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Provides a peer to peer program where amputees are connected with certified, trained peers.

Motherful provides a community of support for single mothers in Columbus and its surrounding areas. There are Mom's Night Out events, wellness events, virtual town halls, and other special events catered towards single moms and their children.

Provides educational programs on bleeding disorders and coordinates care with Hemophilia Treatment Center at Toledo Children's Hospital's Hemophilia Clinic (4th Tuesday of each month). Provides educational materials to providers and consumers. Family resource meetings provide education, networking and support. Youth Leadership holds bi-monthly meetings with youth ages 12 and older to discuss management of bleeding disorder, teach leadership skills, education and mentoring. Direct Client Service meets at Hemophilia Treatment Center to provide medical identifications, family support, educational materials and other services on an as-needed basis.

Provides peer support for Breast Cancer patients.

NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a free, eight-session educational program for adults with mental health conditions who are looking to better understand themselves and their recovery. Taught by trained leaders with lived experience, this program includes activities, discussions and informative videos. However, as with all NAMI programs, it does not include recommendations for treatment approaches. NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a safe, confidential space. The course provides an opportunity for mutual support and growth. Experience compassion and understanding from people who relate to your experiences. This is a place to learn more about recovery in an accepting environment. NAMI Peer-to-Peer helps you: - Set a vision and goals for the future - Partner with health care providers - Develop confidence for making decisions - Practice relaxation and stress reduction tools - Share your story - Strengthen relationships - Enhance communication skills - Learn about mental health treatment options.

Provides a peer support program to match adults coping with severe mental illness with a community volunteer for friendship and social skill building. Provided through a partnership with Compeer International. Opportunties in the program may include: - One-to-One Friendship Program: Offers face-to-face contact with adult volunteer. - Compeer Calling: Provides telephone support (may be offered in addition to face-to-face support). - Compeer Community: Offers group events and celebrations among Compeers to strengthen social skills. - Peer-to-Peer: Matches clients with one another in supportive, one-on-one friendships. - Skillbuilders Program: Promotes social ties through structured life skills training.

Matches adult individuals that have or have had cancer with a survivor of the same cancer, treatment, and side-effects. Also matches caregivers and family members with trained volunteer caregivers who themselves have undergone a similar experience. One-on-one emotional support and encouragement is generally provided over the phone, but may take place via email, text, or video chat.

Provides one-on-one peer support to individuals that are HIV positive.

Connects families with a member who has a cranial facial disorders or disfigurements with other families in similar situations. Through the network, families can share emotional support, discuss problems, and identify resources. also offers online support groups for persons with cranial-facial disorders and their families.

If you are looking for ways to connect with other parents and guardians in our communities, this may be just the right event for you. Make connections and share your parenting experiences from the comfort of your own home. We will be offering three virtual series between now and June . Each family will get a meal kit, activity kit, and gas voucher to thank you for your participation! This first series will prioritize individuals that are parenting children between the ages of 6 and 18, but all are welcome as space allows.

Connects families and caregivers of children with type I diabetes, as well as individuals with the disease, to others facing similar life circumstances. Trained mentors answer non-medical questions, share personal experiences, and lend specialized support.

Provides stomach and esophageal cancer support services. Services includes information about the cancers, a mentoring program, monthly support groups, and online educational and mental health and wellness seminars. Mentors help patients and caregivers understand the diagnosis, staging, treatment options, clinical trials, side effect management, research, management of the disease, and more. Mentors share their stories, tips, advice and concerns.

PRS training teaches individuals in recovery from a mental health and/or substance use issue to use their experience to help their Peers who are also in recovery. To be eligible for PRS training, you must be personally be in recovery from a mental health and/or substance use issue (having a friend or family member in recovery will not qualify you for PRS training). Individuals who successfully complete training and pass the PRS Certification Exam are eligible to apply for certification as a Peer Recovery Supporter in Ohio.

NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a free, eight-session educational program for adults with mental health conditions who are looking to better understand themselves and their recovery. Taught by trained leaders with lived experience, this program includes activities, discussions and informative videos. However, as with all NAMI programs, it does not include recommendations for treatment approaches. NAMI Peer-to-Peer is a safe, confidential space. The course provides an opportunity for mutual support and growth. Experience compassion and understanding from people who relate to your experiences. This is a place to learn more about recovery in an accepting environment. NAMI Peer-to-Peer helps you: - Set a vision and goals for the future - Partner with health care providers - Develop confidence for making decisions - Practice relaxation and stress reduction tools - Share your story - Strengthen relationships - Enhance communication skills - Learn about mental health treatment options.

Provides information, education, and advocacy to health care providers and the general public around the issue of twin to twin transfusion syndrome, including forms of TTTS called TAPS (twin anemia polycythemia sequence), SIUGR (selective intrauterine growth restriction) and TRAP (twin reversed arterial perfusion sequence). Materials include phone and social media resources for families diagnosed, at risk and those that have delivered special needs children as a result of TTTS.

Offers support, information, resources, and training to families of children with special needs. Services are provided by experienced parents and primary caregivers of an individual with special health care needs.

Provides one-on-one emotional support, mentoring, and companionship to those living with a mental health condition or their friends, family members, and caregivers.

Peer Support Staff members with like disabilities who are living independently are always available to talk with and provide support for consumers. Problem solving in areas such as learning to use community services more effectively, adjusting to a newly acquired disability, or a change in living accommodation are only a few topics that can be discussed. Individual and group support through role models encourages consumers to seek ways to enhance their quality of life and to contribute to their communities.

Coordinates and provides supportive services to help young people who are facing housing instability and homelessness find or maintain stable housing. Also provides information and referral for employment assistance, mentoring, financial capability, and emergency financial assistance. The program is offered through peer Youth Navigators who use their personal experiences and knowledge of systems to support youth in accessing a variety of resources on their paths to stability.

Offers a peer-to-peer online forum of individuals with multiple sclerosis and caregivers who are interested in sharing information and their experiences with multiple sclerosis.

Designed to open up the loving choice of adoption as a real, viable option in a crisis or problem pregnancy. This program has developed a video called Faces of Hope and Families of Hope, showing the journey of a teen couple involved in an unplanned pregnancy and how they decided adoption was the loving and best option for their child.

Provides assistance dealing with trauma in a variety of ways. Services may include counseling, advocacy, support groups (peer led), peer to peer support, and other services, depending on the trauma experienced. Helps with navigating compensation services for those eligible for assistance through the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) .Provides trauma-focused counseling staffed by a social work professional for crime victims as well as social work care coordination.

Provides individual visiting with patients who are about to undergo or who have undergone ostomy surgery for purposes of support and information on day-to-day living with a urinary or intestinal diversion.

Provides telephone calling by trained volunteer survivors of a variety of blood cancers to those who are newly-diagnosed.