As of September 4, 2009, Covenant to Care for Children will be closing its branch offices in Strafford and Waterbury. Covenant to Care for Children will continue serving the entire state of Connecticut through its five programs. No reduction in service to children is anticipated.

Covenant to Care for Children is taking these and other steps in part because of the ongoing uncertainty of the Connecticut State budget both this year and looking forward. National economic factors and forecasts for the nonprofit sector have also contributed to our decision to downsize and consolidate.

We are committed to the continued use of our donors' dollars to best serve the abused, neglected and at-risk children and youth of Connecticut. We will not be reducing our services to the children we serve.

Along with the closing of our branch offices, we are initiating a staff restructuring of our Adopt A Social Worker Program. We are saying a sad and fond goodbye to Program Coordinators Judith Chewning, Chastity Taylor, and Megan Cardinal.

Program Coordinator Meral Prewitt will cover the Adopt A Social Worker program for Fairfield, New Haven, Middlesex and New London Counties. She will additionally cover the towns of New Milford, Bridgewater, and Watertown.

Litchfield, Hartford, Tolland and Windham Counties will have a new Program Coordinator to be named shortly.

Our Adopt A Social Worker Program Coordinators will be based in our Main office, 120 Mountain Avenue, Suite 212, Bloomfield, CT 06002. They may be reached at (860) 243-1806. Requests for our Critical Goods Program or for funds should be faxed to (860) 243-0100.

If you have any questions regarding this downsizing, please do not hesitate to contact me.

For the short term, our goal is to maintain our levels of service and commitment until the economic climate allows us to move back into a growth phase. We know with your continued partnership and support, we will be able to accomplish all that needs to be done for our kids.

Thank You,

Caryl Hallberg, Executive Director

 

AASW SPECIAL PROJECTS
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Keep Our Children Wrapped in Caring Warmth!  Find out how you can help. . . We want to keep all our kids warm! We want them to stay healthy, be able to learn, and know that there are people in Connecticut that care and are thinking about them. Our request this year is that when you are out purchasing a winter coat for your child or yourself, you take a moment to purchase one more child’s coat. Buy 2, donate 1 to CCC        Learn More >>
LIGHTHOUSE PARK EVENT   Thanks to the generosity of Connecticut Junior Women each teen girl attending this event will receive a “swag bag” containing Body Wash, Combs and Brushes, Wash cloths and Towels, Slippers, Nail polish and Nail polish remover, Deodorant, Sox, Body lotion and other fun goodies. CCC thanks the clubs that took part in this project.
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2005 Mutual of America Community Partnership Honorable Mention Award Adopt a Social Worker Program

Covenant to Care for Children's Adopt a Social Worker (AASW) program matches individual religious congregations of any faith tradition with a child protective services social worker. The purpose of the match is to support that worker and to meet the unmet needs of abused, neglected, and severely impoverished children in the local community. Due to the increasing numbers of children living in these situations, many churches and synagogues are needed to help.

Social workers who work with these families voluntarily participate in the Adopt A Social Worker program in order to help people of faith reach the needy who live among us.

Most of the needs identified by the adopted social worker can be met through the abundance in the homes of congregation members: the extra blankets and sheets, the outgrown snowsuit, the discarded juvenile furniture, the baby sweater knit by a caring grandmother.

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