Hartford County
To save time we are narrowing the search for you. Services such as shelters, sober living homes, and support groups are, in many cases, gender-specific.
For this reason, we have created separate pages, one for men, and one for women. There is also a page just for members of the LGBTQ+ community to search for services. Hartford County is made up of the following cities and towns:
Avon, Berlin, Bloomfield, Bristol, Broad Brook, Burlington, Canton, Canton Center, Collinsville, East Berlin, East Glastonbury, East Granby, East Hartford, East Hartland, East Windsor, Enfield, Farmington, Glastonbury, Granby, Hartford, Manchester, Marion, Marlborough, Milldale, New Britain, Newington, North Canton, North Granby, Plainville, Plantsville, Poquonock, Rocky Hill, Simsbury, South Glastonbury, South Windsor, Southington, Suffield, Tariffville, Unionville, Weatogue, West Granby, West Hartford, West Hartland, West Simsbury, West Suffield, Wethersfield, Windsor & Windsor Locks
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Fairfield – Litchfield – Middlesex – New Haven – New London – Tolland – Windham
Bipolar Moms Support Group – Facebook Group: If you’re a mom and you have bipolar disorder then you’re in the right place! I want you to feel like you can be honest here. Everyone else here has the same thing. If anyone can understand you it’ll be us!
Location: Online
Leaving Abuse Behind Forever – Transforming Trauma: This Facebook Group is for women who have experienced sexual/emotional/mental abuse in their lives. This is a group created with the intention of holding a space for women to share their healing process, share their wisdom and their intention to move past the trauma and pain their abuse has caused and continues to cause in their lives.
Location: Online
Mercy Housing and Shelter Corporation : Women’s Program and Catherine’s Place
A short-term, 90-day housing and supportive services program for women in recovery. This program works to transition them from treatment into the community, or awaiting another level of care in their treatment program.
Location: Hartford, CT
Network Against Domestic Abuse Of North Central Connecticut, Inc.: The Network assists families and individuals who have experienced domestic and intimate partner violence. We educate to promote healthy relationships, and advocate for safer communities. The Network leads North Central Connecticut in preventing domestic abuse and fostering, healthy, violence-free relationships.
We operate a 15 bed confidential safe home in an undisclosed location for women and children who have been victims of domestic violence. We make all efforts to be sure you and your family feel safe and secure, and offer free counseling services to you and your children.
24-HOUR HOTLINE (860)763-4542
Location: Enfield, CT
Postpartum Support International- Connecticut Chapter (PSI-CT): is a chapter of Postpartum Support International. PSI-CT works to increase support and provide resources for women and their families during pregnancy and the postpartum period (also known as the perinatal period), to increase awareness of the mental health challenges related to childbearing and parenting, and to provide perinatal mental training for childbirth professionals.
Location: Statewide / See a current listing of support groups here.
Visit their online support group: https://www.facebook.com/psictchapter/
Root Center for Advanced Recovery: provides a continuum of behavioral healthcare services to help individuals struggling with substance use disorders. Counselors work with each patient to develop an individualized recovery plan which is based on the unique strengths, needs, abilities and preferences of each person served. Recovery services include:
Adolescent IOP – Infectious Disease Services – Intensive Outpatient Program – Individual, Group and Family Counseling – Pregnancy Program – Recovery Planning
Locations: Bristol, Hartford, Manchester, Middletown, New Britain, New London, Norwich, Torrington & Willimantic, CT
Root Center for Advanced Recovery – Pregnancy Program: Pregnant women have been treated with methadone for more than 25 years and neither methadone or other opiates have been shown to directly cause birth defects.
Any pregnant applicant is given priority admission and the initial methadone dose shall be the same as other patients served. Methadone dosing throughout pregnancy is the same as other patients served with close monitoring in the third trimester. The physician may meet with each pregnant patient once per trimester and postpartum. If a pregnant patient requests to withdraw from treatment (not recommended before 14 weeks or after 32 weeks), the clinic physician in coordination with the patient, OGBYN, will supervise the taper.
Counseling services include:
Medication Assisted Treatment – Infectious Disease Services – General Women’s Health Education
Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse Prevention – Reproductive Health Issues
Locations: Bristol, Hartford, Manchester, Middletown, New Britain, New London, Norwich, Torrington & Willimantic, CT
Saint Vincent Depaul Society Of Bristol – Women with Children Transitional Center: The program is a ten-family (women with children) facility for homeless women and their children. The Women with Children Transitional Center is a safe environment where women and their children may live for up to two years as she prepares to build a healthy home for herself and her family. The Center has a caring staff that utilizes the community resources to help each family achieve their personal goals. The Center provides a non-violent drug and alcohol free environment where motivated women can rebuild their lives.
Location: Bristol, CT
Smokefree.gov – SmokefreeWomen: A Web site that helps women quit smoking. Women face unique challenges when quitting smoking. This site addresses these challenges by providing information and tools that specifically address women’s experiences as they become smokefree.
Location: Statewide Access
The Crisis Pregnancy Center: is a Christian Prolife Center that assists women to make life-affirming decisions by helping them to make plans to keep and parent their babies, or to make an adoption plan by providing them with compassionate and loving emotional, physical and spiritual support.
Location: Unionville, CT
Services we offer:
24 Hour Hot-Line 800-395-Help (800-395-4357) – Free Pregnancy Tests – Counseling and Support – Prenatal Guidance – Information on Community Resources and Government Assistance – Maternity Clothes – Medical Care – Ongoing Personal Counseling – Referral for Adoption – Baby Furnishing & Clothes – Postnatal Guidance – Support Groups – Planning Mother and Baby’s Future – Help for the Woman Who Has Had an Abortion
Women with PTSD Support Group – Facebook Group: This is a closed group for women with PTSD/CPTSD, trauma, anxiety and or depression. No discrimination/harassment of any kind please.
Location: Online
Women’s Advice group and Mental Health Support – Facebook Group: We offer a judgement free safe space for women worldwide, who need support or advice or just a safe space to talk, we are here to show you are not alone, and there is support and someone always there if you need it, we offer a range of things on the group,including anonymous posts,their is always lots of support from admins and members.
Location: Online
