Every student deserves a learning environment where they can feel supported and reach their full potential. The Ädelbrook Academy Cromwell helps students ages 9 through 22 develop vocational skills, enrichment skills, and engage with the community.
Read MoreCJR was just featured on The Advocates in a national segment highlighting our Vocational Agriculture (Vo-Ag) Program. It captures something those of us close to this work already know: Farming changes lives.
Please enjoy this video about CJR's working farm, and the unique, life-changing resources it offers for young people.
Read MoreGov. Ned Lamont joined the Children’s League of Connecticut (CLOC) during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic at a 2020 event to discuss the challenges CLOC members and other nonprofit social service providers were facing as we worked tirelessly to meet the needs of children and young people dealing with other challenging situations.
Read MoreThe Department of Children and Families, sister state agencies, community partners, contracted providers, families with lived-expertise, and other stakeholders have collaborated for decades to meet a shared vision of “Partnering with communities and empowering families to raise resilient children who thrive.”
Read MoreGovernor Lamont News Briefing on the Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Helping Families Impacted by COVID-19
Read MoreA the end of this third month of a worldwide pandemic that has cost 100,467 American lives, including more than 4,100 deaths in Connecticut, one of the most important and difficult challenges we are facing as a society may well be a test of our collective character. In Connecticut, in order to pass this test and meet this challenge, we must put the most vulnerable at the front of the line.
Read MoreFor too long the debate over the care of children and young adults in Connecticut with behavioral health needs, developmental disabilities or those in the juvenile justice system has been centered on the wrong issue.
Read MoreThe Hartford Courant is reporting that with the Connecticut Juvenile Training School closing, some children may be in judicial limbo for months.
Read MoreThe recently approved Connecticut state budget makes an important change in the management of the state’s juvenile justice system that concerns some, but also provides an opportunity to achieve better results on behalf of children.
Read MoreAt any given time many children are in the care of Connecticut’s juvenile justice system. Everyone agrees their personal stories are troublesome, but it is also important to understand each story can be turned in a more positive direction if we as adults commit to helping each child based on their individual needs.
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