Connecticut Council of Family Service Agencies

Health Care

• Accessible and affordable health care
• An informed medical system that understands medical exemptions

Housing

• Available, affordable and safe housing
• Safe neighborhoods
• Increased transitional housing that keeps families together

Child Care

• Increased available, affordable and flexible child care
• Short term day care slots for families in transition
• Timely authorizations and payments for subsidized child care slots

Financial Stability

• Accessible pathways to economic self sufficiency
• Mechanisms to increase financial education
• Employers with "family friendly" policies and procedures

Support Systems

• Services for families in transition due to poverty, trauma and/or incarceration
• Increased victim supports
• A child protection system that acknowledges the importance of employed parents
• Early and easy access to services
• Educational institutions that focus on prevention
• Accessible, reliable, and flexible public transportation statewide