Summerlong series offering free workshops, courses expands knowledge of mental health
Your kids are right about one thing: You don't know everything.
That's why Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, a nonprofit provider of mental-health services in Franklin, Delaware, Licking and Fairfield counties, has begun a summerlong parenting series offering workshops, online pep talks, on-demand courses and a regularly expanding library of information on a variety of topics.
And they're all free, thanks to funding from the Columbus Foundation.
Hourlong courses and 15-minute livestreamed pep talks began in early in May, but there are more to come in June, July and August. Course topics include positive discipline, parenting a child with ADHD and self-care for parents. Pep-talk topics include children's sexual development, prenatal and postpartum care for parents and safe social-media use.
Jennier Fultz, community engagement coordinator for the agency, said the virtual pep talks, the resource library and another collection of on-demand courses expands upon telehealth and online services borne of the necessity during the pandemic.
"Where we are is where the community needs us," she said.
On-demand course topics include health information, nurturing your child's brain and how to play at all ages.
As a community mental-health agency, Mid-Ohio Psychological Services provides mental health and substance-abuse services, as well as specialized programs, such as aggression management and others, to clients of all ages.
Fultz said its mission includes quick access to care, which means less than two weeks from a person's referral.
About 70% of the agency's clients are covered by Medicare or Medicaid.
This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Learning about mental health just became easier
