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.

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

Provides an extensive library of psychoanalytic literature, including over 6,000 books and bound volumes of professional periodicals. Special collections include books on applied psychoanalysis, and classic texts. The library is open to the public; borrowing privileges available to members and students enrolled at the Center.

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 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.

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.

Provides transitional services for the severely mentally ill (SMI) population, including intensive case management services.

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.

Provides information and referrals to consumers about mental health and addiction services, supports and organizations in Ohio. Assists individuals with consumer rights issues and investigates consumer complaints.

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

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.

Mental and Behavioral Health Services for children, adolescents and their caregivers . We also specialize in working with Preschoolers ages 3 to 5 years old . We offer in person therapy, counseling, parent training and support, family therapy and wrap around services using community health workers

Provides mental health and addiction services, including assessing the need for services, coordinating the planning of mental health and addiction facilities, services and programs in Wood County, Ohio; allocates funds to agencies providing a wide variety of direct services, monitors and evaluates services to ensure high-quality and cost-effective programs, and initiates new programs in the absence of needed community services.

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.

Provides a program to develop and enhance mental and physical wellness for mental health consumers. A specialist works with participants to use information about their diagnoses to make a plan to deal with crises that come up, to give direction to others working with them about what they may need while in crisis, and to know and use tools to develop mental health wellness over the long term.

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.

Provide presentations to educate the community about mental illness and help to eliminate the stigma surrounding it. Individuals with mental illness share their experiences of living with and recovering from mental illness to college and university students, nurses, doctors, social workers, and any other professional group in the community interested in this type of educational insight.

Provides an internet-based search engine to locate mental health counseling providers in their area.

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 a HelpLine staffed by trained volunteers. Provides information, referral, and support to all who have questions about or are affected by serious mental illness.

Activity-based educational group that teaches teens about mental health, self-awareness, positive coping strategies, values, and character building.

Resolves complaints of alleged rights violations brought against providers of community mental health services. Serves as the third party in dispute resolution. Also provides assistance to individuals and agencies regarding ADA and other disability issues.

PATH stands for Projects for Assistance in Transition from Homelessness and provides assistance to individuals who are homeless and have serious mental illness. Offers mental health services and follow-up case management for people who are on the streets or in homeless shelters. Services include crisis assessment with a psychiatrist, nurse and case manager who identify persons in need of assistance and offer psychiatric evaluation, stabilization, treatment, limited medical care and follow-up case management.

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.

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.