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Ocean Mental Health Services
Since 1959, Ocean Mental Health Services has been providing counseling to the residents of Ocean County. What was once a single office and two counselors has grown to an agency of over 300 staff, with four outpatient offices, a school, several partial day program locations and many outreach and community programs.
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Services Offered
Outpatient Services The Outpatient Department offers a full spectrum of mental health services for adults, teens, and children including: * Solution Focused Brief Individual, Family and Couples Therapy * Psychiatric Evaluation * Medication Monitoring, Education and Counseling * Group Therapy * Case Management
Treatment Services are provided by clinicians from a variety of disciplines including Psychiatrists, Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists, Addiction Counseling, Advanced Practice Nurses, Licensed Practical Nurses
INTENSIVE FAMILY SUPPORT SERVICES At Ocean Mental Health Services we understand the importance of Family Support-as well as the anxieties and insecurities that can accompany that role. IFSS offers individual/family consultations, family support groups, and psycho-educational programs at no cost to families enrolled in this program.
Child And Family
OUTPATIENT SERVICES Sometimes children and families need mental health services. Through OceanMHS Outpatient programs children and families can meet one on one with a therapist trained in working with youth.
BAYSIDE Special programs address special needs. Bayside is a partial day program that helps youth between the ages of 11 and 17 years old address their emotional and behavioral needs with education, counseling and support. This program prevents unnecessary hospitalizations, or effectively transitions a youth from hospitalization to successful home living.
DCP&P INVOLVED FAMILIES THREE PROGRAMS Child, Adolescent, and Family Services (CAFS): CAFS therapist work with families, oftentimes in their homes, or in other locations throughout the County, as needed. They provide individual therapy and family therapy. By meeting with families in the home, they can constructively work to help families identify and change negative behaviors and create a positive, proactive alternative in the environments where families live, interact, and communicate most often.
Family Focus: Family Focus provides intensive therapy to families at our Toms River office. Both individual and family therapies are used to maintain the youth in the home environment. If that is not possible, Family Focus may work towards helping the youth adjust to an out of home placement while continuing to work towards reunification with the family.
DIRECTIONS The Directions Program offers comprehensive mental health assessment and counseling services to court involved males and female juveniles and their families who have been referred by the Multi-Disciplinary Team (MDT). Interventions used are individual in-home family counseling, psychiatric evaluations, psychological evaluations, and mentoring services.
TURNAROUND Turnaround is a concentrated service to effectively combat substance abuse in the target population of adolescents twelve through seventeen years old. It is a unique treatment concept that involves group dynamics and skills training for both the adolescent and his/her family. KEEPING FAMILIES TOGETHER Keeping Families Together is a long-term program aimed to assist DCPP involved families challenged with homelessness/housing instability putting children at risk for out-of-home placement or delaying reunification. The goal of our program is to assist families in achieving housing stability, greater family functioning, child well-being, community integration, work readiness, peer support, mental health and substance abuse services, socialization, access to other resources, and other skills and opportunities that foster increased self-sufficiency. OCEAN ACADEMY Ocean Academy is a therapeutic school that offers educational services to students diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. As part of Ocean Mental Health Services, we work cooperatively with students and their families to provide support and services.
Substance Abuse Services
Project Recovery Day/Project Recovery Evening is for those people that need to address a substance abuse issue along with emotional and mental health struggles.
Crisis Services
OCEAN-CREST Ocean-CREST provides rapid access to short-term, recovery oriented crisis intervention and stabilization services for adults with a mental health crisis. We help people as they navigate their crisis situation and plan for their ongoing mental health needs.
CRISIS DIVERSION Crisis Diversion Services are available to help people with mental illness to navigate these difficult times. As an intensive case management program Crisis Diversion is designed to reduce unnecessary psychiatric hospitalizations by helping people identify and prioritize goals, providing the support and linkages to benefits and services people need to stay in their own environment and in the community, and navigating the mental health system. JAIL DIVERSION SERVICES Some people who have repeated involvement with police are actually suffering with an undiagnosed or untreated mental illness. Jail Diversion Services are available to help link people to treatment programs, support services and mainstream benefits. The goal is to address each person's mental illness so they can maintain their quality of life and avoid future unnecessary involvement with the legal system.
Fees and Payment
OMHS accepts many third party insurance companies, Medicare, and Medicaid. We also provide assistance for those who have financial difficulties.
This is a nonprofit organization.
Services Offered To: Adults Teens
Special Groups: Bilingual
Payment: Sliding Scale Medicare Medicaid
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.
