House of Mercy is a mission based, excellence driven, customer-focused, learning organization that is committed to providing members of the community with needed health, wellness, and human services.House of Mercy offers vital substance-related/addictive disorders treatment and mental health programs to individuals and families that have experienced difficulty in accessing these critical services and supports. Specific services provided by the House of Mercy include: Behavioral Health Intervention Services (BHIS); outpatient mental health counseling (e.g., individual, group, relationship, trauma, and family therapy); addiction counseling services (e.g., substance abuse assessments, primary treatment, relapse prevention education, individual/group counseling, aftercare support, twelve-step meetings, etc.); homeless outreach addiction assessment, education, treatment, and case management services; student assistance assessment and treatment programming; education and employment assistance; and skill development training in such areas as communication, parenting, anger management, and nutrition.
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Services Offered
Residential Addiction Treatment - Participants work with a counselor to develop and implement an individualized treatment plan that collaboratively addresses the issues which brought them to House of Mercy. Programming is holistic in scope, research/best practices-based, gender-specific, and unique in that it allows for mothers to pursue treatment while still residing with their children. Keeping mothers and their children together or reuniting them after a prolonged absence is important to the healing process. Participants (and their children) have access to: individual and group therapy; 12-step meetings; assertiveness/communication education; trauma education and counseling; mental health counseling; life skills education; smoking education and cessation services; primary medical care (including prenatal care); primary pediatric care (including immunizations); child care; therapeutic interventions to address relationship, sexual and physical abuse issues; gender specific services; urinalysis related to substance abuse services; and, parenting education and skill development sessions.
Child Care Services - Services provided by the Child Development Center are available to any child of a client participating in House of Mercy's transitional housing program. Teachers provide a non-biased, multi-cultural, developmentally appropriate curriculum. Developmental assessments are completed regularly on all of the children in support of their individual learning plans. Children are offered experiences designed to promote positive self-concept, social skills, critical thinking/problem solving, language development, physical development, and creative expression. Child Development Center staff also work with mothers to assist them in enhancing their existing skills and developing new, more effective parenting approaches. Parenting education is age specific and complimented by a structure that focuses on assisting mothers in the development of the skills they require to interact appropriately with their children.
Outpatient Substance Abuse Services - services are available to: any individual (regardless of age or gender) who is in need of support to establish and maintain a recovery program. All participants work with an addictions counselor to develop and implement an individualized treatment plan. Participants are involved in research based/best practices curriculum in the area of recovery (e.g. education in relapse prevention, early recovery skills, trauma and recovery). They receive individual and group therapy; case management services; and, encouraged to develop a support system within the community utilizing the 12-step program. Clients participating in outpatient programming have access to a flexible menu of services including: individual and group counseling; chemical dependency related educational offerings; trauma education and counseling; therapeutic interventions to address relationship, sexual and physical abuse issues; gender specific services; urinalysis related to substance abuse services; parenting classes, and self-sufficiency activities (e.g., education and employment assistance).
Intensive Home-Based Treatment - Counselors and CPST providers who have been trained in Intensive Home-based Treatment work with families experiencing severe difficulties. This evidence-based practice supports families in developing new skills and healthier relationships.
Psychiatry - Although many individuals who receive behavioral health services are treated with counseling or CPST alone, there are some problems which are more effectively treated with a combination of counseling or CPST and psychiatric medication (or with medication as the primary intervention). Severe depression, other mood disorders, many anxiety disorders and thought disorders are examples of these problems. When needed, counselors and CPST providers can discuss the usefulness of an evaluation for psychiatric medication with their clients, and if the client is in agreement, a referral will be made to one of our clinic psychiatrists or Advanced Practice Nurses (APRNs). In severe or complicated cases, the medical practitioner will continue to follow the course of medication. In less complicated cases, when the client's medication is stable, efforts are made to refer the client back to his/her family physician to follow the medication. It is understood, of course, that consultation with or referral back to a clinic psychiatrist is always an option should the client's status change.
Substance Abuse Outpatient Programming for Adults and Children (Varies by Location) - HHC is certified by the Ohio Department of Alcohol and Drug Addiction Services (ODADAS) to provide substance abuse treatment services.
Outpatient Behavioral Health - BHIS are available to children and adults. BHIS are intended to build skills and help reduce symptoms and behaviors that are associated with a diagnosed psychological disorder. BHIS are specifically designed to restore mental health functioning that the individual lost or never achieved because of interference in the normal maturational and learning process due to individual or parental dysfunction. Individuals receiving BHIS begin with a behavioral health assessment, which will determine a diagnosis and recommendation for service. A treatment plan is then established, where goals and objectives are specifically listed and outlined. Individual Interventions are provided through a predictable schedule of formal sessions that are directed at the cognitive and emotional dynamics that influence behavior. Family Interventions enhance the family's ability to effectively interact with the child and support the child's functioning. Crisis Interventions are unscheduled intensive interventions for the purpose of restoring adequate child or family functioning.
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