At Connecticut Children's Place, individual services are designed to meet children's unique needs and to facilitate and support community placements when clinically indicated. Today, the facility provides a complete educational program, medical services including psychiatric treatment, a full range of social work services, a paid work program and an active recreational program. Approximately 42 children are in residence. Most are 10 to 16 years old. The average age is 14.
Most children stay about three months.
About 200 children stay at the Connecticut Children's Place each year. Following the abolishment of the county welfare system in 1955, the home came under the jurisdiction of the State Welfare Department. Residential Care Children at Connecticut Children's Place live in three cottages, each with a capacity for 14 children. Residential care is the core around which all children's services are delivered. Cottage staff at Connecticut Children's Place are trained to use a positive incentive-based behavior management program designed to help children learn to live, work and play cooperatively with their peers.