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Shelton’s Progressive Institute outlines holistic intensive outpatient program for adults

CT Paid Leave podcast: 5 Minutes of Impact · September 4, 2025
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Summary

Progressive Institute’s recovery outreach manager described an 8–12 week intensive outpatient program in Shelton that offers separate mental health and substance-use tracks, evidence-based therapies, medication-assisted treatment and virtual options for homebound clients. Contact and expansion plans were provided.

Nancy Barrow, engagement manager and podcast host for Connecticut Paid Leave, interviewed Renny Afamato, recovery outreach manager at the Progressive Institute, in a short ‘‘5 Minutes of Impact’’ podcast segment about the nonprofit’s intensive outpatient services.

Afamato said the Progressive Institute is “an intensive outpatient facility located in Shelton, Connecticut” that treats adults diagnosed with mental health or substance-use disorders. The program, he said, operates separate tracks for mental health and substance use and typically runs eight to 12 weeks, meeting three times a week…

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