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Choosing behavioral health puts you on the path to a stable, rewarding career

You may not know exactly what job you want when you’re done with school, but maybe you already know you want it to mean something. A career in behavioral health means working with people in your community, and focusing on their social, emotional, and mental well-being as they struggle with mental illness, behavioral problems, or unhealthy lifestyle habits.

The Appalachian Children Coalition is here to help you find, secure, and receive support for the education and training you need to become a behavioral health professional working with children and young adults in Appalachian Ohio.

Types of behavioral health jobs

  • – Counselor
  • – Therapist
  • – Community Health Worker
  • – Social Worker
  • – Mental Health Nurse
  • – Mental Health Technician
  • – Prevention Specialist/Aid
  • – Peer Counselor
  • – Chemical Dependency Counselor Assistant
  • – Psychologist
  • – Psychiatrist
  • – Licensed Behavioral Health Counselor
  • – Substance Use Disorder Prevention

Let’s talk about your career

JOBS AT OUR MEMBER ORGANIZATIONS

In addition to filling out our contact form above, visit our member organizations to see specific jobs openings.

AltaCare Group

Providing the highest quality of professional care to children, teens and their families.
Visit AltaCare Group

Building Bridges to Careers

Fostering student, business, and community relationships to inspire career choice through experience, entrepreneurship, and education.
Visit BB2C

Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Central Ohio

Matching caring adults with children in our community to help them navigate challenges and reach their full potential.
Visit BBBSSCO

Child Focus

Strengthening the quality of life for individuals in central and southern Cincinnati by providing services that build on strengths and allow potential to flourish.
Visit Child Focus

Coleman Health Services

Delivering mental health, substance use, residential, and rehabilitation services.
Visit the Coleman Health Services Careers Page

Community Counseling Center of Ashtabula County

A non-profit behavioral health provider focused on engaging the community in recovery.
Visit the CCC Career Page

Coshocton Behavioral Health Choices

“Providing compassionate, person-centered, wrap-around behavioral health services to individuals and our community.
Visit CBHC

Family Counseling & Rehabilitation Center of Ohio

Quality mental health care, community and family enhancement, and support services that are provided in a collaborative effort with consumers' overall health strategies, personal goals, and an array of medical services.
Visit the Family Counseling & Rehabilitation Center’s Career Page

Field of Hope

Faith-based counseling for adults struggling with alcohol, drug and substance abuse.
Visit the Field of Hope Career Page

Future Plans

Helping people discover their passion and skills that will lead to a personalized pathway and a better tomorrow.
Visit the Future Plans Career Page

Hopewell Health Centers

Providing access to affordable, high quality, integrated health care for all.
Visit the Hopewell Health Career Page

Health Recovery Services

Serving those affected with mental illness and alcohol, tobacco, and drug addiction.
Visit HRS

Integrated Services for Behavioral Health

A progressive, community-oriented organization dedicated to promoting mental health and overall well-being.
Visit the ISBH Career Page

Meigs Industries, Inc.

A sheltered workshop that provides programs for developmentally disabled centers and services.
Visit Meigs Industries on Indeed

Mid-Ohio Psychological Services, Inc.

Providing high-quality, cost-effective, culturally-sensitive, socially-responsible, mental health, substance abuse, and support services to individuals and community organizations.
Visit the MOPS Career Page

Muskingum Behavioral Health

Offering compassionate and effective counseling, prevention and recovery services.
Visit Muskingum Behavioral Health

MYCAP

Coordinating and delivering quality programs and services to overcome barriers of social and economic poverty for moderate to low-income individuals, children and families.
Visit MYCAP

OhioGuidestone

Providing a complete continuum of prevention services and mental health and substance use treatment, focusing on responsive person-centered care.
Visit OhioGuidestone Careers

Paint Valley ADAMH Board

Ensuring that anyone affected by mental illness / addiction has access to a high-quality oriented system of care.
Visit the PVADAMH Career Page

SciotoTeach

Providing a superior workforce through personalized training, new technologies, and community partnerships.
Visit the SciotoTeach Careers Page

Shawnee Family Health Center

Providing mental health and physical health care services for adults and children in Adams, Lawrence and Scioto Counties.
Visit the Shawnee Family Health Center Career Page

Shelton Behavioral Health

Providing a wide range of quality mental and behavioral health care to the Mahoning Valley.
Visit Shelton Behavioral Health

Southeastern Ohio Counseling Center

Providing excellent mental health and recovery services by linking every client with an individual who will meet their needs and work collaboratively with the community to build a stronger person.
Visit SOCC

Survivor Advocacy Outreach Program

Empowering the community and all survivors to live free of sexual violence, domestic violence, human trafficking, and stalking.
Visit SAOP

Trumbull County Mental Health & Recovery Board

Improving the well-being of our community by establishing and maintaining a person-centered, recovery oriented system of mental health and addiction services in Trumbull County.
Visit Trumbull ADAMH

West Clermont School District

An ON THE RISE school district on the east side of Cincinnati that values strengthening relationships, cultivating innovation, being relentlessly student-centered, and fostering empowerment
Visit the Career Page

Why choose a career in behavioral health?

From case managers and intervention specialists to psychologists and chemical dependency counselors, behavioral health has countless specialties in clinical and non-clinical settings. This is a wide field with a variety of jobs that give you the chance to make a positive impact on the lives in your community every day.

Today, with more people seeking behavioral health services and fewer people in these roles, this is an area of great professional opportunity and stability.

About the Appalachian Children Coalition

We believe every child deserves equal access to support services to help them grow into happy productive adults. And yet, in Appalachian Ohio—an area of concentrated poverty and drug exposure—children don’t have access to pediatric crisis stabilization units, and face a shortage of behavioral health specialists. That’s why, in 2020, we formed the ACC, an alliance of behavioral health, education, and social service professionals from Appalachian Ohio. We work together to meet our region’s most acute needs.