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ALCOHOL, DRUG ADDICTION, AND MENTAL
HEALTH BOARDS OF OHIO
The Value of Ohio’s Alcohol,
Drug Addiction, and Mental
Health Boards
Providing hope and helping local communities thrive
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LOCAL NEEDS
LOCAL DECISI NS
LOCAL BOARDS
As a voice for many citizens across the state,
Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health
(ADAMH) Boards empower community
action through local partnerships on issues
around mental illness and substance abuse
prevention, treatment, and recovery support
services. For many ADAMH Boards, their
importance rests in the vitality of community
businesses, the homes of many Ohio families,
and even the hallways of our schools. By
working to bring community engagement
to the forefront, Boards are positioned to
create local synergy around issues to solve
local problems and help local communities
thrive. This comprehensive approach to issues
ensures that Boards provide the best alcohol,
drug addiction, and mental health services to
all Ohioans.
Powers and Duties of Local ADAMH Boards
Ohio’s ADAMH Boards are statutorily empowered to establish, to the extent resources are available, a community support system,
which provides for prevention, treatment, support, and rehabilitation services and opportunities. Essential elements of the system
include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Locating persons in need of addiction or mental health services to inform them of available services and benefits;
Assistance for clients to obtain services necessary to meet basic human needs for food, clothing, shelter, medical
care, personal safety, and income;
Addiction and mental health services, including, but not limited to, outpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and, where appropriate, inpatient care;
Emergency services and crisis intervention;
Assistance for clients to obtain vocational services and opportunities for employment;
Provision of services designed to develop social, community, and personal living skills;
Access to a wide range of housing and the provision of residential treatment and supports;
Support, assistance, consultation, and education for families, friends, clients receiving or seeking addiction and/or mental health services, and others;
Recognition and encouragement of families, friends, neighborhood networks (especially networks that include racial and ethnic minorities), churches, community organizations, and community employment as natural supports for clients receiving or seeking addiction and/or mental health services;
Grievance procedures and protection of the rights of clients receiving or seeking addiction and/or mental health services; and case management, which includes continual individualized assistance and advocacy to ensure that needed services are offered and procured.
Through the development of a local system of care, defined by local residents to meet local needs, Boards work to ensure that individuals
with mental illness and/or addiction in communities throughout Ohio receive the services and supports they need to achieve recovery.
Ohio’s ADAMH Boards
Assess
Plan
Collaborate
Law Enforcement
Treatment and
Recovery Providers
Local Communities
Empower
Fund
Education
ADAMH BOARDS
Local Businesses
Monitor
Evaluate
Convene
Other Social Services
Criminal/Juvenile
Justice
Healthcare/Hospitals
Assess Community Needs
Boards assess community needs in
order to set priorities and determine
the types of services, programs, and
facilities necessary to provide an
integrated continuum of care for their
Board area, based on local evaluation
and community input.
Plan for a Unified System
of Care
Collaborate With
Community Partners
Boards plan for a unified system of care
by working with consumers, family
members, providers, and the public to
identify the components necessary to
ensure that high quality, cost effective,
and culturally competent services
are available to meet the needs of the
community.
Boards collaborate with community
housing, schools, child welfare, the
developmental disabilities system,
Job and Family Services, the courts,
law enforcement, and physical
health care, as well as vocational and
employment services to ensure that
they are providing the most effective
prevention, treatment, and recovery
support services to meet the needs of
local residents.
Empowering Consumers
Boards work to ensure that
consumer and family voices are
heard and considered as they
plan for and develop the local
continuum of care. They start by
ensuring their representation on
the local Board, and by providing
other opportunities such as
blogs, websites, focus groups,
consumer forums, etc. to be heard.
By helping consumers have a
voice in the system, treatment
becomes consumer driven, thus
empowering individuals to direct
their own recovery.
Fund and Promote Local
Support
Boards fund and promote local
support through levies, grants,
and partnerships. Ohioans are
committed to the notion of local
control, which is why more
communities willingly approve
levies to support mental illness
and substance abuse prevention,
treatment, and recovery support
services. In addition to the federal,
state, and local funds utilized
for services, Boards also garner
grant funding and community
partnerships to support their local
continuum of care.
Monitor and Ensure
Quality Services
Evaluate Cost
Effectiveness
Convening Local
Partners
ADAMH Boards review and
audit the delivery of services
through programmatic and fiscal
monitoring. As a result, Boards
ensure that public resources are
utilized to provide quality services
in the most effective manner to
serve as many citizens as possible,
while meeting locally identified
needs.
Boards contract with local
providers for the provision of
services. Boards assess and
evaluate the services provided, in
order to confirm that these services
are cost effective and efficient,
while providing the appropriate
level of care. Through this process,
Boards work to ensure the most
efficient use of scarce resources
by directing them to meet local
priorities.
Due to the nature of mental
illness and addiction, Boards
have built relationships with local
law enforcement, court systems,
businesses, social services, schools
and higher education, physical health
care providers and behavioral health
care providers. As a result, when local
issues or problems arise, ADAMH
Boards are in the unique position to
convene all necessary local partners
to develop a workable solution and
address the concerns within their
local communities.
Boards are
CONSUMER
advocates and
COMMUNITY
advocates.
How ADAMH Boards Work
with Criminal Justice
How ADAMH Boards Work with
Business Partners
Research shows that behavioral health is vital to justice
reinvestment success for many individuals occupying Ohio’s
jails and prisons. Collaborative relationships between Boards
and the criminal justice system are critical to diversion and
recidivism avoidance. Boards partner with community justice
systems and Ohio’s prison systems to remove barriers and
identify solutions that can save lives and resources. While
resources vary, examples of the collaborative relationships
Boards have with courts and corrections include: partnering to
implement crisis intervention training to improve the safety of
law enforcement and mentally ill Ohioans, diversion services, Inpatient care is a critical part of the local behavioral health
behavioral health liaison services, forensic monitoring, and continuum of care. Depending on a number of factors
serving on re-entry coalitions.
including severity of illness, access, funding, and insurance,
Boards use both state operated psychiatric hospitals and
private hospitals to provide inpatient care. In some cases,
Boards may choose to use a lesser level of care when clinically
appropriate, such as a crisis stabilization unit. Boards are
responsible for the screening and authorization of admissions
for all clients accessing the state hospital, for both voluntary
and involuntary commitments. Boards are also involved with
discharge planning for clients leaving both State and private
hospitals, and coordinating services within the continuum.
How ADAMH Boards Work
with Hospitals
Alcohol, Drug Addiction, and Mental Health Boards are
uniquely positioned to work with local business partners and
to implement education and prevention campaigns about
what a drug-free workplace is and the potential consequences
for testing positive for drugs. Boards would like to expand
the array of services they provide to help get people back to
work, such as supportive employment, specific job training,
life skills and case management. By working with local
businesses to gain access to a ready pool of applicants, Boards
help businesses and communities thrive.
How ADAMH Boards Work
with Local Communities
For many of Ohio’s children and adults, Alcohol, Drug
Addiction, and Mental Health Boards are uniquely
positioned to serve as a convener on issues prevalent within
local communities. ADAMH Boards assist in providing not
just mental health and substance abuse assessment services
for children, adolescents, and adults, but also prevention,
education, housing, and counseling services. Boards also
work in communities to expand the capacity of nonMedicaid services to prevent and manage chronic diseases
from the start, using the latest evidence-based research.
Ohio’s ADAMH Boards
To learn more about your local Alcohol,
Drug Addiction, and Mental Health
Board, visit the Ohio Association of
County Behavioral Health Authorities at
www.oacbha.org or scan the QR code
below to be directed to the county
board directory. Be sure to click on your
county board to get more information.
TREATMENT WORKS... PEOPLE RECOVER
RECOVERING PEOPLE WORK
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Support local alcohol, drug addiction, and
mental health services
Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities
33 North High Street, Suite 500, Columbus, Ohio 43215
(614) 224-1111 www.oacbha.org