a child placement agency.
Family Preservation - (203) 575-4286
Family Preservation provides short-term, home-based therapy and concrete services to DCF referred families who have at least one child at "imminent risk" of out of home placement. Service characteristics include: intake within 48 hours of referral, intensive home therapy (4-8 hours per week/per family), a caseload of seven (7) families per worker, 24 hour therapist availability, brief intervention period (8-12 weeks), and the provision of concrete services. The ultimate goal of the project is to avert out of home placement for children.
Fatherhood Initiative – (203) 575-4210 / Meriden (203) 235-0278
This initiative is designed to engage fathers, and to promote positive involvement and interaction with their children. The program also seeks to address the challenges that all fathers face today. Program services are designed to address the customer’s immediate employment, training and other social services support needs and to assist the customer towards becoming economically self-sufficient. The program facilitates 12-week workshops that utilize 2 distinct curriculums that provide life skills, promoting responsible fatherhood, and healthy relationships. The target age range is fathers ages 17-40.
Summer Basketball Program: (203) 235-0278
A citywide, Summer Basketball Program now serves the recreational and social needs of over 200 Meriden boys and girls from 9 to 19 years old. The seven-week program was created to provide positive role models and foster citizenship, sportsmanship and socialization skills in young athletes.
Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA)
New Opportunities Inc. hosts Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site for income eligible individuals and families from January thru April. The VITA program provides free tax preparation, electronic filing, and the option of having refunds directly deposited into bank accounts. Tax preparation services include the completion of 1040EZ and 1040-A forms for both federal and state. During the 2008 tax season the New Opportunities, Inc. VITA sites completed a total of 450 returns resulting in $524,182 in refunds.
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