Offers education support assistance, access to community resources, financial management sessions, mentorship, and substance abuse prevention support.

Help Me Grow Home Visiting is Ohio's program for expectant parents, newborns, infants and toddlers. The program provides health and developmental services so that children start school healthy and ready to learn. Help Me Grow works with parents to support young children's development. Home Visitors provide on-going home visits in the home; focus on improving prenatal health habits and infant care giving skills; provide information on child's health, growth, education and development through the Parents As Teachers program; provide screenings for health, hearing, vision and development; connect families with community resources and services. Affiliated with the evidence-based home visiting model Parents As Teachers. Services include - Developmental Screening - Information on parenting tips - Assistance in developing and reaching family goals - Home Visits to help each child stay "on the road" to healthy growth and development - Service Coordination - professional nurses, teachers, or other qualified staff who share their knowledge about available resources, assist families in connecting with needed services, coordinate services to help families meet their needs and goals. Help Me Grow is - Family-friendly and family centered - Supportive and respectful of each family's needs and preferences - Individualized to meet the needs of each child and family.

Teaches life skills to clients prepare for living independently. Topics of discussion include goals, commitments, jobs, education, money management, and apartment-hunting.

Provides one-on-one financial coaching and counseling, group-based and individual financial education services, group-based and individual job readiness training, soft-skills development, financial education and referrals, and access to public benefits applications.

Offers classes on a variety of topics including budgeting, saving, improving credit, workforce literacy (prejob guidance, life skills, etc.) computer training and preparing for home ownership. One on one counseling in these areas is also available upon request.

Program for male and female youth from age 11 to 18. Working in small groups, youth learn life skills, citizenship, community service and leadership through outdoor experiences, service projects, and earning merit badges in a wide array of topics.

Provides independent living services for ages 17 to 21. Including client assessment, life skills training, apartment placement, ongoing services to youth during placement.

The Connect TEENS program, which stands for Teaching Emotional Empowerment and Navigating Self-Control, supports teens who are living with behavioral or mental health conditions, including those involved with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. We also provide tools and guidance for families to ensure they have the support they need at home to learn and grow. For many teens, completing daily tasks, such as going to school, managing relationships, or planning for the future can be overwhelming when anxiety, mood disorders, or other symptoms are present. Connect TEENS bridges that gap by creating a structured, supportive environment where teens build critical skills at their own pace. By targeting the heart of behavioral health needs, emotional regulation, and self-management, we empower them to grow in confidence, independence, and resilience.

Provides assistance to new and expectant parents to help them attain items needed for babies and/or children under the age of 2 such as cribs, car seats, pack-n-plays, strollers, diapers, wipes and other baby care essentials. Offers life skills education for new parents and mentoring programs.

Provides teens with life-onlife mentoring relationships with caring adults through life skills classes, social activities, tutoring, and community service opportunities.

Provides guidance to help develop the skills needed to live independently. Program teaches life skills, job readiness (how to make a resume, interviewing techniques), dealing with anger, and how to break the cycle of abusive relationships. Also offers counseling and information to this who want to start their own business. Offered in group and one-on-one settings.

An initiative to improve access to treatment and support services for youth and young adults ages 16-25 with a serious emotional disturbance (SED) or a serious mental illness (SMI). These services try to: Foster a partnership of providers who can empower youth and young adults to achieve their goals; Improve life outcomes for youth and young adults by eliminating barrier to accessing and participating in services; Increase functioning and capacity to complete activities of daily living.

Provides disability outreach and support services for families directly affected by disabilities. Services include health education and life skills programs, parent support, links to health and other resources, referrals, and mentoring.

Provides a personal life coach for members of the plan who work to address needs beyond physical health, such as preparing for, training for, and searching for employment, budgeting and finances, education or training opportunities. Coaches can also link members to services and supports for housing, food assistance, and transportation.

The Connect TEENS program, which stands for Teaching Emotional Empowerment and Navigating Self-Control, supports teens who are living with behavioral or mental health conditions, including those involved with the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. We also provide tools and guidance for families to ensure they have the support they need at home to learn and grow. For many teens, completing daily tasks, such as going to school, managing relationships, or planning for the future can be overwhelming when anxiety, mood disorders, or other symptoms are present. Connect TEENS bridges that gap by creating a structured, supportive environment where teens build critical skills at their own pace. By targeting the heart of behavioral health needs, emotional regulation, and self-management, we empower them to grow in confidence, independence, and resilience.

Provide services to youth aging out of central Ohio foster care, including mentoring, independent living skills, and help with transportation, where available. Some resources for housing may also be available.

Provides workshops designed to develop life skills needed to decrease infant mortality, reduce stress, accomplish goals, and make health life choices.

Offers a four-week job readiness training, career counseling, life skills and personal development to assist fathers who are unemployed or underemployed. Job placement assistance available upon successful completion of the program.

Supports families after initial crisis is over. The Counseling Program provides youth and families with a counselor who will work with families to help them find common ground and make long term changes. Also provides community based and family centered services that meet with youth at home, in school or at another mental health facility.

Temporary living environment where treatment and support services can begin. Six beds; not a crisis unit; length of stay two weeks, up to one month. For persons with mental health problems who are homeless or are in danger of becoming homeless, or need to acquire skills and access to resources to achieve independent living.

Provides customized, assessment-based vocational and transitional services with a focus on each student’s interests, abilities, independent living skills, and personal goals. Program creates opportunities for students to gain valuable work and life experience through employment experiences, exploring career options, volunteer service, and other types of community engagement. Provides curriculum based and hands-on training along with work experience, guest speakers, peer mentors, workplace wellness, and acquiring job search skills.

Offers two coaching program focusing on life skills, service, leadership, and education. One program (From Me 2 U) is for high school aged youth and is offered in four formats: community-based, school-based, and residential. During Summer, the program partners with Youth Opportunities Unlimited, to add a workforce component. School-based learning allows participants to incorporate classroom skills into a safe community environment while developing team-building skills. Participants gain skills to help them identify as community members while fostering independence. Residential is designed to replace risky behaviors and activities with positive protective factors by improving decision-making and critical thinking skills, increasing engagement in drug-free activities, increasing participant's network of positive peer supports, and developing community awareness about prevention efforts. The other program (Becoming Me ) is for young adults in college and offers life coaching and internships.

Provides a workshop series designed to reduce subsequent pregnancies while increasing goal accomplishment, character development and academic success. Topics include coaching, budgeting/financial literacy, stress and time management and much more.

Temporary living environment where treatment and support services can begin. Six beds; not a crisis unit; length of stay two weeks, up to one month. For persons with mental health problems who are homeless or are in danger of becoming homeless, or need to acquire skills and access to resources to achieve independent living.

Provides classes on day to day living. Topics cover issues such as budgeting, money management, nutrition, job hunting, paying bills, filling out paperwork, parenting etc. Also provides classes to help participants find employment. Classes cover topics such as: problem solving, empathy, respect, decision making, active listening, conflict resolution, job searching, proper attire, interview skills, writing resumes and cover letters etc.