Harbor is a leading mental health and substance use disorder treatment provider in Ohio. We are a not-for-profit mental health care agency that has been serving the community for over 100 years. Harbor serves over 23,000 youth, adults, seniors and families annually and provides a full range of mental health, telehealth, and substance use disorder treatment services. Harbor is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities (CARF) and certified by Ohio Mental Health & Addiction Services (OhioMHAS).

The Connection Center/309 South Main St. Bowling Green, OH 43402/419-354-4200

Through participation in The Connection Center, members are able to reclaim important life necessities integral to their identities that they may have lost due to their illness: mental and physical wellness, self-esteem, friendships, family, employment and education. They may also receive services and support that is individualized to their recovery, learn life skills and how to balance responsibilities and incorporate wellness activities into their lives.

Membership is free and open to adult residents of Wood County who are receiving mental health and/or Substance Use Disorder services. For a calendar of events and updates please visit The Connection Center’s Facebook page at Connection Center BG.

Mental Health Assessment and Counseling

Evidence based treatment for adults, youth, and families struggling with mental health concerns including depression, anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, impulse and anger management, ADHD, abuse, substance use and medication management. Services include comprehensive assessment and individualized treatment.

Developmental and Behavioral Services

A comprehensive approach to the diagnosis of children with developmental and behavioral concerns such as ADHD, Autism Spectrum Disorder, intellectual disability, chromosomal abnormalities, language disorders, fetal alcohol concerns, and developmental delays. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Clinic for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, Providing 1:1 intervention.

Primary Care

Preventive screening, monitoring of health conditions, common illness, recognizing early onset of symptoms associated with chronic disease, and comprehensive coordination of care across all health providers.

Telehealth Services

Most services are also available via HIPAA secure video. Confidential telehealth services may be delivered while a patient is at home, one of our agency sites, or at another healthcare facility.

Day Treatment

Intensive, goal oriented group treatment services for Adults and Youth that offers structure and support to individuals at risk for hospitalization, recently discharged from the hospital or who have significant impairments with functions of daily living.

Case Management / Community Psychiatric Supportive Treatment

CPST provides a variety of services to assist people with their mental health recovery including securing and managing basic needs, developing basic living skills, linkage and coordination with community services. This service can include coordinating with child’s school and attending IEP/504 meetings.

Vocational Rehabilitation and Career Services

Career assessment, job seeking and interview skills training, and job coaching for successful employment placement based on individual strengths and interests.

Employee Assistance Program

Short term, confidential solution-focused counseling and crisis services provided via contract with employers to help their employees achieve optimum levels of emotional, social and overall well-being.

Early Childhood Mental Health

Counseling services for concerns that young children experience as well as linkage to community resources. Issues include abuse or neglect, depression, bedtime problems, anxiety, temper tantrums, aggression.

Early Childhood Consultation

Program to support parents and early care and education center. Individual consultation within a preschool setting with parents and teachers. Parent workshops and early care and education teacher trainings also provided.

Substance Use Disorder Treatment

Services to help individuals with substance use problems reclaim their lives.

• Ambulatory Detox – Walk-in outpatient medical detoxification program providing withdrawal management, comfort, support and education for drug and alcohol recovery.

• Medication Assisted Treatment – Overall addiction treatment program that includes counseling, sober support meetings and medication management appointments.

• Intensive Outpatient Group Programming – Structured individual and group treatment, 3 to 4 days per week focused on improving coping skills, peer support, and recovery.

• Women’s Residential Substance Use Disorder Treatment 24/7 residential treatment program designed to meet the challenges that women face in accessing services for alcohol and drug addictions.

• The Chrysalis – Unique 24/7 residential addiction treatment program for women, including pregnant women and those who have delivered in the past year. Services address the importance of mother-child bonding and encourage engagement with children during treatment. Babies and young children can remain with mothers during residential care.

Psychiatric Services

Medication Management and Psychiatric Evaluations by Psychiatrists and Certified Nurse Practitioners.

Psychological Services

Testing and Assessment by licensed Psychologists.

School-Based Prevention

Programs on alcohol, tobacco, drugs and violence provided to schools and community groups throughout Lucas County.

Heroin & Opiate Initiative

Grant funded by Lucas County Mental Health and Recovery Services Board that provides education and presentation to community organizations about the heroin and opiate epidemic in Lucas County.

Wellness Initiative for Senior Education (WISE)

Educational program for individuals 55 or older that assists with aging process, risk factors and behaviors to stay healthy and examination of how alcohol and medications affect seniors.

STEPS Program

Self-esteem, Teamwork, Expression, Problem-solving, Socialization An after-school Day Treatment Program for children ages 7-17 that runs 3 hours per day, 4 days per week. Our staff will work with families to identify transportation options and connect children and their families with other needed community resources.

FACES (Families And Communities Enhancing Stability)

An initiative that will assess Adverse Childhood Experiences

(ACEs) in two zip codes (43605 and 43607) with the purpose of providing positive social experiences that will counteract the negative impact of ACEs that can lead to poor adult health.

Past trauma is prominently mentioned as the reason that people experience serious mental health conditions today. But obvious forms of racism and bigotry are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to racial trauma.

There are more than one type of racism, including but not limited to:

Systemic/Structural Racism: Systemic/Structural racism has three components: history, culture, and institutions/policy. Historical racism provides the framework for current racism. Any structure built on a foundation (history) of racism will be a racist structure. Culture, which is ever-present in our day to day lives is what allows racism to be accepted, normalized, and perpetuated. Institutions and policies make up the fundamental relationships and rules across society, which reinforces racism and give it societal legitimacy (which makes it so hard to dismantle).

Interpersonal Racism: Racism that happens between individual people. When individual beliefs or prejudices become actions toward others.

Institutional Racism: Institutional racism occurs within and between institutions. Institutional racism is discriminatory treatment, unfair policies, and inequitable opportunities and impacts, based on race, produced and perpetuated by institutions (schools, mass media, etc.). Individuals within institutions take on the power of the institution when they act in ways that advantage and disadvantage people, based on race.

Internalized Racism: When racism and white supremacy affect the minds of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) to the point where they begin to believe that they are inferior because of their own race. This can sometimes lead to “inter-racial hostility” in which BIPOC treat other BIPOC in a way that mirrors how white racists might treat them. Another way internalized racism can manifest is by BIPOC accepting and internalizing Eurocentric ideals and values.

Depression is the most commonly reported condition across BIPOC. Additionally, racial trauma can increase the risk of BIPOC meeting the criteria for PTSD. Importantly, stress plays a crucial role in how racism affects both physical and mental health. Stress hormones are released during stressful situations and research has shown that both the experience of and the observation of racial discrimination is stressful for children and adults who identify as BIPOC. The frequent presence of these stress hormones can lead to physical conditions like high blood pressure and heart disease, as well as mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and overall poor health outcomes. Discrimination is typically something that occurs frequently and as a result, creates a sustained level of stress and stress hormones in those who are the most likely to experience this discrimination.

Quick Stats:

• Black adults are 20 percent more likely to report serious psychological distress than White adults
  
• People who identify as being two or more races (24.9 percent) are most likely to report any mental illness within the past year than any other race/ethnic group
  
• Compared with White people with the same symptoms, Black people are more frequently diagnosed with schizophrenia and less frequently diagnosed with mood disorders
  
• Native and Indigenous American adults have the highest reported rate of mental illnesses of any single race identifying group
  
• Mental and behavioral health conditions are common among people in the criminal justice system, in which BIPOC are disproportionately overrepresented. Approximately 50 percent to 75 percent of youth in the juvenile justice system meet the diagnostic criteria for a mental illness.
  

*Information from www.mhanational.org/racism-and-mental-health