Get Help: Adult Substance Use and/or Gambling Disorder 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.

Call 330-940-1133 for this local addiction helpline that is available 24/7/365. The Addiction helpline is available for all-ages support.

The ADM Crisis Center offers a 24-hour walk-in detox unit for substance use and detoxification services. Operated by Oriana House with funding from the ADM Board, the drop-in center is for adult Summit County residents.

Akron UMADAOP provides case management, intensive outpatient treatment programs, group counseling, individual counseling, assessments, and after/continuing care services. It uses a holistic approach to substance use with an emphasis on African Americans and other minorities.

Akron UMADAOP also offers youth-led prevention programs that promote healthy lifestyle choices, free of substance use.

ARC Recovery Services provide support for individuals with substance use disorder. ARC focuses on teaching spiritual, emotional, and mental tools necessary for recovery, including recovery housing. ARC offers recovery housing, intensive outpatient treatment, individual counseling, case management, and peer support.

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.

From residential treatment to outpatient counseling, CHC offers a variety of treatment options with a focus on comprehensive addiction prevention, treatment, and recovery services.

CHC prioritizes individual and family support, and it also offers a women’s recovery program, adult counseling, and MAT.

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.

Oriana House’s Frederick Avenue Apartments in Akron offer a secure, 24/7 staffed, and furnished sober housing environment for adult Summit County residents in early recovery, emphasizing sobriety and independent living while providing essential resources and programming.

Freedom House for Women, Inc., provides services that promote employment skills, sober living, education, economic security, and self-sufficiency. Freedom House offers support to help with substance use disorder and homelessness, providing treatment, recovery housing, and supportive 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.

IBH offers programs for drug and alcohol use disorders, addiction treatment, and recovery services. Services include outpatient programs, residential programs, day treatment, aftercare/REACH program, and recovery housing. Programming emphasizes personalized care for those struggling with substance use disorders as well as those with co-occurring mental health disorders.

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.

Oriana House offers programs that include personalized treatment plans to address substance use disorder and mental wellness, programs that offer an alternative to jail/prison providing substance use treatment, and services designed to support those involved in the criminal justice system as they reintegrate into the community. Oriana House also hosts the ADM Crisis Center (detox), which is a 24/7 walk-in service.

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.

Summit County Community Partnership focuses efforts on preventing alcohol, drug abuse, and problem gambling in Summit County.

Current initiatives include The Deterra Project and the distribution of drug deactivation pouches; working with local schools to raise awareness of underage drinking; offering education on the effects of marijuana on the developing brain as a prevention tool; and providing treatment resources for problem gambling.

Summit County Public Health (SCPH) supports individual harm reduction efforts through Project DAWN (Deaths Avoided with Naloxone) clinics in Summit County. SCPH also offers a safe syringe program for individuals.

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.

Truly Reaching You (TRY) is a relationship-based reentry ministry serving men who have “done their time” and are ready to return to family and community. TRY provides a healthy support system and invaluable employment training for those willing to surrender old lifestyles — and to put in the work needed to gain self-respect and a renewed outlook on life.

Tyler’s Redemption Place offers support to individuals and families facing substance use disorder. A Recovery Community Organization, Tyler’s Redemption Place provides services such as peer coaching, wellness programming, and social connections to support individuals in achieving long-term recovery.

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.