Text Box: COUNSELING CENTER RECEIVES NATIONAL AWARD

Text Box: Mental Health Corporations of America (MHCA) recently awarded The Counseling Center a “Best Practices in Customer Satisfaction” Award.  The Center was recognized for having the highest overall customer satisfaction ratings among organizations that provided survey results for five or more mental health services.  In addition, The Center’s Employment Services Program was honored for achieving the highest customer satisfaction ratings in the employment services area. This is the second year in a row that both the Counseling Center and the Employment Services Program have received this national recognition.

Text Box: PSYCHIATRIC CARE EXPANDED

Text Box: In the upcoming weeks, the Center will be offering a number of new or expanded group offerings.  Options include:  · Anger Management, Wednesdays,        10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Wooster Office · Social Skills for Boys, Wednesdays,        4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Wooster Office · Parenting Pre-Schoolers, Tuesdays,        5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Millersburg at the        Lighthouse Church. This group includes a        light supper, a parenting program for parents,        and a special group on social and emotional        skills for the preschoolers.    Call the Wooster office at (330) 264-9029 for additional information and registration for any group.    

Text Box: Wayne Metropolitan Housing Authority, in conjunction with The Counseling Center, have been selected to receive a five-year federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Shelter Plus Care grant in the amount of $283,000. The grant is designed to allow 10 homeless people with psychiatric disabilities to obtain and remain in permanent housing.  Housing units will be secured and managed by Wayne Metropolitan Housing Authority.  Applicants will be screened by the Counseling Center and, while in supported housing, they will also receive a variety of supportive and treatment interventions at The Center.  The grant will focus primarily on persons who have lost their housing as a result of a psychiatric hospitalization and who need to reestablish themselves in the community.  The local project is one of 9 new Shelter Care Plus grants awarded in the state.  It is expected to serve as many as 30 persons over the five-year term. Text Box: The Counseling Center welcomes Patrick Bentley, D.O., to the psychiatric services staff.  Dr. Bentley, who is Board Certified in psychiatry, will have office hours at the Center’s Benden Drive location, beginning this month.    Dr. Bentley has previously worked in both inpatient settings and outpatient community mental health settings.  He also holds a certification in Addiction Medicine from the American Osteopathic Board of Neurology and Psychiatry and is experienced in geriatric psychiatry. Welcome Dr. Bentley! Text Box: GROUP SERVICES ANNOUNCED

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CENTER UPDATE

Monthly Newsletter for The Counseling Center of Wayne and Holmes Counties

Edition: April 2008