Connection IncResidential Treatment in Middletown, CT
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The Connection is a statewide community-based human services agency with over 50 years of nonprofit operations experience. They provide a continuum of care addressing family support, child welfare, young adult homelessness, and adult addiction and behavioral health services. Programs include residential and outpatient addiction services, behavioral healthcare, community justice services, and housing support. All programs follow person-centered and trauma-informed models of care. The agency prioritizes housing as essential to recovery and offers outreach, emergency shelter, rapid re-housing, and permanent supportive housing. Young adult services (ages 18-24) focus on homeless youth and emerging adults, while family and child services help families reunite and stabilize after trauma, substance use, behavioral health challenges, or homelessness.
Role
Residential Treatment
Specialties & focus areas
Recovery focus
Other focus areas
Evidence-based approaches
Anger management
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Brief intervention
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
Contingency management/motivational incentives
Contingency Management. Evidence-based reinforcement approach: small, immediate, tangible rewards for verified abstinence and engagement. Strongest evidence base of any non-medication intervention for stimulant + gambling disorder.
Motivational interviewing
Motivational Interviewing. A collaborative conversation that strengthens your own reasons for change rather than arguing you into it.
Relapse prevention
Relapse Prevention. Identifies your specific high-risk situations, warning signs, and choice points. Then builds a written, rehearsed plan for each so the moment is not the first time you decide.
Substance use disorder counseling
A therapeutic approach included in this provider’s plan of care. Contact for specifics on how it shows up in their work.
12-step facilitation
Twelve-Step Facilitation. Helps you engage with mutual-aid fellowships (GA, AA, SMART) as a recovery community rather than a solo grind.
What this facility offers
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