Get Help: Children and Youth Mental Health Support

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 330-434-9144. A local crisis line answered by trained volunteers that is available 24/7/365.

Akron Children’s behavioral health services specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of behavioral disorders affecting children, teens, and their families, including medication management, educational consultation and testing, psychological testing, individual therapy, and family counseling.

Alliance for Healthy Youth is dedicated to empowering youth to make healthy lifestyle choices through education and support from parents, families, schools, and communities. By conducting curriculum and youth-led programs in school classrooms, Alliance for Healthy Youth equips youth with the skills necessary to enhance health and wellness. The organization addresses mental health and wellbeing, drug use prevention, violence reduction, and sexual health, fostering a supportive environment where youth can thrive and make positive decisions.

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.

Bellefaire JCB provides outpatient counseling, school-based counseling, prevention and early intervention, homeless and missing youth programming, and residential treatment services to youth and their families.  

Bellefaire JCB offers a variety of programs and services for youth and their loved ones that focus co-occurring substance use and mental health diagnosis. Bellefaire offers residential alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment.

CGFS serves children, teens, adults, and families with mental health concerns, offering specialty services in areas including anxiety, depression, trauma, family counseling, early childhood education, crisis intervention, sexual behavior problems, early treatment of psychosis, and refugee adjustment.

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.

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.

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.   

Shelter Care helps children ages 6 to 18 who are facing emotional or family challenges. They offer different types of housing and support such as short-term crisis help, intermediate care, and long-term assistance for youth learning to live on their own.

Children and youth may come to Shelter Care through referrals from their families, the child welfare system, or mental health services. Shelter Care offers youth a safe place to live, clothes, food, counseling, education, and other services to support children and youth.

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.

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.