Robert Cole
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Chief Operating Officer, Connecticut Mental Health Center
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Lecturer in Psychiatry
Chief Operating Officer, Connecticut Mental Health Center
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Robert Cole is a senior health care administrator with over 30 years of experience in the public sector as well as in academic psychiatry. He graduated from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 1976 with a BA in History and from Antioch New England Graduate School in Keene, NH in 1990 with a master's degree in Organization and Management. He joined Yale Psychiatry and the CT Mental Health Center (CMHC) leadership group in 1988 as the chief administrator of CMHC. He was subsequently promoted to the position of Chief Operating Officer, following a reorganization in 1997. Prior to coming to Yale, Robert served as Director of Grant and Contract Management and Chief of Administrative and Fiscal Services for the Connecticut Alcohol and Drug Abuse Commission (subsequently merged administratively with DMHAS).
Last Updated on March 22, 2023.
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Yale Co-Authors
Frequent collaborators of Robert Cole's published research.
Esperanza Diaz, MD
Joy S. Kaufman, PhD
Manuel Paris, PsyD
Michelle Alejandra Silva, PsyD
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2016
The Connecticut Latino Behavioral Health System: A Culturally Informed Community–Academic Collaboration
Paris M, Silva MA, Diaz E, Bedregal LE, Cole RA, Añez-Nava LM. The Connecticut Latino Behavioral Health System: A Culturally Informed Community–Academic Collaboration. Psychological Services 2016, 13: 140-147. PMID: 27148948, DOI: 10.1037/ser0000065.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsMental healthCommunity health centersBehavioral health systemCommunity-academic collaborationHealth centersAddiction servicesSouth-central ConnecticutHealth systemBehavioral healthYale University DepartmentEthnic minority groupsConnecticut DepartmentSocial rehabilitationHealthMonolingual SpanishDepartmentSystemic strategiesOverarching priorityWorkforce developmentBetter Eating and Recovery: Addressing Food Insecurity at an urban Community Mental Health Center
DeBor M, Gallagher A, Blinten, F, Sernyak, M, Cole R, Olsen S, Harper A: Better Eating and Recovery: Addressing Food Insecurity at an urban Community Mental Health Center. In International Journal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation, Volume 20, Number 1, December 2016.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2014
Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Community‐Based Participatory Research to Enhance Mental Health Services
Case AD, Byrd R, Claggett E, DeVeaux S, Perkins R, Huang C, Sernyak MJ, Steiner JL, Cole R, LaPaglia DM, Bailey M, Buchanan C, Johnson A, Kaufman JS. Stakeholders’ Perspectives on Community‐Based Participatory Research to Enhance Mental Health Services. American Journal Of Community Psychology 2014, 54: 397-408. PMID: 25245601, PMCID: PMC10512440, DOI: 10.1007/s10464-014-9677-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsAltmetricMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsMental health services researchMental health servicesHealth services researchCommunity-based participatory researchHealth servicesLocal community mental health centerAdult mental health servicesCommunity mental health centerServices researchMental health centersHealth centersGreater consumer involvementConsumer involvementCBPR projectsParticipatory researchInvolvementEmployee Health in the Mental Health Workplace: Clinical, Administrative, and Organizational Perspectives
Shah JL, Kapoor R, Cole R, Steiner JL. Employee Health in the Mental Health Workplace: Clinical, Administrative, and Organizational Perspectives. The Journal Of Behavioral Health Services & Research 2014, 43: 330-338. PMID: 25091269, DOI: 10.1007/s11414-014-9428-5.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCitationsMeSH Keywords and ConceptsConceptsMental health workplaceHealth workplaceMental health promotion initiativesHealth promotion initiativesMental health settingsMental health institutionsEmployee healthIllness preventionDiscussion of salientHealth settingsPromotion initiativesClinical staffMedicolegal responsibilityHealth institutionsMental healthCliniciansHealthEmployee illnessComplicationsPatientsClinicalIllnessSettingPrevention
2008
A public academic partnership at the Connecticut Mental Health Center
Dailey WF, Kirk TA, Cole RA, DiLeo P: A public academic partnership at the Connecticut Mental Health Center. In 40 years of Academic Public Psychiatry, Jacobs SC, Griffith E (eds), Wiley Publishers, 2008Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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activity Cornell Scott-Hill Health Center
2011 - PresentPublic ServiceMemberDetailsMember, Board of Directors and Chairperson of Finance Committeeactivity Continuum of Care, Inc.
2016 - PresentPublic ServiceMemberDetailsMember, Board of Directors and Chairperson of Finance Committeeactivity The Root Cause Coalition
2016 - PresentProfessional OrganizationsMemberDetailsFounding sponsor and member of Education Committeeactivity Institutional Food Task Force, New Haven Food Systems & Policy Program
2017 - PresentCommitteesMemberDetailsMember of task force group focused on institutional aspects of the City of New Haven food systems initiativeactivity Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation
1993 - PresentPublic ServiceMemberDetailsFounder, incorporator and board member, ex-officio
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Connecticut Mental Health Center
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34 Park Street, Ste 142
New Haven, CT 06519
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203.974.7086Fax
203.974.7091