MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC
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Mission Statement
“Helping children with mental & behavioral health needs achieve emotional stability, academic success, and happy and productive lives.” Almost 10,000 children in Mid-Fairfield County suffer from a mental health disorder - more than all the HS children in Darien, New Canaan, Norwalk, Wilton, Weston, and Westport. No other childhood medical condition is as undertreated. Usually qualified treatment is unaffordable, unavailable, inaccessible, or unrecognized. Untreated children have much higher incidences of: classroom disruption, substance abuse, family violence, and school drop-out rates. As adults they generate higher; healthcare costs, unemployment, incarceration, & homelessness. W help children unlock their potential. We provide both children & their families (parents, caregivers, siblings, extended family) with the guidance, skills & tools to enjoy a being part of a functional/happy family &d becoming joyful/positive/focused on learning & able to be part of a group of children and/or adults.
About This Cause
The Center is a community-based mental health services provider offering: a variety of therapies, psychological/psychiatric services, crisis and intensive services, counseling, support and referral services for children (to age 19) and their families in both English and Spanish, with some services in Creole. The Center serves children & their families in Norwalk, Darien, New Canaan, Wilton, Weston, and Westport. Families outside our 6-town catchment area receive specialty services unavailable in their community. By law, any family in Connecticut can apply for the Center’s services and programs. We accept children throughout the state for specialized services that are not available in their own communities The Center offers a full-range of services to address results of traumatic events in children’s and families lives. We operate an Outpatient Children’s Clinic (OPCC) as well as specialized clinical programs at our two buildings located at 100 East Avenue in Norwalk. OPCC includes the following: o Crisis Intervention Services: are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week for the Center’s clients. The program includes crisis intervention and immediate mental health assessment, as well as short-term intensive outpatient services. o Latino Program: serves the Latino community. Spanish-speaking psychiatrist and clinical staff work directly with the Spanish-speaking families in need of mental health services for their children. o Child & Adolescent Psychiatry: provides a weekly multiple service menus of individual, family psychiatric consultation, outreach, and medication management to prevent out-of-home placement and/or inpatient psychiatric care. • Prospects - Extended Day Treatment (EDT) Program, which is held every day during the school year to serve seriously emotionally disturbed children from 5 to 12 who have difficulty with peer and adult relationships. Another key program is • Child First (Child and Family Interagency Resource, Support, and Training): The Center is the lead agency for the Norwalk Replication. ChildFIRST is an evidence-based, model early childhood system of care, which provides comprehensive, well integrated prevention and intervention services and supports for high risk young children and their families through home visits. The goal is to decrease the incidence of serious emotional disturbance, developmental and learning problems, and abuse and neglect. Prevention and consultation services are conducted by: offering After The Bell (before and after Child Care services) at Kendall Elementary school; our Choices for Success program (St. Phillip School 25 Frances Street, Norwalk) for at-risk children from 6th grade through high school graduation, and provide consultation and education through a variety of local and regional community and professional organizations and in school and child care settings. Last year, the Center served a total of 2,015 through all of its program/services: 488 children in Clinical (includes Outpatient Children’s Clinic, (NOTE: this number does NOT include parents, caregivers, siblings or extended family who received services – we estimate that 1.5 adults received serves for each child in clinical programs, so approximately 732 adults received services in addition to the 488 children/adolescents); Extended Day Treatment, Child First and System of Care; 1,392 via Early Childhood Consulting (includes teachers and adults in the child’s life); and 135 in our Before and After School programs. Here are the demographics for all clinical programs: Among the 488 in all the clinical programs NOTE of all families in the clinical programs: 74% = Low Income, 24.9% = Low to Moderate Income, and 1.1% = ability to pay full fees. GENDER: 59% = male & 41% = female; ETHNICITY: 39% = Hispanic, 25% = Caucasian, 18% = other/unable to report, 16% Black, and 2% = multi-racial; TOWN OF RESIDENCE: 80.8% from Norwalk, 2% from Darien, 4% from Stamford/Greenwich, 5% from Westport, 5% from Wilton, 2% from New Canaan, 1% from Bridgeport/Fairfield, and 0.2% from New York; AGES: 11% 0-4 years; 28% 5-7 years; 14% 8-10 years; 24% 11-13 years; 19% 14-16 years; and 4% 17+ years. All our services and programs are offered on an ”ability to pay” sliding scale. Based on Household Income information and Federal poverty levels, 74% of our families are categorized “low income” with an additional 24.9% as “low - moderate income”. Only 1.1% of our families or school referrals can afford to pay full fees.