Bridges Healthcare

Adult outpatient and wraparound services - Bridges provides outpatient clinical and wraparound services to adults in milford, orange, and west haven. Our recovery oriented services include clinical and psychiatric outpatient treatment including intensive outpatient services for individuals with serious and persistent and mental illness, case management, crisis intervention, integrated primary care, vocational and social rehabilitation services and services for young adults. The agency recently launched its wellness on wheels program to offer primary care, health screenings and referrals in underserved areas as a way to engage individuals in care who would otherwise not access office based care.

Child and family outpatient treatment and supportive services - the outpatient child and family service is dedicated to providing behavioral health services to children, adolescents and their families. The program provides individual, family, and group therapy modalities. Bridges also partners with several local school systems to provide behavioral health services on-site at specific schools. Services include comprehensive psychosocial assessments, developmental evaluations, psychotherapy, psychiatric consultation, collaboration with the school system and other service providers, and case management. The agency also offers a number of supportive and in-home services for children and families including care coordination, intensive family preservation, intensive in-home child and adolescent psychiatric services, and caregiver support. Bridges operates a youth and young adult drop-in center called rm4 as well as prevention services to target underage drinking and alcohol use.

Drug and alcohol services - recovery oriented services are provided to individuals with substance use disorder as well as those with co-occurring mental illness in milford, orange and west haven. The agency provides clinical support for more acute individuals through crisis intervention and access to office and community-based medication assisted treatment, individual and group therapy and intensive outpatient treatment. Bridges launched the first mobile medication assisted treatment program in 2019 to engage individuals in treatment for opioid addiction. This model was the first of its kind in Connecticut to provide both treatment and peer support in a community-based setting.

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