Connecticut Mental Health Center

Connecticut Mental Health Center

Services:
Special Programs/Groups Offered
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Young adults
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis

Facility Type

• Psychiatric hospital

Language Services

• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
• Spanish

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Testing

• Laboratory testing

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Psychiatric emergency walk-in services
• Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency onsite services

Ancillary Services

• Suicide prevention services
• Supported employment
• Legal advocacy
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Vocational rehabilitation services
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Case management service
• Assertive community treatment
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services

Age Groups Accepted

• Children/Adolescents
• Adults
• Young Adults
• Seniors

Recovery Support Services

• Housing services
• Mentoring/peer support

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• Medicare
• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Private health insurance
• Medicaid

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• State government

Pharmacotherapies

• Olanzapine
• Quetiapine
• Loxapine
• Perphenazine
• Fluphenazine
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Nicotine replacement
• Trifluoperazine
• Chlorpromazine
• Thioridazine
• Risperidone
• Haloperidol
• Clozapine
• Aripiprazole

Treatment Approaches

• Group therapy
• Activity therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Cognitive behavioral therapy

Payment Assistance Available

• Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping not permitted

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking not permitted

Type of Care

• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Substance use treatment
• Mental health treatment

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Outpatient
• Partial hospitalization/day treatment
• Hospital inpatient/24-hour hospital inpatient

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling