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Connecticut

  • HSDS 3.3.1
  • CC BY 4.0
  • Updated October 10, 2026

About this data

County and city offices, food banks, free legal help, community action agencies, food pantries and meal sites, and the programs the state runs, in Connecticut. It uses the Human Services Data Specification (HSDS 3.3.1) from Open Referral, so 211s and referral tools can load it as it is.

Services
344
Organizations
296
Places with an address
253
In the free sample
35

What is in it

State programs
32
Local offices
267
Nonprofits
11
Food sites
0

Services by kind of help

  • Housing74
  • Education62
  • Money54
  • Care41
  • Work33
  • Food23
  • Health19
  • Legal help17
  • Safety13
  • Other8

How it is built and checked

  • We read official pages and trusted lists: county and city websites, state agencies, Feeding America, the Legal Services Corporation and community action networks.
  • A research file counts only when it passes the same checks it must pass to reach Front Door. A file with a problem waits until it is fixed.
  • Every service and organization names the page it came from and the day we read it.
  • We rebuild the files with every release of Front Door. The API reads only these files, never our live database.

Fields

Each HSDS table, how many rows it has, and the fields we fill in. The free sample has the same fields.

  • organizations296 rows, 35 in the sample

    id, name, alternate_name, description, website

  • services344 rows, 35 in the sample

    id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date

  • locations253 rows, 21 in the sample

    id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude

  • service_at_locations286 rows, 21 in the sample

    id, service_id, location_id

  • phones596 rows, 66 in the sample

    id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id

  • schedules0 rows, 0 in the sample

    id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes

  • addresses247 rows, 21 in the sample

    id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type

  • service_areas397 rows, 55 in the sample

    id, service_id, name, description

  • languages0 rows, 0 in the sample

    id, service_id, name

  • taxonomies3 rows, 3 in the sample

    id, name, description, uri, version

  • taxonomy_terms33 rows, 33 in the sample

    id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id

  • attributes2,539 rows, 275 in the sample

    id, link_id, link_type, link_entity, taxonomy_term_id, value

TableRowsIn the sampleFields
organizations29635id, name, alternate_name, description, website
services34435id, organization_id, name, alternate_name, description, url, status, application_process, eligibility_description, assured_date
locations25321id, location_type, organization_id, name, description, latitude, longitude
service_at_locations28621id, service_id, location_id
phones59666id, number, extension, service_id, location_id, organization_id
schedules00id, service_id, location_id, freq, byday, opens_at, closes_at, description, notes
addresses24721id, location_id, address_1, city, state_province, postal_code, country, address_type
service_areas39755id, service_id, name, description
languages00id, service_id, name
taxonomies33id, name, description, uri, version
taxonomy_terms3333id, code, name, description, taxonomy, taxonomy_id
attributes2,539275id, link_id, link_type, link_entity, taxonomy_term_id, value

Known gaps

  • No food pantries or meal sites for Connecticut yet.
  • Changes made by organizations that claimed their listing, and links we fixed after a check, reach these files later.
  • Hours are listed for food sites. For offices and programs, call or check the source page.
  • The API has no full-text search, ZIP code or distance filters yet. The files cover bulk use.

How to cite

Please credit Front Door and say which release you used.

Front Door (localcarehub.org). Human services in Connecticut, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10. CC BY 4.0. https://localcarehub.org/open-data/connecticut
BibTeX
@misc{frontdoor_hsds_ct_20261010,
  author = {{Front Door}},
  title = {Human services in Connecticut, HSDS 3.3.1, release 2026-10-10},
  year = {2026},
  note = {HSDS 3.3.1. CC BY 4.0},
  url = {https://localcarehub.org/open-data/connecticut}
}

License

Our own research is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: the offices, the state programs, the descriptions we write and how we match records to kinds of help. Records from public sources keep their source's terms, and each one names its source. Check the source before you rely on a record.

Front Door is an independent service, not a government website.