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Advance Directives are legal documents that allow you to document your expressed preferences for health care including psychiatric care providers to follow when you are unable to speak for yourself. You can use your Advance Directive to appoint a healthcare representative who will follow your preferences.
Procedimiento del Agravio - Grievance Procedure (Spanish)
Esta política, aceptada con la aportación de consumidores, familias, proveedores y el personal con contacto directo de DMHAS, está diseñada para exhortar la resolución de agravios al nivel más bajo posible.
Social Rehab/Social Clubs/Learning & Wellness Centers
Social Rehab/Social Clubs/Learning & Wellness Centers promote recovery, full citizenship, and improved quality of life for persons who have been diagnosed with any mental health condition that seriously impairs their ability to lead meaningful lives.
DMHAS works with advocacy groups to ensure that people receiving services from DMHAS-operated programs and contracted providers are provided effective mental health and addiction services that foster self-sufficiency, dignity and respect.
The Hearing Voices approach offers a non-pathologizing, open way of understanding and supporting people through the experience of hearing voices. It assumes that hearing voices (as well as seeing visions and other sensory experiences) can be a normal part of human experience with a variety of meanings for people.
Voting is one of the most tangible ways persons who have been labeled with mental health and substance use disorders can show their independence as citizens of this state and country.
DMHAS Region 1 serving the towns of Bridgeport, Darien, Easton, Fairfield, Greenwich, Monroe, New Canaan, Norwalk, Stamford, Stratford, Trumbull, Weston, Westport and Wilton.
System-Wide Analytics and Projection (SWAP)
The System-Wide Analytics and Projection (SWAP) will be an analysis of the performance of our homeless and housing system statewide and will examine measures at both program and system levels and at both the local level and statewide.
Office of Public Information and Communications
The Office of Public Information and Communications provides a full range of communication activities that serve the department and its stakeholders.
Freedom of Information (FOI) Requests
The Connecticut Freedom of Information Act gives you the right to obtain records and attend meetings of all public agencies with certain exceptions.