Provides confidential counseling with a mental health professional for victims of domestic violence. Offers counseling for children who have witnessed or experienced some type of abuse or violence. Provides family therapy and parent education focused on helping the household to recover from past abuse, violence, or other traumatic events. Seeks also to prevent abuse within families who may be at risk due to a variety of stressors including: large family size, teenage single parenting, financial problems, drug problems, special needs children, etc. Teaches how to deal with child and parent anger issues, to handle conflicts and manage stress, to recognize cues from children and address their needs, to administer reward and punishment, and to build better communication among family members.

Receives and investigates reports of abuse, neglect, and exploitation of older adults age 60 and older, and evaluates the need for protective services.

Provides enforcement of all laws and ordinances, preventing crimes, investigating criminal activity, apprehending, arresting, and detaining suspects, presenting evidence, regulating traffic, investigating traffic accidents, and engaging in other activities that protect lives and property and preserve peace.

Counseling and psychiatric services for adults and transitional age youth. CPST available for adults. Individual, marital, family and group counseling.

Provides and coordinates violence and bullying prevention efforts using both school-based and community-based intervention to reduce aggressive behavior.

Offers adult and child fingerprinting, assistance in locating missing persons, maintenance of public police records and a property identification program.

Campaign specifically designed to educate bystanders on how to recognize and appropriately address the signs of family violence including child abuse, teen dating abuse, domestic violence and elder abuse. Bystanders are able to speak anonymously and confidentially with an information coordinator. This is a resource line and should not replace 911 in case of emergency or any other 24 hour emergency crisis hotline.

Provides many non emergency crime prevention and public safety education services. Including neighborhood watch programs, security evaluations for both residential and commercial customers, D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) programs in both elementary, high schools and crime reporting hotline.

Investigates and evaluates reports of alleged abuse, neglect (including self-neglect), and exploitation of persons age 60 and over who reside in Richland County.

Provides a peer-to-peer educational program that deals with issues of healthy dating relationships and awareness of bullying. Program can also train volunteer students to become peer leaders in their schools who can deliver the curriculum to their student body. Students develop an understanding of unhealthy behaviors that can lead to toxic or abusive relationships and are instructed on healthy actions they can take as well as how to support friends who may be victims. The presentation can be used for groups of any size and can be used for training of peer mediators, parents, or school personnel. Meets state of Ohio requirements to provide teen dating violence prevention.

Provides a variety of arts-related workshops, residencies and assembly programs for school groups and community groups. Workshops are taught by teaching-artists who work directly with students. Residencies are workshops that allow students to have creative experiences by offering multiple days with the specific artist. Topics may include theater, literary arts, visual arts, and healthy choices. Assembly programs are for large groups (up to 300 individuals).

Counseling and psychiatric services for adults and transitional age youth. CPST available for adults. Individual, marital, family and group counseling.

Provides information and training about domestic violence, sex trafficking, and child abuse for community and professional groups

Sends out printed information about child protective services, and makes available management staff to give presentations to schools, community groups and professional organizations about all aspects of child protective services.

Offers social and emotional learning (SEL) program that focuses on self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationships, and responsible decision-making. Life School aligns with both the Ohio Department of Education’s K-12 Social and Emotional Learning Standards as well as CASEL’S Framework. My Lens, My Life is an SEL-based experiential program that develops social awareness and empathy in students and seeks to stop or reduce bullying, harassment, disrespect, and other undesirable social interactions.

Provides stabilization services to families in crisis to prevent child abuse and neglect

Provide temporary shelter for single women and women with children who are homeless. Length of stay is 30 days with goal of moving to stable housing. Assistance with finding permanent housing and other resources.

Provides information and prevention programs on the topic of rape, sexual assault, and domestic violence.

Members come together to facilitate the prevention and treatment of elder abuse, neglect and exploitation through study, networking, advocacy and public education. Topics include social policy, clinical practice, community education, conference planning, and other networking opportunities.

Dispatches police officers within Riverside city limits to the scene of a crime in progress or a police emergency incident (call 911). Dispatches police officers to the scene of incidents where citizens need non emergency assistance

Provides junior high and high school teen dating violence and domestic violence prevention program to all Greene County junior highs and high schools.

Provides a periodic program which photographs and fingerprints children for identification purposes. Also takes a DNA sample. The results are compiled into a booklet which is given to the parents for their records.

Resources and information available to take home concerning abuse prevention and the effects of substances, alcohol, tobacco, and prescription medication. Offers free Deterra medication disposal pouches to discard unused or expired medications. Also offers support and resources for assistance against bullying, problem gambling, and suicide prevention.

Dispatches police officers within the city of Clayton to the scene of a crime in progress or a police emergency incident. Dispatches police officers to the scene of incidents where citizens need non emergency assistance. Also investigates incidents of alleged police misconduct.

Child protective services for children between the ages of birth and 18; investigates cases of child abuse/neglect/sexual abuse/incest and dependency of children, family assessment; case management services for children/families with open cases; kinship care; foster care; foster parent/home licensing, training; adoption/post adoption services; independent youth living services.