FSW
475 Clinton Avenue
Bridgeport, CT 06605
Tel: 203-368-4291
Fax: 203-368-1239
Mental Health Services for Adults
Everyone needs help to get by now and then. Unemployment, personal tragedy or an inability to access necessary resources can make an already trying situation worse. The following services are available at FSW:
- Adult victims and child witnesses of domestic violence participate in group and individual counseling through the Domestic Violence Project. Parents and children learn about available services and strive to create a safe, nurturing family environment.
- Parents involved in divorce, child custody or visitation issues learn how to help their children through these traumas in the Parenting Education Program (PEP), developed by the Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies.
- Family Strengthening Team (FST) — Families involved with the state Department of Social Services receive case management services including training around positive parenting, self-support skills and economic self-sufficiency.
- Survivors of Homicide — Parents struggling
with the violent deaths of their children meet monthly to talk to each
other and express their feelings within a supportive setting.
Mental Health Services for Children
Situations that trouble adults can be even more frightening for children. A family’s difficulties affect the child in a unique way. FSW offers programs designed specifically to help children deal with the things in their life they may not understand or know how to cope with.
- Adolescent Evaluation Project (AEP) provides substance
abuse and mental health assessment, referral and intervention for at-risk
Bridgeport students.
- Children who have been witnesses to domestic violence
participate in age-appropriate counseling groups through the Domestic
Violence Project. The children complete art therapy projects as
a way to safely express and understand their feelings.
- Children Surviving Trauma and Loss — Children who have been affected by violence or loss receive group therapy in the Bridgeport Public Schools .
For more information about Mental Health Services for Adults or Children, please contact William Hass at (203) 368-5552, or bhass@fswinc.org.
