The Consultation Center at Yale
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.
Director’s Welcome
Joy Kaufman
Welcome to The Consultation Center at Yale. For 40 years our faculty and staff have generated knowledge and guided the development and refinement of interventions to promote individual and community wellness and to prevent mental health and substance use challenges. Through partnering with community members, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers we bring the science of psychology to the community through rigorous research and evaluation, consultation, training, capacity building, and informing policy development.
Our work is guided by our values, which include being grounded in evidence, working in collaboration with community partners, and promoting individual and community wellness through listening to and amplifying the voices of all populations and communities. We seek fairness and justice so that individuals and communities have opportunities, resources, and support. We practice and model intellectual humility through the exploration and expansion of our ideas based on scientific evidence, feedback from others, and the sharing of divergent opinions.
Our faculty are members of the Division of Prevention and Community Research. Since our founding, we have shared a close relationship with The Consultation Center, Inc., a 501c3 organization that focuses on enhancing wellness and preventing mental health and substance abuse challenges, and the Connecticut Mental Health Center. The Center also supports postdoctoral research training in substance abuse prevention, a doctoral fellowship in clinical and community psychology, and placement of graduate students in social work and psychology for internships and fellowships.
Please explore our website and reach out if I can assist you in learning more about our Center and our work.
Joy S. Kaufman, Ph.D.
Executive Director, The Consultation Center