About Our Mental Health Facility
Serving the New Haven & Waterbury, CT Areas
History & Mission
The Family Intervention Center is a private non-profit social agency providing a continuum of services for addiction related problems and mental health issues. We began May 1, 1975, as the Central Naugatuck Valley Consortium for Alcoholism Services, Inc., providing a comprehensive service-delivery system for alcohol related problems.
This system of services was based on the philosophy that alcoholism is a progressive family disease that is treatable and preventable. When we legally changed our name to the Family Intervention Center on December 19, 1991, our philosophy stayed the same. Today, we deal with alcohol, drugs, gambling and eating related addictions as a family disease.
FIC pioneered the Assertive Early Intervention Approach to Addiction in the New England Area. Our programs are based upon the philosophy that addiction affects the entire family system and that every family member is hurting. Any member may begin the intervention process first and foremost for self and, in turn, directly affecting others. As one person gets healthy in the family, they no longer tolerate unhealthy behaviors and others have to change.
Members of healthy nurturing families acknowledge their feelings and deal with them directly and constructively. Each member has a growing sense of self-worth. In hurting families, one or more of the individuals is in unmanageable stress. Without interventions, problems become progressively worse. The earlier that intervention occurs, the greater the chance for recovery and for the prevention of further deterioration.
Our goal, in working with people, is to assist them in making healthy decisions and to help them reach their potentials. Over these 35 years, we have grown and changed to meet the needs of the community, but always following the same mission: Promoting Wellness Through Education, Intervention and Treatment.