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Support Group News
New GLBT Foster Families Support Group


Town

Day

Time

Contact

Ansonia

1st & 3rd Tuesday

6 - 7:30 p.m.

Jennifer 203.732.2685 or CTFederation@aol.com

Bloomfield

First Tuesday

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Kellena Nelson 860.418.8208

Bridgeport

Please call

Please call

Ray Bieber, 203.384-5543 (Fathers only)

Bridgeport

Third Tuesday

6:30 – 9 p.m.

Mary Brantley 203.384.5596

Brooklyn

First Wednesday

7 – 8:30 p.m.

Karen Murray 860.455.0029 Ext. 4004 (Adoptive only)

Colchester

Second Thursday

6:00 – 8:00 p.m.

Diane Orlando 860.892-2916

Danbury

Please call

Please call

Suzanne Holko 203.740.8744

Danbury

First Wednesday

6 – 8 p.m.

Yvette 203.207.5161 or Valerie 203.748.5689

Gales Ferry

LastTuesday

7 – 9 p.m.

Sue Ivey 860.892.2937

Guilford

Fourth Monday

7 – 9 p.m.

Karen Carey 203.453.5783

Hartford

Third Thursday

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Clordean Mendes 860.418.8215

Hartford

Quarterly.

5 - 6:30 p.m.

Kathleen Service 860.243.4416

Hartford *

Last Thursday

6 - 8:00 p.m.

Jeanette Alicea 860.418.8211

Manchester

Third Tuesday

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Kathy DePasquale 860.533.3621(Foster/Adoptive)

Manchester *

Second Monday

6 – 8 p.m.

Jorge Limeres (Spanish Speaking)

Meriden *

Third Wednesday

10 a.m. –12 p.m.

Margarita Gonzalez 203.238.8461

Middletown

Last Monday

6 p.m.

Mark Hayre 860.638.2155

New Britain

Fourth Tuesday

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Shirley Crosswaith 860.860.832.5428 (Adoptive only)

New Britain

Fourth Wednesday

6 – 8 p.m.

Yolanda Leon 860.418.8291 (Complex Medical Needs) (meet odd months)

New Britain

Third Wednesday

6 – 8 p.m.

Michelle Varanay 860.832.5432

New Britain *

Second Wednesday

6 – 8 p.m.

Mercedes Acosta 860.832.5436

New Haven

Third Wednesday

5:30 –7:30 p.m.

Lynn GabbardRandi Rubin-Rodriguez 203.865.5437

New Haven

Second Thursday

7 – 9 p.m.

Tyrone Hart 203.786.0582 or Suzanne Baetz 203.786.3393

New Haven

Third Thursday

Dianne Delvecchio 203.786.2523 (Legal Risk Adoptions)

New Haven

Second Tuesday

6 – 8:00 p.m.

Leona Rogers 203.786.2518 (Special Study only)

New London

Second Tuesday

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Lynn Alston 860.892.2941

New London

First Tuesday

6 – 8 p.m.

Sally Sweezey 860.892.2943

New London *

Third Tuesday

7 – 9 p.m.

Madelyn Guzman 860.892.2939

Norwich

Third Tuesday

6:30 – 8:30 p.m.

Margaret Howard 860.892.2944

Old Saybrook

Third Wednesday

7 – 9 p.m.

Rosie Champlin 860.395.1256

Plainfield

Third Tuesday

9:30 – 11:30 a.m.

Mary Dunion 860.450.2071 (Complex Medical Needs)

Thompson

First Wednesday

9:30 – 11:00 a.m.

Camille Ayala 860.450.2060

Trumbull Area

Monthly

7 – 9 p.m.

Julie Armstrong 203.384.5582

Wallingford *

Every other Tuesday

12:45 – 2 p.m.

Irene O'Brien 203.269.1475

Waterbury

Third Thursday

6 – 8 p.m.

Gloria Caporuscio 203.419.0147 (Complex Medical Needs)

Waterbury

Please call

Please call

Claudia Dellabitta 203.756.8317 (Foster children)

Waterbury

Second Monday

5:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Laurie/Marybeth 203.756.8317 or Karen 203.759.7005

Waterbury*

Please call

Please call

Marcia Acevedo 203.759.7292 (Adoptive only)

Willimantic

Last Tuesday

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Michelle Dwyer 860.450.2063

Willimantic *

Third Friday

6 – 8 p.m.

Edma Perez 860.450.2064

Winsted

Last Tuesday

6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

Evelyn Johns 860.496.5766

 

*Meetings conducted in the Spanish language.