TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) \u2014 A Toledo mental health agency is marking one year of connecting people of all ages with resources and care.<\/p>\n
Jeanita Hopings turned her dream of helping people with mental health issues into a reality one year ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m so appreciative to give back. Somebody gave me a chance. I\u2019m just happy to give somebody else one,\u201d Hopings said.<\/p>\n
She said she got the idea to open her own mental health agency after supporting her family on their mental health journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cI went to some groups with them, some alcohol addiction programs with them, and I didn\u2019t like the way they were treated. So then I decided, okay, hey, I\u2019m going to go to school and figure out how to help others,\u201d Hopings said.<\/p>\n
Services offered<\/p>\n
Hopings now owns Helping Others Behavior Health Agency<\/a>. It offers counseling, behavioral health assessments and treatment planning. It also runs a group home for girls.<\/p>\n \u201cI have seven goddaughters. So then I decided I wanted a group home for little girls. I have a group home that holds 12 to 18 little girls with mental health issues,\u201d Hopings said.<\/p>\n \u201cEven when they get grown and leave the group home, they still gonna be a part of this family right here. And it\u2019s just great to see that love going back both ways,\u201d said Earl Hopings, father of Jeanita.<\/p>\n Family involvement<\/p>\n Hopings\u2019 parents work alongside her to provide resources to clients and the girls at the group home.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m giving them something that they\u2019ve never experienced before. We was at Orlando Park, eating, we went Taco Bell, bought food and took it back to the bench. And you would have thought I had took them in Cedar Point. They were so excited,\u201d said Debra Gibbons, group home manager and mother of Jeanita.<\/p>\n \u201cWe want them to know there\u2019s somebody that… it ain\u2019t the end. When you go through some things, go through some things in your family. Don\u2019t give up,\u201d Earl Hopings said.<\/p>\n New goal<\/p>\n Despite the organization\u2019s success, Hopings has no plans to stop its work. She and her family actually have a new goal in mind.<\/p>\n \u201cRight now, we\u2019re trying to get a home for the boys. We\u2019re trying to do a boys home. So it\u2019s a lot of labor,\u201d Gibbons said.<\/p>\n Hopings said the agency is always looking for donations, including clothes, hygiene products, volunteers and monetary donations. Donations can be dropped off at the Helping Others building near W. Sylvania Ave. and Talmadge Rd.<\/p>\n Latest Local News<\/a> | First Alert Weather<\/a> | Crime<\/a> | National<\/a> | 13abc Originals<\/a><\/p>\n Copyright 2026 WTVG. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) \u2014 A Toledo mental health agency is marking one year of connecting people of all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":603177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[255685,103,255682,255683,61,60,255684,410,255686,411,255681],"class_list":["post-603176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-group-home-for-girls-toledo","tag-health","tag-helping-others-behavior-health-agenc","tag-helping-others-llc","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jeanita-hopings","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-health-resources-toledo","tag-mentalhealth","tag-toledo-mental-health-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}