Community Renewal Team - HIV Testing and Prevention Services

They provide outpatient and telemedicine. Whichever one you start at the usual pattern is to step down through the levels rather than stop at once, and East Hartford is the closest place to carry that on if you move.

No, and nothing else within 14 miles of Hartford offers one either, so that part will mean a longer drive or a referral.

Outpatient only, and nothing within 14 miles of Hartford has beds either, so a residential stay would mean traveling further than that.

They treat mental health alongside the substance use, so both sides are handled in one place. Ask whether the psychiatric side is on site, because in Hartford that is the part that varies.

They work in Spanish as well as English. Ask whether the group sessions in Hartford are in Spanish too, or only the one to one ones.

The honest range is wide. A few outpatient sessions and a month of residential care are not comparable numbers. Some centers hold a small number of funded places and do not advertise them, so the question is worth asking out loud. It is worth asking about a sliding scale even where nothing is advertised.

A program treats your presence there as confidential by default, including from whoever is paying. There are narrow exceptions, including a medical emergency and a court order, and they are narrower than people assume. Read what you sign at intake, because the release is in that stack.

Pack for about a week, keep the documents where you can hand them over at the door, and expect the bag to be searched. If you are driving yourself, ask where the car will sit, because some programs keep the keys. Put the medication list together before anything else, and include doses and who prescribed them.