Meet Mary, a 63-year old woman with significant mental health concerns as well as hypertension, diabetes, and coronary artery disease who was referred to Mental Health Access Point’s (MHAP) Keys to Health program due to multiple emergency room (ER) and inpatient admissions. Mary has been working diligently with the Keys to Health staff for a year and a half.
Meet Carol…
Carol was raised by parents who had little experience with children. In addition, she experienced much emotional trauma and did not learn coping skills from her parents to effectively deal with what was happening around her. Carol’s way to cope was to drink and this began at the young age of nine.
In the News
Addiction recovery for women: Alternative intervention has good success rate
CINCINNATI (WKRC) – A local woman said she struggled for years with addiction until she found a program that targeted to her own needs.
It is a program for women only, that is available through Central Behavioral Health in the community. It has one of the highest success rates in the country.
CDC Behavioral Health Services
The Family Healing Center staff will begin a new training designed to help people with stressful jobs and lives learn how to deal with stress and take better care of themselves.
Child & Family Treatment Center
Connections for Life (CFL) has a new home! CFL, partially supported by United Way, is a formal collaborative that serves young children, birth to age five, who have experienced chronic and complex trauma. We partner with Cincinnati Occupational Therapy Institute and the Hearing Speech & Deaf Center of Greater Cincinnati to provide an integrative treatment approach including mental health, occupational therapy and speech therapy. CFL’s primary goal is to remediate the effect chronic trauma has on children’s development – ultimately better positioning them to be successful in kindergarten.
Tea, Talk & Learn
Central Clinic Behavioral Health’s Foundation Board hosted the 2nd Annual Tea, Talk & Learn on May 16th at the Queen City Club in Cincinnati. Dr. Walter Smitson, President/CEO provided a warm welcome to everyone on behalf of Central Clinic Behavioral Health’s staff and Board of Directors.
