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- EIN 30-0110638
- info@favor-ct.org
- (860) 563-3232
- 185 Silas Deane Hwy Ste 2 Wethersfield CT 06109 USA
- www.favor-ct.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Counseling, Mental Health, Mental Health Associations
Mission: Favor is the connecticut state organization of the national federation of families for children's mental health, providing direct peer support services and training to families who have children with mental and behavioral health challenges and working with state agencies and service providers to create a unified system of care that is responsive and inclusive of the diveristy of families across the state.
Programs: Favor's family peer support specialist provide direct services to over 500 families annually. Using a wraparound approach, they work with families to help them learn to work effectively with schools and other service providers so that they can learn to navigate service systems and obtain services that they children with mental and behavioral health challenges need to succeed in life.
favor provides ongoing training, advocacy, and technical assistance through its family systems management, family peer support and medical home programs that touch over 5,000 families per year. Working with an extensive network of individuals, families, service providers, educational institutions, medical professionals, and legislators, favor develops family leaders who work to improve children's mental health service delivery in their communities and across the state.
favor coordindates two of the three federally mandated citizen review panels with funding from the department of children and families. Citizens are recruited to review child welfare policy and practice and make recommendations to the commissioner about how to improve child protective services.