Connecticut General Statutes

Conn. Gen. Stat. § 17a-38 (2026)

(Formerly Sec. 17-441a). Home-based treatment programs

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The Department of Children and Families shall develop or contract for home-based treatment programs designed to provide time-limited, home-based services to families where a child is in imminent danger of being removed from the home and placed in foster care, residential treatment or a psychiatric hospital setting. Such programs shall be designed to prevent the unnecessary separation of children by providing intensive in-home services when an acute crisis threatens the ability of the family to remain together. Intervention may include, but shall not be limited to, intensive family, individual and marriage counseling, training in communication and negotiation skills, training in home maintenance skills, behavioral management training, parent training, child development training, job readiness training, client advocacy and arrangement for other services.

(P.A. 87-383, S. 1, 2; P.A. 90-287, S. 2; P.A. 93-91, S. 1, 2.)

History: P.A. 90-287 deleted reference to two demonstration programs and expanded the types of counseling and training intervention to include marriage counseling and communication, negotiation skills training, home maintenance skills training, child development training and job readiness training; Sec. 17-441a transferred to Sec. 17a-38 in 1991; P.A. 93-91 substituted commissioner and department of children and families for commissioner and department of children and youth services, effective July 1, 1993.

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Secs. 17a-39 to 17a-41. Transferred to Chapter 164, Part I, Secs. 10-19m to 10-19p, inclusive.

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Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2001–2021 · leading case: Fetto v. Sergi, 181 F. Supp. 2d 53 (D. Conn. 2001).

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Fetto v. Sergi, 181 F. Supp. 2d 53 (D. Conn. 2001). · cites it 4× “This provision provides that the DCF is responsible for developing or contracting for home-based treatment programs “designed to provide time-limited, home-based services to families where a child is in imminent danger of being removed from the home and placed in foster care,…”

In re Zakai F. (Conn. 2021). · cites it 3× “The portion of the opinion to which the majority cites and quotes is a discussion of the statutory provision for summary temporary custody by the department under then General Statutes § 17a-38 (e). This court explained that, in the context of a statute that allows the…”

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