Mental Health Care in Waterbury, CT

Patrick F McAuliffe Center

What Does Patrick F McAuliffe Center Offer?

Patrick F McAuliffe Center is a mental health facility at 70 Central Avenue, Waterbury, Connecticut, offering residential care. It accepts Medicaid and state-financed insurance and offers payment assistance. Therapy approaches include CBT, DBT and couples and family therapy.

70 Central Avenue
Waterbury, CT 06702

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 Patrick F McAuliffe Center

  • Residential/24-hour residential

Payment, Insurance and Help Paying

  • Medicaid
  • State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
  • State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
  • Payment assistance (check with facility for details)

Therapy and Treatment Approaches

  • Activity therapy
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Couples/family therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Integrated Mental and Substance Use Disorder treatment
  • Individual psychotherapy
  • Abnormal involuntary movement scale

Who the Program Serves

  • Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
  • Clients who have experienced trauma
  • Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
  • Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
  • Ages: Young Adults
  • Ages: Adults
  • Ages: Seniors

Medications Used

  • Chlorpromazine
  • Fluphenazine
  • Haloperidol
  • Loxapine
  • Perphenazine
  • Aripiprazole
  • Brexpiprazole
  • Clozapine
  • Lurasidone
  • Olanzapine
  • Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
  • Paliperidone
  • Quetiapine
  • Risperidone
  • Ziprasidone
  • Nicotine replacement
  • Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
  • Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI

Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services

  • Screening for tobacco use
  • Mentoring/peer support
  • Family psychoeducation
  • Case management service
  • Suicide prevention services
  • HIV testing
  • STD testing
  • TB screening
  • Metabolic syndrome monitoring
  • Laboratory testing

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 Patrick F McAuliffe Center

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

Sources

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

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