Our Quality Parenting Center provides a supportive, home-like environment where parents and caregivers referred by the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF) can spend time with their children during periods when they are not living in the same household. The program serves families with children from birth through age 12 who have been removed from their home due to protective service concerns. Sibling groups that include children over the age of 12 may also participate at the discretion of DCF.

Families may be referred to the program at any stage following a child’s removal when structured supervision, guidance, and monitoring are necessary to support the child’s safety and well-being during family time. The Quality Parenting Center supports families working toward a variety of permanency goals, including reunification, transfer of guardianship, or adoption. When the permanency plan is not reunification, family time focuses on maintaining important relationships and preserving connections that support the child’s emotional well-being.