Connecticut Mental Health Center

The CMHC, a collaborative endeavor of the Yale University Department of Psychiatry and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, has the missions of providing clinical services, education, research, and community problem solving. The Center provides comprehensive psychiatric services to residents of the Greater New Haven area. Clinical services are focused on patients who are poor and who suffer severe psychiatric and addictive illnesses and disability.

The Center provides evaluation and acute and sub-acute inpatient services. The Center also provides outpatient services including evaluation, psychopharmacologic, psychotherapeutic, case management, social rehabilitative and support services to area residents. Services are provided at the CMHC itself and through 3 satellite clinics including The West Haven Mental Health Clinic, another, La Clinica Hispana is a special unit serving the Latino population of the area and a Substance Abuse Treatment Unit. The Substance Abuse Treatment Unit offers comprehensive services for a full range of substance abuse disorders.

These services are closely linked with other clinical and rehabilitative services in the area. The Center also is the site of the Ribicoff Research Facilities, a clinical research facility with inpatient and outpatient services and basic science laboratories. The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health seeks to promote the recovery, self-determination, and inclusion of people facing psychiatric disability, addiction, and discrimination through focusing on their strengths and the valuable contributions they have to make to the lives of their communities. Within the Center, the Law and Psychiatry Program consults to courts and provides clinical training and research opportunities. The Community Services Network (CSN) is a consortium of seventeen community-based organizations that provide a variety of behavioral health services to people throughout the greater New Haven area. The Consultation Center offers preventive programs and provides consultation to community groups as well as training opportunities for psychiatry residents, psychology trainees and others.

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