Village for Families & Children, Inc.
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Contact Information
1680 Albany Avenue
Hartford, CT 06105
United States
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Hartford, CT 06105
United States
| Day | Hours |
|---|---|
| Monday | 8 AM-7 PM |
| Tuesday | 8 AM-5 PM |
| Wednesday | 8 AM-7 PM |
| Thursday | 8 AM-5 PM |
| Friday | 8 AM-5 PM |
| Saturday | Closed |
| Sunday | Closed |
The Village was one of the first agencies in the country to provide homes for neglected children. Today, we continue to achieve our mission “to build a community of strong, healthy families who protect and nurture children” by providing a full range of behavioral health, early childhood and youth development, substance use treatment and support services for children, adults and families in the Greater Hartford, Connecticut region.
Our Foster Care program serves local youth ages 6-18 who have forms of trauma resulting from neglect and/or abuse. Using the Functional Family Therapy (FFT) model, we provide in home clinical treatment focused on trauma recovery, case management services and 24/7 support. We partner with our families to provide safe and nurturing homes to stabilize and expedite a youth’s journey to permanency.
Services and information
- Traditional Foster Care
- Emergency Foster Care
- Respite Foster Care
- Other
Requirements to become a foster parent
You must meet minimum requirements to provide foster care for children in Connecticut. Before you start, educate yourself and reach out to a foster care agency. Social workers recommend that you and other family members in your home feel ready before starting your foster journey. Caring for a foster child takes time, patience, and persistence.
Contact your local licensed child-placing agency or attend an orientation meeting to learn more about what fostering entails. They will inform you about foster parent requirements, common obstacles you might face, and unique challenges among foster children. All foster kids have experienced trauma. Training teaches foster parents how best to help foster children manage their feelings and feel secure.
You must meet minimum state requirements to qualify as a foster care provider in Connecticut. Foster parents must:
- Be 21 years of age or older
- Offer a safe living environment
- Pass a police and FBI background check
- Maintain sufficient income to care for a family
- Complete the 10-week training program
- Provide a separate bed for the foster child
- Complete the Home Study process
- Have a clean driving record (pass a DMV check)
Kids of the same gender in a similar age range may share a bedroom.
Contact the Connecticut Department of Children and Families or a local child-placing agency for additional questions about foster parent requirements.
Ratings and Reviews
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Jun 07, 2017
The administration here does not have very practical policies. Most of their policies cannot realistically be enforced according to their ideal expectations.
Apr 23, 2017
Here is my review for them as an employer only, not for their programs:
Keep your mouth shut if you don't want to experience immediate retaliation like I did. Vocal and outspoken employees are quickly retaliated against for reporting unethical behavior or expressing different viewpoints. Once employees do report anything unethical or disagree with something, I feel like both human resources and management deliberately targets them. And I feel it's because the agency just tries to weed out those employees who they consider to be a possible liability to them later on because of how much negative information they know. These statements are based on my individual experiences while working here, but yours may differ. That's why you are probably better off not reporting anything to anyone including their human resources department who is not very fair or ethical in my opinion. Wait until after you have already quit before saying anything negative. Agency officials seem to take things extremely personally and are unable to accept constructive criticism or change. For all these negatives, don't allow my review to discourage children or their families from seeking help here. Just because The Village is a very bad place to work for employees, it does not mean they don't have some very good programs. All of The Village's programs are very diverse and effective in helping children and families heal from trauma.
Feb 12, 2017
One of my kids, step kid actually used to be in one of the Village programs. I didn't think the program helped very much. It didn't seem like it was very well operated. There was too much chaos even considering the fact that kids can get a little rowdy sometimes. This was more than just 'kids being kids' though. I think it was probably due to the program environment. Several of the staff seemed rather impatient and too abrasive with the kids. To me it looked like they were clearly burned out and probably shouldn't be working with this population.
Jan 17, 2017
Maybe you have a good reputation as an organization providing services to others in need in the community. However, you have a terrible reputation as an employer! You definitely do not advocate very well for your staff’s safety or general welfare. Your ethics practices are not very good either, in fact they seem to be virtually non-existent! Fix all of that stuff please to become a truly well rounded organization. (For both the people receiving your services and those who work for you.)
Please do not remove my review in the future. Instead of spending your time and effort trying to erase reviews from public view or hiding some of your organization’s problems, please spend more of that time actually fixing them! Focus more on improving your ethics and advocacy efforts toward employee safety rather than simply hiding everything and pretending these problems don't really exist.
Jan 17, 2017
Awesome people