Western CT Mental Health Network Waterbury Area

Western CT Mental Health Network Waterbury Area

Services:
Facility Type
• Community mental health center

Assessment/Pre-treatment

• Screening for tobacco use

Education and Counseling Services

• Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling

Type of Care

• Substance use treatment
• Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
• Mental health treatment

Facility Smoking Policy

• Smoking permitted in designated area

Emergency Mental Health Services

• Crisis intervention team
• Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services

Facility Vaping Policy

• Vaping permitted in designated area

Payment/Insurance/Funding Accepted

• State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
• Medicaid
• Community Mental Health Block Grants
• Medicare
• State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid

Treatment Approaches

• Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
• Abnormal involuntary movement scale
• Dialectical behavior therapy
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy
• Telemedicine/telehealth therapy
• Individual psychotherapy
• Cognitive behavioral therapy
• Group therapy

Ancillary Services

• Illness management and recovery
• Supported housing
• Court-ordered outpatient treatment
• Diet and exercise counseling
• Psychosocial rehabilitation services
• Suicide prevention services
• Supported employment
• Family psychoeducation
• Assertive community treatment
• Case management service
• Intensive case management

Special Programs/Groups Offered

• Clients who have experienced trauma
• Persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
• Young adults
• Criminal justice (other than DUI/DWI)/Forensic clients
• Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
• Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Recovery Support Services

• Mentoring/peer support

Age Groups Accepted

• Young Adults
• Adults
• Seniors

Testing

• Metabolic syndrome monitoring

Pharmacotherapies

• Risperidone
• Brexpiprazole
• Clozapine
• Lurasidone
• Asenapine
• Quetiapine
• Perphenazine
• Loxapine
• Paliperidone
• Chlorpromazine
• Thiothixene
• Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
• Ziprasidone
• Olanzapine
• Aripiprazole
• Nicotine replacement
• Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
• Trifluoperazine
• Fluphenazine
• Haloperidol

Language Services

• Spanish
• Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing

Service Setting (e.g., Outpatient, Residential, Inpatient, etc.)

• Outpatient
• Residential/24-hour residential

Facility Operation (e.g., Private, Public)

• State government