Mission, Vision, Values

The Consultation Center seeks to generate knowledge and guide the development and refinement of interventions to promote individual and community wellness and to prevent mental health and substance use challenges. In partnership with community members, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers, we bring social and behavioral science to the community through rigorous research and evaluation, consultation, training, capacity building, and policy development. Below are values that guide our work.

1. We are grounded in scientific evidence and informed by different ways of knowing to:

a. Conduct research, program evaluation, quality improvement, and scholarship to generate knowledge.
b. Partner with communities to co-create opportunities to generate knowledge about effective community-driven solutions.
c. Translate research findings so that they are useful and practical for the public, policymakers, practitioners, and researchers.

2. We collaborate with community members, practitioners, researchers, and policymakers to foster authentic, transparent, and productive partnerships that focus on community-centered solutions.

3. We work with and amplify the voices of all populations and communities to promote wellness.

4. We seek fairness and justice so that individuals and communities have opportunities, resources, and supports.

5. We embrace differences and consider context and systems to conceptualize problems and interventions.

6. We practice and model intellectual humility. We seek and are receptive to feedback from others and convene partners to facilitate the sharing of divergent opinions.

Our Work

For more than 30 years, the Center has carried out its mission through grant funding, state support, or reduced fees to community partners. Since its inception, the Center has been a collaborative endeavor of the Yale School of Medicine, the Connecticut Mental Health Center and The Consultation Center, Inc. (a nonprofit, 501(c)3 organization). The Center draws on multiple perspectives from the disciplines of psychology, social work, public health, psychiatry, education, sociology, management, and administration.

Conducting research
Developing programs
Consulting to schools, community organizations, and governmental agencies
Providing training to professionals and to students at the graduate and post-graduate level

Programs

Building Evaluation Capacity

A tailored program of consultation and training to build program evaluation capacity. The program has involved more than 39 agencies and included oversight of the Philadelphia Program Evaluation Learning Collaborative comprised of agencies that have completed the program so as to ensure the sustainability of gains made.

Community Mental Health

Community Mental Health and its Impact on Academic and Behavioral Health Outcomes: alternative education serving a diverse population of young adults who present with unique challenges that impact academic, social, and career outcomes.

CT Department of Public Health Collaboration: to develop a culturally appropriate model to provide information on how to positively engage males (including teens) in developing healthy relationships.

Workforce Development for Family Violence Education & Prevention

Consultation to the EVOLVE and EXPLORE Programs: training and supervision to facilitators that deliver a state-mandated family violence education program for male and female perpetrators of violence.
Family Violence Prevention Fund Consultation: to understand the needs of families who experience violence and are under supervision of the judicial system.

Program Evaluation/ Health Evaluation Initiatives

Evaluation services to enhance scientific knowledge about a given question, program, or service, and to inform public policy tailored to meet the needs of an individual client or project. Examples:

Evaluations of statewide children’s mental health systems of care;
Evaluations of the implementation of trauma-focused evidenced- based clinical interventions for children and their families;
National cross-site evaluation of a demonstration initiative to reduce the rate of homicides resulting from domestic violence;
Evaluations of statewide public health initiatives including consultation and technical assistance to state departments implementing programs for populations at risk for poor health outcomes;
Provision of training and technical assistance to community-based organizations regarding the planning and implementation of needs assessments and program evaluations on a fee-for-service basis.

TCC@Yale

The Consultation Center at Yale is a university-based organization that offers a range of services, training and research to individuals, organizations, businesses and governmental agencies throughout Connecticut, the U.S. and internationally

YaleEVAL

YaleEVAL is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and staff from The Consultation Center at Yale who conduct program evaluations and provide evaluation capacity building in collaboration with local, regional, state, and national organizations.

Mission, Vision, Values

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