Judith Allee

MHA's Parent Support Coordinator since 1997, Judith Allee facilitates support groups for parents under stress and presents over 40 workshops a year on parenting and mental health. Topics include How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (based on the book by Faber and Mazlish); 1-2-3 Magic (based on the video and book by child psychologist Thomas Phelan); and Parenting an Angry Teenager, based on her own experiences as a foster and adoptive mother. She also coordinates programs featuring outside speakers, provides telephone support to parents, and recruits and trains volunteers to work with parents and children.

Co-author of two books for parents (both published by a division of Random House), she speaks at conferences in Ohio and nationally to parents who want an enriched learning environment for their children even though they are living on a shoestring.

Before coming to MHA, she served as newsletter editor and as facilitator for workshops and discussion groups for the local chapter of a child advocacy group, and as a volunteer home finder, she located adoptive families for 20 children who were waiting for a home. For a group of six brothers and sisters in foster care and for a young man who had lived in 14 foster homes, she was a mentor in a role similar to that of a Big Sister.

She is certified as a presenter for:

  • Getting Ahead in a Just Gettin'-By World, a curriculum that teaches people in poverty the tools they need to escape poverty;
  • Youth Asset Building, which shares research on 40 factors that reduce the risk that kids will get involved in alcohol and other drugs, crime, sex, and other risky behaviors, or that they will drop out of school;
  • Service-Learning: A Strategy for School Improvement and Building Community Partnerships.

Her commitment to mental health is up-close and personal-she experiences ADHD and five of her close family members experience mental illnesses, including clinical depression, bipolar disorder, schizo-affective disorder, ADHD, and Asperger's Syndrome.

judithallee@mhalc.org
(740) 788-0300