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The Consultation Center provides services in two areas: prevention and health promotion and service system development. Prevention and health promotion programs are designed for individuals and families across the life span, focusing on infants, children, adolescents, adults, and older adults. Service system development programs provide assistance to organizations and broader service delivery systems. All programs are tailored to fit the particular needs of each group, organization, and/ or community. The following are examples of the services we provide.
Prevention and Health Promotion - Infants, Children, and Adolcescents
- Advocacy services for at-risk children, parents, and families
- School- and community-based substance abuse and drop-out prevention programs
- School-based peer counseling,mentoring, and advisor/advisee programs
- Violence prevention, anger management, and conflict mediation programs
- Neighborhood and community interventions to promote competence among high-risk youth
- Parent support groups for multiproblem families
- Parent training and parent-child groups in decision making and substance use prevention
- Programming for chemically dependent families around parenting and child development
- Family support and education for child abuse and neglect prevention
- Community programs to promote youth-police partnerships
Service System Development - Infants, Children, and Adolcescents
- Early childhood consultation and professional development
- Training for early childhood, social service, and mental health providers
- Mental health consultation to childcare centers
- Mental health and teacher training in psychosocial development topics and program development
- Mental health and organizational consultation to schools, social service and mental health agencies
- Cultural diversity and sensitivity training for providers
- Building effective leadership skills among service providers and school personnel
- Preschool teacher training and mentorship programming
Prevention and Health Promotion - Adults and Elders
- Health promotion programs targeting adults at risk for physical and behavioral health disorders
- Statewide and federal advocacy targeting legislative change
- Domestic violence and intervention programs
- Workplace stress reduction programs for employees, supervisors, and managers
- Development of comprehensive workplace wellness programs
- Support programs for family caregivers
- Intergenerational programs for elders, adults, and their children
- Education and support programs for kinship caregivers
- Training on support group development
- Community-based programs to promote male development
Service System Development - Adults and Elders
- Development, promotion, and coordination of self-help groups throughout Connecticut
- Consultation to community providers to promote the implementation of preventive interventions
- Management and leadership consultation and training
- Consultation to healthcare professionals working with adults, elders, and their families
- Consultation to nursing homes and healthcare organizations
- Prevention training programs for service providers
- Gerontological training series for mental health and human service professionals
- Clearinghouse for over 1,400 statewide support groups
The Consultation Center also conducts prevention and community research. The prevention research program includes studies of:
- interventions that seek to prevent mental disorders or promote mental health;
- risk factors for mental disorders or problem behaviors, which can be targeted in subsequent interventions; and
- protective processes which mediate risk and promote resilience.
The community research program includes studies which examine:
- alternative models of service delivery and their impact on service patterns and costs, and on individual, family, and societal outcomes;
- natural supports and helping processes, such as self-help; and
- community-based programs to promote competencies, empower individuals, families, or groups, and foster the community integration of disenfranchised or socially marginalized individuals.
Research at The Consultation Center is both quantitative and qualitative as appropriate, and often involves the establishment of strong public-academic partnerships. The research program is closely affiliated with the Division of Prevention and Community Research of the Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine.
Research and Evaluation Prevention Research
- Prevention of adolescent substance abuse and problem behaviors
- Impact of work and family stress on adult substance use
- Risk and protective factors for child maltreatment and foster care placement
- Mutual help for family caregivers and their children
- Fatherhood contributions to child and family development
- Resilience promotion in at-risk populations
- HIV prevention research
- Prevention of domestic violence
- Community-based strategies to increase health care access
- Prevention research methodology
Research and Evaluation Community Research
- Enhancement of child and adolescent service systems
- Impact of school-based interventions on child and youth problem behaviors
- Cultural influences on risk, health, and behavior
- Program evaluation for mental health service systems
- Interdisciplinary team science and community-based collaborative research
- Promotion of educational achievement among low-income and minority youth
- Impact of arts participation on community transformation
- Global health interventions with at-risk populations
The Consultation Center is a multidisciplinary training site for undergraduate, graduate and professional students in psychology, social work, psychiatry, nursing, education, public health and divinity. Training is a central part of The Center’s mission and is integrated fully into service and research activities.
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