Company Profile
The Children's Center of Hamden, Inc.
Company Overview
The Children's Center of Hamden is a private nonprofit multi-service agency whose mission focuses on providing quality treatment and education for children and their families.
The Children's Center of Hamden offers a full array of services ranging from outpatient therapy to after school treatment programs, special education and residential programs addressing a variety of conditions and circumstances. While each program provides its own specialty, generally speaking the children suffer from one or more of a variety of problems; psychological and social problems, physical and/or sexual abuse, learning disabilities, substance abuse and family trauma. Approximately 200 boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 18 are served on a daily basis.
Company History
What began in 1833 as The New Haven Orphan Asylum has evolved into one of Connecticut’s most distinguished private, nonprofit child-caring agency. Its founding mission was to ‘relieve, support and educate children who are friendless and destitute.’ Today, The Children’s Center of Hamden is known for its achievement in providing a safe and nurturing environment for children who struggle with learning disabilities, substance abuse, and behavioral, emotional, or psychiatric challenges.
The Children’s Center, located on ten beautifully landscaped acres overlooking Lake Whitney, features a group of small, home-like buildings that are as welcoming as our residential and outpatient treatment programs are accommodating. The Children’s Center was one of the first child-care agencies to introduce the innovative concept of small, home-like cottages for group living instead of the large, somber dormitory-style buildings out of a Dickens novel.
We consistently demonstrate our ability to adapt to the times and the needs of children and their families—and have been doing so for over 185 years.