Adopt A Social Worker is the largest and oldest of our programs

Faith-based or community organizations agree to a covenant in which they partner with a particular social worker in Connecticut to, as far as is possible, provide for the necessary and special items needed for all of the children in that social worker’s caseload. This augments the provisions of the State, often assuring greater stability in the life of a child.

Other States have successfully copied this distinctive and preventative model but ours remains the most comprehensive and successful.

Catherine Haugh, Social Worker, AASW Program Coordinator, Northern Region

Meral Prewitt, Social Worker, AASW Program Coordinator, Southern Region

                                                  Source: CT Association of Nonprofits

Rich Davis and Catherine Haugh, Covenant to Care for Children Program Coordinators at the Nonprofit Day at the State Capitol

2005 Mutual of America Community Partnership Honorable Mention Award Adopt a Social Worker Program

Covenant to Care for Children's Adopt a Social Worker (AASW) program matches individual religious congregations of any faith tradition with a child protective services social worker in Connecticut. The purpose of the match is to support that social worker and to meet the unmet needs of neglected, severely impoverished, and abused children in the local community. Due to the increasing numbers of children in crisis, many churches and synagogues are needed to help.

Social workers who work with these families voluntarily participate in the Adopt A Social Worker program in order to help people of faith in their outreach volunteer efforts for the needy who live among us.

Most of the needs identified by the adopted social worker can be met through the abundance in the homes of congregation members: the extra blankets and sheets, the outgrown snowsuit, the discarded juvenile furniture, the baby sweater knit by a caring grandmother.

Through this partnership with faith-based volunteering, we build stronger connections between congregations and their communities, reduce the negative consequences poverty has on the nurturing children receive in their homes, and provide hope for families who experience the support they need from caring neighbors.

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