DeLauro Praises New Haven Mental Health Center

Washington, DC— Today, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) visited the research facilities of the Department of Psychiatry and Connecticut Mental Health Center in New Haven. Both of these facilities have benefited from American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) funding through the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and have made tremendous scientific advances. Nearly 300 projects at Yale University have been funded with $121 million ARRA dollars in 2010, creating and retaining 254 jobs.

The Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC) seeks to provide clinical services, education, research, and problem solving to patients in the communities of Greater New Haven who suffer from severe psychiatric and addictive diseases but are unable to pay for treatments. Created as a collaborative effort by the Yale University Department of Psychiatry and the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services, the Center also provides outpatient services through its main facility and three satellite clinics.

Congresswoman DeLauro toured the facility, and was joined by researchers Ron Duman, John Krystal, and Marina Picciotto, students, and representatives from the CMHC, Yale University, and the Society for Neuroscience to discuss the future of their research.

"This Center is an important part of our community, and I am so impressed by the good work they are doing," said Congresswoman DeLauro. "It is said that a society is judged by how it treats its most vulnerable members, and the Connecticut Mental Health Center is leading the way with its extraordinary combination of research, aid, and charity."