Offers job placement and job coaching for individuals with a severe and persistent mental illness or developmental disabilities. Provides pre-screened workers matched to needs of an employer and individualized on-the-job training. Provides contracted work crews. Educates employers concerning disabilities.

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.

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.

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.

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

An affiliate group within the Center (separate from Center membership) that provides community education about psychoanalysis and the influence of psychoanalytic thought on the arts and humanities. Offers regular workshops, and discussions of films and plays for members. Sponsors free public lectures on various subjects relating to psychoanalysis. Assists in fund raising to support the Center.

Provides presentations of papers and workshops several times a year, featuring distinguished psychoanalytic clinicians and educators. Continuing Education Units (CEU) and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits are available for mental health practitioners.

Provides an Information Line that offers resources, access to services, treatment, supports and research on mental health.

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 late evening/early morning peer support by phone to anyone in need of non-crisis support. Provides peer support, resources and referrals.

Provides classes and support groups that teach individuals how to advocate for themselves or in support of someone with a mental illness; also provides advocacy on behalf of individuals with a mental illness or on the behalf of people who support a loved one with a mental illness; actively advocates on legislative issues involving mental health.

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.

SAMHSA provides an online locator for comprehensive information about mental health services and resources and is useful for professionals, consumers and their families, and the public.

Offers meetings that feature guest speakers on Mental Health topics. Open discussion is encouraged and is followed by a review of opportunities and resources available within Geauga County.

Offers peer support groups for a variety of local communities. Groups vary by focus and include groups oriented specifically towards alcohol and others oriented towards all substance use disorders. Formats include traditional Alcoholic Anonymous groups, Christian oriented groups, Atheist/Agnostic groups, LGBTQ2+ friendly groups.

Provides 8 two-hour sessions for adults living with a mental illness. Sessions are taught by a trained team of individuals living in recovery from mental illness. Participants learn about up-to-date research on brain biology, mental illness symptoms, and their relationship to personal experiences and personalized relapse prevention plan.

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

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 information and refferral on agencies providing mental health services to Geauga County residents.

Provides information regarding mental health and substance use disorder insurance. Will assist a person with navigating their mental health and substance use disorder insurance benefits. The goal is to ensure individuals can access treatment when needed.

Provides funding and oversight for community mental health services throughout the state. Reviews and certifies mental health service providers throughout the state.

Provides an annual weekend of workshops, seminars, group supervision of active students, and classes featuring a distinguished psychoanalytic clinician and educator. Some events are free and open to the public. Continuing Education Units (CEU) and Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits are available for mental health practitioners.

Provides one-on-one information and assistance to aging adults and individuals with disabilities to help them identify their needs and preferences, and access community resources, benefit programs and other available social, medical and residential services. Also helps ensure that individuals and their caregivers are aware of the various living options, care options, and supportive services available to them.

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.

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.