New Middletown Clinic Now Accepting Patients!

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Root Center Breaks Ground

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Branford Clinic Is Now Open!

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  • Advanced Recovery  Institute 

    Awards First  Research Grant

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    Treatment Facility Under Construction

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  • Root Center Breaks Ground On 

    First Methadone Clinic In Middlesex County

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  • Advanced Recovery  Institute 

    Awards First  Research Grant

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  • Root Center’s First Residential

    Treatment Facility Under Construction

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  • Root Center Breaks Ground On 

    First Methadone Clinic In Middlesex County

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  • Root Center’s First Residential

    Treatment Facility Under Construction

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root center for

advanced recovery

is a holistic behavioral health center that serves over 5,500 patients across Connecticut each day.


We focus on the whole person, compassionately delivering comprehensive mental health and substance use treatments. Using proven, evidence-based methods of treatment, we meet clients where they are and guide them to where they want to be. 

We focus on the whole person, compassionately delivering comprehensive mental health and substance use treatments. Using proven, evidence-based methods of treatment, we meet patients where they are and guide them to where they want to be. 

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We are caring, intelligent people committed to supporting others. As an organization, we support our people as they continue to grow, develop and advance.

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WILLIMANTIC SENIOR COUNSELOR

The senior counselor performs full range of counseling and clinical duties including but not limited to assessment, education and treatment of clients experiencing substance abuse addiction and/or related behavioral health disorders to an assigned caseload. In addition, clinic supervisory and administrative duties as assigned by the clinic supervisor. 

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WILLIMANTIC COUNSELOR

Under the supervision of the clinic supervisory staff, performs full range of counseling and clinical duties including but not limited to assessment, education and treatment of clients experiencing substance abuse addiction and/or related behavioral health disorders. This role will be based at our Willimantic Clinic.

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MIDDLETOWN CLINIC SUPERVISOR

Under the supervision of the Director of Clinical Services, provides program management and oversight for the clinic and ensures all federal and state regulations and policies and procedures of the Hartford Dispensary are adhered to. Responsibilities include but are not limited to; ensuring proper care is being provided in accordance with program standards, develops and provides ongoing clinical and administrative development for staff and program planning. Serves as a guide for case conferencing and creates and reviews treatment plans as needed.

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JOIN OUR TEAM | FEATURED OPPORTUNITIES

WILLIMANTIC SENIOR COUNSELOR

The senior counselor performs full range of counseling and clinical duties including but not limited

to assessment, education and treatment of clients experiencing substance abuse addiction and/or related behavioral health disorders to an assigned caseload. In addition, clinic supervisory and administrative duties as assigned by the clinic supervisor. 

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WILLIMANTIC COUNSELOR

Under the supervision of the clinic supervisory staff, performs full range of counseling and clinical duties including but not limited to assessment, education and treatment of clients experiencing substance abuse addiction and/or related behavioral health disorders. This role will be based at our Willimantic Clinic.

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MIDDLETOWN CLINIC SUPERVISOR

Under the supervision of the Director of Clinical Services, provides program management and oversight for the clinic and ensures all federal and state regulations and policies and procedures of the Hartford Dispensary are adhered to. Responsibilities include but are not limited to; ensuring proper care is being provided in accordance with program standards, develops and provides ongoing clinical and administrative development for staff and program planning. Serves as a guide for case conferencing and creates and reviews treatment plans as needed.

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Featured News & Events

By Fathom Member November 15, 2024
Root Center is excited for the return of Allison Pons as our New Britain Residential Clinic Supervisor! Allison returns 5 years later to bring her expertise and passion for her work to Root Center's most exciting undertaking yet... our very first Residential Treatment Facility! Allison began her field work many years ago as an intern at Root Center for Advanced Recovery in one of our Methadone Maintenance Treatment Programs. She is now excited to be return to the Root Center, in her new role as Residential Clinical Supervisor. Allison returns to RCAR after further developing her career in the addictions and mental health field. Allison is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), Licensed Alcohol and Drug Counselor (LADC), and Internationally Certified Gambling Clinician (ICGC-I). She also has more than 8 years of clinical and administrative experience in outpatient behavioral health care settings. She has enjoyed providing individual and group services to adolescents and adults and working as part of multidisciplinary teams to support a whole-person approach to recovery. Allison is excited to be part of RCAR’s first residential facility, and introducing this new service line to the community and patients we serve, providing high-quality mental health and addictions treatment. Welcome (back), Allison!
By Fathom Member November 4, 2024
Root Center is so excited to welcome (back) Lisa Barbati as our Director of Quality & Compliance! Lisa returns to Root after obtaining her BSN and developing her career in Quality and Compliance. Lisa is Board Certified in Addictions Nursing (CARN) and has over 33 years of Nursing experience in Acute Hospital Care, Inpatient Behavioral Health Services and Outpatient Addiction Treatment Services. She served Root Center for 24 years in several prior capacities as a staff nurse and RN supervisor and is the 2019 RCAR recipient of the Nightingale Award for Excellence in Nursing. Most recently, Lisa held roles in Quality Improvement as a Clinical Quality RN with Intercommunity, Inc., and as a Virtual RN with Trinity Health of New England. In these roles, she honed her skills in Quality Assurance, Clinical Documentation Compliance, Data Analysis, and Ambulatory Care Risk Management. She's worked closely with leadership in Quality and Compliance, acted as a change agent and subject matter expert for several Quality Improvement initiatives, and assisted in developing tools and training on Quality & Compliance platforms. Lisa is dedicated to getting the facts right and maintaining high credibility. She thrives on research, making sense of things, and finding balance. She advocates for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, serving as an advocate for Autism and the LGBTQ community. Lisa is excited to be back in her new role as Director of Quality and Compliance at Root.
October 9, 2024
Our Community Forum on, "The Epidemic of Loneliness: The Silent Sadness", was a success! Thank you to all of our wonderful panelists for sharing their time and expertise. It was a great evening filled with thoughtful discussion and conversation. The Root Center is proud to offer free events like this as part of our Advanced Recovery Institute (ARI). The ARI is committed to research and training to elevate clinical care. It is our hope that by organizing these forums that we will help expand our understanding and awareness of topics that impact our communities. Thank you again to our panelists: Andi Campbell, President of Wellspark Health, an EmblemHealth company. Dr. Peter Donato, Vice President of Clinical Services at Apple Rehab. Deb Bibbins, JD, MBA, Founder and CEO of For All Ages, a convener of CT Collaborative to End Loneliness. Dr. Saud Anwar, MD FCCP, State Senator, Deputy President Pro Tempore, Medical Doctor specializing in lung diseases and critical care medicine, occupational and environmental medicine. Allison Gaffey, PhD, FAHA, Assistant Professor at Yale School of Medicine. and Dr. John Nazarian, MD, Medical Director at Community Mental Health Affiliates, Inc. (CMHA), and future Chief Medical Officer of the Root Center for Advanced Recovery.
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