Counseling & Community Services
Programs in the community and in your home including Outpatient Counseling, Psychiatry, School-based Counseling, After School Group, In-home Family Therapy and New Mom Depression Program.
Counseling & Community Services
Programs in the community and in your home including Outpatient Counseling, Psychiatry, School-based Counseling, After School Group, In-home Family Therapy and New Mom Depression Program.
Impact. It's What We Do Every Day.
Whether helping families through a crisis, providing support to a teen with depression related to personal image, or counseling a youth with mental health, behavioral or substance abuse issues, Bellefaire JCB is there. We're in the schools, in your home and in the community.
We believe that children and teens respond best when they are treated in a familiar environment where parents, siblings, guardians, teachers and other significant people are able to collaborate.
Professionally licensed staff who have degrees in psychology, social work, counseling and other human service fields provide services ranging from outpatient counseling for individuals and families to intensive community-based treatment programs. We provide assessments and evaluation to identify which treatment options are the most appropriate. Testing and evaluation will:
- Determine the presence or absence of a specific mental health condition.
- Examine cognitive abilities.
- Determine the level of academic skills.
- Formulate treatment needs and strategies most likely to help the client.
- Document changes in cognitive, academic or emotional functioning.
Bellefaire JCB's Intake Department is trained to work with families and referral sources to make clinical assessments of needs, evaluate appropriateness for programs and assist with the entire admission process.
Outpatient
Outpatient therapy helps your child and family work through a variety of behavioral issues, mental health symptoms or substance abuse disorders. Maybe your family has had a life changing event. Or perhaps your teen has oppositional behaviors or is exhibiting signs of depression, anxiety or lack of self-esteem. Our masters’ level, licensed professionals are trained and experienced in child and family counseling. Therapeutic services are also available from dually-licensed counselors working with Alcohol, Drug and Co-occurring Mental Health/Substance Abuse issues.
Our outpatient services, which are available in our Shaker Heights, Cleveland, Summit, Medina and Elyria offices, address acute signs of behavioral/mental health symptoms and substance abuse disorders including those highlighted below:
- Parent-child or child-sibling relations
- Oppositional behaviors
- Depression, anxiety, self-esteem
- Sexual or physical abuse
- Teen dating violence
- School-related issues including bullying
- Life changing events including divorce
- Grief, loss or trauma
- Aggression or stress management
- Attachment disorders
- Adoption and foster care adjustment issues
- Attention deficit-related problems
Psychiatry Services
We offer ongoing outpatient psychiatry services for children and adolescents in need of medication to address mental health diagnoses. Psychiatry services include a complete psychiatric evaluation followed by ongoing psychiatry appointments.
Open Outpatient Counseling and Psychiatry Brochure
Bellefaire JCB is the MRSS provider for Cuyahoga County
MRSS is a short-term, intensive community-based support program that can include: safety assessments, de-escalation, skill building and linkage to ongoing support. It is FREE to families in Cuyahoga County with children ages 2-20. The program's goal is to keep kids in their homes and with their families, and to ensure families are connected to appropriate and adequate resources.
A hallmark of MRSS is that the team responds to a family-defined crisis. If the caller/family deems the situation worthy of intervention, the team is deployed. The MRSS team is comprised of licensed mental health professionals, non-licensed trained mental health staff and peer support providers. In addition to the initial crisis response, the program also offers up to 6 weeks of stabilization services if needed.
Examples of common issues that MRSS staff can help with include:
- Escalating emotional or behavioral issues
- Mental health issues
- Substance use concerns
- Physical or emotional trauma
- School truancy
- Running away from home
- Caregiver/child conflict
- Suicidal thoughts
In-Home Family
We believe that "strong families build strong kids." And to help support this mission, we offer several programs that assist families in handling and resolving stress while strengthening the family unit from the inside out. It is our philosophy that children and teens respond best when treated in a familiar environment that allows parents, siblings, guardians and teachers to comfortably participate and collaborate.
A licensed counselor and the family work together to identify the family’s concerns and needs and to develop an individualized program to address those issues. Services may include counseling, case management, crisis prevention, advocacy with schools and linkage to the legal system and other needed services and community resources. Our goal is to help families find solutions so they can live together with health and happiness.
Download In-home Family Counseling Brochure
Parents and Children Together (PACT)
This family counseling program provides intensive counseling services to families who are experiencing stress due to factors such as:
- A child or teen experiencing social or emotional problems such as ADHD, depression or anxiety.
- A family that is overwhelmed with financial, housing and childcare responsibilities.
- Parents who are frustrated and/or tired of trying to deal with problems on their own.
We help children and adolescents cope with mental health diagnoses and work with parents to understand and manage their child’s emotional and behavioral problems. Our therapists support the family by learning effective communication skills through:
- Anger management and conflict resolution
- Stress/anxiety management
- Improving self esteem
Substance Abuse Treatment (SAT)
This program is based on an integrated treatment model designed to address the complex needs of children and adolescents with co-occurring mental health and substance abuse disorders.
Integrated Co-Occurring Treatment Offers individual and family counseling, crisis intervention and case management services.
Mothers and Children Together Provides intensive, in-home, relapse prevention and treatment services to recovering mothers and their children. MACT brochure
Adolescent Substance Abuse Program Provides intensive, in-home family-based counseling services where adolescents learn how to establish and maintain sobriety, prevent relapse, and anger management and coping skills.
Jewish Day School Counseling Program
With support from The Jewish Federation of Cleveland, Bellefaire JCB provides behavioral health services to students and families in the Jewish Day Schools of greater Cleveland. For more than 25 years, the agency has placed licensed therapist in the day schools to ensure that the social and emotional needs of youth, their families and the staff of the schools are met. The services are provided at no cost to the family or the school.
A unique aspect of the Jewish Day School counseling program is Bellefaire's ability to identify and place a culturally appropriate counselor in a particular school. The success of the program is often attributed to the sensitivity of the treatment provider when working within a specific segment of the Jewish Community.
Jewish Day School counselors delivered direct behavioral health care and consultation services through outreach, counseling, crisis management, education and training. Typical referrals are related to the following issues:
- Attention deficit-related problems
- Oppositional behaviors
- Depression, anxiety or self-esteem
- Domestic violence/abuse
- Grief and loss
- Aggression
- School-related encounters
- Adoption and foster care adjustment
School-Based Counseling
We have masters' level counselors and social workers in schools throughout Cuyahoga and Lorain counties including over 75 Cleveland Metropolitan School District schools, Jewish day schools, charter schools, and throughout the East Cleveland, Shaker Heights, Mayfield, Lakewood, Euclid and South Euclid-Lyndhurst school districts.
Our school-based team addresses the mental health needs of students and provide services including assessment, wrap-around/community psychiatric support treatment, weekly individual and group counseling, and prevention programs for students in pre-kindergarten through grade 12.
Teachers, administrators and parents can refer children and teens who have issues including:
- Attention deficit-related problems
- Oppositional behaviors
- Depression, anxiety or self-esteem
- Domestic violence/abuse
- Grief and loss
- Aggression
- School-related encounters
- Adoption and foster care adjustment
Adolescent Group Therapeutic Behavioral Services
Bellefaire JCB’s Adolescent Group TBS (Day Treatment) program is offered to youth 13-18 who meet defined clinical criteria and demonstrate at least minimal ability to participate in group treatment. Funded by Medicaid (including Buckeye Community Health Plan, CareSource, Molina Healthcare of Ohio, Paramount Advantage and United Healthcare Community Plan of Ohio), groups are facilitated by experienced mental health clinicians. Clinical issues addressed in the group setting may include:
- Coping Skills Development
- Anger Management
- Impulse Control Development
- Feelings Identification and Verbalization
- Communication Skills Development
- Interpersonal Skills Development
- Self-Esteem
- Trauma and Crisis
After School Program - Intensive Group Counseling for Children Ages 6-13
Bellefaire JCB’s After School Program is intensive group counseling offered to children ages 6 to 13 and facilitated by licensed mental health clinicians who have training and experience in child and family counseling. Children who are referred to the program must meet defined clinical criteria and must demonstrate at least minimal ability to participate in group treatment. Clinical issues addressed include, but are not limited to:
• Coping Skills Development
• Anger Management
• Impulse Control Development
• Feelings Identification and Verbalization
• Communication Skills Development
• Interpersonal Skills Development
• Self-Esteem
• Trauma and Crisis