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.

Offers temporary respite up to twelve hours per month for caregivers caring for someone in their home or regularly outside of the home with mental illness.

Provides referral and resource information for callers regarding addiction and mental health services, supports, and organizations statewide.

Provides information to educate the public, healthcare professionals, and legislators about diagnosis and treatment of anxiety disorders in adults and young people, including: generalized anxiety, panic disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, social anxiety, and phobias.

Provides psychological evaluations and assessments, general counseling services, including individual, family and groups, medications assessment and management and case management services. Transportation services for clients may also be available for clients with case managers. Also provides psychiatric medication services, including monitoring. Counseling specializes in depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, insomnia, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizo-affective disorder, mood disorder, antisocial personality disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Provides a six-week education program designed to foster learning, healing, and empowerment among parents and families of children and adolescents living with a mental illness. Participants learn about several mental illnesses and their impact on the brain, as well as information about treatments, evidence-based therapies, medications, and side effects.

Offer a variety of professional workshops and seminars, clinical training, and other programs for practitioners of psychotherapy and counseling, as well as social workers, clergy and other interested parties. CEU's and professional certifications are available. Includes training and certification in Gestalt Coaching as well as Executive & Organization Development (OD) programs.

The purpose of Service Coordination and Wraparound Services through the county FCFC is to provide a neutral venue for families requiring services where their needs may not have been adequately addressed in traditional agency systems. These processes serve as a safety net for children needing a more intensive collaboration of multi-system providers. Each system has areas of responsibility, and the Service Coordination Mechanism is not intended to override current agency systems, but to supplement and enhance supports that currently exist, or identify additional supports that are needed but are not currently utilized. The goal is to keep children in their home and community with supports.

Provides assistance in determining what services and resources are available to best meet the needs of families with young children who may be showing signs of mental/emotional health issues or behavioral issues. Agency makes referrals for mental health assessments, consultation and therapy. Program is a collaboration of several county child-serving agencies.

Provides informational brochures, booklets, products and website resources regarding mental health. Also provides an online mental health screening and following the screening one will be provided with information, resources and tools to discuss the results with a mental health provider (note: a provider will most likely conduct their own screening/assessment.)

Treatment foster care is designed for youth who have difficulties with behavior, school problems, substance abuse, physical, medical, or emotional needs and/or other conditions that require a foster placement. Also, trains and license therapeutic foster parents.

Provides a large variety of continuing education courses, workshops, seminars, symposia, film presentations with discussion, and public lectures on psychoanalytic theory and practice. Continuing Medical Education (CME) for physicians and Continuing Education Units (CEU) for social workers, counselors and psychologists may be provided.

Provides a tool designed to simulate a conversation with a doctor in order to guide a person through a series of questions regarding their emotional well-being and readiness to seek help. Program launches after person completes online screening and scores positive for having symptoms of depression or alcohol abuse. Screenings are anonymous, not intended to be a diagnosis but to help indentify signs of mental health and/or addiction issues.

Provides a special library of books, videos, pamphlets and other relevant materials specifically dealing with mental health issues.

The Bipolar Peer Support Group is an opportunity for people living with this disorder to connect, find validation, and potentially learn some new coping strategies. Two trained co-facilitators will maintain a safe environment for people of all backgrounds to share space. Please feel free to come and talk—or just listen—as we discuss the ups and downs of living with bipolar disorder and how to make the most out of life.

Provides a housing program for persons with mental illness. Goal is to move the client toward self-sufficiency.

Provides educational material and information about mental illness, the mental health care system, and community resources. Referrals are made to treatment providers as appropriate. Also includes a newsletter keeping members and others up-to-date on mental health issues and advocacy.

Offers ongoing seminars and consultation for preschool teachers, day care providers, counselors, social workers, and others working with children and families. Seeks to give participants an understanding of what children are communicating in their behaviors. Includes a parenting course for teachers to teach child development and parenting skills to high school students. May offer CEU's. Offers ongoing intensive weekly consultations to day care centers and preschools.

Offers Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training. The training teaches safe and effective approaches to handling crisis incidents involving a mentally ill individual. Also offers various CEU workshops.

Plans and coordinates a range of community-based mental health and addiction treatment services within Hamilton County. Also allocates funds received from Federal, State, and local sources to the appropriate local agencies.

Offers residential treatment facilities for persons living with severe and persistent mental illnesses. These facilities provide 24-hour supervision and support. The Residential Treatment Program is a transitional housing program designed to habilitate the participants to enable them to live as independently in the community as possible upon discharge.

Mobile apps can be effective tools that make therapy more accessible, efficient, and portable for those with anxiety disorders, depression, OCD, PTSD, and other related disorders. ADAA provides a list of Mobile apps that are available to the public. When you are trying to select an app for its benefits and ease of use, read the reviews shown by ADAA members. These volunteer reviewers are mental health professionals with degrees in psychology, medicine, social work, and counseling; they are not involved in the development or marketing of mobile apps.

Provides assistance with navigating insurance benefits, accessing resources to treatment and medication, appealing a claim denial, and addressing mental health coverage differences.

Funds, reviews, and monitors community mental health programs coordinated by county-level boards serving all 88 counties in Ohio. Certifies services provided by private agencies and licenses private psychiatric hospital inpatient units and community residential programs.