The Family Counseling Center, Inc.

Of Newtown Has Received Two Grants

The Family Counseling Center received a grant from the Albert W. and Helen C. Meserve Memorial Fund in the amount of $5,700. This grant will enable the Center to develop a centralized and coordinated management information system, which will improve the center’s ability to deliver its services efficiently and cost-effectively.

The Family Counseling Center also received a one-year discretionary grant from the Fairfield County Community Foundation in the amount of $10,000.

The Fairfield County Foundation (FCCF) is a growing community foundation with assets of $42.5 million in over 160 different donor funds established by individuals, organizations, families, and corporations to serve Fairfield County now and in the future. Through FCCF, donors support programs in the arts, community and economic development, children and youth, women and girls, the environment, and health, and human services.

This grant will enable the FCC to support the launch of a new adolescent support group program. This project will address the needs of Greater Danbury teens with serious emotional issues through the delivery of age appropriate psychotherapy and psycheducational groups.

The Family Counseling Center is a non-profit, state licensed outpatient mental health clinic and substance abuse clinic and a nationally accredited family counseling agency. The Center provides services, regardless or ability to pay, to adults, children, and families in the Greater Danbury, Newtown, and Southbury area. Services provided by the Center’s professional staff of social workers, clinical psychologists, marriage and family therapists, and consulting psychiatrists include counseling, psychiatric evaluation and follow-up, substance abuse services, play therapy, support groups, crisis coverage, education workshops, information, and referral.