We started by recognizing a huge need.

In early 2018, three Licensed Clinical Social Workers in Stamford, CT found that from 2015 through 2018 the number of requests for mental healthcare from the uninsured rose 12%.

The number of requests for mental healthcare continues to rise, as does the number of uninsured and underinsured individuals and families. Since then, we have raised over $181,964 from our generous donors.

Working to fill the gaps.

Mental Health services are at the heart of all those offered to the uninsured and underinsured through The Center for Wellbeing-Centro Bienestar, Inc. Mental health services include child, adolescent, adult, family, couples and group psychotherapy services, psychological testing, psychiatric and medication evaluations and case management to those with no mental health insurance coverage or who are unable to pay.
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Our Therapists are independent mental health professionals who are licensed in the state of Connecticut to practice in their stated mental health discipline. As our independent contractors, they agree to receive a fee one-third below the current market rate for providing direct services to uninsured/underinsured clients. The Center for Wellbeing-Centro Bienestar Board of Directors approve all Contractors who will provide direct services to the uninsured/underinsured.

The services offered to the immigrant community by The Center for Wellbeing-Centro Bienestar, Inc., include: child, adolescent, adult, family, couples, groups, psychological testing, psychiatric evaluations, medication evaluations, and case management. At times one of our providers will accompany a client to an appointment to act as a translator. Children and teens with emotional difficulties and poor school performance receive, if needed, educational advocacy that is critical to learning and future functioning.

In response to the surge of children into our public schools, on-site after school group counseling for high school students identified by their school as in need of help in adjusting to a new community. Our youngsters come from: Brazil, Columbia, Peru, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Holland, Japan, Nepal, the Dominican Republic, and the Philippines.

Uniquely positioned to meet our community's needs.

• Culturally competent. We are one of the very few places in lower Fairfield County that has eleven Bilingual-Spanish and two Bilingual-Haitian Creole speaking mental health providers.
• Proven success. Multitudes of uninsured individuals and families from Stamford, Norwalk and Greenwich, Connecticut and beyond have received quality mental health interventions with us.
• Resilient. In spite of beginning fundraising in earnest three to five months before the declaration of the Covid-19 pandemic, client sessions were never interrupted.
• Embedded in the community. In 2023 contracted therapists provided more than 111 psychotherapy sessions on a pro bono basis due to a lack of funding.