The Child Guidance Center of Southern Connecticut (CGC), a non-profit mental health resource serving children, teenagers, and their families, has been awarded a $5,000 grant from
NewAlliance Bank. This grant will help support the Center’s Child, Adolescent and Family Therapy (CAFT) Program.

As the cornerstone of the CGC for over 50 years, the CAFT Program utilizes a multidisciplinary team approach to provide a broad range of mental health assessments and treatment services to children and families referred under non-emergency circumstances. Children are referred to
CAFT for a variety of reasons, including having problems in school or difficulties adjusting to their parents’ divorce, expressing thoughts of suicide, exhibiting signs of severe depression and anxiety, or engaging in behavior that hurts themselves or others. The program places a strong emphasis on parent involvement, so that parents can understand their child’s strengths and challenges, develop realistic expectations and provide the security, acceptance and love every
child needs.

The NewAlliance Foundation, with an endowment of approximately $50 million, was created in April 2004 at the time of the conversion of New Haven Savings Bank to a publicly held
company – NewAlliance Bancshares, Inc. The Foundation, one of the largest bank foundations in the country, focuses on its grant making in the arts, community development, health and human services and youth and education throughout Connecticut in the communities in which NewAlliance Bank conducts business. The NewAlliance Foundation has been selected as the 2006 Outstanding Corporate Foundation by the Connecticut Association of Fundraising Professionals.