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Conducts child development research and offers publications related to child development, child development research, parenting, and education.

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.

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 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.

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

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

Provides a resource center that supports resilience by connecting service members, veterans, their families, health care providers and others with information and resources about Psychological Health and Traumatic Brain Injuries.

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 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 speakers who can discuss a variety of behavioral health topics including different types of mental illnesses, alcohol, drug and other addictions, mental health and the elderly, living with mental illness or addiction, Medicaid, the role of the board. for community agencies and groups who wish to learn about Board-funded mental health, alcohol and other addiction services and treatment available in the County.

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.

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.

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.

Offers individual and family counseling, marital and couples counseling, anger management, and parenting groups to help those experiencing a wide range of life problems. Provides community based programming including case management, Adolescent Suicide Prevention Programming (ASPP), Parent Education Empowerment Resources and Support (PEERS), and Strengthening Families programming.

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

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

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

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

Provides outpatient treatment options for people struggling with substance use and mental health disorders (dual diagnosis). They offer programming consisting of PHP, IOP, OP and aftercare services. Licensed counselors meet with clients for individual counseling and group counseling. Case managers meet with clients to assist them with external needs and goals such as housing, food, life skills, employment, etc. Eligible clients can apply for Responsible Living Housing options.