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Offers support to adults aged 18 and older with severe and persistent mental disorders to help them maintain and enhance their adjustment and acceptance within the community. Services are tailored to each individual's capacity and may include structured opportunities for personal and social development, daily living skills instruction, basic education, recreational and social activities, coordination exercises, and other developmental support. These programs aim to foster functional skills necessary for community involvement, self-advocacy, self-care, and, where possible, employment.

Offers crisis services for those experiencing mental health crises, such as suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, and acute psychosis; substance use crises, such as overdoses and withdrawal symptoms; and everyday issues such as relationship challenges, financial challenges, job loss, and grief and loss.

Services include:

- Pathways to Success: Provides access to intensive care coordination and additional home- and community-based services for youth ages 20 and younger with complex behavioral health needs.

- The Living Room: Offers a safe, quiet space where people experiencing emotional distress can find respite staffed by Certified Recovery Support Specialists who offer peer support. Designed as an alternative safe space for clients who might otherwise use emergency department services for mental health needs.

- Mobile Crisis Response: Clinicians respond to calls through the CARES Line and the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline when there is immediate need for support with the goal of stabilizing children and adults in community settings or determining the appropriate referral.

- Crisis Co-Response Team (CCRT): Teams that pair clinicians with police departments and law enforcement to provide crisis support and follow-up behavioral healthcare for individuals involved with 911 and emergency response calls.

Provides support to individuals affected by mental illness, education on mental health topics, and advocating for mental health awareness and resource withing the community. NAMI Peer-to-Peer: An 8-session course for adults living with mental illness, whether diagnosed or undiagnosed.

NAMI Family-to-Family: An 8-session course for family members, significant others, and friends of adults living with mental illness.

NAMI Basics: A 6-session educational program for parents and caregivers of children and teens experiencing symptoms of mental illness or who have received a diagnosis.

NAMI Support Groups: Weekly peer-led groups for adults living with mental illness, as well as for family members and caregivers seeking support.

NAMI Educational Courses: Offers 3-4 times annually for individuals living with mental illness and for those who support them. 

Public Presentations- NAMI Ending the Silence: Designed for junior high and high school audiences.

NAMI In Our Own Voice: Intended for the general public, featuring personal stories of recovery shared by individuals living with mental illness.

Wellness and Recovery Drop-in Center is located on Ames, provides a welcoming, peer-led, and stigma-free environment for support and connection.

Offers a safe space for individuals experiencing emotional stress or overwhelming symptoms due to live circumstances.

Service may include, emotional support groups, assistance in applying for Medicaid, Medicare, SNAP, housing applications, and Social Security and a safe place to enjoy a snack, watch TV, make art, or play a game.

Offers people experiencing a mental health episode an alternative to hospitalization. Services include crisis support, stress relief, coping skills training,  and community resource referrals.

Provides a behavioral health drop in center for those in need. The center provides coffee, snacks, and someone to talk to if the person is going through a mental health crisis. Activities found at the center can range from crafts and art projects, to board games and monthly Bingo.

Connections provides comprehensive support services aimed at fostering coping, problem-solving, and self-management for individuals with diagnosed mental illnesses. The center offers morning refreshments, including coffee and doughnuts, as well as a midday meal. The program emphasizes daily living skills, recreational and social activities, and developmental support to help participants enhance functional skills for community involvement, self-advocacy, and self-care.

Activity rooms are available for recreational and social engagement or relaxation, providing opportunities for personal and social development in a structured environment. 

Connections also maintains a donation room stocked with clothing, shoes, coats, gloves, and other essentials, updated frequently to meet client needs. Staff members assist with housing searches, accessing medical benefits, and connecting clients to additional services and resources. 

A non-clinical, membership drop-in-center.

Advocates for consumers in the areas of mental health services, housing, financial issues, substance abuse, and medical issues. These services are offered through local support agencies.

Offers a pscyho-social environment with access to computers, TV, a pool table, newspapers, a telephone, and limited food services.

Provides walk-in/referral crisis respite services for individuals who are currently experiencing a mild-moderate behavioral health crisis.

Offers a range of services, including:

-- Behavioral health assessment and treatment planning.

-- Individual therapy.

-- Family/marital/couples therapy.

-- Divorce mediation.

-- Divorce transition assistance for parents and children.

-- Group therapy.

-- Psychological assessment.

-- Crisis services.

-- Substance abuse prevention and education.

-- Pet therapy.

-- Home visiting program for children who are exhibiting behavior health concerns.

-- Outpatient behavioral health care.

-- Parenting education.

-- Psychiatry services.

Telehealth appointments are available.

Offers immediate crisis and mental health support in an alternative, calmer environment than Emergency Departments. Peer recovery support specialists, including those with lived addiction recovery experience, assist distressed and overwhelmed individuals in a comfortable setting without using more intensive intervention.

Provides groups that help enhance skills for socialization, connections, communication, support, wellness tools, resources, and provides a safe space that is non-judgmental and welcoming.

Drop In is run by individuals with lived experience in mental health recovery.

Drop-in center for people who are experiencing mental health and/or substance use challenges. The Peer Center is run by staff who have lived experience and a passion for supporting others in their recovery journey. It serves as a safe place to build friendships and receive support while identifying and pursuing individual goals for wellness and recovery.

Offers:

- Support and fellowship

- Educational groups

- Resource information

- Games, activities, art and music

- InShape programming

Offers a community center for adults experiencing mental illness, including substance use disorder. Provides a fun, uplifting wellness center staffed by Peer Support Specialists (PSS's). Peer Support Specialists are persons with lived experience of mental illness(es) and Recovery from that/those illness(es). 

Provides developmental training and support to persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Provides an appropriately structured environment that encourages participants to function optimally in the least restrictive setting, whether vocational, social, or community. Programs may include:

-Sensory motor activities.

- Occupational therapy.

- Vocational skills.

- Job training.

- Volunteer and employment options in a safe and supportive environment.

- Drop-in program for participants who do not have funding yet (Project Leisure).

Offers crisis services for those experiencing mental health crises, such as suicidal thoughts, panic attacks, and acute psychosis; substance use crises, such as overdoses and withdrawal symptoms; and everyday issues such as relationship challenges, financial challenges, job loss, and grief and loss.

Services include:

- Pathways to Success: Provides access to intensive care coordination and additional home- and community-based services for youth ages 20 and younger with complex behavioral health needs.

- The Living Room: Offers a safe, quiet space where people experiencing emotional distress can find respite staffed by Certified Recovery Support Specialists who offer peer support. Designed as an alternative safe space for clients who might otherwise use emergency department services for mental health needs.

- Mobile Crisis Response: Clinicians respond to calls through the CARES Line and the national 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline when there is immediate need for support with the goal of stabilizing children and adults in community settings or determining the appropriate referral.

- Crisis Co-Response Team (CCRT): Teams that pair clinicians with police departments and law enforcement to provide crisis support and follow-up behavioral healthcare for individuals involved with 911 and emergency response calls.