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- EIN 31-1690987
- (740) 345-6874
- 112 S 3rd St Newark OH 43055-5335 USA
- www.themainplace.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Developmentally Disabled Centers, Disabilities, Human Services
Mission: The main place, inc. Is a consumer-operated mental health recovery center that promotes recovery through peer support, socialization, education, and training. By working together, consumers build better lives for themselves, gain employment, maintain independence and earn acceptance within their communities.
Programs: Housing: to provide housing and housing supports to adults experiencing serious and persistent mental illness whose ability to get and maintain housing has been disrupted by their disability, and who have a history of homelessness or chronic homelessness.
peer services: this program provides individual or group interactions conducted by persons receiving services, persons who have received services, or their families or significant others, for the purpose of providing emotional support and understanding, sharing experiences in coping with problems, and developing a network of people that provides ongoing support outside the formal mental health service system.
community supportive treatment: to provide specific, measurable and individualized services to each person served. These services should be focused on the individual's ability to succeed in the community, to identify and access needed services and to show improvement in school, work and family and integration and contributions within the community.
assessment: it is a process of gathering information to assess consumer needs and functioning in order to determine appropriate service and/or treatment based on identification of the presenting problem, evaluation of mental status and formulation of a diagnostic impression.