Child Guidance and Family Solutions

About Child Guidance and Family Solutions

Child Guidance & Family Solutions is a community mental health agency based in Akron, Ohio, serving children, teens, adults, and families from offices in Akron, Cuyahoga Falls, Green, and Barberton. They began in the late 1930s as a child guidance center founded by the Junior League of Akron and expanded to whole-family care after a 2003 merger with Family Solutions. Their outpatient services include individual counseling, psychiatric evaluation and medication management, prevention programming, and wrap-around Therapeutic Behavioral Services, with substance use treatment listed among their specialties. They hold certification from the Ohio Department of Behavioral Health and accreditation from The Joint Commission.

Beyond substance use, their clinicians address anxiety, depression, trauma, ADHD, behavioral concerns, suicide prevention, sexual behavior problems, and early-onset psychosis, and they offer crisis intervention, group counseling, and family counseling. They also provide intensive home-based treatment, LGBTQ+ support, and specialized services for refugees, while their board-certified psychiatrists and advanced practice nurses focus mainly on children, adolescents, and some young adults. For younger children, they run early learning programs such as TAPS, Building Resilience in Children, and Incredible Years groups to build social-emotional skills and kindergarten readiness. Care can take place in their offices, at home, in schools and childcare centers, or through telehealth anywhere in Ohio.

About Child Guidance and Family Solutions

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