Our mission
Our mission is to provide accessible community-based mental health services and advocacy that promote healthy and resilient lives for children and families.
Our nationally recognized programs and multi-disciplinary approach to therapy have made us a leader since our founding in 1913. In fact, we are one of the oldest community–based non-profit outpatient mental health clinics in America.
Statistics Tell the Story*
Nationally:
• Child abuse occurs at every socio-economic level, across ethnic and cultural lines, within all religions and at all levels of education.
• Children who have been sexually abused are 2.5 times more likely to abuse alcohol and 3.8 times more likely to become drug addicts.
• Four children die every day as a result of child abuse, and three out of four of these victims are under the age of four.
• Men and women serving time in the nation’s prisons and jails report a higher incidence of abuse as children than the general population.
In Connecticut:
• A child is abused or neglected in Connecticut every 41 minutes.
• In Connecticut, 9.5% of male students reported that they carried a weapon such as a gun, knife, or club on school property on one or more of the past 30 days.
• 60% of the children served by the Clinic report being exposed to a traumatic life event.