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:

a. Conduct research, program evaluation, quality improvement, and scholarship to generate knowledge.

b. Partner with communities to co-create opportunities to generate knowledge about effective community-driven solutions.

c. 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.


Our Work

For more than 30 years, the Center has carried out its mission through grant funding, state support, or reduced fees to community partners. Since its inception, the Center has been a collaborative endeavor of the Yale School of Medicine, the Connecticut Mental Health Center and The Consultation Center, Inc. (a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization). The Center draws on multiple perspectives from the disciplines of psychology, social work, public health, psychiatry, education, sociology, management, and administration.



Conducting research
Developing programs
Consulting to schools, community organizations, and governmental agencies
Providing training to professionals and to students at the graduate and post-graduate level




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