Childrens Center of HamdenMedication Management in Hamden, CT
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The Children's Center of Hamden offers a continuum of behavioral health, psychiatric, and special education services for vulnerable youth. Their programs include a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Program providing 24-hour therapeutic support and psychiatric oversight; Whitney Hall School, a state-approved K-12 special education day school for students with emotional and behavioral challenges; Extended Day Treatment, a six-month structured outpatient program for youth needing more than weekly therapy; and Wakeman Hall Clinic offering individualized behavioral health and substance use treatment for youth and young adults. Services include individual and family therapy, medication management, trauma-informed care, and evidence-based substance use treatment. The center operates as a coordinated pathway designed to connect youth across systems and provide appropriate levels of care to guide them back to their homes, schools, and communities.
Role
Medication Management
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Trauma-informed care
Trauma-Informed Care. Approaches addiction as something layered on top of unprocessed trauma, not in isolation. Pacing matters more than confrontation.
Family systems
Family Systems work. Brings the people closest to you into the recovery picture, since urges and relationships rarely live in separate boxes.
Group therapy
Group Therapy. A small facilitated circle where people working on similar struggles practice naming what is hard, hearing themselves in others, and learning skills together. The room is the medicine.
Medication management
Medication Management. Ongoing monitoring + adjustment of psychiatric or addiction medications by a prescribing clinician. Often paired with therapy, not in place of it.
What this facility offers
Care offered
Treatment type
- Substance use treatment
- Mental health treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental illness (SMI) in adults and/or serious emotional disturbance (SED) in children
Setting
- Outpatient
- Partial hospitalization/day treatment
- Residential/24-hour residential
Facility
- Other residential treatment facility
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Family psychoeducation
- Case management service
- Education services
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Children/Adolescents
- Young Adults
- Adults
Special programs
- Young adults
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
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