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.

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 an array of services to address the mental health needs of individuals who have been diagnosed with severe behavioral health disorders. Programs available at this site include PATH, Homeless Outreach and Criminal Justice Mental Health Courts.

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.

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

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 psychological evaluations and assessments, general counseling services, including individual, family and groups, medications assessment and management and case management services. Transportation services for clients may also be available for clients with case managers. Also provides psychiatric medication services, including monitoring. Counseling specializes in depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, insomnia, PTSD, bipolar disorder, schizo-affective disorder, mood disorder, antisocial personality disorder and obsessive compulsive disorder.

Maintains information about community resources that are appropriate for individuals dealing with mental health issues. Links individuals who are in need of specialized services with appropriate resources in their community. Please note: This is not a crisis intervention hotline.

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

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

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 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.

Offers a drop-in style youth program that provides connections and structured activities around issues of identity, safe sex and HIV prevention, coping with stress, and health and wellness.

Offers seminars on mental health topics for organizations and groups.

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 large variety of continuing education courses, workshops, seminars, symposia, film presentations with discussion, and public lectures on psychoanalytic theory and practice. Continuing Medical Education (CME) for physicians and Continuing Education Units (CEU) for social workers, counselors and psychologists may be provided.

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.

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.

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 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 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.

Provides presentations on a variety of mental health treatment, employment, residential, and physical health issues.