Sec. 17a-38. (Formerly Sec. 17-441a). Home-based treatment programs.
Sec. 17a-38. (Formerly Sec. 17-441a). Home-based treatment programs. The
Department of Children and Families shall develop or contract for home-based treatment
programs designed to provide time-limited, home-based services to families where a
child is in imminent danger of being removed from the home and placed in foster care,
residential treatment or a psychiatric hospital setting. Such programs shall be designed to
prevent the unnecessary separation of children by providing intensive in-home services
when an acute crisis threatens the ability of the family to remain together. Intervention
may include, but shall not be limited to, intensive family, individual and marriage counseling, training in communication and negotiation skills, training in home maintenance
skills, behavioral management training, parent training, child development training, job
readiness training, client advocacy and arrangement for other services.
(P.A. 87-383, S. 1, 2; P.A. 90-287, S. 2; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2.)
History: P.A. 90-287 deleted reference to two demonstration programs and expanded the types of counseling and
training intervention to include marriage counseling and communication, negotiation skills training, home maintenance
skills training, child development training and job readiness training; Sec. 17-441a transferred to Sec. 17a-38 in 1991;
P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children
and youth services, effective July 1, 1993.