Waterbury Home for Adolescent Girls Closing: 68 Workers Will Lose

Nearly 70 full-time and part-time workers at a home for adolescent girls will lose their jobs when the Department of Children and Families closes Stepping Stone, a 26-bed facility in Waterbury.

Stepping Stone serves girls with psychiatric or behavioral difficulties. The workers that will be displaced include 27 direct care workers, 15 relief direct care workers, four clinical case managers, five teachers, two administrative assistants, two cooks, as well as nurses, a principal, a psychiatrist, eight managers or supervisors, a recreational therapist and a maintenance worker.

NAFI Connecticut, which runs a campus in Litchfield, operates the home. The nonprofit told the Department of Labor this month that DCF notified the organization May 28th that it would close the home. NAFI stands for North American Family Institute.

?This closure was unforeseen and beyond NAFI Connecticut?s control,? the letter to the Department of Labor said.

The jobs will be eliminated gradually as the girls who live there move out, but will finish by the end of August.

?This decision is in keeping with the Department?s direction of moving resources toward more community-based services, more family-based care, and less reliance on congregate care generally,? said DCF spokesman Gary Kleeblatt.

Kleeblatt said there are 16 girls living in the facility, and most will either return to their families or get placed in a foster home.

?We understand that NAFI CT is looking to fill vacancies in its other programs and is exploring ways to shift staff at the residential program,? he said.

Source: http://courantblogs.com/ct-jobs/waterbury-home-for-adolescent-girls-closing-68-workers-will-lose-jobs/

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