Departments

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• The Connecticut Association of Foster and Adoptive Parents

  Information about training, conferences, support, publications, how to make a donation and more.

• The Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence

  Information about domestic violence, the toll-free 24-hour crisis line, safe shelters across the state, services available in Connecticut.

• The Department of Children and Families

  Information about reporting child abuse, ways to help children, leaving your child alone, foster care and adoption, etc.

• Child Protection

  This department, with over 40 attorneys, is dedicated to protecting the children of the State of Connecticut from abuse and neglect. This past year, the Child Protection Department successfully represented the Department of Children and families in thousands of juvenile court cases, to protect children who had been abused and neglected and help their placement in permanent safe homes. The department also successfully defended a number of appeals involving these children before the Appellate and Supreme Court.

• The American Bar Association

  The ABA Center on Children and Law gives you information on professional training and education, publications and internet resources and technical assistance and consulting. Information about Child Adolescent health, child custody proceedings reform, children exposed to domestic violence and more.

• Kids Counsel: Center for Children's Advocacy

  Visit the website for KidsCounsel Case Library which provides information on synopses of cases recently decided in Connecticut's state and federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court regarding abuse and neglect, adoption, civil liberties, discrimination, education, family law, guardianship, juvenile justice, legal representation, medicaid, and mental health. Also, legislative news, legal resources, pleadings bank, professional resources and more.

• Special Litigation

  This Department represents the Governor, the Judicial Branch, the General Assembly, the Secretary of the State, the Treasurer, the Comptroller, the Auditors of Public Accounts, the State Elections Enforcement Commission, the State Ethics Commission, the State Properties Review Board, the Judicial Review Council, the Judicial Selection Commission, the Office of Protection and Advocacy for Handicapped and Developmentally Disabled Persons, the Accountancy Board, the Office of the Child Advocate, the Office of the Victims Advocate, the Commission on Children, and the Latino and Puerto Rican Affairs Commission. In addition, through its Public Charities Unit, the Department protects the public interest in gifts, bequests and devises for charitable purposes; and in cooperation with the Department of Consumer Protection, administers and enforces state laws regulating charities and professional fundraisers who solicit from the public.

• Connecticut Centralized Child Support Processing Center

  The Connecticut Child Support Processing Center is dedicated to providing high quality customer service to custodial parties, non-custodial parents, employers, and other agencies in need of assistance with the child support payment process.

• Law in Plain Language: Child Support

  The Attorney General's Office, the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement and the Support Enforcement Division (Superior Court) participate in actions concerning establishing, enforcing, or modifying support orders when a party is receiving IV-D support enforcement services.

• State of Connecticut Judicial Branch: Child Support Enforcement Website

  Provides answers to the following questions: Where can I find general information about Child Support Enforcement services? What is the IV-D Program? How can I obtain case information? How do I get child support? How are support orders calculated? How do I enforce a child support order? What if the non-custodial parent lives out of state? How can my order be enforced without going to court? How do I change or modify a child support order? How will I get my child support payment? Where are the Support Enforcement Service Unit offices and what are their telephone numbers? Are there any child support publications available? Are there Wanted Lists for parents who owe child support in Connecticut? My employee is subject to income withholding. What does that mean for me as the employer? What if there is an income withholding order from another state? Other child support resources.

• Connecticut Department of Social Services Child Support Resource Center

  DSS provides information about Custodial, Non-Custodial, Forms, publications, FAG's and more.

• Department of Social Services Child Support Enforcement

  Provides answers to questions about enforcing, changing, or modifying a child support order. Information on the Bureau of Child Support Enforcement and who is eligible for their services.

• Child Support Information and Problem Resolution Line: 1-800-228-KIDS (228-5437)

• Health Care Fraud Unit

  The primary mission of the Health Care Fraud Unit is to discover and take action concerning health care provider fraud that results in financial loss to the State of Connecticut. The Health Care Fraud Unit develops cases independently and in conjunction with other state and federal law enforcement agencies and with state agencies that pay, directly or indirectly, for health care benefits.

• Health Care Fraud / Whistleblower / Health Care Advocacy

  This Department has three distinct units, as its title suggests. The Health Care Fraud Unit conducts investigations of Medicaid provider fraud. The Whistleblower unit reviews and investigates allegations by whistleblowers of improper behaviors of state employees, state agencies, quasi state agencies and large state contractors. The Health Care Advocacy Unit provides advisory assistance to consumers who have health care related problems, particularly those that involve health insurance and managed care coverage denials.