Services offered by the Adam Center

It is with honor and great humility that there are services offered by volunteer peer counselors to help other men gain the same knowledge and wisdom gained through peer to peer counseling, group studies and library resources at the Adam Centers.

Many of the counselors have come from backgrounds simular to those that come to the Adam Center for counseling. This allows the counselor to know, feel and help work through these life issues that our patrons come to us with. We turn as many stones over in ones life as they want us too, in order to enable them to carry on with life as their creator designed them too and have lasting hope in that design.

If you are experiencing or are concerned about any area of life listed below, please contact us for an appointment to see if we can assist you.

· Abuse: physical, emotional, sexual, rape, spiritual

· Boundaries and life style choices

· Childlessness: infertility, adoption, single-no children, Codependency

· Death: wife, child, parent, close friend

· Depression

· Divorce

· Eating issues

· Fears and phobias

· Jail: families of inmates, inmate before and after release

· Illness and disability: long term and terminal

· Loneliness

· Parenting: small children, teenagers, empty nest, single parenting, older parents

· Promiscuity

· Relationships: wife, parent, partner, children, co-worker, friends

· Self-esteem

· Sexuality or pornography

· Singleness

· Spirituality: personal, image of God

· Suicide

· Woundedness from childhood

· And other issues a man faces

James 1:2-5

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, ³because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.

(NIV)

Psalm 31:7-8
I will be glad and rejoice in your love, for you saw my affliction and knew the anguish of my soul. You have not handed me over to the enemy but have set my feet in a spacious place. *(NIV)*

Services

Adam Center provides free faith based peer counseling by men to men ages 18 and above in 3 ways:

Peer Support: meeting regularly one to one with a peer counselor.

Groups: seasonal groups meet to dicuss topicsthe effect men today, booksthat help men grow, or Bible studies.

Lending library: workbooks and reading books on the issues about which menare concerned; used in conjunction with meeting a peer counselor or for self help.

Peer Counseling:

The Adam Center requires an intake form be completed before a Peer Support volunteer counselor is assigned.

There are 3 ways to send in the information to see a peer counselor:

Call the office and complete by telephone with confidential volunteer 513-235-9298

Open the client intake form; Print it, Complete it and Mail it to:

Adams Center

PO Box 15103

Cincinnati, OH 45215

Open the client intake form; Save as a Word document named “AC Intake Form,” type in the information, save completed form, then attach completed email ans return and email it to our Intake Person at the Adam Center.. Only the Director receives your intake form.

If you interested in becoming a peer counseling and would like to sign up for training classes, please go to the peer counselor page in the website.

If you need to be seen by a peer counselor, please call 513-235-9298 or go to the Client Resource page, down load a client intake form and email back to the intake director.

Adam Centers - Counseling Center Locations

(Peer Counseling Session are by appointment only)

Lockland, OH 45215

Forest Park, OH 45240

Adam Center Groups:

Throughout the year Adam Center will offer book studies, support groups, and Bible studies. To sign up for a Adam Center Group go to the News & Events page. The schedule of groups is to be announced.

Adam Centers Lending Library and other resources:

The lending library is one of the special features of the Adam Center. Our volunteers and clients may borrow a book to work on together in session or for self-help. Often a client wishes to read or do pages of a workbook around the reason he came in for help. Sometimes a peer counselor desires tools to assist him in caring for his clients. Using these resources deepens the education and growth for each person.

Policies for using the lending library:

Complete a registration form in the lending library notebook.

We request a $15.00 deposit to cover some of the cost of replacing a book or tape if it is not returned. This can be refunded at any time as long as the borrowed resource has been returned.

Resource notebooks have been assembled with current organizations in greater Cincinnati who assist with certain concerns. This is available for the volunteers and clients needing to connect on topics beyond the scope of the Adam Center.
Collection of articles reside in the files for current information on a range of topics. (TBA)