Programs that provide emotional support, problem-solving assistance, information and guidance for people who have recently lost a loved one.
Mutual support groups whose members are people who have experienced the loss of a loved one. The groups focus on helping participants accept their loss, express their grief, move through the bereavement process and put their lives back together.
General Crisis Intervention Hotlines
Programs that provide immediate assistance for people who are emotionally distressed with the objective of defusing the crisis, ensuring the person's safety and helping the person to take the next immediate steps toward resolving the problem.
Programs that offer therapist-facilitated collective treatment sessions in which unrelated groups of individuals, couples or families discuss their attitudes, feelings and problems and, with input from other members of the group, attempt to achieve greater self and interpersonal understanding and adjustment and explore solutions to their problems.
Long or short-term care inpatient facilities, counseling agencies and therapists in private practice that offer diagnostic and treatment services for children, adolescents and/or adults who have an identifiable mental disorder such as depression or anxiety or for people who are experiencing difficult life transitions or are having problems coping with daily living.
Mental Health Related Support Groups
Mutual support groups whose members are people who have specific social, emotional or other mental health problems. Families and friends may also be welcome. The groups provides an opportunity for participants to share information, practical tips for daily living and encouragement about issues related to the problem.
Programs that offer simple tests that people who are concerned about their emotional health can take to learn more about their symptoms and ways of coping with them.
Programs that provide in-person individual, conjoint, family or group treatment for people who are experiencing an emotional crisis and are attempting to cope by threatening or attempting self-destruction; or for people who have experienced these feelings, made such threats or attempted to fatally harm themselves either on one occasion or repeatedly; and/or for the families and significant others of these people.
Programs that provide immediate assistance for individuals who are having suicidal feelings with the objective of helping them explore alternatives to self-harm or self-destruction.