Resources

A Guide to Avon Middle School (2019-2020)

Mental Health Resources

Emergency Agencies

Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services, 2-1-1

Emergency Mobile Psychiatric Services (EMPS) is a mobile intervention service for children and adolescents experiencing a behavioral or mental health crisis. Clinical counseling support can be reached by calling 211.

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255

Counseling Services

Avon Department of Social Services: (860)409-4346

Avon Youth Services: (860)409-4394

The Bridge- West Hartford, CT: (860)521-8035

The Bridge Family Center is a comprehensive, regional nonprofit agency that provides a broad range of services for children and families throughout the Greater Hartford area. Founded in 1969, the Bridge offers a safe haven for children and families in crisis as well as positive, healthy intervention and prevention programs.

Wheeler Clinic: (860)793-3588, www.wheelerclinic.org

Wheeler Clinic offers multiple counseling and community-related resources. A great deal of information can be found on the following website: https://www.ctclearinghouse.org/ including ICAPPS (Intensive In-Home Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Services)

Grief & Loss

The Cove Center for Grieving Children - Meriden, CT: 1-800-750-2683

The Cove provides family and school-based programs utilizing the peer support group concept for helping children, teens and families work with their unresolved grief due to the death of someone significant in their lives. www.covect.org ( Grief support groups throughout CT)

Mary’s Place - Windsor, CT: (860)688-9621

Mary’s Place, a non-profit organization, provides a safe place in which children, teens and families who are grieving a death share their experiences, receive support and find comfort.

The D’Esopso-Pratt Resource Center - Wethersfield, CT: (860)563-5677

The D’Esopo-Pratt Resource Center provides an accessible and comfortable environment in which educational and supportive materials are shared. It is the hope that they lessen the isolation of one's feelings as a result of a loss.