Ohio Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services

About this board

OhioMHAS operates differently from a classic professional board: alongside individual credentials, it certifies the programs and facilities that deliver publicly funded mental-health and addiction services. Referral sources, county boards, and payers check that both the program and its clinical staff are properly certified and credentialed.

For individuals, records surfaced under this authority intersect with credentials issued by the counselor and chemical-dependency boards. When verifying a clinician in the public behavioral-health system, it is common to check the professional board license and the program’s OhioMHAS certification together.

Mental Health and Addiction Services by the numbers

These figures are ours, not the board's — we computed them from the full State of Ohio licence file so you can see this board in context rather than one record at a time. Data as of September 2026.

Only 55.1% of the 8,858 licences this board has on record are currently active — the other 44.9% belong to people who retired, moved, changed careers, or simply let a credential lapse. That gap is the single best reason to verify a licence rather than assume a name in a database means somebody may practise today.

Most common licence types

When a licence from this board is not active, the most common reason recorded is expired (2,327 records), followed by lapsed (1,613). Our status dictionary explains what each label actually means.

0% of this board's licences carry a recorded board action (0 of 8,858), against about 1.6% across all Ohio professions. A board action covers everything from an administrative consent agreement to revocation, and it is cumulative over a licence's whole life — see how we measured that before reading much into it.

Computed by OhioLicenseCheck from the State of Ohio eLicense dataset (issued licences only; application records excluded). Refreshed daily.

Who verifies these licenses?

• •County ADAMH boards contracting with providers
• •Referring clinicians confirming a program’s certification
• •Managed-care plans auditing publicly funded treatment networks
• •Families choosing a certified treatment program

Verification tips

• Verify the individual clinician with their professional board and the treatment program’s certification separately — both matter.
• Peer-support and assistant-level roles have their own credential records worth confirming.
• For residential programs, certification status is a threshold question before any placement.

Renewals and expiration

Program certifications and workforce credentials under OhioMHAS renew on defined cycles with compliance reviews. Provider organizations typically manage many certificates and staff credentials at once, which is where consolidated expiry tracking pays off.

Frequently asked questions