Conn. Department of Children and Families

Jodi Hill-Lilly, the head of Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families, wants state residents to focus on mental health this Juneteenth holiday.

Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families celebrated foster fathers, adopted fathers and birth fathers at their annual “Best Dads by Par” golf event.

As part of National Adoption Month, WSHU's Ebong Udoma highlights one Ansonia family, whose joy was evident at the addition of two-year-old Ju Ju.

Connecticut is poised to pay $12 million to settle a case involving a neglected 14-month-old boy who was placed by the state’s child welfare agency in 2015 with a relative and ended up severely malnourished and physically abused.

Vice President Kamala Harris asked Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont if the state can help house some of the 19,000 migrant children that crossed the…

Connecticut social workers have reached their lowest, most manageable child welfare caseloads in more than three decades. That is the finding of a report…

A lawsuit has been filed against the commissioner of Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families over criminal sexual abuse charges that were…

Officials with Connecticut’s Department of Children and Families testified at a hearing with lawmakers and advocates on Thursday, two days after the…

Connecticut’s Office of the Child Advocate released an investigative report in July saying children were being illegally restrained and secluded at the…

Connecticut lawmakers called a hearing Friday to ask the Department of Children and Families how the state’s two secure juvenile detention facilities, the…