Crossroads, Lake County Adolescent Counseling Center

The ADAMHS Board (Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services) plans, funds, monitors and evaluates essential services for Lake County residents. Its duties include:

• Evaluating and assessing community mental health, alcohol and drug addiction treatment needs.

• Purchasing the services necessary to take care of people's needs from local providers.

• Monitoring and evaluting services and facilites.

• Obtaining local, state and federal funding for services.

The Network of Care for Behavioral Health is a comprehensive listing of behavioral health services available in Lake County. Agencies and resources which are listed receive support from the Lake County ADAMHS Board, which is responsible for planning, funding and evaluating Lake County behavioral health services.

Crossroads is one of many charities to benefit greatly from Ohio Lawyers Give Back, which was founded by Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A. to promote the use of cy pres in class action settlements. When a class action is settled, plaintiff and defendant agree to a fund amount to pay all class members. Since many class members have moved, passed-away, or can't be found, millions of settlement dollars go unclaimed. That settlement money is intended to benefit the class—rather than revert to the wrongdoing defendant—so the ancient doctrine is now being used to distribute the unclaimed money to charities and non profits.

Over $18 million dollars has already been distributed, just by the sponsors, a single law firm. If cy pres were used more broadly, hundreds of millions of dollars each year would be available to help charities, non-profits, and the communities where we live. This website is dedicated to advancing the use of cy pres in all class action settlements where a large pool of unclaimed settlement funds is expected.

United Way Of Lake County:

Thanks to the generous support of the people in Lake County, United Way is helping each and every year, all year long. United Way funds hundreds of high-quality programs that achieve dramatic results on high-priority needs such as nurturing children & youth, strengthening families, increasing self-sufficiency, promoting health & healing, supporting older adults, grants and direct services.

ACHIEVE:

ACHIEVE fosters collaborative partnerships between city and county health officials, city and county government, tribal programs, parks and recreation departments, local YMCAs, local health-related coalitions, and other representatives from the school, business, health, and community sectors to implement improvements. State departments of health and other state-level partners provide additional resources and information to help communities meet their goals.

Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation & Developmental Disabilities:

The Board of MR/DD provides services and supports to more than 8,000 boys and girls and men and women in Cuyahoga County. The community knows us best for our early childhood centers, schools, adult activities centers and group homes, but we’re much more than that.

Ohio Department of Education:

Information on Ohio's education system including academic content standards, statewide testing, state and local report cards, and the federal law.

Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association:

The Ohio Speech-Language-Hearing Association (OSLHA) is a professional non-profit membership organization of speech-language pathologists, audiologists and students, engaged in clinical, educational, and research activities in communication disorders.

Children and Adults With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder:

With over 22,000 members in over 200 affiliates nationwide, CHADD is the nation's leading non-profit organization serving individuals with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD). Through collaborative leadership, advocacy, research, education and support, CHADD provides science-based, evidence-based information about AD/HD to parents, educators, professionals, the media and the general public.

National Alliance for the Mentally Ill:

NAMI is a nonprofit, grassroots, self-help, support and advocacy organization of consumers, families, and friends of people with severe mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, major depressive disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic and other severe anxiety disorders, autism and pervasive developmental disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, and other severe and persistent mental illnesses that affect the brain.

National Institute of Mental Health:

The NIMH mission is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior. This public health mandate demands that we harness powerful scientific tools to achieve better understanding, treatment, and eventually, prevention of these disabling conditions that affect millions of Americans.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Alcoholics Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. There are no dues or fees for AA membership.

Brave Kids

Brave Kids provides help for children with chronic life-threatening illnesses and disabilities. It was founded on June 9, 1999, by Kristen Fitzgerald after the loss of her two children to catastrophic illnesses. The Brave Kids program has been approved by and is linked to over 110 health organizations such as: The National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners, The National Brain Tumor Foundation, the National Pediatric AIDS Foundation, United Cerebral Palsy, and the National Children's Cancer Society.

National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities

The National Dissemination Center for Children with Disabilities (NICHCY) serves as a national central source of information on:

• disabilities in infants, toddlers, children, and youth,
• IDEA, which is the law authorizing special education,
• No Child Left Behind (as it relates to children with disabilities), and
• research-based information on effective educational practices.

Al-Anon and Alateen of Northeast Ohio

Narcotics Anonymous (NA) is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs have become a major problem. Members meet regularly to help each other stay clean. NA explains, "We are not interested in what or how much you used ... but only in what you want to do about your problem and how we can help."

Membership is open to all drug addicts, regardless of the particular drug or combination of drugs used.

Al-Anon and Alateen of Northeast Ohio

The Al-Anon and Alateen are anonymous fellowships of relatives and friends of alcoholics who share their experience, strength and hope in order to solve their common problems of living with an alcoholic, and to help others to do the same. Al-Anon is based in the belief that alcoholism is an illness that can be arrested, and that changed family attitudes can often aid in recovery. The only requirement for membership is that there be a relative or friend with a drinking problem.

PBS Parents

PBS Parents makes available a number of resources about children and television. It includes discussions on the impact of television on very young children -- under age 3.

United States Department of Health and Human Services

The United States Department of Health and Human Services Website contains an extensive collection of resources for children and families. Topics range from adoptions to vaccines and from babies to teenagers.

Parents Helping Parents

Parents Helping Parents provides education and skills training, information, guidance, and peer support for families with the unexpected diagnosis of and ongoing impact of childhood disabilities, including but not limited to intellectual, learning or physical disabilities and special health care needs.

Federal Emergency Management Agency

The Federal Emergency Management Agency initiated the FEMA for Kids Web site in October 1997 as a safe and fun place where children could learn what to do before, during and after a disaster to safeguard themselves, their families - even their pets.

ZERO TO THREE

is a national nonprofit, multidisciplinary organization that supports the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families. We carry out that mission through a range of activities that inform, educate and support the adults who influence very young children's lives.

National Child Traumatic Stress Network

The mission of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network is to raise the standard of care and improve access to services for traumatized children, their families and communities throughout the United States.

The Duluth Model Power and Control Wheels

Minnesota Program Development, Inc. is a nonprofit agency that works towards the elimination of violence in the lives of women and their children. The Power and Control Wheels were developed by battered women in Duluth who had been abused by their male partners. They may be copied for use in men's educational classes, groups for battered women, or community education presentations with credit to the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project.

Attitude Magazine

Attitude Magazine, whose motto is "Living Well with ADHD and Learning Disabilities," maintains a web site with a wide variety of topical resources and expert advice for parents and families.