Clinics & Programs

SATU—Substance use and Addiction Treatment Unit provides the Greater New Haven Community with state-of-the-art services for the evaluation of alcohol and drug abuse.

The West Haven Mental Health Clinic is a satellite clinic of the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) that provides community-based psychiatric services to children, adolescents, and young adults who live in the greater New Haven area. The Child and Adolescent Service admits clients 3 to 17 years of age; the Young Adult Service admits clients 18 to 24 years of age.

The Young Adult Service is a specialty service within the CMHC that provides intensive psychiatric services to individuals 18 to 24 years of age whose psychosocial development has been disrupted by persistent psychiatric difficulty.

STEP is a clinic staffed by mental health providers in different fields – psychology, psychiatry, nursing, and social work. This "interdisciplinary" team seeks to provide comprehensive care for individuals who are early in the course of a psychotic illness in order to prevent symptoms from becoming disabling.

The Yale OCD Research Clinic is dedicated to advancing our understanding of the brain changes that contribute to OCD, and to the application of this knowledge for the development of new treatments.

The Yale Depression Research Program is comprised of a basic science laboratory, which attempts to examine the processes that lead to depression, focusing on understanding how stress contributes to changes in brain function; a clinical laboratory, which employs medical imaging techniques and pharmacological challenge paradigms to identify functional abnormalities in individuals suffering from mood disorders; and a research clinic, which examines the efficacy and safety of novel, experimental antidepressant treatments in human subjects.

The Consultation Center at Yale is a university-based organization that offers a range of services, training and research to individuals, organizations, businesses and governmental agencies throughout Connecticut, the U.S. and internationally.

The Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health (PRCH) promotes the recovery, self-determination, and community inclusion of people facing psychiatric disability and/or addiction through focusing on their strengths and the valuable contributions they have to make to the lives of their communities.

Through Peer Support, people with their own experience of mental illness and/or addictions provide support, hope, and education to others who are receiving services. At CT Mental Health Center, Peer Support Staff are trained and paid to help support clients in their recovery journeys.