The Connection offers nationally recognized child welfare-focused programs that help families provide stable, loving homes for all children. We can help you reunite and stabilize your family after difficult life challenges such as trauma, substance use, struggles with behavioral health or homelessness.
Young adults ages 18-24 need specialized care when they find themselves homeless or in unstable housing situations. At The Connection, our homeless young adult services focus on connecting people to the community resources they need, expanding and nurturing their natural supports, and developing independent living skills. Young adults can access services by calling 211.
Adult services at The Connection offer a continuum of services, that range from outpatient care to residential settings. Within this area of the agency, you will find programs for Addiction Services, Behavioral Healthcare, and Community Justice. All programs follow person centered and trauma-informed models of care.
Having a safe home is one of the most important parts of successful recovery. The Connection is a housing first provider, which means we believe that housing must be prioritized for recovery to begin. We have a range of opportunities to assist with housing that include homeless outreach and engagement, emergency shelter, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing.
As a nonprofit, The Connection has a unique understanding of the challenges faced by nonprofits and seeks to use that expertise to improve the social determinants of health by helping people, communities and organizations solve problems, adapt to change, and evolve. Advancing the systems that support communities promotes the health and wellbeing of the people who live there.
The Connection’s Institute for Innovative Practice provides professional development and essential skills training to staff and emerging leaders. Customized organizational training provides innovative solutions to address today’s complex workforce development needs. All of our trainings are firmly rooted in culturally competent, gender responsive and trauma-informed care, to ensure safety and empowerment.
You can make The Connection by financially supporting the quality care for those who are homeless, face mental health and substance use challenges, or are returning to the community after incarceration.
The Connection Institute for Innovative Practice’s 2025 Training Catalog is packed with an array of exciting and valuable programs designed to enhance your skills and knowledge across various domains. Whether...
The Connection and its community partners are excited to announce the inaugural Q Williams Taste of Middletown, celebrating the vibrant culinary scene of our beloved city and memory of our...
Middletown, CT – The Connection has achieved national accreditation through the New York-based Council on Accreditation (COA). COA accreditation is an objective, independent, and reliable validation of an agency’s performance,...
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For fifty years The Connection has served as a human services Non-Profit providing unique solutions to the problems of homelessness, mental health, substance use, and community justice rehabilitation. The Connection...
Get your foursome together and join us on Monday, August 22, 2022 at the spectacular Great River Golf Club for a day of food, fun, and friendly competition. There will...
Get your foursome together and join us on Monday, August 30, 2021 at the spectacular Great River Golf Club for a day of food, fun, and friendly competition. There will...
Are you looking to rent a new studio, or one bedroom apartment, in New London with onsite laundry, a community room for events and an outdoor courtyard? A place that...
The Connection hosts an annual conference, offering excellent professional development opportunities for the human services community. The conference has an industry-related theme and is an immersive day of learning and...
The COVID-19 pandemic has provided a unique landscape in which all organizations have had to adjust their operations and expectations during this unprecedented time. The Connection, a statewide non-profit organization,...
Due to coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns, The Connection is taking the precautionary measure of postponing this event until August 17. The Connection is excited to announce that registration is now open...
Due to coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns, The Connection is taking the precautionary measure of postponing all Connection training sessions through mid-April. When we are able to reschedule sessions, we will contact...
Since Katchen Coley founded The Connection in 1972, the agency has since grown to a staff of more than 400 and operates 45 programs. Her innovative vision of community based...
Many thanks to our community partners! The Connection has received a total of $62,000 in grant funding in recent months. We are truly grateful for this support—we can’t do it...