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 community educational programs to civic groups and other organizations. Topics are related to parenting issues, issues of mental health and general wellness, and issues of child care.

Offers a variety of educational workshops including heart health, preventing stroke, diabetes information, mental health, parenting, and others.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.