The use of these links should be limited to consumer educational purposes on health care and medical issues that may affect their daily lives. This site or any other internet sources should not be a substitute to seeking a medical professional.

• Mental Health

  • Suicide Prevention Foundation

  • Childhood Depression

  • Resource on Eating Disorders-  Life Worth Living provides specialized and collaborative care related to Eating Disorders, DBT, and other specialties listed for children, adolescents, adults, and their families in the Cincinnati area. Their treatment incorporates an integration of emotional, relational, behavioral, and mental health for the whole person.

  • CCHMC Parent Resource Guide- an index to common conditions affecting children

  • Best Point Behavioral Health: Children's Home

• Lice - The following sites are involved at helping eliminate lice

  • Head Lice

  • Hamilton County Lice Facts

• Epilepsy

  • EpilepsyFoundation.org

• Diabetes

  • Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation 

  • American Diabetes Association

• Cancer

  • Cancer.org- community-based volunteer organization which provides information on various cancers and eliminating cancer as the major health problem.

• Cerebral Palsy

  • UCP - United Cerebral Palsy affiliates provide a wide range of services. 

    These services include information and resource referral, advocacy, research, educational instruction, home- and community-based services, early intervention therapies, job coaching, integrated employment support, recreational opportunities, and community-based residential programs.

  • www.ninds.nih.gov/health_and_medical/disorders/cerebral_palsy.htm

• Asthma and Allergies

  • American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology site

  • Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America site

  • American Lung Association site

• Attention Deficit

  • Chadd is a nonprofit, national, family based organization which provides support and disseminates information on attention deficit disorders to children and adults with ADHD.

• Anti-Drug

  • Drug Free- site for parents that includes factual information on a variety of drugs, tips for spotting drug use, and talking to kids about drugs.

  • Beech Acres Parenting Center provides mental health and counseling services including peer support, parent-child interaction therapy (PCIT) and psychiatric services. They also have case management specialists to coordinate services for at-risk children and their families at school and in the community and navigate available mental health resources.

  • Camelot Community Care provides home & community based therapeutic programming to children and adolescents who demonstrate behavioral problems, skills deficits, academic difficulties, and family problems. Camelot also provides Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy for youth that are dual diagnosed with behavioral problems and substance use issues.

  • The Children's Home of Cincinnati program includes mental health services reach out to children with a variety of emotional and behavioral difficulties. From intensive day treatment programs to outpatient counseling, they offer assessment, therapy, early childhood treatment, day programs and partial hospitalization. 

  • Hamilton County Mental Health Services Board

• Sexual Orientation

  • GLSEN- An organization focused on ensuring every student, in every school, to be valued and treated with respect, regardless of their sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression. We believe that all students deserve a safe learning environment.

• Spina Bifida

  • spinabifidaassociation.org - this organization helps in promoting the prevention of spina bifida and enhances the lives that are affected

• Other resources from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

  • Infectious Diseases

  • Teen Health

  • Puberty

    • Female Specific

    • Male Specific