Behavioral Health Services Marysville Ohio

The Marysville Union is part of Clubhouse International and is organized to support people living with mental illness in Marysville, Ohio. During their participation, clubhouse members gain access to opportunities to rejoin the worlds of friendships, family, employment, and education and the services and support they may individually need to continue their recovery.

The Marysville Union provides a restorative and caring environment for people whose lives have been severely disrupted because of their mental illness, who need the emotional support of others who are in recovery, and who believe that mental illness and substance abuse are treatable.

The Marysville Union does not have patients in the same way that a clinic or hospital might characterize those whom they treat. At The Marysville Union, you join voluntarily and become a clubhouse member working hand-in-hand with staff and other members to lend emotional support and help deliver the health services, care, counseling, stress reduction, and camaraderie that results in meaningful, measurable progress toward better lives for themselves, other clubhouse members, and their communities at large.

All too often addiction goes hand-in-hand with mental illnesses. The relationship between the two is such that it can be difficult to determine which precipitated the other. However, what can be determined is that they have a devastating effect on the emotional, financial, private, and professional lives of those suffering from the co-occurring maladies of substance abuse and mental illness.

The impacts are also felt by their friends, families, children, colleagues, and entire communities of those suffering behavioral health problems. Most professionals agree that in order to stem the rising tide of substance abuse and mental illness, both have to be addressed and treated concurrently.

According to Clubhouse International, mental illness is more prevalent than cancer, diabetes and heart disease. 450 million people worldwide have some type of mental disorder. Of the 800,000 people on average who commit suicide annually, approximately 90% of those suicides are related to mental illness.

More than half of adults in America suffering from mental illness do not receive care. The news related to diagnosis and behavioral health care among adolescents is equally alarming with over 60% of young people with major depression not receiving ANY behavioral health support.

Indeed, in dollars and cents, the result of anxiety and depression costs the global economy US $1 trillion each year in lost productivity. The trickle-down effect means everyone pays more for goods and services, but also in terms of rising healthcare premiums.

Perhaps most significantly, and destructively, behavioral health and substance abuse costs lives and livelihoods. 360,000 people suffering with mental health illnesses are incarcerated. And the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention estimates that there are 130 suicides in the United States each day.

The Marysville Union is a member organization of Clubhouse International, a global nonprofit organization with the mission to end social and economic isolation for people with mental illness by growing the number and quality of Clubhouse rehabilitation programs worldwide.

Clubhouse International was first established in 1994. But the organization’s roots go back to Fountain House, the first Clubhouse, founded in New York City in 1948 to provide behavioral health care and related services.

As a Clubhouse International member, The Marysville Union shares the Fountain House’s values: Every person is capable of great things; every person deserves just and equitable care; every person has the right to self-determination and community. Located in Ohio’s Union County in the city of Marysville, The Marysville Union is slated to open its doors for addiction and mental health recovery and support services in January 2023.