Project CONNECT: Keeping Families Strong in a Complicated World

Being a parent is stressful
Children are not always easy to manage all the time. Project CONNECT helps parents decrease the stress in their families and enjoy more positive relationships with their children.

Project CONNECT helps families get along better enjoy each other more by:

• Improving success with parenting skills
• Improving social support
• Improving enjoyment of parenting

Project CONNECT provides children and families skills to cope with stressful events by:

• Teaching children skills to manage anger and fear
• Teaching parents how to handle children with the disobey
• Teaching families how to talk with children about stressful events
  

Families who participate in Project CONNECT are more likely to:

• Get along with each other
• Feel less stressed
• Support children in making good choices

We provide FREE, weekly services!
Project CONNECT provides services to the Long Island City, Astoria, Sunnyside, and Woodside community at the Queens Library. More locations to be announced soon!

Interested? Here's how families can join CONNECT:

Call: 917-864-1678
Or, click here to fill out our referral form

Important Information:

• Project CONNECT is a research program, so families will be randomly assigned to begin treatment right away or placed on a wait-list for 6 months. Families will have an equal chance of assignment to either group.
• Project CONNECT staff members are mandated reporters by law, just like teachers and physicians. For this reason, we are required to report any suspected maltreatment to the New York State Central Register (SCR) of Child Abuse and Maltreatment, also known as the Child Abuse Hotline. When working with families, we will discuss what happens when a report is made and also how Project CONNECT can help.
• For families experiencing domestic violence, we only can work with families that have established protective actions for safety (such as taking an order of protection, leaving the batterer, etc.).
  o    If a family experiencing domestic violence has not established safety, we are unable to provide treatment until they are referred to an agency that can help them such as the Queens Family Justice Center.  After safety has been established, the family would be eligible for Project CONNECT Services.

Project Director:
Dr. Vanessa Rodriguez
Assistant Director of Community Programs
718-990-5479
rodrigv2@stjohns.edu