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* Assists through VA Suicide Prevention Coordinators (SPCs) licensed mental health professionals who manage care for at-risk veterans, provide training and education.* Offers information on VA Medical Centers services. Additionally, assistance with employment issues can be accessed through a VA Medical Center, and assistance with legal matters.Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) provide affordable, accessible care to veterans outside VA's core medical services by offering services like primary care, counseling, lab work, prescriptions, and radiology, while reducing travel time and wait times for outpatient care.Veterans Benefits Administration Offices (Regional Offices) provide veterans with earned benefits and services, including compensation, pension, vocational rehabilitation, home loans, death benefits, employment support, and disability assistance.Vet Centers offer free readjustment counseling and outreach services to veterans who served in combat zones and their families for military-related issues.

* Provides information and tools in order to raise public awareness, promote education, and increase actions to reduce suicide throughout Seneca County.Meets regularly to plan goals and activities around suicide prevention. Meetings include agency representatives and community members.

Offers educational services to provide mental health information through presentations, workshops, training, online access and printed information.

Provides evidence based Mental Health First Aid training to the Nassau and Suffolk Communities. Training can focus on the population of your choice, and includes curricula options for youth, adults, veterans, public service and higher education professionals. Can be offered at any address in Nassau and Suffolk Counties.

Provides information and resources to prevent and raise awareness about adolescent and adult gambling. Also works to educate the general public and health care professionals about the warning signs of problem gambling, and where to get help. This program also offers a 24/7 HOPELINE for those who are experiencing gambling problems, which is free and confidential.

A 8-week course for families of individuals with mental illnesses. Focuses on schizophrenia, bipolar disorder manic depression, clinical depression, and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Discusses the clinical treatment of these illnesses and teaches the knowledge and skills that family members need to cope more effectively.

Offers Nassau and Suffolk County residents, age 25 and older, enrolled in Central Nassau Guidance and Counseling Services, mental health assessment and monitoring for suicidal thoughts and behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. Additional services will be provided to individuals deemed high risk.

Assists clients with access to behavioral health treatment.

outpatient counseling and community mental health services, including intake and assessment, adult services, children and youth clinic, emergency outreach services and forensic services. mental health information and education medication therapy

* VA Suicide Prevention Coordinators (SPC) are specialized case managers who ensure that veterans at high risk of suicide receive the care they need. Furthermore, they are involved in training and education, both within the VA and in the community. The new VA suicide prevention initiative has placed more than 150 Suicide Prevention Coordinators nationwide, all of which are licensed mental health professionals.

* VA Medical Centers consist of acute care facilities and community based outpatient clinics. Services may include: psychiatry, intermediate medicine, extended care, homeless and alcohol/drug abuse programs, cardiac rehabilitation, nuclear medicine, radiation oncology, nursing home and respite care.

• Additionally, assistance with employment issues can be accessed through a VA Medical Center by requesting a Community Employment Coordinator and assistance with legal matters can be obtained through a Veterans Justice Outreach Coordinator.

* Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) contribute to cost containment by making quality health care affordable and accessible to veterans outside VA's core medical services. CBOCs reduce travel time and shorten waiting times for veterans needing outpatient care. Some of CBOCs services include: primary care, group and individual counseling, laboratory analysis, prescriptions and radiology.

* The Veterans Benefits Administration Offices (aka Regional Offices) support the VA Vision to provide veterans the world-class benefits and services they have earned. Services may include: compensation, pension benefits, vocational rehabilitation benefits, home loan guaranty, death benefits, employment benefits and special benefits for the disabled.

* Vet Centers provide readjustment counseling and outreach services to all veterans who served in any combat zone. Services are also available for their family members for military related issues. Veterans have earned these benefits through their service and all are provided at no cost to the veteran or family.

Offers a variety of counseling and mental health educational services to the Iona community, including individual, couples, and family counseling. Also provides workshops and speakers on mental health issues to schools, groups, companies, etc.

A community-wide advocacy, training, education and awareness program for people with mental illness, members of their families, mental health professionals, and provider agencies with promotes the total equality and inclusion of persons with mental illness in the development of polices, regulations, and services that affect their lives.

Provides trainings in suicide prevention including Talk Saves Lives, QPR Gatekeeper Training, safeTALK, and Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST).

A free, confidential nationwide service that provides one-on-one emotional support, mental health information and resources needed to tackle tough challenges that you, your family or friends are facing.

An evidenced based practice that is a hybrid of mental health clinical services and case management.

Provides information and resources to prevent and raise awareness about adolescent and adult gambling. Also works to educate the general public and health care professionals about the warning signs of problem gambling, and where to get help.

The Center for Problem Gambling provides specialized counseling treatment to problem gamblers and their family members through individual, group, family and marital counseling. The Center for Problem Gambling also provides community presentations to increase awareness about the problems of compulsive gambling.

Works with individuals with a gambling problem as well as their families and communities by supporting the individual and reducing barriers to care.

Resources and information that may be helpful for preventing suicide and for survivors of suicide.Meetings are held on the 2nd Tuesday of the month, at 8:30 am. Meetings are located in the Community Room at Morrisville State College Norwich Campus located at 20 Conkey Ave, Norwich, NY 13815

* Provides information on support groups or online support groups for those who have lost a loved one to suicide. www.afsp.org/coping-with-suicide/find-support/find-a-support-group

* Increases awareness about prevention, warning signs and the psychiatric illnesses most often responsible for suicide. This vital information has been disseminated to community groups, educators, parents, students and concerned individuals.
* Reduces suicide rates through initiating and participating in projects to develop, implement and evaluate innovative approaches to suicide prevention.
* Works closely with support group facilitators, first responders, clergy members, mental health professionals and others in the community, to help survivors cope with their loss, their pain, their questions and their journey of healing.
* Alerts public officials, legislators and national and community leaders to important suicide research and prevention initiatives and is a strong advocate for the needs and goals of the survivor community.

Provides 24-hr service to persons with psychiatric emergency or emotional crisis.

Addresses the opiate epidemic problems in the community through the Oneida County Opiate Task Force. Works on suicide prevention in the community by strengthening the coordination and accessibility of services, providing awareness of suicide prevention facilitated by the Oneida County Suicide Prevention Coalition. Provides navigators to help those affected by addiction, and to navigate treatment, insurance and area support.

Offers locations to safely dispose of expired and unused medications (pet meds included). MedReturn Units are located at these locations:

• Boonville PD
• Camden PD
• Kirkland PD
• Oneida County Sheriff's Dept.
• Oriskany PD
• Rome PD
• Sherrill PD
• Trenton Municipal Building
• Waterville Municipal Building
• Utica PD

* Provides public education and referral for suicide prevention. NAMI Basics: a free 6-session course for parents, guardians, and other family living with a child or adolescent experiencing emotional and behavioral challenges. Nothing to Hide-Mental Illness in the Family: a museum quality, black and white photo-text exhibit consists of 20 photographs and interviews of families navigating the mental health system with their loved ones. The exhibit demonstrates qualities such as courage, resilience and the resourcefulness of family members advocating for their loved ones. NAMI Family to Family: a free 8-week course, 2 1/2 hours long, virtual or in person. Fopr family memeber and friends with an adult loved one with a serious mental health condition. NAMI ending the silence: youth awarenes and education, 50 min presentation in school for high schoolers. Provides awarances on mental health, signs, coping skills, miths, stigmas.

The Center for Problem Gambling provides specialized counseling treatment to problem gamblers and their family members through individual, group, family and marital counseling. The Center for Problem Gambling also provides community presentations to increase awareness about the problems of compulsive gambling.

This is a program for Veterans with PTSD, TBI, and other disabilities whereby they receive peer support from other Veterans trained in military behavioral health.