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 CenterBiography
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).
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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
Academic Achievements and Community Involvement
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Public ServiceCornell Scott-Hill Health CenterMember, Board of Directors and Chairperson of Finance CommitteeDetails2011 - Presentactivity Member
Public ServiceContinuum of Care, Inc.Member, Board of Directors and Chairperson of Finance CommitteeDetails2016 - Presentactivity Member
Professional OrganizationsThe Root Cause CoalitionFounding sponsor and member of Education CommitteeDetails2016 - Presentactivity Member
CommitteesInstitutional Food Task Force, New Haven Food Systems & Policy ProgramMember of task force group focused on institutional aspects of the City of New Haven food systems initiativeDetails2017 - Presentactivity Member
Public ServiceConnecticut Mental Health Center FoundationFounder, incorporator and board member, ex-officioDetails1993 - Present
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- February 02, 2022Source: Social Work in Mental Health
Public spaces as transformative creative wellness spaces: an evaluation of Musical Intervention
- August 30, 2021Source: Social Work in Mental Health
Public Spaces as Transformative Creative Wellness Spaces: An Evaluation of Musical Intervention
- May 06, 2020
Harkness, Cole Elected to Governing Board Of The Towers at Tower Lane
- December 20, 2018
Several Yale Psychiatry affiliates serving on opioid response task force
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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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