North East Digital Village

Child Welfare Information Gateway
Provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families. Visit often for the latest on a wide range of topics from prevention to permanency, including child welfare, child abuse and neglect, foster care, and adoption
cite: childwelfare.gov

Center for Adoption Support & Education: (CASE)
An adoptive family support center. Provides post-adoption counseling and educational services to families, educators, child welfare staff, and mental health providers nationally through its training, publications, and consultations.
cite: adoptionsupport.org

Foster Care & Adoption Open House Schedule: Connecticut DCF foster care and adoption overview meetings.
cite: dir.ct.gov/dcf/FASU/

Kids Only Adoption Support ~ Circle of Feelings
What can you do when people ask you about being adopted? Are you glad your family adopted you, but still wonder why your birth parents didn't keep you? Are your feelings confusing sometimes? You are not alone - stop in at the Kid's page and learn more about these questions.
cite: adoptionsupport.org

Teens Only Adoption Support ~ Range of Emotions
"Your teenage years can be like a bumpy ride. The cool thing about being a teenager is realizing that how you feel and how you act are two different things. . ."
cite: adoptionsupport.org

Adoption Agencies in Connecticut

Adoption Resource Center of Connecticut, ARC-CT, 78 Eastern Boulevard, Glastonbury, CT 06033, (860) 657-2626.

Adoption Center at Jewish Family Service, 740 North Main Street West Hartford, CT 06117, (860) 236-1927, email: adoption at jfshartford.org

Casey Family Services, 777 Main Street, Bridgeport, CT 06606, (203) 372-3722 and 43 Woodland Street, Hartford, CT 06105, (860) 727-1030.

Child Adoption Resource Association (CARA), 2 Union Plaza, Suite 300, New London CT, (860) 444-0553

Children's Center, 1400 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, CT 06514, (203) 248-2116

Community Residences, Inc., 732 West Street, Suite 2, Plainville, CT 06489, (860) 621-7600, Toll-Free: (888) 737-7775, kannis@criinc.org

Connection, Inc., 955 South Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457, (860) 343-5500, herb@theconnectioninc.org

DARE Family Services, Inc., 1184 Burnside Avenue, East Hartford, CT 06108, (860) 291-8688

Downey Side, 34 Connecticut Boulevard, Suite 7, East Hartford, CT 06108-3014, (860) 289-0708, Toll-Free: (800) US-Child, easthartfordct@downeyside.org.

Family Services of Central Connecticut, Inc., 92 Vine Street, New Britain, CT 06052, (860) 223-9291

Family and Children's Agency Inc. (FCA), 151 New Park Avenue, Suite 14, Hartford, CT 06106, and 9 Mott Avenue, Norwalk, CT 06850, 203.855.8765, adoption@fcagency.org.

Healing the Children Northeast, Inc., 219 Kent Road, Suite 20, P.O. Box 129, New Milford, CT 06776, (860) 355-1828, 860) 350-6634 or htcne@htcne.org.

Institute of Professional Practice, Inc. (IPP), 1764 Litchfield Turnpike, Woodbridge, CT 06525, Toll-Free: (888) 968-4489, info@ippi.org.

Jewish Family Service of New Haven, 1440 Whalley Avenue, New Haven, CT 06515, (203) 389-5599, (203) 366-5438, contact@jfsnh.org. Hours : Monday/Wednesday 9 AM-5 PM, Tuesday/Thursday, 9 AM-7 PM; Friday 9 AM-3 PM.

Klingberg Family Centers, Inc. (KFC), 370 Linwood Street, New Britain, CT 06052, (860) 224-9113, markj@klingberg.org

Latter-Day Saints Family Services, 34 Jerome Street, Suite 319, Bloomfield, CT 06002, Toll-Free: (800) 735-0149, fam-nh@ldschurch.org

Lutheran Social Services of New England (LSSNE), 2139 Silas Deane Highway, Suite 201, Rocky Hill, CT 06067, (860) 257-9899, Toll-Free: (800) 286-9889 or CTadoption@lssne.org.

New Opportunities for Waterbury, Inc., 232 North Elm Street, Waterbury, CT 06702, (203) 575-9799, info@newopportunitiesinc.org

North American Family Institute: Connecticut, 20 Batterson Park Rd. Suite 301, Farmington, CT 06032, (860) 284-1177, hildyparis@nafi.com

Thursday's Child, Inc., 227 Tunxis Avenue, Bloomfield, CT 06002, (860) 242-5941, info@tcadoption.org

Village for Families and Children, Inc., 1680 Albany Avenue, Hartford, CT 06105, (860) 236-4511

Wheeler Clinic, Inc., 91 Northwest Drive, Plainville, CT 06062, (888) 793-3500, Toll-Free: (800) 793-3588

Wide Horizons for Children, 776 Farmington Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06119, (860) 570-1740