Community Mental Health AffiliatesResidential Treatment in New Britain, CT
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Community Mental Health Affiliates, Inc. (CMHA) is a leading integrated health and behavioral health care provider serving children, families, and adults across northwest and central Connecticut. Founded in 1975, CMHA operates from its main location in New Britain and serves approximately 7,300 individuals annually. The organization offers a continuum of programs including crisis services, substance use treatment, behavioral health services, residential programs, and community-based care. CMHA is Connecticut's first fully Joint Commission accredited Behavioral Health Home and a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC), demonstrating its commitment to quality care and evidence-based practice.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Evidence-based approaches
DBT
Dialectical Behavior Therapy. Pairs acceptance with change. Especially useful when emotions feel too big to ride out without acting on them.
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
Facility
- Outpatient mental health facility
Emergency services
- Crisis intervention team
- Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
How care is delivered
Ancillary services
- Diet and exercise counseling
- Family psychoeducation
- Supported employment
- Case management service
- Integrated primary care services
- Suicide prevention services
Education & counseling
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Who this is for
Age groups served
- Young Adults
- Seniors
Special programs
- Young adults
- Seniors or older adults
- Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
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