| Box # | Folder ID | Folder Title | Folder Dates | Content |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 028 | 0021CL-001 | Children [DCYS] | January-June 1981 | Recommendations of and volunteers for delegates to the White House Conference on Children and Youth; testimony delivered to the U.S. House Education and Labor Committee in support of reauthorizing the |
| 028 | 0021CL-002 | Children [DCYS] | July-December 1981 | Inquiries regarding the state conference on children and youth; copy of the Hague Convention International Child Abduction Treaty; concern for treatment of foster children; allegations of mismanagemen |
| 028 | 0021CL-003 | Children [DCYS]--Bi-weekly Reports | 1981 | |
| 028 | 0021CL-004 | Children [DCYS]--Memos to/from Commissioner | 198 | Application for Connecticut's White House Conference on Children and Youth; phase out of Non-Committed Treatment Program due to court decisions; Child Welfare grant application; blank survey on child |
| 028 | 0021CL-005 | [Children] DCYS | January-May 1982 | Complaint about food at Housatonic Adolescent Hospital; report on the Connecticut White House Conference on Children and Youth; trouble adopting nephew; parent requests return of children; responses t |
| 028 | 0021CL-006 | [Children] DCYS | July-December 1982 | Praise for Jobs for Connecticut Youth program; concern about the New Federalism program from Washington and its impact on families and children; and Governor's response about his opposition and that o |
| 028 | 0021CL-007 | [Children] DCYS | 1983 | Concerns about refugee orphans; questions about denials of license for Amistad House and of a request to expand the Wilderness School; Deputy Commissioner Wheaton objects to capping of essential servi |
| 028 | 0021CL-008 | [Children] DCYS | 1984 | Child Support Enforcement Program Reform Proposals before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee; concern about possible closing of Litchfield Youth Emergency Shelter; information about police background c |
| 029 | 0021CL-009 | [Children] DCYS--Missing children | 1984 | Letters and petitions in support of the creation of a Missing and Exploited Children Unit. |
| 029 | 0021CL-010 | [Children] DCYS--Rockville Office | 1984 | Letters and petitions supporting the Rockville Office staff who received severe discipline for their handling a case; newspaper articles about the case. Governor responds that he cannot intervene. |
| 029 | 0021CL-011 | [Children] Child and Family Services | 1985 | Allegations of child abuse; request by Hispanic Community Newsletter for state funding; letters in support of funding for private residential child care facilities; urge Governor to support DCYS budge |
| 029 | 0021CL-012 | [Children]--Missing children | 1985 | Letters and petitions in support of the creation of a Missing and Exploited Children Unit. |
| 029 | 0021CL-013 | Children and Youth Services | 1986 | Parents for Enforcement of Court Ordered Support comments on the report of the Commission on Child Support Enforcement; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services study on the national incidence of |
| 029 | 0021CL-014 | Children and Youth Services--Day Care | 1986 | Support Governor's request for better salaries for day care workers; allegation that state is ignoring its service grant obligations to municipalities; notice of hearing to revoke day care license. |
| 029 | 0021CL-015 | [Children] DCYS | January-March 1987 | Complaint about adoption process; proposed national study of child abuse and neglect; U.S. Department of Health and Human Services demands return of grant funds due to poor review and Connecticut DCYS |
| 029 | 0021CL-016 | [Children] DCYS | April-July 1987 | Governor describes the Missing Children Unit within the Department of Public Safety to the First Lady of Texas; problems of teen pregnancy; parent needs help finding missing child; parent needs day ca |
| 029 | 0021CL-017 | [Children] DCYS | August-October 1987 | Request Governor to review child abuse case; grant application to the Youth 2000 initiative; Governor informs U.S. Department of Health and Human Services that Conn. will not apply for a grant to prom |
| 029 | 0021CL-018 | [Children] DCYS | November-December 1987 | Budget problems at Founder's School; General Assembly's Commission on Children supports Governor's budgetary efforts in regards to children and families; problems getting medical bills paid for foster |
| 029 | 0021CL-019 | [Children] DCYS--Child Support | 1987 | Request for state guidelines; requests Governor to help make her husband pay support; suggestions for improving child support laws. |
| 029 | 0021CL-020 | [Children] DCYS | January-April 1988 | Teacher reports at-risk students in her district; problems of runaway children; parent wants child returned; parent does not want her child to be adopted; questions about custody of children; protest |
| 029 | 0021CL-021 | [Children] DCYS | May-July 1988 | Alleged abuse of inmates by Long Lane staff and staff at the Uno House in New Haven; private organization frustrated at not receiving funding for its Unaccompanied Minors program (refugee orphans); al |
| 030 | 0021CL-022 | [Children] DCYS | August-September 1988 | Governor's intervention requested in child abuse case; service provider having financial problems and requests Governor's assistance; concern for welfare of child; allegations of child abuse; requests |
| 030 | 0021CL-023 | [Children] DCYS | October-December 1988 | Information about grant from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; information about the Governor's Task Force on Justice of Abused Children; parent objects to child's placement at Long Lane School; state s |
| 030 | 0021CL-024 | [Children] DCYS--Child Support | 1988 | Problems receiving or meeting support payments; complaint about the inequality of the support system. |
| 030 | 0021CL-025 | [Children] DCYS | January-March 1989 | Grandparents object to grandchildren being placed under state care instead of with them; views and concerns of the Connecticut State Advisory Council on Children and Youth Services; need to screen ado |
| 030 | 0021CL-026 | [Children] DCYS | April-June 1989 | Urge Governor to support full funding for DCYS; DCYS did not submit a plan for children's mental health services need to apply for federal grant; allegations of child abuse; parent requests placement |
| 030 | 0021CL-027 | [Children] DCYS | July-August 1989 | Governor thanks members of the Task Force on Justice for Abused Children; urge Governor to support full funding for DCYS; application for federal grant funds; response to audit report; allegations of |
| 030 | 0021CL-028 | [Children] DCYS | September-October 1989 | Request for independent commission to study Connecticut adoption law and policy particularly concerning privacy of records; criticism of procedures used in divorce case; discussion about whether state |
| 030 | 0021CL-029 | [Children] DCYS | November-December 1989 | Concern about custody of children; request for access to child abuse registry, and denial of that access; object to removal of foster child; question why grandparents were not given custody of grandch |
| 031 | 0021CL-030 | [Children] DCYS--Child Support | February-December 1989 | Problems receiving or meeting support payments; problem getting support amount increased. |
| 031 | 0021CL-031 | [Children] DCYS--Child Support | October 1989 | Woman in Vietnam asks Governor to obtain child support payments from her husband who lives in Bridgeport; problems receiving support payments; petition supporting the prompt and adequate payment of co |
| 031 | 0021CL-032 | [Children] DCYS | January-February 1990 | Parent needs placement for mentally ill child; blank survey form; objection to closing of Linwood Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment Services; allegations of child abuse; urge Governor to support fu |
| 031 | 0021CL-033 | [Children] DCYS | March 1990 | Request for information on DCYS accreditation process; parent needs placement for child; allegations of children at risk; emergency shelters needed for children in Fairfield County, but Commissioner s |
| 031 | 0021CL-034 | [Children] DCYS | April-June 1990 | Governor's support for replacement of Beacon House sought; concern about child abuse and suggestions for prosecuting offenders; mother wants child returned; allegations of child abuse; DCYS response i |
| 031 | 0021CL-035 | [Children] DCYS | July-December 1990 | Requests for Governor's help with custody disputes; criticism of DCYS; criticism of changes within the department that are not going through channels; praise for work of Marian Wright Edelman, preside |
| 031 | 0021CL-036 | [Children] DCYS--Child Support | 1990 | Problems receiving or meeting support payments; Family Division of the Superior Court reports on status of claims; request for Governor to clear son of paternity suit; concern about state intervention |
| 031 | 0021CL-037 | [Children] DCYS--[Memos to/from Commissioner] | January-July 1990 | DCYS designates delegate to Governor's Conference on Library and Information Services; audit reports and responses; press release describing reaction of legislative leaders to the suit against DCYS; d |
| 031 | 0021CL-038 | [Children] DCYS--[Memos to/from Commissioner] | August-December 1990 | Administrative report; audit reports and responses; DCYS Child Welfare Services Plan for 1990-1992. |