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The Bridge operates several residential programs for young
people. The Bridge Youth Shelter in West Hartford has been in
existence since 1978 and serves Hartford-area youth ages 11 to
17 whose lives are in crisis. Over this past year, the youth
shelter has been converted to the Department of Children and
Families’ STAR model, a Short Term Assessment and Respite home.
STAR homes provide clinical and assessment services in a small,
structured home-like setting. Two other STAR homes have been
opened in Southington and Manchester. All of The Bridge Family
Center’s STAR homes are for girls.
The Bridge has two residential programs in the
Manchester/Rockville area aimed at helping older teens in state
care to make the transition to self-sufficiency through housing
assistance and life skills training. In 1998, The Bridge opened
the Moving On Project, a transitional living apartment program
in Hartford (now in Manchester) that assists young men ages 16
to 21 in developing the skills necessary to live independently.
In 2004, The Bridge was awarded a five-year federal grant to
fund a new Youth in Transition program for homeless youth
outside the state welfare system, including pregnant and
parenting teens and their children. Eleanor House, a
community-based therapeutic group home for girls ages 13 to 17,
opened in Hartford in early 2006. In fiscal year 2007, 168
youth received assistance from The Bridge’s residential
programs.
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Eleanor House, a
therapeutic group home for girls, opened in Hartford in 2006. The Bridge has operated a youth shelter in
West Hartford since 1978.
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