Get Help: Adult Mental Health Resources

This federal initiative provides real-time crisis support to anyone who may need it. Answered by trained staff here in Summit County, 988 is available 24/7/365.

Asian Services in Action, Inc. (ASIA) supports Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, immigrants, and refugees. ASIA offers after-school and summer prevention programs, mental health outreach in Limited English Proficiency communities, and gun safety education.

Asian Services in Action (ASIA) is the largest health and human services agency in Northeast Ohio, specializing in linguistically and culturally competent care for the Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) community, with a mission to improve the quality of life for Asians in the region through comprehensive health and social services.

The Blick Center offers a comprehensive range of clinical outpatient, residential, day program services, and support. A special focus is applied to those facing developmental disabilities and older adults. Blick now specializes in mental health and substance use disorders treatment for older adults and is certified by Ohio Mental Health and Addiction Services and the Ohio Department of Developmental Disabilities.

Catholic Charities serves as a comprehensive health and human services organization in Northeast Ohio, offering programs ranging from Adult Day Services to Recovery Services. Services cater to individuals of all faiths and backgrounds, supporting people at various stages of life with evidence-based programs like the Active Parenting Program, outpatient substance use disorder and mental health services, providing vital support to those needing assistance with substance use disorders, including intensive outpatient counseling, family support, pregnancy/postpartum care, and recovery coach services. Peer support resources are also available.

CHC offers a trauma-informed approach and wrap-around services, including dual-diagnosis treatment, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, and gambling disorder treatment. Additionally, CHC offers case management and psychiatry services to those who need them.                                                           

Choices provides support, activities, and resources to individuals living with mental health disorders. Choices is a certified Ohio Peer Run Organization.

Coleman provides both substance use disorder support as well as mental health resources to individuals and families in need. Coleman Health Services uses a combination of interventions to address substance use disorder in adults, including assessment, individual and group counseling, case management, and MAT. Coleman’s addiction program is modular and uses a variety of approaches to meet individual’s needs.

Children and youth with addiction needs are treated with a care plan tailored to their individual needs. Coleman also offers its Mobile Response and Stabilization Services (MRSS), which provides support when there is a family-identified youth crisis.   

Additionally, Coleman provides a range of services for families and individuals in need of mental health resources, including case management, diagnostic assessments, counseling, crisis mobile response, and medical support.

For professionals, Coleman provides Mental Health First Aid training, giving participants the tools to identify the signs, symptoms, and risk factors of mental health and substance use disorders.

A Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC), CSS provides comprehensive, coordinated care for those with mental health and substance use disorders, regardless of their ability to pay, place of residence, or age. CSS emphasizes recovery, wellness, trauma-informed care, and physical-behavioral health integration. Programs include art therapy, psychiatry, and older adult services.

Greenleaf provides treatment designed to gain insight into addiction issues and to help find healthy ways to treat addiction disorders, offering alcohol and other drug treatment (AoD) outpatient group services, aftercare for those who have completed treatment/recovery programs, and individual counseling.

Greenleaf also supports families by offering counseling, education, and support services, including focuses on areas such as relationship issues, marital problems, substance use disorders, and school emotional and behavioral concerns.      

Additional services include family counseling; group counseling; anger management; LGBTQIA+ support; grief, hoarding, and related disorders support; trauma/PTSD-focused counseling, and parenting resources and support.

Legacy III provides supportive housing services to homeless women in Summit County who are in recovery from chronic substance abuse, mental health disorders, or physical disabilities.

Minority Behavioral Health Group uses a cognitive model grounded in African philosophy and an African-centered worldview. Minority Behavioral Health Group offers individual, family, and group counseling; mental health assessments; and medical referrals with a focus on African Americans and other minority groups.

North Coast Community Homes offers safe, high-quality housing for individuals living with developmental disabilities and mental health disorders.

OhioGuidestone offers a variety of adult mental health services, including those addressing maternal depression, outpatient mental health services, assertive community treatment, adult psychiatry services, and programs for older adults. Additionally, OhioGuidestone provides individual and family counseling and case management to youth who have substance use concerns; treatment services for youth with co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders, including urine screens and other services as clinically indicated, are also provided.

Portage Path Behavioral Health provides support groups, which are available to the public, including Alcoholics Anonymous and Dual Recovery Anonymous. Portage Path’s substance use disorder support services also include case management, MAT, and outpatient substance use disorder treatment.

Additionally, Portage Path provides treatment groups, dual diagnosis support, case management, individual therapy, telehealth, and psychiatry services for adults, and it also offers emergency services through PES in partnership with the ADM Board.

Crisis Helpline: 330-762-6110. Address: ADM Crisis Center, 10 Penfield Avenue, Akron. A 24/7 location designed to help manage psychiatric crises through emergency evaluation and treatment, a crisis stabilization unit, a 24/7/365 hotline, probate services, and community partnerships. Thai emergency service is provided through a partnership with Portage Path Behavioral Health and the ADM Board.

A community mental health center, Red Oak provides a range of services for families; areas addressed include concentration ADHD, conduct and behavior challenges, depression, family conflicts, poor self-esteem, anger management, and grief and loss.   

Summit Psychological Associates, Inc. (SPA) is a private agency that helps individuals, couples, families, and organizations with their behavioral health needs. They provide various services including general psychiatry, medication assisted opioid treatment, and mental health care at the Summit County Jail. Accredited by CARF and certified by OhioMHAS, SPA offers a range of treatments for adults and adolescents, including education, motivation, therapy, and skill-building.

Staff at Summit Psychological Associates uses a wide range of clinical approaches, including cognitive behavioral therapy, dBT, and motivational interviewing to assist clients. Summit Psychological Associates offers case management and outpatient services focused on adult mental health and wellbeing.   

The Summit Recovery Hub Recovery Community Organization (RCO) is a peer-run organization that serves individuals who are affected by substance use and mental health disorders. Offering a diverse calendar of meetings and support resources, Summit Recovery Hub RCO offers a welcoming and inclusive drop-in environment.

Summit Recovery Hub RCO is open to anyone needing support and aims to provide programming that meets diverse needs, regardless of race, sexual identity, spiritual background, or recovery pathway.

The Tarry House provides services to adult men and women residing in Summit County who have severe mental illness. Services are provided based on person-centered goals set in their Individual Recovery Service Plan. Tarry House believes all people have the right to be independent and autonomous. It is our privilege and responsibility to provide the best services possible to prepare people for an independent and quality life in the community. We provide quality client-driven, family-supported and evidenced based residential recovery services.

Urban Ounce of Prevention Behavioral Health Services provides culturally sensitive services to adults and youth, including programs specifically designed to address women’s, men’s, youth’s, and families’ specific needs.

Urban Ounce’s programs include outpatient substance use disorder treatment programs for men and women, respectively. It also offers programs focused on reuniting families when children have been separated from their parents and are placed in custodial care as well as mental health treatment programs that serve both men and women.

Urban Ounce offers after-school programs for youth to help them learn skills such as effective communication, conflict resolution, anger management, and goal setting.

Call 988, then press 1, or text 838255. This resource is for veterans and their loved ones; you don’t have to be enrolled in VA benefits or health care to connect.                                         

Victim Assistance Program provides 24/7/365 crisis intervention, information, and referrals, to any victim/family of crime or trauma including but not limited to victims of homicide, suicide, overdose, traffic fatality, fire, assault, domestic violence, or natural disaster.

Victim Assistance Program offers free individual crisis intervention via phone, chat, and in person; appointments are not necessary. Additionally, it facilitates group crisis intervention sessions, responds to first responder requests for on-scene response in the aftermath of a victimization or tragedy, and providers an array of services to school in response to a traumatic incident in a school.