HBH Childrens Services

Children’s Services

HBH provides intensive home-based services to

youth and families referred by Connecticut’s

Department of Children and Families, including

psychotherapy, psychiatric evaluations & medication

to address issues of trauma, substance use & conduct

disorders.

Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)

A family-based outpatient treatment program

developed to work with adolescents with drug and

behavioral problems. This model works with

both the adolescent and the caregiver to

identify problem behaviors and encourage

positive changes and growth in the family.

Based on a developmental understanding of the

youth as an individual, it focuses on issues of self-

identity, sexual experimentation and cognitive

changes and a deep understanding of family

dynamics and relationships within the cultural

context in which they live.

MDFT utilizes Structural Family Therapy and

Strategic Family Therapy and emphasizes problem

solving, principles of change and intervention,

assigning tasks or homework and identifying and

including support networks for the family.

Children’s Services

Group Therapy

Victims’ Services

5 min health

Serving Hartford since 1978

CRISIS HOTLINE: Children under 18, please call 211.

Adults, please call our mobile crisis unit at 860-297-0999

Knowledge resources and Public Service Announcements:

Intensive Community Family Support Services (ICFS)

A community-based outpatient program designed to provide the intensive therapeutic and psychiatric wrap-a-round

supports necessary to return a youth to the community from a therapeutic residence or prevent the youth from

being sent to a residence. This program works with youth with intensive psychiatric and/or Co-Occurring Disorders,

as well as issues associated with Post-traumatic Stress Disorder. Frequently, relationships must be re-established

between the youth and their family, as well as addressing parental skills.

ICFS utilizes careful and continuous assessment, Systemic and Structural Family Therapies, Cognitive Behavioral

techniques, Harm Reduction and Stages of Change.

All referrals for Children’s Services must come from the Hartford Area DCF Office

Hartford Behavioral Health is a registered service mark of Hartford Behavioral Health. The Hartford Behavioral Health name, with the

HBH dimensional logo, as well as the dimensional logo alone, are both service marks of Hartford Behavioral Health.