Elder Response Team Members:

Derby Senior Center
193 Main Street, Derby, CT 06418
Telephone:  203 736-1484  
Fax:  203 736-1486
Hours:  9:00 am – 4:00 pm  Monday - Friday
E-mail:  derbyseniors@snet.net  

Mission:  To serve as a resource center providing a broad range of services and activities to meet the diverse social, physical, and intellectual needs of older adults. Our members and staff are encouraged to help implement various activities to reinforce positive attitudes and preserve individual dignity. The center shall promote an atmosphere of compassion, equality and mutual concern for all older adults to enhance the quality of life.

Free Transportation to the Senior Center for Derby residents is provided Tuesdays and Thursdays.  Transportation is available 5 days a week from Valley Transit District (VTD). For more information or to schedule a pick up call 735-6408
 

Services and Programs:
Choices Counseling - Help with Medicare, ConnPACE, & ConnSAVE, Computers with access to the Internet, Educational Presentations, Health Screenings, Library with books (including large print), videos, dvd's and audio books, Local newspapers & latest magazines, Lunch Program, Recreational Activities, Tax Credit Applications Homeowners and Rental Rebates (Derby Residents), Trips.

Domestic Violence Services of Greater New Haven (DVS)
P.O. Box 1329, New Haven, CT 06505 
24 hour hotline: (203) 789-8104
Business office:  (203) 865-1957
TTY:  (203) 773-0192
Website: www.dvsgnh.org

Mission: The mission of DVS is to create an environment that supports individual safety and breaks the cycle of domestic violence.

Services: 24 hour hotline; emergency shelter; advocacy in the criminal and civil courts; counseling; support groups; and community education programs for professionals, community groups and students

Eligibility Criteria:  All services are confidential and free of charge to any individual who is or has been in an abusive relationship.

Shelton Senior Center
81 Wheeler Street  Shelton, CT 06484
Telephone: 203 924-9324 
Fax:  203  924-1515
Hours:  9:00am - 4:30pm  Monday - Friday

Mission:  To provide a wide range of services and informative programs for the registered members of the Senior Center and for any non-registered Shelton residents age 55 and older. We also provide social and recreational programs for our members.

Services and Programs: Outreach Program that provides transportation for Shelton Residents for medical and dental appointments, Transportation for Shelton residents to the Center Monday thru Friday, Shopping bus to a local shopping center through Valley Transit on Wednesdays, Lunch Program, Health Screenings, Assistance with Benefit Programs, such as ConnPACE, Medicare, etc., Financial Programs, Educational Programs including computer classes, Health Insurance Programs, Recreational Programs, Trips.

The Umbrella,
A Program of Birmingham Group Health Services
435 East Main Street, Ansonia, CT  06401
24 Hour Hotline:  203-735-9944  
Business Phone: 203-736-2601
Email: umbrella@bghealth.org

Mission:  The basic philosophy of The Umbrella program is that all persons have the right to live free of violence and fear, especially in their own homes. The program has a two-fold purpose - to provide practical assistance and support for victims of domestic violence, and to work for the elimination of domestic violence in the community.

Services/Programs:  24 hour/7day per week confidential hotline, walk-in crisis center, shelter for battered women and children, court based advocacy program, support groups, legal aid referrals, Latino services, community outreach and prevention programs for schools, civic organizations and businesses.

Eligibility Criteria:  Services offered to victims of domestic violence and their children.

Other Resources:

Attorney General
State of Connecticut,
Office of the Attorney General
55 Elm Street, Hartford, Connecticut  06106
Telephone: (860) 808-5318  
Website:  www.ct.gov/ag

Protective Services for the Elderly (PSE)
To report cases of suspected abuse, neglect or exploitation, call the toll-free referral line at 1-888-385-4225

Mission: PSE is designed to safeguard people 60 years and older from physical, mental and emotional abuse, neglect and abandonment and/or financial abuse and exploitation.

Services: DSS social workers devise a plan of care aimed at assuring an elders' safety while preserving the person’s right of self-determination. Staff may help the person remain in the living situation he or she prefers, safeguard legal rights, prevent bodily injury or harm, determine service needs and then mobilize resources to provide necessary services.

The Social Work service plan may include crisis intervention, arranging for and coordinating any of the following services: adult day-care, companionship, counseling, homemaker, home health care, home-delivered meals, long-term care or, if necessary, emergency convalescent placement.

In extreme cases, DSS can seek court authorization to provide services to a person who appears to “lack the capacity” to give consent to reasonable and necessary services to assure personal safety. Under certain circumstances, the Department may apply to the Probate Court for the appointment of a Conservator whose role is to make decisions on behalf of an incompetent person.  

Federal Trade Commission (Identity Theft)
Identity Theft Clearinghouse
Federal Trade Commission
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, DC 20580
Identity Theft toll-free hotline:  1-877-438-4338
Website: www.consumer.gov/idtheft

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POLICE DEPARTMENTS

Ansonia:
Emergency:    911
Police Headquarters:   203-735-1885

Derby:
125 Water Street
Derby, CT 06418
Emergency:  911
Routine Calls:    203 735-7811
Police Headquarters:    203  734-1651 

Oxford:
429 Oxford Rd.
Oxford, CT 06478
Emergency:  911
Routine Calls:  203 888-4353

Seymour:
Emergency:   911
Police Headquarters:   203 888-2525

Shelton:
85 Wheeler Street
Shelton, CT 06484
Emergency:  911
Routine Calls:  (203) 924-1544

PROBATE COURTS  

Ansonia     203  734-1277
Oxford       203  888-2543
Shelton      203  924-8462