Mental Health Care in Hamden, CT

Childrens Center of Hamden

What Does Childrens Center of Hamden Offer?

Childrens Center of Hamden is a mental health facility at 1400 Whitney Avenue, Hamden, Connecticut, offering outpatient care, telehealth therapy, partial hospitalization and residential care. It accepts Medicaid, private insurance, state-financed insurance and self-pay. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy.

1400 Whitney Avenue
Hamden, CT 06517

Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.

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Types of Care at Childrens Center of Hamden

  • Outpatient
  • Partial hospitalization/day treatment
  • Residential/24-hour residential

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicaid
  • Private health insurance
  • State education agency funds
  • Cash or self-payment
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State welfare or child and family services funds

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Telemedicine/telehealth therapy

Who the Program Serves

  • Young adults
  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced intimate partner violence, domestic violence
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons experiencing first-episode psychosis
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
  • Ages: Children/Adolescents
  • Ages: Young Adults

Language Services

  • Spanish

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Perphenazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Cariprazine
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Case management service
  • Education services

Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Connecticut lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.

Other Mental Health Facilities Near Childrens Center of Hamden

Measured by straight-line distance from this facility. See every listing on the Hamden mental health care page.

Yale New Haven Hospital, Hamden

2080 Whitney Avenue, Suite 200, Hamden, CT 06518 · 1.6 mi

203-784-8726

  • Outpatient care
  • Telehealth therapy
  • CBT
  • DBT
  • couples and family therapy
  • Medicaid
  • Medicare
  • Private insurance
  • Sliding fee
  • Payment help

Sources

  1. SAMHSA FindTreatment.gov listing data, checked October 2026
  2. About FindTreatment.gov (SAMHSA)

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