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Tel. 740-375-5581 |
Buckeye Family |
827 North Main St. |
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Fax 740-375-5583 |
Marion, Ohio |
Marion, Ohio 43302 |
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For the Chronically Mentally Ill, A Good Home Can Be Hard To Find. |
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Usually, our residents have exhausted their support systems and have demonstrated that the traditional outpatient treatment and casework models are inadequate for them. Their pathology is too severe, or too unstable, or too overwhelming to be successfully managed managed and treated on an outpatient basis or in other facilities. Frequently, we are the last stop before long-term institutional care. Occasionally, we function we function as a low-cost alternative to frequent acute care psychiatric hospitalizations, and, for many individuals, we offer County Mental Health Boards or Agencies an effective low-cost alternative to the State hospitals. Most of all, each of our residents come to us because they need more that the traditional outpatient approach to treating their problems. Many of our residents find living with us represents a higher level of functioning. While many of our residents qualify as "chronically mentally ill," and have an appropriate psychiatric diagnosis, many of them have other identified problems, such as (but not limited to) the following: mental retardation; developmental disabilities; alcohol and drug abuse; sexual acting-out; physical disabilities; dementias; organic brain syndrome; brain damage and TBI's; pedophilia and sexual offences; severe personality disorders; and, adolescent puberty. |