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What is the Mental Health & Recovery Board? |
- PCMHRB funds,
evaluates and plans the necessary
mental health and alcohol and drug
treatment service in our community
then purchases care from community
experts.
- PCMHRB does NOT
provide any direct service; rather
it maintains a "safety net" of 4
contract providers, located in
Eaton, available to anyone living in
Preble County.
- PCMHRB receives
approximately 12% of its funding
through a voter-approved property
tax and the remainder from a
combination of federal and state
sources.
- PCMHRB provides
services to clients through
contracts with a system of
non-profit agencies across the
community.
Function and
Responsibilities are:
What is the function of the Mental Health &
Recovery Services Board?
Mental Health Services (Ohio Revised Code
340.03)
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Serve as the community mental
health planning agency for the county
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Evaluates the need for mental
health programs
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Assess the community mental
health needs, sets priorities, and develops
plans for the operation of the community mental
health services and programs
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Investigates, or requests
another agency to investigate, any complaint
alleging abuse or neglect of any person
receiving services from a community mental
health agency
- Reviews, evaluates, and
conducts program audits for community mental
health services, facilities, and agencies
seeking federal, state or board assistance and
reviews licensure applications
- Audits all programs and
services provided under contract with the board
- Recruits and promotes local
financial support for mental health programs
from private and public sources
- Enters into contracts with
public and private agencies for the provision of
mental health services and facilities
- Establishes, to the extent
resources are available, a community support
system, which provides for treatment support,
and rehabilitation services and opportunities.
The essential elements include:
- To locate persons in
need of mental health services and to
inform them of available services and
benefits
- Assist clients to
obtain services necessary to meet basic
human needs for food, clothing, shelter,
medical care, personal safety and income
- Mental Health care,
including but limited to outpatient,
partial hospitalization, and, where
appropriate, inpatient care
- Emergency services
and crisis intervention
- Assist clients to
obtain vocational services and
opportunities for jobs
- The 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 support
- Grievance procedures
and protections of the rights of
consumers of mental health services
- Recognition and
encouragement of families, friends,
neighborhood networks, especially
networks that include racial and ethnic
minorities, churches, community
organizations and meaningful employment
as natural supports for consumers of
mental health services
- Case management,
which includes continual individualized
assistance and advocacy to ensure that
needed services are offered and procured
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Alcohol/Drug Addictions Services (Ohio Revised Code 340.03.3)
- Assess alcohol and drug
addiction service needs and evaluate the need
for alcohol and drug addiction programs
- Set priorities and develop
plans for the operation of alcohol and drug
addiction programs in cooperation with other
local and regional planning and funding bodies
and with relevant ethnic organizations
- Enter into contracts with
alcohol and drug addiction programs for the
provision of alcohol and drug addiction services
- Review and evaluate alcohol
and drug addiction programs in the district, and
conduct program audits
- Promote, arrange, and
implement working agreements with public and
private social agencies and with judicial
agencies
- Investigate, or request
another agency to investigate, and compliant
alleging abuse or neglect of any person
receiving services from an alcohol or drug
addiction program
- Establish a mechanism for the
involvement of persons receiving services in,
and obtaining their advice on, matters
pertaining to alcohol and drug addiction
services
- Recruit and promote local
financial support, from private and public
sources, for alcohol and drug addiction programs
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What are the Responsibilities of the Mental Health &
Recovery Services Board?
Primary Duty is: To Serve Those with Serious
Mental Health &
Addiction Problems
The duties of the Mental Health & Recovery Services Board of
Preble County is set by the state of Ohio. The Board has the
primary responsibility for seeing that services and
facilities are available locally for the treatment of people
with alcohol/drug addiction and/or mental illness.
Those services include:
- 24-hour hotline staffed by mental health
professionals
- Crisis and Emergency Services 7 days a week
- Psychiatrists and Nurses for treatment of
adults, children, and teens
- Medication services for serious mental
illnesses, such as schizophrenia
- Mental health diagnosis and treatment for
adults, children and teens
- Access to hospitalization when appropriate
for adults and youth
- Home-based treatment services for children
and families
- Housing and Vocational programs for persons
with mental illness
- Treatment for alcohol and drug abuse for
adults and teens
- Treatment for persons with mental illness
combined with alcohol/drug addiction
- Mental health and alcohol/drug abuse
prevention and education in schools and
community
- Collaboration and consultation with schools,
law enforcement, other agencies about treatment
for community members with mental health and
recovery problems
- Ensuring services are available for adults,
teens and children with the severest mental
illnesses and addictions
- Planning for the kinds of care residents
need
- Contracting with local services providers
creating a seamless system of care
- Funding services from local, state and
federal sources
- Monitoring services for quality
- Providing education to prevent mental health
problems and addiction.
The contracts are with local service providers
(agencies) whose professional staff provide a
comprehensive array of services, including
assessment, counseling, medication, case management
and development of daily living skills needed by
consumers or clients.
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Our Vision The citizens of Preble
County will be mentally healthy and addiction
free.
Our Mission |
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To
ensure that quality mental health and
addiction services are available to all
Preble County residents.
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Our Values
All of our
constituents should be treated
with dignity, respect,
compassion, and kindness. The
Board promotes quality mental
health and addiction services
that are client specific, data
driven and outcome based. We
value a welcome atmosphere that
integrates the needs of the
whole person: physical, mental,
spiritual. The Board believes in
the ability of all citizens to
recover from their mental
illness or addiction and will
strive to offer a service system
that will assist them in
achieving their personal
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Who should seek care?
Ohio's system of care is set up to provide treatment to
those who voluntarily seek help or are involuntarily
committed for care through the courts. Ohio law defines
persons who are mentally ill as those who suffer a
"substantial disorder of thought, mood, perception,
orientation or memory which grossly impairs judgment, their
behavior, capacity to recognize reality or their ability to
handle the ordinary demands of daily life." This can include
persons with such brain diseases as schizophrenia, manic
depression, clinical depression, anxiety disorders and
obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Board has Local Autonomy to Respond to Local Needs
The Board, which has 18 volunteer members, is empowered by
state law to enter into contracts, expend funds, formulate
policy, own property, employ staff and generally operate as
an independent county agency in order to fulfill its
responsibilities. ODMH, ODADAS and County Commissioners
appoint members. The terms are four years.
The Board meets the last Monday each month at 6:30 P.M.,
at 225 North Barron Street, Eaton, Oh., meetings are open to the public. Board business is acted on
only at official, public meetings. Much of the work and
discussion is done through board committees.
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Who Uses These Services? |
- 50% of those served
live outside of Eaton in other towns and
communities in Preble County.
- Estimates show 1 out
of 5 Preble County people will experience
some form of mental illness during their
lives.
- Estimates show that 1
out of 10 Preble County people will abuse
alcohol or drugs.
- Who uses these
services? Your friends, neighbors and family
members do.
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Treatment Saves Money |
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There are
estimated 1.2 million inmates who are
alcohol and other drug abusers and
addicts in our federal, state, and local
jails. If only 10% (120,000) of those
inmates were to recover and become
employed, the economic benefit to
society in the first year after release
would be an estimated $8,256 Billion.
Estimates of property and violent crimes
committed by active drug addicts range
from 89 to 191 per year per addict.
Using a conservative 100 crimes per
addict per year, for each 10,000
drug-addicted inmates who, after
release, stay off drugs for one year,
the nation would experience a reduction
of one million property and violent
crimes per year. (Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment (C.S.A.T.) |
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Preble County Mental Health & Recovery Board 225 North
Barron Street Eaton, Oh. 45320
Preble County
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