Mental Health Care in Danbury, CT

Family and Childrens Aid

What Does Family and Childrens Aid Offer?

Family and Childrens Aid is a mental health facility at 80 West Street, Danbury, Connecticut, offering outpatient care and telehealth therapy. It accepts Medicaid, private insurance, state-financed insurance and self-pay and offers a sliding fee scale. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT, EMDR and couples and family therapy.

80 West Street
Danbury, CT 06810

SAMHSA lists this facility's programs separately: Danbury Office; New Milford Office.

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

Types of Care at Family and Childrens Aid

  • Outpatient

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • State corrections or juvenile justice funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State welfare or child and family services funds
  • Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Language Services

  • Spanish
  • Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
  • Other languages (excluding Spanish)
  • Portuguese

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Family psychoeducation
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Connecticut lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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