Get to know the New Haven Family Alliance and join us in our efforts to strengthen families and communities!
Established 23 years ago as a child welfare reform agency, the NHFA employs multiple approaches to reach its goal of improving children's developmental outcomes. NHFA helps families become financially self-reliant, promote their physical, emotional, social and spiritual well-being, and increase their capacity to guide and nurture their children. The process of coalition building and systems change to support healthy families is part of the agency's core mission. The NHFA holistic intervention model has proved highly effective in meeting the needs of very low income urban children by connecting parents to their children and reconstructing parents and families to their communities.
NHFA Programs services:
The Male Involvement Network (MIN) is a coalition of service providers and institutional partners with a new, comprehensive approach to working with fathers to achieve positive developmental outcomes for their children.
Moving To Work (MTW) is a 24 hour, 5 day a week employment preparation and vocational education program that prepares participants for the labor force.
New Haven Street Outreach Workers (SOW) is a community crime prevention program designed to provide interventions and deterrents to youth violence.
Juvenile Review Board (JRB) is a program to divert juvenile offenders from the formal juvenile justice system including family with service need cases - runaways, defiant of school rules and beyond control.
Intensive Family Preservation is a partnership with Yale Child Study Center. This unit responds to findings of parental abuse or neglect by the Department of Children and Families by improving parent's capacity to care for their children.
The NHFA Mission is to foster family well-being by strengthening parents ability to provide healthy nurturing environments for their children and by providing supports for children and youth so that they thrive emotionally, socially, academically and spiritually. We carry out this mission through individual and group strength based innovative interventions, and advocacy. we believe that healthy families are the foundation of a healthy community.
"UCA has integrated V.E.T.T.S.™ as their signature program in conjunction with NHFA’s three long-standing pillars of community empowerment: Intensive Family Preservation IFP, Male Involvement Network MIN, and Juvenile Review Board JRB. These include intensive in-home support to families involved in child protection services, empowering fathers to be a positive force in the lives of their children, diverting first time juvenile offenders from the criminal justice system and promoting mentoring and prosocial development in our youth."
