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

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

Promotes the health and well-being of the community through a continuum of mental health services. Responsible for planning, funding, and monitoring mental health services in Lorain County. Funds mental health agencies so that Lorain County residents can access mental health services regardless of ability to pay. Note: Does not provide direct services to consumers.

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.

Program provides a highly supportive environment, utilizing multiple therapuetic interventions to promote increased mental health stabilization, harm reduction, and individual responsibility for self and actions.

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.

Offers peer lead art classes for people who want to learn or perfect their skills and techniques in a variety of visual art forms or crafts.

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.

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.

Offers mutual support groups whose members are individuals who had difficulty dealing with the pressures of everyday life and were living with unresolved emotional issues such as depression, anger, broken or strained relationships, low self-esteem, fear, anxiety, resentment, jealousy, guilt, boredom, loneliness, or other destructive feelings. Provides a structured atmosphere in which participants can share their experience, strengths, hopes, and recovery. Provides local community meetings held throughout Northeast Ohio as well as online chat, virtual, and telephone support group meeting options.

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.

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

Provides individual and group counseling to help children and adults cope with illness, stress, and disabilities. Evaluations including psychological and behavioral testing are also available.

Counseling provided at no cost through VOCA counseling program. Provides counseling for individuals, regardless of age, who were victimized by any crime.