Residential Programs
Our residential programs are staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Our staff of youth advocates ensures our young people are focused on building essential life skills that will enable them to live independently in our community once they officially leave Domus. Education is another top priority; many of our young people have been moved around so often that they’ve missed dozens of school days.

The young people in our care are many things: resilient, devastated, hopeful, desperate, loving, and brave. Most have endured situations that would floor the average adult, yet they face each day determined to not just get by but build a future. Domus, with support from our partners, provides for their every need in that journey: every pencil, sock, snack, suitcase, tutoring session, and haircut.
GE Tax Team transforms Domus House. See pictures below!
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Our organization’s roots are the care of abused, neglected, and abandoned young men. Since 1972 Domus has provided a loving, structured home-like situation for 10 boys aged 12 to 18 in Stamford’s South End. These young men, placed in Domus House by the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, would otherwise be homeless. In 1993, seeing the need for a less structured home to serve as a transition between Domus House and living on one’s own, Domus created Passages for 10 boys aged 16 to 21. These four self-contained apartments give our young men more freedom; round-the-clock staffing is provided to continue the focus on practical life skills and education. Bridges, a scattered site supervised apartment program, came next, allowing young men and women aged 17 to 23 to live independently in the community with the support of a case manager when needed.

Many thanks to Rick D’Avino, Marianne Keegan and the wonderful GE Tax Team for their fantastic work at Domus House, one of our residential homes! On Friday, June 6, 2008, dozens of generous volunteers truly transformed the house with fresh paint, new blinds and shades, new flooring, new furniture and so much more. Our youth are more than grateful and so are we!


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