Child and Adolescent Services

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You are not alone, especially in these trying times. Your child, and your whole family, deserves a bright future. Our integrated primary care and behavioral health services can help you achieve it. We help children and adolescents and their families deal with emotional, developmental, cognitive or behavioral challenges, and we address a range of issues, including anxiety and depression, substance use, and more. 

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Pediatrics

Full pediatric care in our community health centers in Bristol, Hartford, New Britain, Plainville, and Waterbury.  Back-to-school physicals, well-child visits, immunizations, and more!

Outpatient Behavioral Health and Addiction Treatment

Outpatient mental health and addiction treatment for your child at community health centers in BristolHartfordNew BritainPlainville, and Waterbury. Our individual and group therapies help your child with:

  • family relationships
  • depression and anxiety
  • addiction
  • trauma
  • oppositional defiant behavior
  • assistance with medication management
  • and more.

Mobile Crisis Services

We are the state's largest provider of mobile crisis services for children and adolescents, particularly in Central Connecticut.

If your child is in crisis, please call 211.

In-Home Services

We provide extensive in-home services across the state, often based on referral from the Connecticut Department of Children and Families and other state agencies.

Early Childhood, Foster Care, and More

Wheeler is a statewide leader in providing early childhood, evaluation and assessment, foster care services, congregate care, and more.

Special Education

Wheeler's Northwest Village School serves students K through age 21 from dozens of districts at 91 Northwest Drive, Plainville.

Supporting Connecticut's Pediatricians

Wheeler is one of three hubs in the state for the ACCESS Mental Health CT program, providing real-time support for Connecticut's pediatricians handling difficult behavioral health and psychiatric issues. 

Joint-01.pngWheeler has earned Behavioral Health reaccreditation from The Joint Commission, the nation’s oldest and largest standards-setting and accrediting body for providing quality, coordinated, patient-centered health care. The programs surveyed include Wheeler’s Community-Based services; Congregate Care, Extended Day Treatment and Foster Care programs; and Wheeler’s Northwest Village School.


NEWS ABOUT CHILD AND ADOLESCENT SERVICES AT WHEELER

Helping Families Stay Together – Intensive Family Preservation

Intensive Family Preservation supports families involved with DCF due to concerns of abuse and neglect. The program is designed to maintain children safely in the home by helping parents develop skills to manage their lives, improve their parenting and connect to needed community resources.

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Help with Housing – Supportive Housing for Families

Supportive Housing for Families provides families with support services, and access to safe, quality, affordable housing. The mission of SHF is to help DCF families thrive by finding homes in safe neighborhoods, learning skills to manage their housing independently, in order to provide their children with a stable home environment.

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Planning for a Better Tomorrow – Care Coordination

Care Coordination is an in-home, community-based program that collaborates with families of children and adolescents with behavioral and emotional challenges by identifying family strengths and arranging appropriate supports and services to maintain children or adolescents in the community.

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Community Baby Shower on May 30 in Norwalk

A Community Baby Shower for expectant families and new parents living in Norwalk, Bridgeport, Stamford, Fairfield, Stratford, Trumbull, and surrounding areas will take place on May 30 from 3 to 6 pm at the Triangle Community Center (CT Pride Center), 650 West Avenue, Norwalk, CT.

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