Celebrating National Kinship Care Month
Each September, the nation celebrates National Kinship Care Month. We recognize and applaud the tireless commitment of an estimated 2.7...
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Aug 4, 20221 min read
The Crane Fund for Widows and Children (CFWC) donates to CAC
Child Advocates of SW Connecticut received a generous contribution from The Crane Fund for Widows and Children. The Crane Fund for Widows...
Jul 20, 20221 min read
CAC receives investment from The Community Fund of Darien
Child Advocates of SW Connecticut thanks The Community Fund for this investment, and for their partnership in making a difference in our...
Jul 20, 20221 min read
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is now: 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
As of July 16, 2022, 988 has been designated as the new three-digit dialing code that will route callers to the National Suicide...
Jun 6, 20221 min read
CAC receives grant from New Canaan Community Foundation
Child Advocates of SW Connecticut received a generous grant from New Canaan Community Foundation (NCCF). New Canaan Community Foundation...
May 27, 20221 min read
May is National Foster Care Month
Child Advocates of SW Connecticut’s child protection court program recruits, trains and supervises court appointed volunteers GALs...
May 20, 20221 min read
Hundreds of Suicidal Teens Sleep in Emergency Rooms. Every Night.
With inpatient psychiatric services in short supply, adolescents are spending days, even weeks, in hospital emergency departments...
May 20, 20221 min read
CAC receives grant from Near & Far Aid
Child Advocates of SW Connecticut received a generous grant from Near & Far Aid. Near & Far Aid works to eliminate poverty in Fairfield...
Apr 14, 20220 min read
Apr 8, 20221 min read
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month
April is Child Abuse Prevention Month, a time to celebrate the good things our community does and lift up the work and partners we still...
Mar 28, 20221 min read
CAC receives grant from the Westport Woman's Club
Child Advocates of SW Connecticut received a generous grant from the Westport Woman's Club. The Westport Woman's Club was founded in 1907...
Dec 3, 20211 min read
How ‘Shadow’ Foster Care Is Tearing Families Apart
Across the country, an unregulated system is severing parents from children, who often end up abandoned by the agencies that are supposed...
Nov 10, 20211 min read
Connecticut youth homicides, suicides alarm officials
State agency experts in mental health and children’s issues agreed there is a growing need for residential treatment, as well as more...
Oct 6, 20211 min read
The number of children seeking urgent behavioral health care at Connecticut Children’s has tripled..
Connecticut Children’s Medical Center is struggling to manage a surge in children showing up to its emergency department seeking urgent...
Aug 24, 20211 min read
This Conversation Will Change How You Think About Trauma
The author of "The Body Keeps Score" on how trauma transforms the body and the brain.
Aug 12, 20211 min read
A 7-Year-Old Dies in the Bronx, and Records Show a History of Abuse
Julissia Batties, who was found unconscious with a head injury, had been the subject of a child welfare case since birth. Her half...
Jun 28, 20211 min read
How the Pandemic Roiled the Foster Care System
Lengthy suspensions of crucial services for foster children during the past year exacted a heavy emotional and mental toll
Jun 10, 20211 min read
AP analysis: COVID prolonged foster care stays for thousands
They are among thousands of families across the country whose reunifications have been snarled in the foster care system as courts ...
May 24, 20211 min read
Child Advocates Quietly Change Lives
Child Advocates get to know a child one-on-one. They speak with people who touch his or her life: families, foster families, teachers,...
May 24, 20211 min read
Three Norwalk volunteers to be honored
Child Advocates of SW Connecticut (CAC), a Fairfield County-based nonprofit that trains and supervises volunteers who advocate for...
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