Mental Health Services
Consultation Center , Butterflies Program , Healthy Families & Children's Case Management Services

Consultation Center

The Consultation Center, University Settlement's State-licensed mental health clinic offers a wide variety of treatment options to community members confronting a complexity of problems, including depression, domestic violence, sexual abuse, family crises, and chronic mental illness.

The Center is one of the few clinics of its kind offering services in Spanish and a variety of Chinese dialects as well as in English, enabling us to reach out to whole segments of the community that may be reluctant to seek out mental health services. Since our psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers and reception staff are multicultural and multilingual, they truly understand the special needs of the largely immigrant population that we serve.

• For information about the Consultation Center
  please call (212) 453-4522.

Butterflies Program

The Butterflies Program provides a range of mental health services (including supportive play; children's yoga; parent/child yoga; and parent groups and workshops) to children ages 0-5. It is designed to support children and their caregivers through any transitions or difficulties they may be experiencing (going to school; getting used to a new sibling at home; coping with domestic or community violence; abuse; trauma; family change or disruption in the home; parent/child bonding; etc). Services are available in English, Chinese and Spanish.

• For the Butterflies Program please call (212) 453.4534.
• Click here to learn more.
• Click here to download our referral form.

Healthy Families

Launched in September, 2007, Healthy Families provides expectant and new parents with comprehensive support to ensure the healthy development of their children, reduce parental stress, and integrate a healthy focus on child development into family life. During weekly home visits, Family Support Workers introduce games and activities to increase the quantity and quality of interaction between parents and children, help parents and their young children discover joy in being and playing together, and help parents seize their roles as their children’s first and most important teachers. Home visitors also educate families about child development; provide developmental screening for all children in the house under age 3; ensure that everyone in the family is receiving adequate medical care; and help families access resources in the community, including the Settlement’s complete range of early childhood programs. Healthy Families also offers a range of parent-child groups, including prenatal yoga, parent-baby yoga, infant massage, and others, working not only to enhance parent-child interaction, but also to help build a supportive community of parents working and raising children together in East Harlem and on the Lower East Side. All services are available in English and Spanish.

• For Healthy Families please call (212) 289.6594

Children's Case Management Services

Young people with complex mental health issues get the help they need through two related programs. The Children's Blended Case Management Program treats children and adolescents who have been diagnosed with a mental health disability and are in need of ongoing support. Case managers work with the whole family, assessing the specific needs of the child and assisting parents with treatment options, educational placements, housing, and the securing of entitlements. The Home Based Crisis Intervention Program targets youth at imminent risk of psychiatric hospitalization. Intensive short-term services are provided to address immediate needs, with the goal of keeping participants out of the hospital and in their homes, where they belong.

• For information about the Children's Blended Case Management Program please call (212) 864-2007.
• For the Home Based Crisis Intervention Program
  please call (212) 453-4593.