Hartford’s Community Health Services Inc. and The Village for Families and Children Inc. are teaming up to provide mental-health services to area children and adolescents.
CHS began offering behaviorial health services this month at its facility at 500 Albany Ave. in the city’s North End.
The organizations say their collaboration leverages their expertise and resources to serve more children and families in the Hartford region.
New services offered at the Albany Avenue facility will include: screening, psychiatric assessment and evaluation, psycho-pharmacology, psycho-social evaluations, and individual, group and family therapies. In addition, the services will be fully integrated through a center-wide electronic medical records system with CHS’s pediatric and adolescent health departments.
Founded in 1970, CHS is a private nonprofit federally qualified health center accommodating underserved and uninsured residents. It serves a patient-base of 20,000 individuals and accommodates more than 90,000 patient visits per year.
The Village, founded in 1809 and also headquartered on Albany Avenue, serves more than 6,000 children and families annually with programs that include outpatient clinical services, residential care, foster care, and a wide variety of community and school-based programs.
