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Ohio Avenue Youth Center

Mental Health

Treatment Focus

At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.

School

Primary Level of Care

Integrates academic instruction with therapeutic support, helping students manage emotional or behavioral challenges while continuing their education in a structured, supportive environment.

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Provider's Policy

Our admissions team will work with you to explore the right payment options based on your needs, ensuring you get the best possible treatment.

Located near downtown Columbus and just off I-70, Ohio Avenue Youth Center is an afterschool and summer program focused on preventing substance use, managing anger, and supporting youth affected by trauma, stress, and anxiety. The center combines tutoring, leadership groups, arts, and recreation to create a safe and positive environment. Care is community-based, giving adolescents structured support outside of residential or hospital-level treatment.

Unlock Balance Through Learning

The program follows a trauma-informed and resiliency-oriented approach, encouraging youth to build coping skills and emotional balance. Evidence-based groups address life skills, anger management, decision-making, and conflict resolution. Creative outlets such as art, dance, music, and fitness add opportunities for expression and stress relief. By blending education with experiential activities, the center equips teens with tools to manage peer pressure, regulate emotions, and develop lasting confidence.

Inspire Change Through Creativity

Youth also participate in gender-specific groups, community service projects, and enrichment activities that promote leadership and responsibility. Facilities include a full gym, fitness equipment, and a computer lab, while the nutrition program teaches healthy cooking through shared meal preparation. These unique elements foster resilience, connection, and self-expression, helping adolescents build the skills and motivation needed to thrive at home, in school, and in their communities.

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AT A GLANCE

Center Overview

Location
657 South Ohio Avenue Columbus, OH 43205 View Map
Primary Focus
At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditio...

Treatment Focus

At this center, you receive personalized care for mental health conditions. They provide therapy and tailor treatment to your unique needs, diagnoses, and preferences.

Occupancy
N/A beds
Conditions We Treat
Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Stress +1 More
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How to pay

Insurance Accepted

Provider's Policy: Our admissions team will work with you to explore the right payment options based on your needs, ensuring you get the best possible treatment.
(614) 258-8043
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Care Options

Levels of Care

Mental health care includes a range of services such as counseling, therapy, medication management, and support groups, all designed to address issues from everyday stress and anxiety to more severe conditions like depression and schizophrenia. These practices are essential for helping individuals manage their emotions, improve their relationships, and navigate life's challenges in healthier, more adaptive ways.
Residential
Not Offered at This Center
Intensive monitoring and care for conditions like depression, trauma, suicidality, and anxiety. Residential mental health facilities offer a safe setting with activities and structure, plus opportunities to practice life skills and bond with peers.
Outpatient
Outpatient treatment offers flexible therapeutic and medical care without the need to stay overnight in a hospital or inpatient facility. Outpatient care typically offers a range of therapies and medical interventions individuals can attend alongside daily life.
Virtual & In-Home Care
Not Offered at This Center
The delivery of therapeutic services utilizing technology such as video conferencing, online messaging or phone calls, allowing for flexibility, comfort and increased access to care.
Treatment

Your Care Options

Specializations

Adolescents

Adolescents

Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.

Anger

Anger

Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Trauma

Trauma

Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."

Who We Treat

Adolescents

Adolescents

Teens receive the treatment they need for mental health disorders and addiction, with the added support of educational and vocational services.

Girls
Boys

Approaches

Evidence-Based

Evidence-Based

A combination of scientifically rooted therapies and treatments make up evidence-based care, defined by their measured and proven results.

Experiential

Experiential

Expressive tools and therapies help patients process past situations, learn more about themselves, and find healing through action.

Gender-Specific

Gender-Specific

Separate treatment for men or women can create strong peer connections and remove barriers related to trauma, shame, and gender-specific nuances.

Therapies

Dance Therapy

Dance Therapy

This experiential therapy uses dance to improve body awareness, physical health, and social skills.

Expressive Arts

Expressive Arts

Creative processes like art, writing, or dance use inner creative desires to help boost confidence, emotional growth, and initiate change.

Group Therapy
Life Skills

Life Skills

Teaching life skills like cooking, cleaning, clear communication, and even basic math provides a strong foundation for continued recovery.

Music Therapy

Music Therapy

Singing, performing, and even listening to music can be therapeutic. Music therapy sessions are facilitated by certified counselors.

Play Therapy

Play Therapy

This approach is commonly used with children. It incorporates elements of play and self-expression, like boardgames, finger painting, dolls, and blocks.

Psychoeducation

Psychoeducation

This method combines treatment with education, teaching patients about different paths toward recovery. This empowers them to make more effective decisions.

Recreation Therapy

Recreation Therapy

In recreation therapy, recovery can be joyful. Patients practice social skills and work through emotional triggers by engaging in fun activities.

Languages

English

Conditions We Treat

Anger

Anger

Although anger itself isn't a disorder, it can get out of hand. If this feeling interferes with your relationships and daily functioning, treatment can help.

Anxiety

Anxiety

Anxiety is a common mental health condition that can include excessive worry, panic attacks, physical tension, and increased blood pressure.

Depression

Depression

Symptoms of depression may include fatigue, a sense of numbness, and loss of interest in activities. This condition can range from mild to severe.

Stress

Stress

Stress is a natural reaction to challenges, and it can even help you adapt. However, chronic stress can cause physical and mental health issues.

Trauma

Trauma

Some traumatic events are so disturbing that they cause long-term mental health problems. Those ongoing issues can also be referred to as "trauma."

Aftercare

Outpatient Treatment
Experience

Care Designed for Your Needs

Amenities

Basketball Court
Fitness Center
Snacks

Special Considerations

Justice Involved
Healthy Meals are provided

Healthy Meals are provided

Great food meets great treatment, with providers serving healthy meals to restore nutrition, wellbeing, and health.

Gender-specific groups

Gender-specific groups

Patients in gender-specific groups gain the opportunity to discuss challenges unique to their gender in a comfortable, safe setting conducive to healing.

Activities

Cooking Classes
Dance Classes
Games
Reading

Smoking and Vaping Policy

Smoking Not Allowed
Vaping Not Allowed
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Further Research

The following therapies are included: dance therapy, group therapy and more.
Columbus, Ohio, United States.
Our admissions team will work with you to explore the right payment options based on your needs, ensuring you get the best possible treatment.
Ohio Avenue Youth Center provides outpatient and more.

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