Mental Health Assoc Of Frederck Cty

Securing vulnerable families: court appointed special advocates for children (casa) - 14 new volunteers were given 30 hours of training to prepare them to be sworn in by the court system as a court appointed special advocate to act as best interest advocates for children who have been abused or neglected. A total of 77 volunteers served on cases for 83 children, 46 in frederick county and 37 in carroll county. Casa works with the circuit courts of frederick and carroll counties, departments of social services, treatment facilities, group homes, schools, parents and other community resources. The goal of a casa volunteer is to help the court to secure a safe and permanent home for every child. Supervised visitation and monitored transfer - the visitation center offered a neutral setting for non-custodial parents to safely maintain a relationship with their child(ren). The center served 173 parents, guardians, and grandparents and 123 children for supervised visitation, 8 parents, guardians, and grandparents for monitored transfer, 31 families for therapeutic supervised visitation, and 12 families for parent coaching. The program provided 823 hours of visitation, 185 hours of parent coaching, and completed 157 exchanges of children. Systems navigation - 73 families with children with intensive needs received information and referral, advocacy and support through the systems navigation program. Trained professionals known as systems navigators, assisted families with identification of and access to supportive resources such as counseling, housing, financial and job assistance, and specialized services that best met their family's needs. Families impacted by incarceration program (fiip) - fiip is a program that worked to support the bond between parents, care-givers, or other family members impacted by incarceration, and helped to strengthen the parent/child relationship. Fiip works in partnership with children of incarcerated parents partnership to provide support in a variety of ways. The program provided parenting 201 workshops held in the community, which served 71 participants. One-on-one, individualized family advocacy was provided to 54 participants, and parenting from afar classes were provided to 89 participants.

Facing crises together: counseling services - provided professional outpatient mental health treatment on a sliding fee basis for individuals who have medicaid, medicare or no insurance. Supervised graduate-level psychology and counseling interns, helping them complete their requirements for graduation and attain their state licensure. Provided 6,880 sessions of therapy to 448 individuals, couples, children and adolescents. Call center - provided information and referral for human service and mental health needs, crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and listening support. Hotline/988 serves as the initial intake line for frederick county mobile crisis services for both adults and child/adolescents. Hotline/988 provides suicide awareness and suicide intervention trainings. Our survivors of suicide support group served 36 participants (151 sessions) who have lost a loved one to suicide. Hotline received 3,275 calls about suicide and performed 7,745 suicide assessments. Our telephone reassurance program provided 1,624 scheduled outbound calls to 10 elderly and homebound residents enrolled in the program. The hotline operates 24/7/365 and answered 57,109 calls. Walk-in services - a free service where a crisis specialist will meet with a walk-in client to help resolve a current crisis or concern and assist with connections to ongoing support, including urgent medication appointments. Clients may be experiencing an emotional, mental, family or relationship crisis, suicidal thoughts, anxiety, grief or depression. Walk-in services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. 1,331 clients were seen for a total of 2,157 visits. 25% reported they would have gone to a hospital emergency room if this service was not available.

All other programs in support of the organization's mission statement and exempt purpose.