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Mental Health and Substance Use Resources

Last updated March 1, 2024. Available services may change. 

Magellan Health Services 

  • Yale health’s behavioral benefits includes treatment for stress, depression, and anxiety as well as other mental health and substance use issues.

Yale Signature Benefits 

  • Provides up to 6 free confidential counseling sessions per issue for eligible staff, faculty, post-doctoral associates, and their household members. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
  • Access to AbleTo, an app to manage stressful situations. 
  • Access to Talkspace - helps you engage with a licensed, dedicated therapist; anytime, anywhere.

Optum’s resources on alcohol use

SHARE Center

  • Available to all members of the Yale community who are dealing with sexual misconduct of any kind, including sexual assault, sexual harassment, stalking, intimate partner violence, and more.
  • SHARE provides crisis support, advocacy, and referrals. 

Yale Police Department

  • 911 for emergencies
  • 203-432-4400 for non-emergencies
  • 203-785-5555 to request a walking escort within the Yale campus

LiveSafe App

  • Gives students, staff, and faculty on campus an effective way to communicate with the Yale Police Department. 
  • Features: 
    • Safe-walk - a peer-to-peer that allows your friend to see your location and allows your friend to request follow up at your location.
    • Report tips - send tips about suspicious activity, mental health issues, theft, or other campus concerns. 
    • Campus escort - request a security walking escort anywhere withing the campus footprint
    • Emergency options - call or send discrete text message directly to the Yale Police Department
    • Safety map - find nearby safe spots

Last updated March 1, 2024. Available services may change. 

Mental Health Resources

211 Connecticut 

  • A free, confidential information and referral services that connects people to essential health and human services 24 hours a day, seven days a week online or over the phone. 

Connecticut Mental Health Center

  • An urban community mental health center.
  • Provides many mental health services and substance abuse treatment.

BHcare

  • A certified community behavioral health clinic. 
  • Offer comprehensive and integrated system of care, with wrap-around services for adults, children and families struggling with mental health, substance use, domestic violence, and other health-risk behaviors. 

Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

  • A 24/7 Access Line to facilitate access to substance abuse treatment
  • 1-800-563-4086

Connecticut Suicide Advisory Board

  • Resources for suicide prevention, including postvention, survivors, suicide loss, and more.

National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Connecticut

  • NAMI Connecticut is dedicated to improving the quality of life for people affected by mental health conditions through support, education, and advocacy.
  • 800-950-6264 NAMI HelpLine (M-F, 10a.m. - 10p.m.)

Connecticut domestic violence programs

  • 1-888-774-2900
  • Programs provide shelter for victims of domestic violence, as well as counseling and other supportive services.

Connecticut warm lines

  • Offer mental health support, but are NOT intended for people in crisis. 

 

Substance Abuse Programs

Alcoholics Anonymous: Connecticut General Service Committee

  • A fellowship of people who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others recover from alcoholism. 

Connecticut Region of Narcotics Anonymous

  • Fellowship of men and women whom drugs had become a major problem who meet regularly to help each other stay clean. 

BHcare

  • A certified community behavioral health clinic. 
  • Offer comprehensive and integrated system of care, with wrap-around services for adults, children and families struggling with mental health, substance use, domestic violence, and other health-risk behaviors. 

AI-Anon Family Groups Connecticut

  • A mutual support program for people whose lives have been affected by someone else’s drinking. 

Connecticut Opioid Overdose Prevention/Naloxone (Narcan) Initiative

  • Information on how you can obtain Naloxone, a prescription medication that reverse opioid overdoses, and use safely. 

Last updated March 1, 2024. Available services may change. 

Mental Health Resources

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

  • Dial 988 
  • Provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the United States.

Disaster Distress Helpline

  • Dial 1-800-985-5990
  • Provides crisis counseling for US residents who are experience emotional distress related to natural or human-caused disasters. 

Crisis Text Line

  • Text HOME to 741710 to connect with a volunteer crisis counselor 24/7. 

The Trevor Project

  • Provides immediate crisis support 
  • Counselors trained to understand the challenges LGBTQ young people face
  • Call 1-866-488-7386
  • Text 678678

QPR Institute

  • Learn how to prevent suicide. 

 

Substance Abuse Resources

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)

  • Dial 1-800-662-4357
  • Fee, confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders.

MindWise

  • Anonymous mental health screening

Don’t Call the Police

  • Community-based alternative to police in your city

13 mental health resources that are absolutely free

Now Matters Now

  • Research based ways for managing the most painful moments of life