Childrens Issues

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• Department of Children & Families Foster Care & Adoption Services Website

  The Website for DCF Foster Care & Adoption Services Phone: 1-800-228- KID-Hero (543-4376)

• Department of Children and Families - Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect Website

  The Website for Reporting Child Abuse & Neglect. Hotline: 1-800-842-2288 TDD: 1-800-624-5518

• Department of Children and Families - Ways to Help Children Website

  The Website for Department of Children and Families - Ways to Help Children - ways to help children who may have been abused or neglected, or to prevent child abuse and neglect.

• The Connecticut Child Advocate Website

  The mission of the Child Advocate is to oversee the protection and care of children and to advocate for their well-being.

• Child Support and Arrearage Guidelines

  Connecticut, along with all other states, is required to have child support guidelines which provide the basis for the establishment and modification of chlid support awards ( financial and medical ), based on family income and the number of children involved.

• Child Support Information and Problem Resolution Line: 1-800-228-KIDS (228-5437)

• Connecticut Centralized Child Support Processing Center

  The Connecticut Child Support Processing Center is dedicated to providing high quality customer service to custodial parties, non-custodial parents, employers, and other agencies in need of assistance with the child support payment process.

• Connecticut Department of Social Services Child Support Resource Center

  Provides answers to questions about enforcing, changing, or modifying a child support order. Information on the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement and who is eligible for their services.

• Law in Plain Language: Child Support

  The Attorney General's Office, the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement and the Support Enforcement Division (Superior Court) participate in actions concerning establishing, enforcing, or modifying support orders when a party is receiving IV-D support enforcement services.

• State of Connecticut Judicial Branch: Child Support Enforcement Website

  Provides answers to the following questions: Where can I find general information about Child Support Enforcement services? What is the IV-D Program? How can I obtain case information? How do I get child support? How are support orders calculated? How do I enforce a child support order? What if the non-custodial parent lives out of state? How can my order be enforced without going to court? How do I change or modify a child support order? How will I get my child support payment? Where are the Support Enforcement Service Unit offices and what are their telephone numbers? Are there any child support publications available? Are there Wanted Lists for parents who owe child support in Connecticut? My employee is subject to income withholding. What does that mean for me as the employer? What if there is an income withholding order from another state? Other child support resources.

• Husky Program Website

  Health Care for Uninsured Kids & Youth

• Licensing programs at the Office of Early Childhood

  The Division of Licensing is responsible for the administration of the child care and youth camp licensing programs at the Office of Early Childhood. Family child care homes, group child care homes, child care centers and youth camps are required to be licensed.

• National HighwayTraffic Safety Administration - Child Car Seats and Booster Seats Website

• The Greatkidsct Website

  A link maintained by the Connecticut State Library Providing information about child development, learning, health and safety, and parenting

• What Parents Can Do About TV Violence

  13 Tips From the American Medical Association To Balance Your Child's TV Viewing