Clinical Services Program

     A wide range of comprehensive services are provided to children

and adults by our licensed, professional clinical staff, including 

individual and group therapy, marital and family counseling.  This 

program also offers 24-hour emergency on-call services and on-going 

mental health awareness programs to the community and its schools.

Domestic Violence Programming

     An intense case manager/therapist provides direct services to 

victims of family violence as well as serving as liaison with existing

community resources to assist the victim and family.

Psychological Services

     Our professional psychological staff offers comprehensive services

including clinical, psycho-educational and vocational evaluations and

testing by state licensed psychologists.

Psychiatriac/Medical Services

     HealthWays offers psychiatric evaluations, consultation, medication

management and monitoring through our on-staff, board-certified 

psychiatrists, nurses and family physicians.

Children's Crisis Response Team

     HealthWays' team of child therapists are trained to respond to

children in crisis within the child's home, school, foster care situation

or wherever a crisis might occur.

Children's In-Home Therapy

     For clients who need such care, HealthWays will provide intensive

therapy in the home for children and their families.

Adult Substance Abuse Program

     This is the only program in Hancock and Brooke counties which

specializes in providing therapeutic services to adults and family

members experiencing problems related to substance abuse.  Services

include, but are not limited to, individual, group and family therapy.

Another component of this program is the Driving Under the Influence 

program mandated by local law enforcement agencies.

Intensive Outpatient Program for Adult Substance Abusers

     This program, developed in 1994, is the only one of its kind in

Hancock and Brooke Counties.  The program offers a highly structured,

8-week program designed to provide a high-impact level of care to 

clients experiencing substance abuse problems.  This HealthWays program

consists of both therapeutic and educational groups offered 3 days a 

week for 2 1/2 hours each day, while the client lives at home.

Adolescent Substance Abuse Program

     HealthWays offers an array of direct and indirect clinical 

services to substance abusing or drug dependent adolescents and their

families.  The program also provides off-site services such as evaluation

and counseling in the area's schools.

Substance Abuse Prevention Program

     HealthWays provides awareness and prevention programs through

education and consultation services in community groups and the area's

schools.

Community Support and Residential Services Program

     This program, for both adults and children experiencing severe

emotional disturbances, provides comprehensive, community-based services,

such as assessment, monitoring, advocacy, supportive counseling and 

coordination with other services.  In addition, this program is one of

only three in the state which offers the nationally recognized Assertive

Community Treatment (ACT) Program.  The ACT program is a community-based,

supportive therapeutic service delivered in the client's home.  The 

program is designed to maximize the community functioning level of the

persons who have a serious mental illness, while promoting an environment

that encourages personal development.

Day Treatment Program for Persons with Mental Disorders

     This program is designed to provide both therapeutic and skill

acquisition programming to area residents who have are experiencing

emotional difficulties.

Crisis Residential Unit (CRU)

     This program was developed in 1991 in response to a need for

24-hour specialized psychiatric care services in Hancock and Brooke

Counties.  This 24-hour, short-term intensively therapeutic program

is provided in a residential, community-based setting to persons

experiencing a psychiatric crisis.

Case Management Program for People with Developmental Disabilities

     HealthWays provides a wide array of services for assessment, service

planning, linkage, referral and advocacy to individuals with mental 

retardation or developmental disabilities.  This program is responsible

for coordinating services of the home and community-based Waiver Program,

Medley, Tefra and Family Support Programs.

Brooke County Opportunity Center - North

     This program was initiated in 1979 at the request of families in

Brooke county who wanted to establish a program for adults with

developmental disabilities.  This HealthWays program provides a 

comprehensive array of services including: day treatment, habilitative

training, supportive counseling, pre-vocational training, vocational 

evaluation, sheltered employment and job placement for people with mental

or physical disabilities.

Brooke County Opportunity Center - South

     This program provides day treatment services for people with mental

and physical challenges.  Additionally, the program serves people with

severe mental and physical disabilities residing in Intermediate Care

Facilities (ICFs). 

Hancock County Day Training Program for people with Developmental Disabilities

     This program began in July of 1993 at the request of Hancock County

agencies and families wishing to develop a program to serve people with

severe mental or physical disabilities.  The program offers a wide variety

of training and skill acquisition services.

Banner House Intensively Staffed Setting (ISS)

     This program provides a 24-hour, supervised, community-based

residence and offers intense staffing and behavioral supports for

severely disabled and behaviorally challenged adults.

Orchard Street Apartments - Geriatric Program

     This program opened in May of 1994 and continues as one of the 

few programs in the state that concentrates on serving elderly people

with developmental disabilities.  The program offers a community-based

residence with a variety of training and support services.

Elm Street Apartments

     Initiated in 1975 as Harbor House and then later known as Transitional

Living, the program stands as one of the longest running community-based

residences for people with developmental disabilities in the state.  The

program underwent extensive renovations in April, 1994 and currently offers

supervision and training for disabled tenants in their integrated community

apartments.

Shiloh Apartments for People with Mental and Physical Challenges

     HealthWays sponsors this 21-unit apartment offering residential

programming, accessibility, supervision and rent subsidies for people

with mental and physical challenges.  The Wellsburg facility also has

an apartment for respite care services for area families.