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Adolescent and Family Counseling Center
350 South Main Street
Chesire, CT 06410
Ph: (203) 271-1234
Fax: (203) 272-9094
www.afccenter.org
| Mission: | Sometimes, the challenge of life can seem overwhelming. At times like this, it helps to speak with someone who will really listen-someone who can help you sort through your problems and questions, and help you find the answers. You can get that support and help at the Adolescent and Family Counseling Center. |
| Treatment Description: | Provide a broad rand of health, mental health and education services through individual, couples, family and group therapy. |
| Staff: | Licensed clinical social workers, array of consultants. |
| Services Offered: | Psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, alcohol and drug abuse counseling, sexual abuse, counseling, medication evaluation-prescriptions and monitoring, divorce counseling, psychiatric evaluations, educational enrichment and remedial tutoring, career and vocational counseling and testing, college placement counseling, educational and psychological assessments, family mediation, support groups, medical social work, weight and wellness counseling. |
| Payment Method: | Accepts major medical insurance, are designated providers of most HMO and PPO plans. Willing to discuss fees and make financial arrangements when necessary. |
Alpha House
425 Grant Street
Bridgeport, CT 06610
Ph: (203) 337-9943 x114
Fax: (203) 337-9986
Contact Person: Nancy Moak
www.aptfoundation.org
| Mission: | To provide treatment to individuals with substance use problems with an emphasis on traditionally underserved populations. |
| Treatment Description: | Long-term residential program (voluntary-no locked doors) for youth with drug or alcohol problems and related behavioral difficulties including problems with the law. Utilizes a therapeutic community self-help model integrated with professional and clinical services. On-site state licensed high school and special education program (COPE). Encourages a return to the community as productive drug-free citizens. |
| Origin: | Founded in 1970 it is one of the oldest most successful substance abuse programs in CT. It has earned a reputation for excellence in addiction and treatment. |
| Staff: | Staff hold credentials including CADC. MSW, Family Therapist (BFT, MFT), LPN, RN, and PhD. Teachers and administrators are state certified. |
| Services Offered: | 18 month residential program for males and females ages 14-19. Medical, psychiatric, psychological, special education, vocational counseling, recreation. Full school program, individual, group and family therapy. |
| Payment Method: | SAGA, Medicaid, some private insurance, Sliding scale based on income available for self-pay individuals. |
| Referral Method: | Most referred by Department of Children and Families or Court Support Services Division. |
| Hours Open: | 24 hours a day, all year |
| Organizational Structure: | Private, non-profit |
| Funding Sources: | Funded by Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Corrections, Department of Children and Families, Court Support Services Division, National Institute on Drug Abuse. |
Branford Counseling Center
342 Harbor Street
Branford, CT 06405
Ph: (203) 471-4248
Fax: (203) 483-7727
| Staff: | 13 Clinicians. |
| Services Offered: | Licensed psychiatric outpatients and substance abuse facility for children. It is the Youth Services Bureau for the town of Branford. |
| Payment Method: | Most commercial health plans are accepted, provider for Medicaid and Medicare. |
| Hours Open: | Mon-Fri 9:00-6:00, will make exceptions. |
Bridges-A Community Support System
949 Bridgeport Avenue
Milford, CT 06460
Ph: (203) 878-6365
Fax: (203) 877-3088
www.bridgesmilford.org
| Origin: | Founded in 1957 |
| Hours Open: | Monday and Friday 8:30am-5:00pm, Tuesday-Thursday 8:30am-6:00pm |
| Organizational Structure: | Private, nonprofit |
Children's Center of Hamden
New Choices Program
1400 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517
Ph: (203) 248-2116 x351
Contact Person: Chris Hinds
www.childrenscenterhamden.org
| Treatment Description: | 45-day intensive residential program. Multi-modal treatment to include individual, group, family and multiple family therapy. 12-step recovery principles, behaviorally-oriented therapeutic milieu. |
| Origin: | Founded in 1833, as the first child-care agency chartered by the State, initially known as "the New Haven Orphan Asylum". It is the oldest chartered private child caring agency. |
| Staff: | 160 (primarily child care workers, therapists, and teachers). |
| Services Offered: | Residential treatment for substance abuse, relapse groups. Case management services provided from point of admission in order to identify, follow up and after-care community. |
| Payment Method: | Sliding fee and scholarships are available through a grant awarded by the Department of Children and Families. Accepts payment from insurance companies and managed care organizations. |
| Organizational Structure: | Private, Volunteer Board of Directors |
| Funding Source: | Funding from DCF, grants, and contributions. |
Children's Center of Hamden
Wakeman Hall
1400 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517
Ph: (203) 248-2116 x341
Contact Person: Martin Jackson
www.childrenscenterhamden.org
| Treatment Description: | Outpatient individual, group and family therapies available. Frequency of participation is prescribed following an evaluation. Case manager provides outreach and community based services to help clients incorporate the changes they are making in therapy into their daily lives. |
| Origin: | Founded in 1833, as the first child-care agency chartered by the State, initially known as "the New Haven Orphan Asylum". It is the oldest chartered private child caring agency. |
| Staff: | 160 (primarily child care workers, therapists, and teachers). |
| Services Offered: | The typical patient is a poly-substance abuser, average age of 16. Substance abuse treatment to teenagers and their families who may be referred by parents, schools and probation officers. |
| Payment Method: | Sliding fee and scholarships are available through a grant awarded by the Department of Children and Families. Accepts payment from insurance companies and managed care organizations. |
| Organizational Structure: | Private, Volunteer Board of Directors |
| Funding Source: | Funding from DCF, grants, and contributions. |
Clifford W. Beers Guidance Clinic, Inc
93 Edwards Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Ph: (203) 772-1270
Fax: (203) 495-6816
www.cliffordbeers.org
| Alternate Locations: | West Haven Office:354 Campbell AveWest Haven ct 06516(203) 933-8050Shoreline Office:652 Boston Post RdGuilford, CT 06437 (203) 933-8050 |
| Mission: | To provide accessible, community based mental health services for the behaviorally and physical well-being of children, adolescents and their families. To promote research and raising awareness in the community of child and family mental health. |
| Treatment Description: | Community based program serves youth identified as at risk for addiction. Emphasizes work with the child and his/her family, utilization of community resources, self-help groups, and education to achieve the goal of total abstinence from drugs and alcohol. Diagnostic and treatment services available for children and adolescents who are actively using drugs and/or alcohol and for those already in recovery. |
| Origin: | Established in 1913 as the first outpatient mental health clinic in the nation after Clifford Beers spent time in a mental institution after a failed suicide attempt. He suffered from sever depression and paranoia, wrote a book about conditions of institutions and dedicated his life to reforming mental health issues. |
| Staff: | Psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, consulting pediatrician, nurse clinician, and bachelor level counselors. |
| Services Offered: | The Clinic provides services to fight violence against children and violence by children, sexual abuse, teenage suicide, drug use, homelessness, and the impact of HIV/AIDS on children and families. |
| Payment Method: | Sliding scale, Medicaid, managed care, commercial insurance. |
| Hours Open: | Main Clinic: Mon,Wed, Fri: 9:00-5:00 Tues, Thurs: 9:00-7:00West Haven: Mon-Fri 9:00-7:00 |
| Mission: | To promote the development of individuals and families, prevent mental disorders and problem behaviors, and enhance the effectiveness of mental health and other human services. |
| Treatment Description: | Mental health and organizational consultation to school, social services and mental health agencies, cultural diversity and sensitivity training for providers. Building effective leadership among service providers and school personnel. Advocacy for at-risk children, parents and families. |
| Origin: | The professional staff at The Consultation Center have been providing services and conducting research for over twenty-five years. |
| Staff: | Draw on the multiple perspectives of psychology, social work, education, psychiatry, public health, and administration. Staff assume a variety of roles including consultant, trainer, researcher, prevention specialist, facilitator, and evaluator. |
| Services Offered | School, and community based substance abuse and drop out prevention programs, school based peer counseling, mentoring and advisor/advisee programs, violence prevention and conflict mediation programs. Neighborhood and community interventions to promote competence among high-risk youth, parent training and parent child groups in decision making and substance abuse prevention. |
| Affiliation: | Affiliated with the Division of Prevention and Community Research of the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine |
Guilford Youth & Family Services
55-R Park Street
Guilford, CT 06437
Ph: (203) 453-8047
Fax: (203) 453-8044
| Mission: | To address issues regarding alcohol and other drug involvement. Through prevention, education, assessment, intervention and/or counseling services. |
| Treatment Description: | Services offered to students interested in addressing substance abuse issues. They may be concerned about their own drug use, a friend or loved ones involvement, dealing with the temptation to become involve, returning back to school from treatment and staying clean. SAC will work closely with families s concerned about these issues. All contacts with students remain confidential. |
| Staff: | Professional staff dedicated to reaching out to the needs of Guilford youth. Staff collaborates with family members, police, school and community personnel to develop appropriate counseling. |
| Referral Method: | Anyone can refer requests to talk with a Student Assistance Counselor. Students can refer themselves, parents, police, coaches, teachers and peers can recommend that SAC meet with a particular student. |
| Hours Open: | Guilford High School: Mon-Fri 8:00-2:00 (203) 458-9803Adams Middle School: Mon-Fri 8:30-2:30 (203) 453-2755Guilford Youth & Family Services Mon-Fri (203) 458-8047 |
| Mission: | Working to strengthen our collective ability to build and sustain safe, healthy and caring communities. We seek to inspire people to reach their fullest potential as productive and valued citizens. |
| Treatment Description: | Exposed to learning how to handle difficulty with identifying and changing negative cycles and self-defeating behavior, need for communications skills, displaced anger and blame, establishing group cohesiveness, demands of parenthood at a young age, family conflicts/poor relationships with parents, periodic struggles with hopelessness, frustration, helplessness, impairment in social skills including reliance on aggressive, hostile or sarcastic behavior vs. assertive and supportive behavior towards others. |
| Origin: | Founded in 1972 as a community response to the devastation being wrought on families and communities from the problems of abuse, dependency, addiction, crime and neglect. One of CT's first agencies to initiate community based treatment programs. The High Risk Youth Program began in 1992. |
| Staff: | Over 400 staff (employees, volunteers, contracted professionals). |
| Services Offered: | Individual, group therapy. Provides opportunities for its clients to have a chance to include in their lives the learning of new and different behaviors which they may use to help them start toward a life of potential that includes their being active, constructive citizens in a caring community. Available to black and Hispanic males 16-20, residents of N.H(Most have been involved with drug possession and/or sales. All were in prison). |
| Organizational Structure: | John LaRosa-Chair-Board of Directors, Peter Nucci- President & CEO |
Hospital of St. Raphael
| Adolescent Day Hospital | Chemical Dependence Program |
| 301 Orchard Street | 1294 Chapel Street |
| New Haven, CT 06511 | New Haven, CT 06511 |
| Ph: (203) 789-3340 | Ph: (203) 784-8790 (evenings only) |
| Clinical Coordinator: Jennifer Fuoco | |
www.srhs.org/clinical_childpsych.asp
| Mission: | To improve the mental health and overall quality of life of children and their families. We provide a safe, nurturing environment with compassionate therapeutic care-each day carrying out the St. Raphael's caring mission of dignity, charity, and justice, with special attention given to the needy and underserved. |
| Treatment Description: | Individual and family psychotherapy, as well as programs to help participants maintain a substance free lifestyle. "Partial Hospitalization Program"- for adolescents who require intensive multidisciplinary treatment but do not require hospitalization. Chemical Dependence Program-treatment includes individual and family psychotherapy, as well as programs to help participants maintain a substance free lifestyle. |
| Staff: | Board certified Child and Adolescent psychiatrists. Staff to patient ratios: 1:4 social workers, 1:3 nurses, 1:6 psychiatrists |
| Services Offered: | Adolescent Day Hospital: partial hospitalization program for adolescents who require intensive, multidisciplinary treatment but do not require hospitalization. Connections are made with the child's school and other social supports. Chemical Dependence Program- Intensive outpatient, partial hospitalization for people who abuse or are dependent upon a variety of drugs, including alcohol, cocaine, heroin or prescription medications |
| Payment Method: | Participants with more than 85 insurers, including most HMOs, PPOs, TPAs, Taft Hartley plans and self-insured products offered in Connecticut. |
| Hours Open: | Adolescent Day: Mon-Fri: 1:00-5:00 |
| Mission: | To foster the healthy development of the children of Madison and their families through progressive programs that offer prevention, community coordination and treatment services. |
| Treatment Description: | Student Assistant Counselors are available at Daniel Hand High School and Dr. R.H. Brown Junior High for information, referral, counseling and crisis intervention. |
| Origin: | Established in 1983 by the town for Madison residents. |
| Staff: | 10 on staff. |
| Services Offered: | Substance abuse intervention services, 8th grade "Choices" program- focuses on refusal skills and utilizes high school aged peer advocates to help the young students to consider negative consequences associated with substance abuse. 9th grade "Choices" program- drug/alcohol prevention program that provides students with skills and information to help them avoid the use of alcohol and other drugs. |
| Payment Method: | Most services are free, sliding scale for ongoing general counseling and parenting education programs. |
| Hours Open: | Student Assistant Counselors available Mon-Fri. Drop in at school or by appointment at Madison Youth Services. |
| Mission: | Meeting the substance abuse and mental health needs of children, adults and families. |
| Treatment Description: | Intensive Outpatient Program (IOP)- provides services to adolescents in grades 8-12 who require intensive treatment while being maintained in their homes. Group therapy topics include: anger management, coping skills, self-esteem, drug/alcohol ed., art & recreation therapy, relapse prevention. Program serves adolescents who are having difficulty with substance abuse and/or mental health issues. An adolescent-specific behavior management program promoting responsible decision making. Social skill development via socialization and therapy groups |
| Origin: | MidState Behavioral Health System was welcomed into the Rushford family of behavioral health services on July 1, 2003. Rushford Center was established in 1975 to provide information on alcoholism and to act as a catalyst in developing services for alcoholism. |
| Staff: | More than 350 in Middletown, Meriden and Glastonbury |
| Services Offered: | A wide range of broad-based, community prevention services focus on student asst. programs, after-school and summer prevention activities, juvenile justice programs and a variety of other community-oriented education and awareness activities. Bilingual therapy, support, training and case management for Spanish-speaking clients-Parenting and family support groups, psychiatric evaluation and treatment. |
| Payment Method: | Has contractual agreements with al major healthcare insurers and managers having covered lives in Connecticut as well as with many other institutional programs, corporate and private EAPs, HMOs, MCOs and private carriers across the nation. |
| Hours Open: | Mon-Thurs afternoons |
| Organizational Structure: | Jeffrey Walters-President & CEO, David Director-Board of Directors |
| Mission: | To provide North Haven residents with a comprehensive program of social and recreational services. |
| Treatment Description: | State licensed outpatient, multi service clinic offers individual, group and family counseling to North Haven residents. |
| Services Offered: | Counseling services available for mental health, substance abuse and family problems. Aftercare services are available, when appropriate, for those individuals who have been formerly hospitalized or treated in residential facilities for mental health or substance abuse disorders. |
| Payment Method: | A sliding scale fee, determined by income. |
| Mission: | Committed to providing accessible, comprehensive and quality primary and behavioral health care to low income and underserved residents in Greater New Haven. |
| Origin: | Founded in 1968, provides substance abuse to adults and adolescents primarily for residents of Dixwell and Newhallville neighborhoods. |
| Services Offered: | Assessment for substance abuse and psychiatric disorders, individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, psychiatric evaluations and medication management. |
| Payment Method: | SAGA, Title 19, CHN, First Choice,Medicare B, PHS, Anthem (Century Preferred 90/94/96 and State Preferred Only), Aetna. |
| Hours Open: | Mon, Fri: 8:30-5:00, Tues-Thurs: 8:30-6:00. |
| Organizational Structure: | Private, non-profit. Andrea Jackson Brooks-President, Board of Directors |
| Mission: | To reduce Latino over-representation in traditional incarceration programs, offer positive and productive activities to develop a sense of responsibility and accountability. Encourage and support family treatment. |
| Treatment Description: | Violence awareness, prevention, and conflict resolution, community services, electronic monitoring, case management, and follow up services. |
| Origin: | CCCFS was established in 1920 with a focus on the children as the future, families as the backbone of society and the elderly as the link to our roots. |
| Services Offered: | Available to Latino youthful offenders, male or female 16-23, reside in greater New Haven. Substance abuse, education and referrals for evaluation and treatment, continuing education (GED) provided on-site by a bilingual certified teacher, vocational and employment assistance, mental health services and referrals for clients and their families, development of basic life skills, structured recreational, cultural and social activities. |
| Referral Method: | Referrals by Office of Probation and Office of the Bail Commission. |
| Hours Open: | Mon, Wed, Fri: 9:00-5:00,Tues, Thurs: 9:00-6:00 ,Sat: 9:00-3:00, Sun: 9:00-12:00. |
| Mission: | Provide a comprehensive non-residential approach to mental health and substance abuse treatment for those involved in the criminal justice system in N.H. County. To this end we provide quality access to services which contribute towards an individuals ability to grow and develop to their fullest potential ultimately contributing to building a safe and healthy community. |
| Treatment Description: | Group model with topics such as anger management, parenting, relapse prevention, substance abuse evaluation, and stress management. |
| Origin: | Founded in 1972 as a community response to the devastation being wrought on families and communities from the problems of abuse, dependency, addiction, crime and neglect. One of CT's first agencies to initiate community based treatment programs. |
| Staff: | Over 400 (employees, volunteers, contracted professionals). |
| Services Offered: | Psychological assessment, psychiatric evaluations, drug testing, substance abuse and mental health treatment. Available to adolescents 16 and older from New Haven County |
| Referral Method: | Referrals primarily taken from IAR and probation officers for outpatient treatment. Also accepted from DCF and on a self referral basis |
| Organizational Structure: | John LaRosa-Chair, Board of Directors, Peter Nucci-President & CEO. |
| Mission: | Substance abuse is a common clinical expression of various types and degrees of psychological dysfunction. To provide individualized outpatient treatment services to men and women with primary substance abuse problems and support services to their family members, so as to enable patients to achieve drug free lifestyles. |
| Treatment Description: | Young Adult Group- Engages in activities to expose population to positive peer support and exposes them to leisure activities that are age appropriate and fosters a sober lifestyle. Clinic is comprised of 3 treatment components: Evaluation unit, providing revaluation and referral for patients seeking substance abuse treatment, Brief treatment unit, providing outpatient treatment for patients with any drug of abuse who can be seen in a drug free setting, using pharmacological and psychotherapy interventions, Naltrexone program for opiate dependent patients who are appropriate for short term opiate blocking treatment. |
| Origin: | CMHC opened in 1966 as part of a new vision to treat people with mental illness in their communities to provide a place for researchers from many fields to find new treatments, and to teach professional in the care of mental illness. |
| Staff: | Treatment provided within a multi-disciplinary team representing psychiatry, psychology, nursing, social work, and rehabilitation counseling to insure that treatment plans incorporate a broad spectrum of services addressing the multiple needs of patients. |
| Services Offered: | Outpatient evaluation, referral and treatment to patients who are experiencing problems with alcohol, marijuana, cocaine or opiates and can be treated in an outpatient setting. Individualized treatment services include individual, group and family therapies. Young Adult Group for young adults 17-24 (exceptions for 16 year olds). |
| Hours Open: | Triage: Mon-Fri: 8:30-4:30, Clinical Services: Mon-Thurs: 8:30-8:00, Friday: 8:30-5:30 |
West Haven Drug & Alcohol Task Force, Inc.
355 Main Street
West Haven, CT 06516
Ph: (203) 937-3633
Contact Person: Robert Morton
www.cityofwesthaven.com
| Mission: | To provide education and awareness to the West Haven Community |
| Origin: | Incorporated in 1985, non-profit organization |
| Staff: | Comprised of a Board of Directors: 16 active members representing the Board of Education, Police, community agencies, parents and students |
| Services Offered: | Annual Health & Wellness Fair, Motivation Media Presentations to middle & high Schools, sponsor of West Haven High School Project Graduation, West Haven High School SADD Program, community youth sports programs West Haven Police Department DARE Program, K plus 1st grade Halloween Program and Anti-Smoking T-shirt Contest |
| Hours Open: | The Task Force meets the third Thursday of each month, West Haven City Hall, 355 Main Street, West Haven, CT 06516, from 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
Yale Psychiatric Hospital
184 Liberty Street
New Haven, CT 06519
Ph: (203) 688-9706
Contact Person: Beth Klink
Ph: (203) 688-9779
Contact Person: Dwain Fehon
www.ynhh.org/ynyph/adolescent.html
| Mission: | To provide specialized psychiatric care to adults and adolescents. |
| Treatment Description: | INPATIENT: 14 bed acute care unit (co-ed). Comprehensive and multidisciplinary biopychosocial evaluation. Psychological and brief neuropsychological assessment, psychopharmacologic evaluation and management, crisis-oriented intensive family therapy, individual therapy. Consultation to schools and residential programs, case management and collaboration with each adolescents school, outpatient clinicians, family and other community agencies to facilitate an integrated approach to establish comprehensive transition plans. |
| Treatment Description: | OUTPATIENT: Cognitive behavioral skill building group therapies that focus on feelings management, problem solving and social skills Group psychotherapy, intensive family therapy, therapy to help with effective management of behavioral, emotional and substance abuse problems, skill teaching to increase tolerance and regulation of feelings and interpersonal problems, case management, medication consultation. |
| Origin: | Established in June 2000 when Yale-New Haven Hospital acquired the assets of the former Yale Psychiatric Institute. |
| Staff: | Each patient has a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker and nursing or rehabilitative therapy staff. |
| Hours Open: | Inpatient: 24 hours a day, all year, Outpatient: Mon-Fri after school. |
Youth Center for Change
YCC
84 Norton Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Ph: (203) 777-1484
| Mission: | To provide structured programming and service in a safe, secure environment that promotes skill development and opportunities for at risk youth. |
| Treatment Description: | It is a cognitive behavior based program which stresses peer support and peer guidance to help clients accept their responsibility for and the consequences of their behavior and choices. Works on point system. The point system was designed to assess daily performance and to administer rapid positive reinforcement for appropriate behavior. The higher the level the more program privileges are granted. Individualized treatment, educational/vocational and development goals are identified and closely monitored by case manager. |
| Origin: | YCC is an early intervention alternative to incarceration program for male offenders, age 16-21, who stand to benefit from a highly structured environment and the reinforcement of positive behavior. |
| Staff: | Case Managers, Recreation Coordinator, Community Service Coordinator, Education coordinator, Human Service Workers, state certified teachers. |
| Services Offered: | The program provides alternating days of work and treatment including education and vocational training, staff escorted community service work, drug education and treatment, and a physical and wellness program. Family therapy is offered once a week. |
| Referral Method: | Referrals are accepted form Adult Probation Offices statewide on a case-by-case basis as authorized by the Court Support Service Divisions assigned monitor. |
| Hours Open: | 24 hours a day, all year. |
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230 Ashmun Street, New Haven 06511 (203) 776-1981
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