United Services has two upcoming series of The Parent Project® starting in February. The Parent Project®: Empowering Parents * Transforming Children (8-17 yrs.) Learn how to never argue with your child again! Prevent or intervene in alcohol or drug use! Improve school attendance and performance! Find resources to help your family! Dates: Monday, February 2, 2015 or Tuesday February 3, [...]
United Services Youth Service Bureau will present a FREE 8-week Child and Family Wellness Lunch Speaker Series from January to March at the Killingly Public Library Community Room, 25 Westcott Road, Danielson. The series will begin at January 27. Please check back for details on each week's speaker. A light lunch, drinks and dessert will be provided. To register please contact [...]
National guest speaker featured at meeting where agency announces new board, recognizes community partners, and long-serving staff helping to create healthy communities in northeastern Connecticut United Services, Inc., Connecticut’s largest private, nonprofit behavioral health center celebrated its 50th Anniversary Thursday with its Annual Dinner held at Wrights Mill Farm in Canterbury. The event featured a keynote address from A. Kathryn [...]
United Services will be one of 48 mental health programs nationwide to participate in an innovative health pilot program next year. United Services, northeastern Connecticut’s behavioral health center, has been accepted to the In SHAPE Implementation Project, a new program by The National Council for Behavioral Health and Dartmouth College. According to the National Council, people with Serious Mental Illness [...]
Annual Dinner will include keynote address from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services administrator United Services will mark its 50th year of “Creating Healthy Communities” through social and behavioral health programs with an annual dinner November 20 at Wright’s Mill Farm in Canterbury. The annual celebration will feature a keynote address from A. Kathryn Power, Regional Administrator, Region [...]
Innovative program offers immediate support services at the scene of a domestic violence incident United Services, Inc. will collaborate with the University of Connecticut Police and State Police at Troops C, D and K to implement the recently expanded Lethality Assessment Program (LAP), to provide immediate safety and support services to victims at the scene of a domestic violence incident. [...]
United Services to mark National Domestic Violence Awareness Month with community education, partnership initiatives this October On the heels of national attention to domestic violence, United Services will commemorate National Domestic Violence Awareness Month this October with a series of community education and partnership initiatives. United Services provides the only domestic violence shelters and services in Northeastern Connecticut. Our Domestic [...]
The Inn at Woodstock Hill raises $2,500 for United Services Center for Autism at 10th annual Summer Fest August 10 Agency receives donation as it prepares for Sunflowers for Kids event to benefit Autism center Woodstock, CT – The Inn at Woodstock Hill raised $2,500 for United Services Center for Autism at its 10th annual Summer Fest, held August [...]
Pomfret Center, CT – Lapsley Orchard is set to host its 10th annual Sunflowers for Kids event on Sunday, August 31st from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The orchard’s end-of-summer bounty of sunflowers and wildflowers will be harvested and sold in bunches, or available for guests to pick their own, with 100% of the proceeds donated to children’s treatment and [...]
Local agency recognized as national leader in assisting health organizations transition to DSM-5 DAYVILLE – United Services staff will lead a national webinar on the transition to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) later this month. The DSM is the standard classification of mental disorders used by mental health professionals in the United [...]