Law & Procedure
This law helps protect kids by setting rules for reporting child abuse and neglect.
CAPTA, Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act
This is the most frequent reason families become involved with child welfare, often due to unmet basic needs.
Neglect
Calling this three-digit CT hotline connects families to statewide resource directories for housing, childcare, food assistance, and more.
2-1-1 (United Way)
When social workers connect families to services, it’s called making a...?
Referral
This type of well-being refers to a child having enough food, safe housing, and proper medical care.
Physical well-being
This law says states must try to help families stay together before removing a child from home.
Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act
Families struggling to afford food may need referrals to resources like SNAP or food pantries for this basic need.
Food insecurity.
This state agency oversees child protective services, foster care, adoption, and behavioral health resources.
Connecticut Department of Children & Families (DCF)
Social workers help families create this plan with goals and action steps.
Service plan
Regular attendance, engagement in class, and access to learning supports reflect this area of child well-being.
Educational well-being
This law helps kids get a permanent home faster, often through adoption if they can’t safely return home.
ASFA, Adoption and Safe Families Act
When families lack safe housing or move often, it's called this.
Housing instability.
This childcare subsidy program helps low-income working families pay for childcare.
Care 4 Kids
This type of visit happens when a social worker checks on how a child is doing in foster care.
Home visit.
When children feel loved, supported, and connected, it relates to this domain.
Emotional well-being
This law helps kids in foster care stay in their same school and stay connected with their siblings.
Fostering Connections Act
Families experiencing this type of violence may require immediate intervention to ensure child and caregiver safety.
Domestic violence
These school-based centers in New London, Hartford, and Bridgeport offer parenting education, case management, and early childhood services
Family Resource Centers
Social workers listen to families and help them figure out their needs—this is called a
Needs assessment
Children who have access to books, early learning, and play-based activities are more likely to thrive in this domain.
Cognitive development
This is the year CAPTA, the law that protects kids from abuse and neglect, was passed.
1974
This economic challenge can lead families to struggle with food, utilities, clothing, and childcare.
Poverty
This organization provides after-school programs, mentorship, and youth development across CT.
The Boys & Girls Clubs of Connecticut
When workers team up with teachers, doctors, and others, it’s called
Collaboration
Name the protective factor that describes when children feel loved, valued, and supported by adults in their life.
Social/emotional support