Mental Health America of Ohio Inc

What it reported doing in 2025

In 2025, the workplace health program team conducted 23 occumetrics assessments with a combination of new and previously engaged agencies and through funding from three different sources. Occumetrics staff continue to sit on multiple committees addressing behavioral health workforce development. Two pilot programs were implemented througout 2025 with the goal of strengthing leadership skills at both the mid-manager and senior leader levels in local and statewide behavioral health agencies. Our peer recovery support (prs) services for professionals who use their lived experience to help others on their path to recovery continued to grow. Our team held eight trainings in franklin county in 2025 with a total of 136 professionals completing the class and hosted two prs events with a total of 248 attendees. We implemented the prs internship program which provides on-the-job experience to certified prs with the goal of developing their skills in the workplace. In addition to their work at the contracted host sites, the 12 interns also completed an orientation and bi-weekly meetings with mhaohio, which provides supplemental training and support. In 2025, the poem program (perinatal outreach & encouragement for moms) provided a range of services and activities. The perinatal mental health peer services, poem peer careconnect, received 2,694 referrals for pregnant and postpartum individuals across the state. Poem served 283 participants through virtual and in-person support groups and facilitated 140 mentor- mentee peer support connections. We hosted four continuing education (ce) trainings, engaging 374 professionals and providers. Program staff also presented at additional trainings and shared resources at more than 46 partner events, making direct connections with peers and community organizations. Poem had 117 active volunteers throughout the year and were able to train a total of six new program volunteers. In collective impact and systems-level work, mhaohio's poem program continued to host and serve as administrator for the Ohio perinatal mental health task force. The task force has continued to grow, with membership at 611 individuals and organizations from across the state at the end of 2025. The get connected franklin county program offered care navigation and referral to over 1400 callers in 2025. One participant reported, "my son was struggling with his mental health after his longtime girlfriend and mother of his son died by suicide. We reached out to mental health america and they were very quick and efficient and getting him connected with the right therapist and psychiatrist. He now attends therapy twice a week." the family advocate service, which offers extended care navigation and support to family members supporting a loved one with a mental illness, worked with 28 new families in 2025. In 2025, the get connected program in fairfield county served a total of 242 people, providing referrals, information, and advocacy services to members of the community. The program has continued to grow. In 2025 the program added the family advocate service, providing care navigation and support to 6 new families who are supporting a loved one with a mental illness. Throughout the year, this program focused on growing relationships with potential referral sources and community partners and developing the new family advocate service offering. The get connected program manager represents the fairfield county adamh board on the county's guardianship board and annually gathers community stakeholders to identify service gaps in local mental health system. Our support groups program currently hosts 12 active groups across franklin county covering topics of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, ocd, symptoms of psychosis, and families of individuals with mental health concerns. Among these groups in 2025, this program provided 768 contact hours reaching 337 unique participants throughout the year. This program is made possible with a roste

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 82.2%; rating input score 82
• Program expense ratio: 91.5%; rating input score 91
• Fundraising efficiency: $42.07 raised per $1 spent on fundraising; rating input score 76; 76th percentile among comparable filings

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Pay-setting controls: Limited
• Foreign activity oversight: Limited
• Grant itemization coverage: Limited
• Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
• Related-party transparency: Limited

Accountability

• Independent voting board: 100%; rating input score 100; 63rd percentile among comparable filings
• Governance controls: 8 of 8 controls in place; rating input score 100
  • Conflict-of-interest policy: Pass
  • Whistleblower policy: Pass
  • Document-retention policy: Pass
  • CEO compensation review process: NotApplicable
  • Other executive compensation review process: Pass
  • Form 990 shared with the board: Pass
  • Board meeting minutes documented: Pass
  • Audit committee oversight: Pass
  • Independent financial-statement audit: Pass

Sustainability

• Operating margin: 10.7%; rating input score 57; 57th percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 1.61; rating input score 50; 50th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0.28; rating input score 28; 28th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 9.1%; rating input score 36; 36th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: 10.4% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: 10.5% per year; rating input score 100; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 14.1% per year; rating input score 100; 72nd percentile among comparable filings