Mental Health and Emotional Support
If you need to talk to someone or seek help.
Locations
Advanced DUI School and Counseling
Provides structured service to help treat addiction problems or problems associated to addiction.
Al-Anon Support Group Hotline
This program offers various support groups to help those struggling with an alcohol addiction.
Alcoholics Anonymous
This program provides services for those struggling with an alcohol addiction through support groups and other resources.
Alliance Family Services
Applied Behavioral Analysis.
Bristlecone Family Resource Center
Residential, intensive outpatient treatment, and transitional living services for drug, alcohol, and/or gambling addiction.
Caregiver Support Group by Circle of Life Hospice
Circle of Life Caregiver Support Group, a safe space for caregivers to share, connect, and find understanding.
Compassionate Friends of Reno
To assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following a death.
Crisis Support Services of Nevada
24 hour crisis line to call for elder abuse reporting, substance abuse, suicide prevention, and more.
Family Behavioral Health
To provide outpatient evidence-informed, strength based, individualized, culturally relevant and bilingual psychotherapy services to individuals of all ages...
HOLD – Hearing Out Life Drama
A listening service.
Life Change Center
Outpatient for opiate dependency. Uses methadone and buprenorphine treatment.
Megan Ingram, LCSW, LICSW
Megan Ingram is a certified narrative therapist with more than ten years of experience working with people who...
Narcotics Anonymous (NA)
This program provides services and support groups for those struggling with a narcotics addiction.
Nevada Equine Assisted Therapy
Nevada Equine Assisted Therapy offers psychosocial rehabilitations for people of all ages, including seniors, with the involvement of...
Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services (NNAMHS)
Offers various services related to behavioral health.
Northern Nevada HOPES Behavioral Health Counseling
Northern Nevada HOPES offers therapy as part of its behavioral health services
Quest Counseling and Consulting
This center offers resources, treatment, and support groups for substance abuse and mental health.
Renown Behavioral Health: Kirman Ave.
Provides individual, couples, family, and group counseling to treat an array of mental health issues.
Renown Behavioral Health: McCabe
Provides individual, couples, family and group counseling to treat an array of mental health issues.
Renown Behavioral Health: Mill
Provides individual, couples, family and group counseling to treat an array of mental health issues.
Ridge House
Provides comprehensive re-entry services to former offenders and behavioral health care to individuals in recovery from addiction. The...
Senior Bridges Intensive Outpatient
Behavioral health program dedicated to seniors managing a mental illness or other behavioral disorder in an inpatient or...
Sierra Mountain Health
Offers services related to psychiatry and has psychiatrist on staff for geriatric psychiatry.
Step 1 Inc.
Transitional living with outpatient substance abuse counseling following the 12-step model.
Step 2 Inc.
This program works to provide services and resources to children and women who are struggling with substance abuse...
Substance Abuse Help Line
Provides information, resources, and support for issues related to alcoholism for an individual or a loved one.
Summit View Hospice Bereavement
Offers support to help cope with and understand the dying and grieving process. Bereavement support for those that...
Blog Entries
A Day in the Life of a Compound Caregiver
Tod Sherman is a family caregiver for his wife, Dawn, and his son, Doug. He shares his story...
Caregiving during COVID-19
The COVID-19 situation is an unprecedented time for everyone. People of all ages are at risk of contracting...
Caring for my Father in the time of a Pandemic
Caring for her father during a pandemic, Bonnie read shares her story and why it is important to...
Elder Abuse during the time of COVID-19
Another growing concern brought on to us by COVID-19 is the surprising uptick in reported cases of elder...
Family Caregivers During a Pandemic
Family Caregivers Chris and Maria Ward have been long-distance caregivers for Chris’ sister since March of 2016. They...
Grief while Caregiving
Everyone experiences grief in his or her life. All of us lose friends and family and it is...
How to Include Anyone this Holiday Season
The holiday season can be the most wonderful time of the year, but many fail to realize the...
Importance of Self Care During the Holidays
Caregiving during the holidays can be particularly challenging as this often...
Losing My Husband from Dementia and COVID-19
I’m writing this on Christmas Day, 2020. It’s my first Christmas without my husband of 43 years. He...
Managing Daylight Savings Time
Daylight Savings Time is on Sunday, March 10, 2024. Having one less hour in the day can add...
Perceptions in Caregiving
Particularly in the world of caregiving, I am firmly yet gently advising never to take anything personally. Whether...
The Cost of Unresolved Grief
The Impact of grief on Society: While death is a normal part of life, our society doesn’t do...
The Importance of Self-Care
In this edition, Christy Pappas, family caregiver, discusses just how important self-care is and how it makes a...
Three Resources to Help Caregivers Facing Social Isolation and Loneliness
Each day caregivers are confronted with thousands of tasks. It can feel overwhelming. It is stressful. As a...
Why Humor is Important When Caregiving
As a caregiver, you face many challenges on a day-to-day basis. You may feel overwhelmed and isolated with...
Why Support Groups are Important
Support groups can be helpful if you are facing a major setback in life, or if you are...
Documents
Sanford Center for Aging Guidebook
The Sanford Center for Aging Guidebook is an instructional manual on how to be a new family caregiver.
Sanford Center for Aging Guidebook en Español
Esta guía tiene como intención brindar utilidad a los cuidadores no renumerados. Quizá no incluya todo lo que...
Frequently Asked Questions
What is caregiver burnout?
Caregiver burnout is common among caregivers. This happens when a caregiver is exhausted physically, mentally, and/or emotionally and...
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Useful Documents
Sanford Center for Aging Guidebook
The Sanford Center for Aging Guidebook is an instructional manual on how to be a new family caregiver.
Caregiver’s Compensation Guide
Sanford Center for Aging Caregivers’ Compensation Guide shows how you can get paid while taking care of an aging family member in Nevada.