Gilead Community Services Inc

About Gilead Community Services Inc

Gilead Community Services is a community mental health organization that has served individuals and families in Middlesex County, Connecticut, since 1968, and their Chester site is home to the Gateway Treatment Program. They focus on psychiatric, emotional, and behavioral health needs, recognizing that recovery from a mental health condition often unfolds gradually and unevenly over many years. Their services span outpatient therapy and medication management, community-based case management, social and vocational rehabilitation, and residential group homes for adults and adolescents. Most of their programs are CARF-accredited.

In Chester, the Gateway Community Treatment Team works with adults who are already receiving case management through the program, offering community support, crisis intervention, skill building, and individual and group counseling aimed at helping people live independently. Their Middletown outpatient clinic sees adults, couples, and families for therapy and medication management, with telehealth options, 24-hour crisis support by phone, no referral requirement, most major insurance plans plus Medicare and Medicaid, and a sliding fee scale. Adults who need more support can be referred through River Valley Services to licensed group homes in Clinton and Middletown with round-the-clock staffing, skills training, and intensive psychiatric care. For boys ages 14 to 21 with complex behavioral health needs, a five-bed Old Saybrook group home, accessed through a DCF referral, provides weekly individual therapy, multiple group sessions, family sessions, recreational therapy, and aftercare planning.