The Consultation Center

Mission, Vision, Values

The Consultation Center seeks to generate knowledge and guide the development and refinement of interventions to promote individual and community wellness and to prevent mental health and substance use challenges. In partnership with community members, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers, we bring social and behavioral science to the community through rigorous research and evaluation, consultation, training, capacity building, and policy development. Below are values that guide our work.

1. We are grounded in scientific evidence and informed by different ways of knowing to:
   1. Conduct research, program evaluation, quality improvement, and scholarship to generate knowledge.
   2. Partner with communities to co-create opportunities to generate knowledge about effective community-driven solutions.
   3. Translate research findings so that they are useful and practical for the public, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers.
2. We collaborate with community members, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to foster authentic, transparent, and productive partnerships that focus on community-centered solutions.
3. We work with and amplify the voices of all populations and communities to promote wellness.
4. We seek fairness and justice so that individuals and communities have opportunities, resources, and supports.
5. We embrace differences and consider context and systems to conceptualize problems and interventions.
6. We practice and model intellectual humility. We seek and are receptive to feedback from others and convene partners to facilitate the sharing of divergent opinions.

Who We Are

We are a multidisciplinary service, research, and training site that is a cooperative endeavor of the Department of Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine, the Connecticut Mental Health Center, and The Consultation Center, Inc., a private, nonprofit community organization.