Our Continuum of Care

SCHOOL BASED EDUCATION SERVICES

Locations: Findlay

FRC Prevention Educators are at work in nearly every school in the communities we serve, providing group or one-on-one service directly in school, meeting students where they are. These services focus on interventions and strategies for managing anger, grief/loss, ADHD symptoms, foster care issues, divorce issues, trust, social skills, anxiety, problem-solving, team building, empowerment, and other needs as identified. If you are interested in learning more about these services, please reach out to our call center or your local school counselor or principal to see what is offered at your school.

MORAL RECONATION THERAPY

Locations: All

MRT is an evidence-based cognitive behavior group designed to foster moral development in treatment-resistant clients. The program is designed to alter how clients think and make judgments about what is right and wrong through structured exercises. This service is provided to youth who are between 14 and 18 years old.

CHALLENGE

Locations: Findlay

The Challenge Program focuses on building awareness and knowledge of the nature and extent of alcohol and other drug use, abuse, and addiction. This program also helps educate participants on the effects those substances have on individuals, families, and communities. The Challenge Program is for youths and young adults who have violated an alcohol and/or other drug law or policy in the community, at school, in athletics, or within the boundaries of home.

Triple P Classes

Locations: Findlay

The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program ® is a parenting and family support system designed to prevent – as well as treat – behavioral and emotional problems in children and teenagers. It aims to prevent problems in the family, school, and community before they arise and to create family environments that encourage children to realize their potential.

outpatient Services

Locations: All

Family Resource Center’s comprehensive outpatient services are centered around a treatment program designed specifically for each client. Our professional, licensed therapists work one-on-one with each client to impart skills and strategies to cope with life’s challenges. Treatment can range from short-term counseling to long-term treatment plans, and can be customized for youth, adults, or families who struggle with stress, anxiety, depression, family issues, suicidal thoughts or actions, substance abuse, and many other behavioral health conditions.

Outpatient services are also available in person at our Findlay and Lima locations, or via Telehealth. Clients utilizing Telehealth get the benefits of one-on-one therapy with the added convenience and privacy of doing so where it’s convenient, often at home. Telehealth is often the preferred method of therapy for clients living with challenges leaving home or interacting with others, due to physical limitations or social anxiety disorders. Clients are also welcome to attend telehealth appointments using one of the state-of-the-art telehealth rooms available at our locations in Findlay and Lima.

Case Management

Locations: All

Family Resource Center’s professional case managers are specially trained to assist clients in achieving their recovery goals by reinforcing the skills learned in therapy, and by helping clients navigate the community’s system of care. FRC Case Managers work with clients to connect them with community resources to help remove obstacles to recovery, such as medical, dental, transportation, and nutritional challenges.

Transitional AGE Youth

Locations: All

Family Resource Center offers additional services for active and eligible clients developed specifically to support youth between the ages of 14 and 25. These supportive services are provided by our Transitional Youth Specialists. Services are customized for each client and may be focused on skill development regarding financial literacy, virtual career shadowing, or simply managing the stressors of daily life. This opportunity to focus on areas of personal growth and development is aimed at improving self-confidence and developing meaningful social connections to improve their lives.

DIAGNOSTIC ASSESSMENT

Locations: All

The Diagnostic Assessment (DA) is the first step toward receiving care. The DA is a face-to-face discussion and evaluation of a client’s mental health. This conversation will focus on the nature, severity, and impact of behavior difficulties, functional impairment, level of distress, and the client’s personal strengths and resources. The DA is normally conducted during the first appointment or during Open Access times at any FRC location.

INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING

Locations: All

Individual counseling (sometimes called psychotherapy, talk therapy or treatment) are one-on-one counseling sessions delivered by providers with strong credentials and clinical expertise in all areas of behavioral health. Behavioral health counseling and therapy services consist of a series of time limited, structured sessions that work towards reaching your defined goals. Anyone who wants to improve their daily life can benefit from individual counseling.

PSYCHIATRIC SERVICES

Locations: All

Psychiatry is a branch of medicine that focuses on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioral disorders. A psychiatrist is a medical doctor (M.D. or D.O.) who specializes in mental health, including substance use disorders. A psychiatrist is qualified to assess mental and physical aspects of psychological problems. Psychologists are able to identify and treat a variety of concerns, from panic attacks, frightening hallucinations, thoughts of suicide, or hearing voices. Problems may also include feelings of sadness, hopelessness, or anxiousness that never seem to lift, and problems functioning in daily life. Psychiatric services are available for both youths and adults, with referrals typically made by a counselor, physician or other healthcare provider. Each FRC location provides telemedicine services, and at some offices there may be opportunities for face-to-face psychiatric services. Telemedicine is provided by a psychiatric nurse practitioner who is under the supervision of a psychiatrist.

SCHOOL BASED COUNSELING SERVICES (YOUTH)

Locations: All

We have counselors located at many schools in Hancock and Allen counties. These counselors can provide group or one-on-one service directly at schools, meeting students where they are. These services focus on interventions and strategies for managing anger, grief/loss, ADHD symptoms, foster care issues, divorce issues, trust, social skills, anxiety, parenting, problem-solving, team building, empowerment, and other needs as identified. If you are interested in learning more about these services, please reach out to our call center or your local school counselor or principal to see what is offered at your school.

Community Supportive Group Services

Locations: All

Behavior health counseling and CPST groups are services provided to clients with similar mental health issues. Groups are structured and time-limited with a focus on specific behavioral health issues. These groups focus on interventions and strategies in managing anger, grief/loss, ADHD symptoms, sex offending issues, sexual abuse issues, foster care issues, divorce issues, trust, social skills, anxiety, parenting, problem solving, team building, empowerment, and other needs as identified.

Adventure Therapy:

Adventure Therapy allows children to actively participate in group therapy that includes the use of cooperative games, problem solving initiatives and adventure activities guided by the treatment team. During these activities, kids experience immediate and concrete consequences of their own behavior, which are processed and discussed with their counselors but also with the group, to promote learning and positive change. Combining adventure activities with intentional processing and reflection of their experiences helps children reach their treatment goals.

Community Psychiatric Supportive Treatment (CPST):

Community Psychiatric Supportive Treatment is a rehabilitative group service intended to enhance community support for children, youth, and adults. The goal of this services is the maximize the reduction of symptoms of mental illness completing individual services focused on assisting the client to succeed in the community; to identify and access needed services; and to help clients show improvement in school, work, family, and in the integration into the community.

Mental Health Crisis Intervention

Locations: All

Mental Health Crisis Intervention services focus on responding to emergent situations through assessment, immediate stabilization, and determination of level of care needed. The goal of is program is to provide crisis intervention services during normal agency hours as well as through the community hospitals, crisis centers, and criminal justice facilities after normal agency hours. Our specialists work to coordinate discharge planning and mental health services for clients leaving psychiatric inpatient settings.

ASSERTIVE COMMUNITY TREATMENT (ACT)

Locations: Findlay

Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is a multidisciplinary team approach that builds caring, consistent personal relationships between you and a group of caregivers. As one of the oldest and most researched evidence-based practices in behavioral healthcare, this team approach is shown to reduce hospitalization, increase housing stability and improve the quality of life for those with severe and persistent mental illness.

Play Therapy

Locations: All

Play Therapy is a service provided for youth up to the age of ten years old and their families. This program focuses on building health parent-child attachment and behavior coping strategies. WE work to promote awareness and improve parental understanding regarding the quality of family attachment and its correlation to the development of the social and emotional well-being of their children.

Problematic Sexual Behavior

Locations: Lima

Problematic Sexual Behavior services aim to assist youth ages thirteen to eighteen who have engaged in sexually abusive behaviors towards another youth, both adjudicated and non-adjudicated. This program uses empirically driven adolescent sex offender treatment such as: relapse prevention, structural family interventions, psycho-education, and behavioral and cognitive skills training.

EARLY CHILDHOOD MENTAL HEALTH CONSULTATION

Locations: All

Early Childhood Mental Health (ECMH) services provide support to teachers, classrooms, centers and families to ensure children succeed in early learning environments, and are designed to support children from birth to six years old as well as their families and early care professionals. ECMH also provides early identification, observation and feedback in addition to referral and community support.

WRAPAROUND

Locations: Findlay

The Wraparound model is an unconditional commitment to create services on a one-youth-at-a-time basis to support normalized and inclusive options for youths with complex needs and their families. This model is based on individualized, needs-driven planning and services. Youths and adolescents between 5 and 18 with significant impairment of their ability to perform in the family, in school and in the community and are identified as multi-need and high risk, with substantial risk of being removed from their natural home environment, and who have not responded to traditional community services are considered for this service.

Medicated Assisted Treatment

Locations: Findlay

Medicated Assisted Treatment (MAT) is the use of medications in combination with counseling and other treatments to provide a whole-patient approach to the treatment of substance use disorders. Research shows that a combination of medication and therapy can successfully treat those disorders, and for someone struggling with addiction, MAT can help sustain recovery. MAT is primarily for the treatment of addiction to opioids such as heroin and prescription pain relievers that contain opiates. The prescribed medication operates to normalize brain chemistry, block the euphoric effects of alcohol and opioids, relieve physiological cravings, and normalize body functions without the negative effects of the abused drug. Those who are struggling with substance use dependence disorders can benefit from this treatment and may be referred by a client’s treatment team. Hancock County offers Suboxone and Vivitrol MAT. FRC requires each individual to be engaged and maintain treatment to receive MAT.

Day Treatment

Locations: All

The Day Treatment program offers person-centered, culturally and linguistically appropriate comprehensive, coordinated and structured treatment services and activities. These services are delivered by a diverse team to offer treatment in at lease three of the following areas: individual counseling, family counseling, group counseling, education services, occupational therapy, or other appropriate therapy services.

INTENSIVE HOME-BASED SERVICES

Locations: All

Intensive Home-Based treatment aims to help families in their own home. These services help you and your family find insight and treatment for problems related to emotional/behavioral disorders and/or substance use. These services aim to prevent unnecessary out-of-home placements. This service is for youths and families at substantial risk of out-of-home placement because of severe emotional/behavior disorders and/or substance use problems.

HOME COACHING

Locations: Findlay

Home Coaching brings FRC services directly to you. The Home Coach works as part of a team and partners with community systems to assist families by providing outreach, information, education, referrals, advocacy services and coordinates family support systems.

Peer Support

Locations: All

Talking with someone who has “been there” can make it easier to open up, feel less alone, and see that change is possible. Peer support means getting help from someone who has been through similar challenges and understands what you’re going through. At Family Resource Center, our Peer Support Specialists share their own stories of recovery to give hope, encouragement, and practical advice. Peer support can be an incredibly useful part of each client’s customized treatment plan.

FOCUS

Locations: Findlay

FOCUS is a recovery community organization offering free support and resources to anyone impacted by mental health, addiction, or trauma issues. They provide a warm, welcoming space for people to learn skills, meet new people, and engage in their recovery. FOCUS connects people to other community resources when they are needed, provides education to the community, and organizes recovery events. They can support you and your family on your journey of recovery from mental health problems, addiction, problem gambling, or trauma issues.

FOCUS is not an FRC service but is a community partner. If you are interested in hearing more about the FOCUS programs available, please visit their website.