REGION 3

Welcome to the home page of Region 3 of the Department of Children and Families. Here you will find contact information for leadership and staff, our organizational charts, information about the Department's mission and guiding principles, data on our progress, and a number of documents concerning our Regional Advisory Council. We hope you will find this website a useful way to keep informed with the activities and progress taking place in Region 3. If you have specific questions or suggestions, please email them to Robin Russo.

IMPORTANT INFO MISSION LATEST NEWS PHONE LISTS REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

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Important Information

Children in Placement Dashboard (Updated July 2018)
CT Contracted Services Array (Resource Directory)
Early Childhood Resource Directory

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Mission and Transformation of the Department

Region 3
Mission-Statement
Strengthening Families Homepage
Strengthening Families Key Focus Points Summary

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Newsworthy/Latest News

Harvard University Center on the Developing Child InBrief Series (Videos)
The Community Foundation Grant Opportunities for Eastern CT

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Phone List

Statewide Regional Managers Phone List
   Middletown Office Phone List (12-17-20)
   Middletown Staff List (12-17-20)
   Norwich Office Phone List (12-17-20)
   Willimantic Office Phone List (4-8-21)

Key Focus Points

The Strengthening Families Practice Model incorporates a focus on family strengths and protective factors and draws on the Strengthening Families framework being implemented across the nation. Core elements of the Connecticut Practice Model include family-centered practice, purposeful visits, family assessment and a family teaming model of engagement.

The goal of the Practice Model is to provide a framework for how the agency as a whole will work internally and partner with families, service providers, and others to put our mission and guiding principles into action in daily practice and operations. At its core, the model is the description of what we do, how we do it, why we do it and what outcomes we hope to achieve for children and families.

The Department's model of practice is one of direct intervention based upon engagement and assessment. The model emphasizes case supervision which includes administrative, educational and supportive components as one of its primary strategies to improve practice.

Connecticut's Practice Model is implemented through seven core strategies:

Family Engagement
Purposeful Visitation
Family Centered Assessments
Supervision and Management
Initial and Ongoing Assessments of Safety and Risk
Effective Case Planning
Individualizing Services

Mission and Transformation of the Department
All children and youth served by the Department will grow up healthy, safe and learning, and will experience success in and out of school. The Department will advance the special talents of the children it serves and will make opportunities for them to give back to the community.

Six Cross-Cutting Themes:

A family-centered approach to all service delivery, reflected in development and implementation of a Strengthening Families Practice Model and the Differential Response System;
Trauma-informed practice as related to children and families but also to the workforce that serves them;
Application of the neuroscience of child and adolescent development to agency policy, practice and programs;
Development of stronger community partnerships;
Improvements in leadership, management, supervision and accountability; and
Establishment of a Department culture as a learning organization.

Purpose of the RAC

The purpose of the Regional Advisory Council is to advise in the establishment and maintenance of a comprehensive system of services for children, youth and Families within the Region. Pursuant to Connecticut General Statutes 17a-30 (formerly 17-434) the mission of the Council shall be:

To advise the Commissioner of the Department of Children and Families on the development and delivery of services in the Region; and
To facilitate the coordination of services for children, youth and their families in the Region

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INDEX

A Concept Schematic for Service Mapping
Child and Family Services Review (2016)
Gas Card Stipend Protocol
RAC By-laws
RAC Council Voting Members Roster
RAC Meeting Agendas, Minutes, etc.

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