"All children in our care and custody healthy, safe, smart and strong… It is a vision that both is eloquent in its simplicity and enormously complex to achieve. It is, however, achievable over time. Not by the Connecticut Department of Children and Families acting on its own, but acting in partnership with families who seek or need assistance, with the communities in which they reside, with our state agency partners and the advocates whose insights continue to be invaluable....
"...We fully understand that the resources we will need to build a regional network of effective, family ‐ and community‐based services and supports must come from within the Department’s current operational budget. We have made great progress over the past 22 months in returning children from costly congregate placements and preventing many out ‐of state residential placements as well. This policy shift, made to better serve children and youth, has also resulted in financial savings. With the support of the Governor’s Office of Policy and Management and the Connecticut General Assembly, we have been able to redirect and reinvest some of these resources to support children, youth and families in a family setting and with community services. We expect this period of savings and reinvestment to continue...."
http://www.ct.gov/dcf/lib/dcf/strategic_plan/pdf/strategic_plan_parts_l_and_ll_revised_11-4-13.pdf
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