Connecticut's top child welfare official is again trying to establish a residential center for troubled girls, a decade after the state shut a facility and four years after political pressure killed a proposed girls' detention center in Bridgeport.
Commissioner Joette Katz said Tuesday the Department of Children and Families plans to spend up to $3.5 million to convert a building on the grounds of a former psychiatric center in Middletown next year. The 10- to 12-bed facility would provide residential treatment for girls between the ages of 13 and 18 for up to six months.
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