Care for your Family, Close to Home
Wheeler offers hope if your child is struggling with:
- depression and anxiety
- substance use
- trauma
- behavioral challenges
- problem sexual behavior
- assistance with medication management
- or other conditions
Call our Navigation Center at 888-793-3500 to begin.
We provide trauma-informed, evidence-based behavioral health services for children, adolescents and families in convenient locations on Park Street and Woodland Street in Hartford and throughout Central Connecticut, or provided in your own home.
Our treatment engages all members of your family to promote sustainable recovery, health and growth, and we provide linkages to our integrated continuum of pediatric and dental care, as well as other community-based services.
Services Provided In Your Home
Outpatient Services
Outpatient Services for Addiction and Behavioral Health Challenges
Wheeler's continuum of services for children and adolescents focuses on intervention, assessment / evaluation, outpatient treatment, intensive outpatient services, and recovery supports. We treat addiction and behavioral health challenges related to childhood and adolescence. Wheeler works with children, adolescents and their families to establish treatment goals specifically related to individualized needs. Medicaid, commercial insurance or third-party payer accepted.
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Services Provided IN Your Home
Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services (IICAPS)
A time-limited, in-home stabilization service for children and adolescents with serious emotional disorders. Individuals and families may self-refer, and referrals are also accepted from schools, community and State systems. Referrals also accepted from the community. Medicaid, Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield , or third-party payer accepted.
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Providers: Download a Referral Form
Multidimensional Family Therapy (MDFT)
An innovative, intensive in-home service for youth, ages 9-18, with substance abuse issues, oppositional behaviors and family conflict. Serves adolescents and their families. Individuals and families may self-refer, and referrals are also accepted from schools, community and State systems. Medicaid, commercial insurance accepted. Treatment provided regardless of an individual's ability to pay.
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Providers: Download a Referral Form - NOTE: Submitting a referral does not ensure an immediate intake date. Please call 860-793-4237 to confirm that the referral was received and to determine a timeline for services.
Intensive In-home Behavioral Health Services (IIBHS)
An innovative in-home service that serves children, adolescents and young adults, ages 3 to 24, with acute psychiatric and/or co-occurring challenges. Covered by Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Connecticut.
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Care Coordination
An in-home service for children and adolescents with behavioral and emotional challenges and their families and provides appropriate supports and services to maintain the child or adolescent in the community. Families and individuals may self-refer. Referrals also accepted from the community. There is no charge associated with services.
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Mobile Crisis Intervention Services
Our Mobile Crisis Intervention Services program offers an immediate response to children and youth, ages 3 - 17, or 18 if still enrolled in school, experiencing behavioral health emergencies in the home, school and other community or hospital settings.
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