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Treatment of mental health issues and recovery from mental illness can take many forms: finding information about the illness, a referral for therapy, an advocacy or support community, and self-help resources. The list below uses the term "Treatment Resources" in the broadest way possible.
Special thanks to Stephanie Lanteri for her assistance.
In alphabetical order: A-G H-N O-T U-Z
A-G
Grand Central Station
P.O. Box 459
New York, NY 10163
212 870-3400
Toll free numbers in Connecticut
Litchfield area 800 829-1863
Middletown area 800 530-9511
New Haven area 888 624-6063
New London area 888 268-2067
www.ct-aa.org Connecticut Region
Alcoholics Anonymous is a 12-step, international fellowship of men and women who have had a drinking problem. It is nonprofessional, self-supporting, nondenominational, multiracial, apolitical, and available almost everywhere. There are no age or education requirements. Membership is open to anyone who wants to do something about his or her drinking problem.
Call one of the toll-free numbers in Connecticut or visit the local website to find out more about locations and meeting times near you.
Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR)
465 Silas Deane Highway
Wethersfield, CT 06109
800 708-9145 in Connecticut only
860 571-2985
860 571-2987 fax
Over the past four years, the Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery (CCAR) has emerged as a well-respected, highly visible and vibrant grassroots organization that includes persons in recovery and their family members, friends, and allies. Simply, we seek to "put a face on recovery". CCAR is an integral part of a new recovery movement that has come to life all across America. Recovering people constitute one of the largest and most invisible communities in America and they are beginning to again assert themselves as a teaching and healing force. The centerpiece of this movement is not the proclamation that "alcoholism is a disease" or that "treatment works", but instead it is the proclamation that "recovery is a reality" in the lives of hundreds of thousands of individuals, families and communities.
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)
410 Capitol Avenue
4 th floor, P.O. Box 341431
Hartford, CT
800 446-7348
860 418-7000
The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) promotes and administers comprehensive, recovery-oriented services in the areas of mental health treatment and substance abuse prevention and treatment throughout Connecticut.
The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is responsible for providing a wide range of treatment services to adults. This includes inpatient hospitalization, outpatient clinical services, 24-hour emergency care , day treatment, psychosocial and vocational rehabilitation, restoration to competency and forensic services (including jail diversion programs), outreach services for persons with serious mental illness who are homeless, and comprehensive, community-based mental health treatment and support services. DMHAS funds and monitors hundreds of community-based treatment programs, and four state inpatient treatment facilities.
Connecticut Region of Narcotics Anonymous
P.O. Box 1817
Meriden, CT 06450
800-627-3543
This is the local affiliate to the worldwide organization. Contact them for upcoming events and group locations and times. The local, toll free Helpline is available for people 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Narcotics Anonymous
World Service Office in Los Angeles
PO Box 9999
Van Nuys, California 91409 USA
818 773-9999
818 700-0700 fax
800 627-3543 local toll free helpline
Narcotics Anonymous is an international, community-based association of people recovering from drug addiction with more than 28,000 weekly meetings in 113 countries.
National Addiction Recovery Organization
P.O. Box 32
Haddam, CT 06438
860 345-8126
Through a national, coordinated effort, the National Addiction Recovery Organization supports the empowerment of recovering communities to educate and advocate at the national level.
National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI)
P.O. Box 2345
Rockville, MD 20847-2345
800 729-6686
800 487-4889 TDD
877 767-8432 Spanish
The world's largest resource for current information and materials concerning alcohol and substance abuse prevention, intervention, and treatment, the National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is a service of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention , which is under the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) .
Brochures, publications, information specialists, referrals, literary searches and more are available through NCADI.
National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
National Institutes of Health
6001 Executive Boulevard, Room 5213
Bethesda, MD 20892-9561
NIDA's mission is to lead the Nation in bringing the power of science to bear on drug abuse and addiction. This charge has two critical components: The first is the strategic support and conduct of research across a broad range of disciplines. The second is to ensure the rapid and effective dissemination and use of the results of that research to significantly improve drug abuse and addiction prevention, treatment, and policy.
SAMHSA
Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
301 443-0365
The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) is a division of Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and is the sole Federal organization with responsibility for improving accessibility and quality of substance abuse prevention services. The Center provides national leadership in the development of policies, programs , and services to prevent the onset of illegal drug use, underage alcohol and tobacco use , and to reduce the negative consequences of using substances.
SAMHSA
Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT)
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
301 443-5700
The Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT) of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), was created in October 1992 with a congressional mandate to expand the availability of effective treatment and recovery services for alcohol and drug problems.
CSAT's initiatives and programs are based on research findings and the general consensus of experts in the addiction field that, for most individuals, treatment and recovery work best in a community-based, coordinated system of comprehensive services. Because no single treatment approach is effective for all persons, CSAT supports the nation's effort to provide multiple treatment modalities, evaluate treatment effectiveness, and use evaluation results to enhance treatment and recovery approaches.
Smart Recovery
7537 Mentor Avenue, Suite 306
Mentor, Ohio 44060
440 951-5357
440 951-5358 fax
SMART Recovery® is an abstinence-based, not- for-profit organization with a sensible self-help program for people having problems with drinking and using. It includes many ideas and techniques to help you change your life from one that is self- destructive and unhappy to one that is constructive and satisfying. SMART Recovery® is not a spin-off from Alcoholics Anonymous. They teach common sense self-help procedures designed to empower you to abstain and to develop a more positive lifestyle. When you succeed at following our approach, you may graduate from the program, or you may stay around to help others.
Smart Recovery, Connecticut chapter
Henry Schissler
203 272-0084
http://pages.cthome.net/ctsmart/
This is the local chapter to the Smart Recovery program listed above
Women for Sobriety, Inc.
P.O. Box 618
Quakertown, PA 18957
215 536-8026
Women For Sobriety, Inc. is a non-profit organization and self-help program dedicated to helping women overcome alcoholism and other addictions. Based upon a Thirteen Statement Program of positivity that encourages emotional and spiritual growth, the "New Life" Program has been extremely effective in helping women to overcome their alcoholism and learn a wholly new lifestyle.
In alphabetical order: A-G H-N O-T U-Z
Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS)
410 Capitol Avenue
4 th floor, P.O. Box 341431
Hartford, CT
800 446-7348
860 418-7000
The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services (DMHAS) promotes and administers comprehensive, recovery-oriented services in the areas of mental health treatment and substance abuse prevention and treatment throughout Connecticut.
The Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is responsible for providing a wide range of treatment services to adults. This includes inpatient hospitalization, outpatient clinical services, 24-hour emergency care , day treatment, psychosocial and vocational rehabilitation, restoration to competency and forensic services (including jail diversion programs), outreach services for persons with serious mental illness who are homeless, and comprehensive, community-based mental health treatment and support services. DMHAS funds and monitors hundreds of community-based treatment programs, and four state inpatient treatment facilities.
Infoline
United Way of Connecticut
1344 Silas Deane Highway
Rocky Hill, CT 06067
211 toll free in Connecticut
860 571-7500
860 571-7525 fax
Infoline is an integrated system of help via the telephone - a single source for information about community services, referrals to human services, and crisis intervention. It is accessed toll-free from anywhere in Connecticut by simply dialing 2-1-1. It operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Multilingual caseworkers and TDD access is available.
Infoline may be helpful in helping you connect to a local warm line and other self-help resources in your community.
Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS)
P.O. Box 42490
Washington, D.C. 20015
800 789-2647
301 443-9006 TTY
CMHS leads Federal efforts to treat mental illnesses by promoting mental health and by preventing the development or worsening of mental illness when possible. Congress created CMHS to bring new hope to adults who have serious mental illnesses and to children with serious emotional disorders. CMHS was established under the 1992 ADAMHA Reorganization Act, Public Law 102-321, that mandates CMHS' leadership role in delivering mental health services, generating and applying new knowledge, and establishing national mental health policy. CMHS is a component of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation
Boston University
940 Commonwealth Avenue West
Boston, MA 02215
617 353-3549
617 353-7700 fax
The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation is a research, training, and service organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons who have psychiatric disabilities by improving the effectiveness of programs and service systems. The work of the Center is guided by the most basic of rehabilitation values that first and foremost, persons with psychiatric disabilities have the same goals and dreams as any other person. They want a decent place to live, suitable work, social activities, and friends to whom to they can turn in times of crisis. The mission of the Center is to increase knowledge in the field of psychiatric rehabilitation and to apply this body of knowledge to train treatment personnel, to develop effective rehabilitation programs, and to assist in organizing both personnel and programs into efficient and coordinated service delivery systems.
The Center for Psychiatric Rehabilitation offers a wide range of recovery-oriented resources including: conferences/workshops on recovery and recovery-oriented services, a newsletter on recovery and rehabilitation, a monthly “e-Cast” providing updates on the Center's events and publications as well as general mental health news items, an extensive listing of recovery resources available via the internet, and several user-friendly on-line publications, e.g., Handling Your Psychiatric Disability in Work and School . The Center also has significant experience in providing training and consultation to individual organizations and service systems regarding the delivery of recovery-oriented services. Detailed information regarding these resources is available via the Center's website noted above.
The Center's recently published Recovery Workbook may be of particular interest to readers. This workbook can be used by professionals, family members, and consumers/survivors to help people who experience psychiatric disability to begin the process of recovery.
The Consultation Center (TCC)
389 Whitney Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
203 789-7645
The mission of The Consultation Center is to promote the development of individuals and families, prevent mental disorders and problem behaviors, and enhance the effectiveness of mental health and other human services.
Of particular interest may be the Connecticut Self-Help Network. The Connecticut Self-Help Network was organized in 1981 as a volunteer collaboration among mental health/health service providers and self-helpers. The primary goal of the Network is to promote and coordinate self-help activities across the State. They publish a newsletter, self-help directory and provide self-help information, referrals, workshops and more.
Consumer Organization and Networking Technical Assistance Center (CONTAC)
1036 Quarrier Street
Suite 208A
Charleston, WV 25301
888 825-8324
CONTAC is a resource center for consumers and consumer-run organizations across the United States. Available services and products include informational materials, on-site training and skill-building curricula, electronic and other communication capabilities, networking and customized activities promoting self-help, recovery, leadership, business management, and empowerment. CONTAC provides these services in collaboration, as needed, with other technical assistance centers, consumer-supporters, and its developing western-based office, CONTAC del Oeste.
Mary Ellen Copeland, MS, MA
PO Box 301
W. Dummerston, VT 05357
802 254-2092
802 257-7499 fax
Mary Ellen Copeland is a mental health recovery educator and author. Her focus is on self-help. She has learned the concepts, skills and strategies she teaches from her own personal experience with extreme moodswings and from her ongoing studies with people who experience psychiatric symptoms. Her teachings and writings include topics like getting a sense of hope, Wellness Tools, Wellness Recovery Action Planning, Relapse Prevention, Crisis Planning, Developing a Strong Support System, Education, Personal Responsibility, Self-Advocacy, Building Self-Esteem, Healing from the Effects of Trauma, and Relieving Loneliness and Worry.
Dual Recovery Anonymous World Service Central Office
P.O. Box 218232
Nashville, TN 37221
877 883-2332
Connecticut Clearinghouse
334 Farmington Avenue
Plainville, CT 06062
800 232-4424
860 793-9791
860 793-9813 fax
Connecticut Clearinghouse is the state's resource center for information about alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and related issues affecting mental health and wellness.
This local organization provides pamphlets, posters, books, curricula, a resource library, audio/visual resources as well as links/referrals other agencies.
Knowledge Exchange Network (KEN)
P.O. Box 42490
Washington, D.C. 20015
800 789-2647
301 443-9006 TTY
As you realize, knowledge is power. Knowledge can empower us, as mental health consumers/survivors, to gain new resources and to participate meaningfully in planning, implementing, and evaluating the programs and mental health service systems that so greatly affect our lives.
The National Mental Health Services Knowledge Exchange Network ( KEN ), of CMHS, represents a potent tool for consumers/survivors to get the information we need, when we need it. You can order publications or you can download them from KEN 's online sites.
Mental Health Association of Connecticut, Inc.
20-30 Beaver Road
Wethersfield, CT 06109
800 842-1501 (toll free in CT)
860 529-1970
860 529-6833 fax
The Mental Health Association of Connecticut, Inc. (MHAC) is a local affiliate of the National Mental Health Association. This statewide, private, non-profit membership organization and is the oldest organization in this country's mental health movement. Their mission is to advocate and work for everyone's mental health.
A newsletter, information and referrals are available. MHAC also has a network of support groups across the state.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI)
200 North Glebe Road
Suite 1015
Arlington, VA 22203-3754
800 950 NAMI (Helpline)
The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses.
By calling the Helpline you can access referrals and informational brochures, fact sheets, books and videos on various mental illnesses and topics related to family members and consumers.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill Connecticut
(NAMI CT)
151 New Park Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
860 586-2319
800 215-3021 Connecticut only
This is the local affiliate to the National organization listed above. Local information and a newsletter are available through NAMI CT.
National Consumer Supporter Technical Assistance Center (NCSTAC)
National Mental Health Association
2001 N. Beauregard Street, 12th Floor
Alexandria, Virginia 22311
800 969-6642
703 684-5968 fax
NCSTAC's purpose is to strengthen organizations supporting mental health consumers, survivors and ex-patients by providing technical assistance in the forms of research, informational materials , and financial aid .
A newsletter, booklets, workbooks and other helpful materials and services are available for consumers and consumer run agencies.
National Empowerment Center (NEC)
599 Canal Street
5 th floor East
Lawrence, MA 01840
800 POWER2U (800-769-3728)
The mission of the National Empowerment Center Inc. is to carry a message of recovery, empowerment, hope and healing to people who have been diagnosed with mental illness.
The NEC has a toll-free information and referral line where you can access information on topics such as advance directives, shock treatment, schizophrenia, self-help groups in your area, legal services in your area, meditation and self-help techniques, coping with depression, etc. If they do not have the information you need, they will work with you to find it. They also publish an award-winning newsletter filled with important and practical news about recovery, advocacy, and self-help.
The NEC keeps updated lists of consumer-run organization and advocacy groups in all 50 states. They are also active in the cross-disability movement and can help you network with independent living centers and disability rights groups across the country.
NEC staff are internationally recognized authors with many publications and books. See page 48 for more information about the NEC publications and materials.
National Institute for Mental Health (NIMH)
Information, Resources & Inquires Branch
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
301 443-4513
301 443-8431 TDD
800 421-4211 (Depression/Awareness, Recognition and Treatment Information)
The mission of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is to diminish the burden of mental illness through research. This public health mandate demands that we harness powerful scientific tools to achieve better understanding, treatment and, eventually prevention of mental illness.
Brochures, fact sheets and other educational materials available.
National Mental Health Association (NMHA)
2001 North Beauregard Street, 12 th floor
Arlington, VA 22311
800 969-6642
800 433-5959 TTY
The National Mental Health Association (NMHA) is the country's oldest and largest nonprofit organization addressing all aspects of mental health and mental illness. With more than 340 affiliates nationwide, NMHA works to improve the mental health of all Americans, especially the 54 million individuals with mental disorders, through advocacy, education, research and service.
The NMHA offers a variety of low-cost resources including pamphlets, brochures, fact sheets, newsletter and advocacy information and resources available through their website or by calling the toll-free number.
National Mental Health Awareness Campaign
1350 Connecticut Avenue, 9 th floor
Washington, D.C. 20036
202 207-1334
The National Mental Health Awareness Campaign is a not-for-profit, non-partisan, nationwide public education campaign dedicated to combating the stigma associated with mental illness among youth, adults and seniors. Their goal is to reduce the discrimination that pervades the daily lives of Americans living with mental illness and stimulate help-seeking behavior to substantially increase the number of Americans accessing mental health services.
Brochures, information and referrals are available.
National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse
1211 Chestnut Street, Suite 1207
Philadelphia, PA 19107
800 553-4539
215 636-6312 fax
The National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse is a consumer-run national technical assistance center serving the mental health consumer movement . They help connect individuals to self-help and advocacy resources, and offer expertise to self-help groups and other peer-run services for mental health consumers.
President's New
Freedom Commission on Mental Health
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 13C-26
Rockville, Maryland 20857
301 443-1545
301 480-1554
www.mentalhealthcommission.gov
Recovery, Inc.
802 North Dearborn Street
Chicago, IL 60610
312 337-5661 phone
312 337-5756 fax
Recovery, Inc. is a self-help mental health program based on the work of their founder, the late Abraham A. Low, M.D. It is a non-profit, non sectarian, and completely member-managed organization. Recovery Inc. has been active since 1937 and has groups meeting every week around the world, including Connecticut.
Sangster Associates, Inc.
ysangster@cs.com
Sangster Associates, is a consulting agency, headed by Yvette Sangster, advocate, activist, motivator, organizer, national educator and speaker. Yvette provides guidance, skills training, and trouble-shooting to individuals, groups and agencies that are seeking to gain skills to meet their goals. With more than 18 years of experience of being in recovery and working with others in recovery from psychiatric disabilities, she delivers seminars, lectures and presents workshops on topics related to personal empowerment strategies, skills education, systems re-design, advocacy program development, legislative advocacy, coalition-building, organizing, network development, and more.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
5600 Fishers Lane
Rockville, MD 20857
SAMHSA is the main Federal agency charged with improving the quality and availability of prevention, treatment, and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, disability, and cost to society resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
US Psychiatric Rehabilitation Association (USPRA)
601 North Hammonds Ferry Rd, Suite
A
Linthicum, MD 21090
tel: 410 789-7054
410-789-7682 TDD
USPRA, formerly IAPSRS, seeks to help advance the role, scope, and quality of services designed to facilitate the community readjustment of people with psychiatric disabilities. In these times of change and challenge, we in the psychosocial rehabilitation field need a strong and unified voice to achieve the mission and purposes of psychosocial rehabilitation.
USPRA continually seeks to improve the quality of psychosocial rehabilitation services and resources, to strengthen the role of community-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation within the mental health service delivery systems, and to facilitate the coordination and continuity of programs.
USPRA is the Association that brings together agencies, practitioners, families, and persons with psychiatric disabilities. We serve as advocates for community-oriented psychosocial rehabilitation and seek to ensure that the best interests of all concerned are effectively supported.
They publish a journal, newsletters, and have a list of publications and educational materials available to order.
