Talbert House was founded as an experiment to integrate ex-offenders back into the community. In August 1965, with a budget consisting of $10,000 of private donations, the first halfway house program opened. Today, the agency operates multiple service sites in conjunction with its affiliates throughout Greater Cincinnati. The services offered focus on substance abuse, mental health, community corrections, and welfare-to-work providing a continuum of care that includes prevention, assessment, treatment, and reintegration services. These services are provided to a broad-based population with the agency’s mission in mind: to improve social behavior and enhance personal recovery and growth. The agency logo reflects our mission by representing a person being welcomed back by their community, family, employer, school, etc. Talbert House served 28,000 registered children, adolescents, and adults in FY 2006 in over 40 programs at 20 locations along with an additional 50,000 people through prevention and hotline services.

The Talbert House business model is comprised of three classifications of services: Programs, Partnerships, and Affiliations. The Agency adheres to this model to operate more effectively and better serve the community.

Talbert House is an agency that creates innovative, evidenced-based programs proven to solve tough social problems that impact all members of the community. Through comprehensive and proven solutions to behavioral health challenges, Talbert House makes the community stronger…one life at a time.

Talbert House’s mission is to improve social behavior and enhance personal recovery and growth.

The Talbert House business model is comprised of three classifications of services: programs, partnerships, and affiliations. The agency adheres to this model to operate more effectively and better serve the community.

PROGRAMS - Programs are exclusively provided for the community by Talbert House.

PARTNERSHIPS - Partnership services are provided in collaboration with other community agencies.

AFFILIATIONS - To address the realities of limited funding and the cost-containment demands of funders, Talbert House developed affiliations with three mental health agencies—Core Behavioral Health Centers, Center for Children and Families, and NORCEN Behavioral Health Systems. These agencies are independent, however, Talbert House is responsible for the financial, human resources and quality and clinical services for these agencies. Each affiliate organization maintains an independent 501(c) 3 tax status as well as its own board.

When working at Talbert House & Affiliates, employees can expect:

• Competitive salary
  
• Comprehensive benefits package
  
• Professional work environment
  
• Work as a member of a team
  
• Comprehensive orientation to the affiliation and specific work site
  
• Supervision by independently-licensed staff for clinical direct service providers
  
• Regular day, evening, overnight, and/or weekend hours; full and part time positions are available (depending on position and program)
  
• Supervision by experienced staff
  
• Supervision towards independent licensure

Three Talbert House employees honored with professional awards

CINCINNATI—Talbert House is pleased to announce three of its employees, Marva Duvall, Carrie Kunzelman and Alesa Shamel, have received honors in their respective fields. Talbert House, a nonprofit social service agency that employs over 650, focuses on four major service areas: community correction, mental health, substance abuse and welfare-to-work.

Marva Duvall and Carrie Kunzelman were two of seven professionals who received Greater Cincinnati Counseling Association’s Counselor Recognition Awards, in honor of Counselor Appreciation Month. GCCA is a professional organization dedicated to promoting and advancing growth, networking and identity for the discipline of counseling, while valuing the strength derived from collaboration and diversity.

Duvall is a master clinical service provider in Talbert House’s Institute of Training and Development. In her role, Duvall develops, conducts and coordinates trainings for Talbert House and other social service professionals.

Kunzelman is a master clinical service provider at Talbert House’s Pathways for Women, a residential program providing community monitoring, cognitive behavioral therapy, chemical dependency and employment services for adult females. Kunzelman oversees the clinical care of more than 450 clients each year.

Alesa Shamel received the American Society for Public Administration Greater Cincinnati Chapter’s Public Administrator of the Year in the support services category. Shamel has worked at Talbert House for over 12 years and serves as the administrative specialist for the agency’s chief financial officer and vice president of substance abuse and mental health services. ASPA is a national organization for public administrators including government, nonprofit, academia and private sector organizations dedicated to promoting public service.

Talbert House is a community-wide nonprofit network of social services with over 40 proven programs focusing on prevention, assessment, treatment and reintegration. Each year, Talbert House helps more than 28,000 men, women and children across Greater Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky overcome adversity to become healthy and productive citizens through its programs in community corrections, mental health, substance abuse and welfare-to-work.

Talbert House is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and an Equal Provider of Services.