Programs

  • Child Abuse Prevention Program (CAPP): teaches child abuse prevention and personal safety skills to preschool and elementary school students and violence prevention to adults. Call (740) 522-2277, or email prevention@mhalc.org for more information.
  • Compeer: serves people who are recovering from a mental illness. Compeer recruits, screens, trains and matches volunteers in one-to-one friendship relationships with adults. Compeer volunteers become positive role models and mentors. They help raise self-esteem, increase social and communication skills and encourage independence of their compeer friend, aiding them in their recovery from mental illness. Call (740) 345-5658.
  • Mental Health Education
  • Suicide Prevention: teaches symptoms of depression and warning signs of suicide. This program encourages help-seeking behavior in youth and adults. Call (740) 522-1341 or email prevention@mhalc.org for more information.
  • I.C. Hope®:  provides a classroom-based mental health curriculum designed for grades K - 4 to help children overcome the negative perceptions and images associated with mental health problems.  A duck puppet is used to facilitate the message "Don't Duck Mental Health!"  Call (740) 788-0339 or email prevention@mhalc.org for more information.
  • ParenTalk Newsletters:  a series of 20 newsletters sent to Licking County families for the first 5 years of a child's life to help raise mentally healthy children.
  • Parent Support (PS): reaches out to parents under stress. Parents can attend workshops and support groups, or simply call to talk with someone about their children's behavior. Free on-site child care and transportation are available. Call (740) 522-2277.
  • Youth Engaged in Service (YES): a positive youth development and service learning program, this safe haven after-school and summer program inspires hundreds of young people in Licking County to give back to their community. The teens benefit from our computer resource center, homework assistance, mentoring, and responsible life choice education. Call (740) 522-0937 or email prevention@mhalc.org for more information.
  • Prevent Assault & Violence Education (PAVE):  teaches violence prevention at school and in the community. High school volunteers enact socio-dramas and teach middle school students ways to be violence-free. Call (740) 522-2277 or email prevention@mhalc.org for more information.