Provides case management to adults and children who suffer from serious mental illness or emotional disturbance. Goal is to help keep them linked to neccessary community resources.

Offers services that help individuals living with mental health challenges to increase self-esteem, build community supports, identify community resources, and learn about symptom management and coping skills.

Anchorpoint's licensed and experienced counselors offer in-person and telehealth counseling to individuals, couples, and families of all ages, faiths, and backgrounds with a special focus on the uninsured, under-insured, and under-resourced. Based on the unique needs of participants, the counselors use evidence-based therapeutic techniques, including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, Trauma-Informed Therapy, Brief Supportive Therapy, Play Therapy, Sand Tray Therapy, Family Therapy, Person-Centered Therapy, Pastoral Counseling, Strength-Based Counseling, Motivational Interviewing, and Psychoeducation. The Child and Parent Place at Anchorpoint (C.A.P.P.) specializes in treating childhood anxiety and depression while providing counseling and education to parents of children and teens. Anchorpoint is located in Ross Township and has served the Northern Greater Pittsburgh region since 1966.

Coordinates and connects mental health, intellectual disability and early intervention consumers with appropriate agencies.

Provides individual, family, couples and group therapy for children, adolescents and adults, for
a variety of MH and D&A concerns including childhood trauma, behavioral and conduct disorders, mood disorders, grief/loss, specialized anger management, post-traumatic stress disorder, arson prevention, parent/child conflict and issues related to child and adolescent development, as well as life transitions.

Cognitive Therapy is a form of psychotherapy proven in numerous clinical trials to be effective for a wide variety of disorders. The therapist and client work together as a team to identify and solve problems. Therapists help clients to overcome their difficulties by changing their thinking, behavior, and emotional responses.

Domestic Violence Support & Resources & Referrals, Sexual Assault Support,
Health Crisis Resources & Referrals,
Mental Health Resources & Referral
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Students, Parents & Group Education Presentations,
STD Educational Information,
Drug & Alcohol Resources & Referrals,
Self Injury Resources & Referrals,
Domestic Violence Support, Resources & Referrals,
Sexual Assault Support, Resources & Referrals,
Health Crisis Resources & Referrals,
Mental Health Resources & Referrals.

Feeling anxious? Need help with managing stress, anxiety, drugs or alcohol? Need to talk to someone?

Mental health clinic providing outpatient mental health and psychiatric services.

Assists consumers in accessing services through the Base Service Unit (BSU).

A local program to provide in-school student assemblies, teacher in-services, and community or workplace assemblies providing education on mental health awareness; including how to identify at-risk behaviors to prevent suicide, and where to seek local help. Support for those affected by suicide is also provided; trained volunteers offer peer support to the newly bereaved.

Provide presentations, trainings, and information to the general public, agencies, staff, support groups, educators, and community groups.Topics include mental health, alcohol, drugs, tobacco as well as resiliency, wellness, and recovery.
Provide speakers and/or coordination of presentations and trainings to meet your needs.

Disseminates information to the community about available mental health services and current issues and trends.

A Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) is a staff person who has used mental health and community services and who is using recovery principles in their own life. A CPS has had to pass an educational program and become certified to provide these services.
CPS services can help in the following areas:
- Mentoring
- Advocacy/ Mediation
- Engagement
- Provide hope
- Teach wellness strategies
- Provide education (e.g. agency services, community supports, recovery principles etc.)
- Skills building
- Link to community supports
- Develop natural supports
- Goal Planning
- Crisis Support
- Emotional support

Provides personal finances and home care training, transportation, companion services, social skills, and self care. Offers assistance for finding and keeping housing.

Office of Mental Health provides treatment and supports for residents with serious and persistent mental illness.

Provides case management, education, harm reduction, and support programs for straight and LGBTQ+ youth of color.

Services include:

Free confidential HIV & STI screening
Free Safer Sex and Hygiene Kits
Case Management Services
Interactive & Motivational Support Groups
Mental Health & Substance Abuse Services
PREP Referrals
Youth Services
Educational Workshops
Food & Clothing Services
Competency Training

The BIGS After School Mentoring Program is a collaboration between the Downingtown Area School District, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Brandywine Area YMCA, Bishop Shanahan High School, and Downingtown Area CTC. It is a peer to peer mentoring program that matches high school students with elementary school students. We initiated this program in the Spring of 2002. The program is currently being offered at six Downingtown Area School District Elementary Schools.

Provides information through a variety of channels that improves the public's understanding of mental health and mental illness.

Services provide by theChariots Program:

- Provides an intense, clinical and cost-effective treatment that is individualized to the needs of the child
- Treatment includes a nurturing and therapeutic family environment and structured mental health services

Committed to helping children, teens and adults at risk for suicide, as well as families and communities affected by suicide, through education, advocacy and support.

Families, youth, and local service providers working together to create community initiatives that are family-driven, strength-based, and trauma-informed.

A trauma informed initiative, based in Crawford County System of Care (SOC) Partnership, promoting social change in Crawford County, heading toward a trauma informed community. P4C is a community collaborative committed to preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), healing trauma, and promoting resilience.

Provides information and referral to consumers or family members regarding mental health needs, services and support. No direct services for mental health are provided at this agency. All services are provided by community service providers in Cumberland and Perry counties.

Provides case management with intake for assessment, arrangement, and authorization for services monitoring of services, and follow through regarding employment, housing, education, transportation, and counseling as appropriate.

Provides a crisis hotline for individuals who face mental health, substance abuse, trauma, violence or other issues that affect one's emotional wellbeing.

The LIFE (Living in Family Environment) program serves elementary age students. The LIFE program is a school-based prevention program that provides goal-oriented services to students and their families. Program Caseworkers are based directly in the elementary schools. Work with students, parents and classroom teachers to develop support plans to address behavioral, emotional, social, and/or academic concerns.
Examples of support plan goals include (but are not limited to):
Coping with anxiety, grief & loss, social skills, study skills, parent separation/divorce, organization, self-esteem and problem-solving. To provide an open, honest, and collaborative network of communication between the school and the family. LIFE Caseworkers also provide classroom-based lessons within the schools they serve. Lessons include (but are not limited to) facilitation of the Incredible Years (IY) curriculum. IY is an evidence-based program designed to promote social and emotional competence. Research has shown that IY facilitation to young children decreases risky behaviors such as delinquency, violence, and substance abuse later in life. The IY curriculum is incorporated into the LIFE program for students in kindergarten, first and second grades.

The Signs of Suicide (SOS) Prevention Program offers middle and high school students curriculum aimed at teaching them the warning signs and symptoms of depression and suicide. Dickinson's SOS Program also offers other community initiatives. Our Survivors of Suicide Loss event is held annually on the Saturday before Thanksgiving. Staff are involved in community outreach initiatives and are willing to help support anyone who may be struggling.

Offers a Soup Kitchen with daily lunch and weekday breakfasts in a sit-down dining room. To-go bags also available. Mail service is also available.

Urgent mental health evaluation, substance abuse, urgent psychiatric medication evlauation, suicidal, homicidal, 302 involuntary commitment, Lenape Valley Foundation, Mobile Crisis Intervention Services

Service provided for individuals and families, chronic failed diet attempts, non diet approach, and gastric restrictive surgery - pre and post surgery.

Service provided for individuals and families, chronic failed diet attempts, non diet approach, and gastric restrictive surgery - pre and post surgery.

Mental Health Services at Drexel University College of Medicine Behavioral Healthcare Educationt is the training and technical assistance division of the Department of Psychiatry. Provides behavioral health continuing education and consultation.

EFF uses one of the most effective treatments available; Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) which offers clients a nontraditional approach to therapy.

This therapy combines a licensed mental health professional, a certified equine specialist, and a therapy horse to create a research-based treatment model which strives to resolve emotional difficulties caused by disturbing, difficult, or frightening life experiences.

The horse is an integral part of treatment because horses are prey animals and therefore are extremely alert and sensitive to the emotions of those around them.

Clients learn to identify their own emotional state by observing the reaction from the horse. The horse also helps the client stay grounded as the client processes past traumas.

Families are an important part of the patient's treatment program, but they often need emotional support themselves.

Family Involvement Program :
Our Family Involvement Program is facilitated by one of our Masters level Allied Therapists and is open to all family members as well as the community. These are informational meetings where people can learn how to deal with the impact of mental illness. Education is provided about diagnoses, treatment options, and aftercare as well as support those who are being impacted by their loved ones illness. This program also serves as a liaison between families and treatment teams. The Family Involvement Program is geared toward families, friends and caregivers of adult patients. We offer a weekly evening program which is held on Thursdays (5:30p-6:30p).

Fairmount F.O.C.U.S. (Family Opportunity for Communication, Unity and Success) on Families (For Parents of Child or Adolescent Patients Only):
Intensely structured multifamily groups which parents and children attend together with breakout sessions for discussions and activities. The goal for the FOCUS group is to provide disease and medication specific knowledge; facilitate effective parent child/teen interaction styles; provide resources, services and support systems in the community; and emphasize the importance of finding time for self, parents and partners. Parents are encouraged to support one another and to take a more active role in their child's mental health care. Children and adolescents are encouraged to maintain age appropriate responsibility for managing the effects of their disease on thoughts, behaviors and feelings.

Provides specialized therapy for children and adolescents by a psychological/psychiatric evaluation due to more serious emotional and behavioral challenges, including autism.

Provides counseling services on a wide variety of topics, including: family therapy, marital, child and individual counseling, drug and alcohol issues in relationships, parent-child conflicts, single parenthood, divorce, separation, domestic violence issues, etc.

Provides outreach prevention programs such as classroom presentations, curriculum-based support groups, individual consultation assessment and referral, parent education, staff in-service training, after-school programs and summer programming. The Early Childhood Program provides mental health consultation to preschools and daycare centers. The purpose of the School and Community-Based Prevention Services is to improve the mental and behavioral health of the community.

Offers Trauma-Informed Care (TIC) service which is an approach to treatment, classroom management, and leadership within education and social services.

Offers medical services. Offers Intensive Case Management services such as drug and alcohol treatment, support groups, child care services, parenting skills development, transportation needs, housing, educational/vocational, mental health, life skills, and home visitations.

Provides one-on-one student screenings for mental health and substance abuse concerns, group sessions with a variety of themes, and SAP Team consultation within each school.

Provides activity based curriculum with lessons that focuses on all aspects of health and wellbeing.

Offers a support group that integrates relational theory, resiliency practices, and skills training in a specific format designed to increase positive connection, personal and collective strengths, and competence in girls.

Offers a strengths-based group approach to promote boys' and young men's safe and healthy passage through pre-teen and adolescent years.

Advocates for policy change, establish programs and services, produce, and distribute educational materials.

Mental Health Outpatient Treatment includes a comprehensive assessment, either psychiatric evaluation, psychological evaluation or diagnostic evaluation, which is strength-based and recovery focused and is the basis for treatment objectives. Ongoing psychotherapy is also offered and may include a combination of individual therapy, group therapy and family therapy, based on the person's needs, clinical disorder and ability to respond to the particular interventions. Psychopharmacology is a common adjunctive treatment to outpatient psychotherapy. Treatment available in Spanish.

Provides peer support and resource information to support individuals before a crisis develops. The warm line is staffed by paid Certified Peer Specialists who are trained specifically to assist other consumers in furthering their recovery.

Mental Health Outpatient Treatment includes a comprehensive assessment, either psychiatric evaluation, psychological evaluation or diagnostic evaluation, which is strength-based and recovery focused and is the basis for treatment objectives. Ongoing psychotherapy is also offered and may include a combination of individual therapy, group therapy and family therapy, based on the person’s needs, clinical disorder and ability to respond to the particular interventions. Psychopharmacology is a common adjunctive treatment to outpatient psychotherapy. Treatment available in Spanish.

Provides an array of support services in Dauphin County school settings.

Case management services for adults with behavioral health issues identified as serious mental illness. Case managers develop recovery plans for individual clients, arrange for required services, monitor services and serve as an advocate for the individual.

Offers mental health support services including information/education, intervention, self management and transitional services. Also provides post disaster mental health services.

A public foundation committed to improving the mental health and well-being of youth and children in Lancaster County by focusing on two intersecting goals: strengthening the capacity of the healthcare professional community and improving access to children's mental health services.

The foundation provides nursing scholarships and sponsors Continuing Medical Education Credits (CME's) and other training programs in an effort to support the local medical community.

The foundation offers Mental Health Copay Assistance to youth, children, and parents of dependent children (ages 0-25) who live in Lancaster County, Pa., and have financial need. This reduces their copays to just $10 per visit to a licensed behavioral healthcare provider.

Provides funding and administrative oversight for services in the community that support people and their families living with serious and persistent mental illness, children and adolescents with a mental health diagnosis, individuals with intellectual disability, individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and children birth to age three (3) for early intervention services.
Through an intake process, a person’s eligibility for services and funding is determined and referrals are made to appropriate programs that correspond to service needs.

CASSP is a comprehensive system of care for children and adolescents with or at risk of developing serious emotional disturbance and/or substance use disorders and their families. This program ensures that services are developed in collaboration with the child/adolescent, family, mental health system, the school and all other agencies involved in the child's or adolescent's life.

CASSP meeting are designed to help individuals, families, agencies and systems determine which resources/supports for youth/adolescent and families should be explored or recommended. The process includes family members, the youth/adolescent, service providers, and all other parties that are involved with or have a relationship with the youth and the family. CASSP offers recommendations for services, allows for open communication and dialogue and partnership with the team members.

In cooperation with community providers, Outpatient Mental Health Services, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy and Suicide Prevention services are provided.

Contracts with area mental health agencies to provide comprehensive mental health services, Mental Health intake specialist assists each person or family seeking services to identify the presenting problem, complete necessary social, familial, and medical to develop an initial service plan.

The coalition looks to improve the safety and overall health status of the Lycoming County and of those living in the county by assessing the needs and facilitating a response to priority health and wellness issues through a collaborative data and community-driven process.

Provides information and support concerning mental and emotional illnesses, primarily at no cost. This includes guidance to mental health services, education, family and individual advocacy; as well as referrals to local psychiatrists, psychologists, counselors, and therapists. Offers advocacy and PEER support for individuals with a mental illness- including this support for family members. No diagnosis required- we can help you obtain one. Offers support for families of children with Individual Education Plans in schools. Presentations and education offered for schools, clubs, employers, businesses and community groups on anything related to mental health. Makes referrals for anger management and community support groups. Free Mental Health Support Groups. Leads the Lancaster County Suicide Prevention Coalition. Ask about the financial assistance programs currently available through MHA and its' partners, as well as programs for working/non-working residents who don't have access to employer assistance plans.

Provides Advocacy, Consumer Community Supports, Education, Social Rehabilitation, and Support Groups.

Provides support services for individuals with mental health/ co-occurring disorders and their families.

Assists in finding a provider or information on mental illness and/or services.

Offers QPR Training. QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer - 3 simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide.

For adult consumers of mental health services who are looking for opportunities for socialization, support, education and recreation with others who have similar life experiences. Supportive environment driven and run by mental health consumers. There are no clinical or treatment services in the Center.

Offers public presentations on prevention, early detection, and early intervention of mental health conditions which includes substance misuse - lasts from10 minutes to several hours. Provides Mental Health First Aid Trainings and student education programming.

Helps members to understand Mental Health Advance Directives and, if desired, assist in completing one.

Offers training sessions to groups on this subject.

Provides research information at public events, via website, electronic social networking sites, the internet, phone and at various health fairs, etc. Blog articles and other up-to-date research information is available at www.AmericanMentalWellness.org.

Offers virtual or in-person learning in form of presentations or workshops.

Provides support, education, and public awareness efforts for families and friends of loved ones and individuals with a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. Offers meetings, educational classes, and practical information.

Mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness. Organizations and volunteers work in the community to raise awareness and provide support and education.

Offers peer-led confidential mental health support group, recovery focused support group, family support groups and education programs; online and in-person. Also offers information about community resources.

12 week education program especially designed for families experiencing the effects of severe brain disorders, focuses on three major psychiatric illnesses: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (manic depression), and major depression.

Two trained consumer speakers share compelling personal stories about living with mental illness and achieving recovery using a multimedia format (DVD and live interaction).

The wellness course runs 8-12 weeks meeting weekly for two hours: participants identify internal and external resources for facilitating recovery, and then use these tools to create their own, individualized plan for successful living; developes a crisis plan, which states how the person would like to be treated in times of crisis (similar to an advance directive for inpatient psychiatric care), as well as a post-crisis plan for back on the road to recovery.

Provides support groups, advocacy, and education for individuals and family members dealing with mental illnesses. Offers a family education course and an education course for persons who have an illness are offered periodically during the year, educational videos, pamphlets, and a lending library are available at the office location.

Provides support groups and a hotline for those who are affected by serious mental illness.

Provides support groups and a hotline for those who are affected by serious mental illness.

Provides support groups and a hotline for those who are affected by serious mental illness.

Provides support groups and a hotline for those who are affected by serious mental illness.

Free 8-week educational course for family members, caregivers, and loved ones of individuals with a mental illness. The highly-structured Family-to-Family curriculum educates participants about various mental illnesses, treatments and medications, and paths to recovery.

Free 6-week educational course for parents, caregivers, and loved ones of children experiencing a mental illness. Based off the highly-structured Family-to-Family curriculum which educates participants about various mental illnesses, treatments and medications, and paths to recovery.

State and Local NAMIs:
NAMI's 1,200 affiliate organizations provide local services, support and other opportunities for consumers and their families.

Education, Training and Peer Support Center:
NAMI offers an array of education and training programs and services for consumers, family members, providers and the general public. These include Family-to-Family, Peer-to-Peer, NAMI Support Group, In Our Own Voice and more.

Consumer Support:
NAMI empowers and educates mental health consumers to address their issues around care, treatment, services, mutual support and consumer rights.

Child and Adolescent Action Center:
Families know all too well that the system is failing children and adolescents with mental illnesses. NAMI created the Child & Adolescent Action Center in response to this crisis, to focus attention on systems reform and to help and support families.

NAMI on Campus:
NAMI on Campus is a network of student-led mental health awareness, education, and advocacy groups tailored to the needs of individual college communities.

Multicultural Action Center:
The Multicultural Action Center focuses attention on system reform to eliminate disparities in mental health care for diverse communities and cultural competence in treatment and support for all who are affected by serious mental illness.

NAMI Legal Center:
The NAMI Legal Center provides lawyer referrals as a service to our members and the general public.

Veterans Resource Center:
NAMI is proud to provide the following resources for veterans and active duty military members, as well as their families, friends, and advocates.

Missing Persons Support:
Resources and support for locating missing persons with mental illness.

For Providers:
To help mental health professionals assist consumers and families further, NAMI has created this section of the NAMI Web site especially for you.

Information Helpline:
Trained volunteers provide information, referrals, and support to all who have questions about or are affected by serious mental illness. Call 1-800-950-NAMI.

Provides support groups and a hotline for those who are affected by serious mental illness.

Provides
Information and education to help people with MS. Emotional support resources for people with MS as well as family and carepartners, including support groups and ways to connect with others living with MS.
Help through the complexities of finding a healthcare provider, benefits, insurance and access to coverage, and employment.
Resources to face financial challenges and plan for the future
. Wellness strategies that can make an impact on quality of life with MS including diet, exercise, emotional well-being and connection to local wellness resources.
Assessment for personalized case management.

State Mental Health and Substance Abuse Agency

Hosts webinars on various mental health and behavioral topics for parents, families, caregivers, and support professionals.

Provides occupational health services to farmers that will improve their lives and those of future generations. Supports the educational needs of rural health professionals who serve the health care needs of the people working in agriculture.

The Pennsylvania National Guard's Resilience, Risk Reduction, & Suicide Prevention (R3SP) Program develops policy, conducts training and provides education on building resilience, mitigating stress and suicide prevention for the Service and Family members of the Pennsylvania Army National Guard.

The program consists of three sections:

• Suicide Prevention: The Suicide Prevention Program gives Soldiers the necessary skills to identify signs, symptoms, risk factors of suicide and the ability to successfully intervene. The program encourages Soldiers to be proactive in seeking assistance and strives to eliminate the stigma associated with behavioral health.
  
  Contact: Suicide Prevention / R3SP, Service Member and Family Support
  Bldg 7-10, Fort Indiantown Gap
  Annville, PA., 17003-5002
  Phone: (717) 861- 8976


• Resilience: The Resilience Program gives Soldiers and Families the training and skills to think, live and communicate more positively. The training focuses on 7 core competencies: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character and Connection.
  
  Contact: Resilience / R3SP, Service Member and Family Support
  Bldg 7-10, Fort Indiantown Gap
  Annville, PA., 17003-5002
  Phone: (717) 861- 8976


• Behavioral Health: The Behavioral Health Section provides evaluations/services from a licensed clinical social worker. All services are free of charge and are 100% confidential, except in situations of "duty to warn." Support is available 24/7. All Service members and their Family members are eligible for services to include psychological evaluations, referral, case management, and critical incident management.
  
  Contact: Behavioral Health / R3SP, Service Member and Family Support
  Bldg 9-68, Fort Indiantown Gap
  Annville, PA., 17003-5002
  Phone: (717) 673-4785

Information and referral to support the dignity, respect, and human rights of persons diagnosed with mental illness. Also provides advocacy, training, education and peer support.

Different levels of membership are offered: individual and corporate

Provides workshops to teach community members how to assist youths experiencing behavioral health problems.

Drop-in center which provides lunch, resource coordination, peer support, and advocacy for mental health consumers. Offers health clinic through Operation Safety Net, Thursday 1:00pm to 3:00pm .

Works with these community services to offer a free mental health educational event where students learn more about how to identify mental illness in themselves and in their friends and most importantly how to get help

Provides a variety of suicide prevention training programs to various potential "gatekeepers", those who are strategically positioned to recognize and refer someone for help. Offers other prevention training programs.

Case management services for adults with behavioral health issues identified as serious mental illness. Case managers develop recovery plans for individual clients, arrange for required services, monitor services and serve as an advocate for the individual.

Offers mental health support services including information/education, intervention, self management and transitional services. Also provides post disaster mental health services.

Provides assessment and treatment for individuals with serious mental illness and other mental health issues including anxiety, trauma, and personality disorders. Provides psychiatric evaluation, medication management services, individual and group therapy. Therapists take a holistic approach to mental health treatment, and offer supportive, trauma-focused, evidence-based treatment.

Provides a team that includes both Certified Recovery Specialists (CRS) and Certified Family Recovery Specialists (CFRS). These professionals are in active recovery and utilize their shared experience to support the development and maintenance of the recovery programs for individuals. Through advocacy, community linkage, peer to peer coaching, and empowerment a CRS/CFRS can help strengthen a recovery program at any stage. CRS services are mobile and flexible to meet the individualized need of each participant.

Provides a recovery-oriented service for persons with serious mental illness who have typically not benefited from more traditional outpatient services. A multidisciplinary team of mental health professionals work closely with the client to stabilize and educate about medication, to support and strengthen interpersonal relationships, to find and maintain meaningful employment, to develop day-to-day skills such as money management, housekeeping, grocery shopping, meal preparations, laundry, using public transportation, and utilizing community-based services such as dentists and PCP's.

Provides assistance and teaches skills so individuals can take their medications consistently, safely, and as prescribed and ultimately independently.

Teaches skills that help those diagnosed with mental illness live and work in their communities as independently as possible. PRS workers meet with participants in or outside the home to develop skills for living, working, learning, and socializing. Individual goals can include but are not limited to: managing a household, cooking nutritiously, getting exercise, obtaining a degree, obtaining employment or volunteer work, developing social roles as well as skills for healthy relationships (e.g. parent, sibling, partner, friend, tenant).

Case Managers help individuals access and link to community services needed in order to live independently and maintain good mental and physical health. Case Managers provide advocacy in service coordination and assist in areas such as but not limited to: housing, education/work, daily living, income/benefits, drug/alcohol services, and physical health care.

Child-centered service that is designed to assure that children and adolescents dealing with their or a parent's mental health get the treatment and support necessary to help them succeed in the home, at school, and in the community. Services provide advocacy, linkage, and service coordination to such areas as housing, school related needs, mental health resources, primary care physicians, medical specialists, drug/alcohol issues, socialization, therapeutic camps, summer activities, Office of Children and Youth, and Juvenile Probation.

A 15-bed residential treatment facility for people who require mental health treatment and services on an on-going, 24-hour basis for up to 30 days. This program provides a safe and supportive environment as an alternative to inpatient mental health hospitalization or as a step-down from it. Services are individually tailored to meet the client's needs and can include individual and group therapy, psychiatric services, and medication management. Clients are invited to join daily recreational activities.

A structured, 24-hour residential program that provides rehabilitation and habilitation services to individuals with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders. Services are individually tailored to meet the client's needs. Treatment includes individual and group therapy, psychiatric services, and medication management by mental health and drug/alcohol professionals. Length of stay is individualized to client need and may very from 21-90 days.

A recovery-focused, mental health treatment program for people transitioning from an inpatient mental health stay back into the community. Treatment focuses on developing social skills and increasing mental and physical health stability -- all guided by a team of doctors, nurses, mental health professionals, and peer specialists. Average length of stay is 6 months. People in the program and their families are encouraged to be active in recovery and are assisted by staff to link to supportive services at discharge.

Serves as the oversight organization for the Behavioral HealthChoices (MA Managed Care) contract. Provides memebers with education /information on access to PerformeCare's Services, serves as a point of contact for memebers concerns/complaints regarding providers, PerformCare, and service system issues.

Improves the public's understanding of mental health and mental illness and help people make choices which promote personal mental health, take advantage of opportunities for early detection, develop an awareness of available treatment options and support their ability to deal with mental health problems when they arise. General mental health information/education programs provide information about a wide variety of mental health related diagnoses rather than specializing in a particular area; and may develop and disseminate materials whose objective is to dispel misconceptions about the nature of mental illness, marshal support for people who have a psychiatric disability or behavioral issue and help to remove the stigma that is often associated with mental illness.

Offering assistance to identify community resources to help with: in-home services, emotional support, geriatric medicine services, caregiver support, transportation options, care coordination options, and additional community resources.
Resource Center services include: a library of literature offering a large selection of helpful topics, monthly caregiver support group, community education series on a variety of topics hosted throughout the year, and a Help and Referral telephone line.

Provides education and specialty coordinated care to better understand psychosis symptoms, learn coping strategies, medication options to treat psychosis. Services include Psychotherapy, Education and work support, Family education and support, Case management, Medication management

Hosting a series of free virtual events designed to address the mental health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Helping individuals get information on mental health, stress, substance use and resilience in dealing with COVID-19.

Provides services to both children and adults with mental health and intellectual disabilities.

VSC provides free and confidential counseling services for victims of crime, their family members and friends. Some counseling options available include:


*Individual Counseling
*Support Group Counseling
*Child Abuse Treatment and Family Therapy Program

The Washington County Behavioral Health and Developmental Services (BHDS) has administrative oversight of Behavioral Health Services (Mental Health), Children and Adolescent Services, Early Intervention, and Intellectual Disabilities (formerly Mental Retardation) programs in the county. Operating under the Mental Health and Intellectual Disabilities Act of 1966, we administer a wide range of services

Offers targeted case management. Provides specialized case management for individuals in the criminal justice system and individuals who participate in the Community Hospital Integration & Project Program (CHIPP).

Offers contracted services requiring referrals such as Transitional Residential Services, Community Residential Services, Club House/Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Facility Based Vocational Services, Outpatient Mental Health Services, Respite Care Services, Social Rehabilitation Services, Supported Housing, Supported Employment, Psychiatric Inpatient, Crisis Diversion Services, and Day Treatment (Partial Hospitalization).

Mental Health Program

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  York/Adams MHIDD Program serves individuals in York and Adams Counties who need support and assistance with services for mental illness.
  
  Case managers are able to connect eligible clients with needed services.
  
  
• MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: Offers direct services for targeted case management for children and adults who are diagnosed with a mental illness. We also provide specialized case management for individuals in the criminal justice system and individuals who participate in the Community Hospital Integration & Project Program (CHIPP).
  
  
  We contract with providers in the community to offer the following services:
  Transitional Residential Services, Community Residential Services, Club House/Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services, Facility Based Vocational Services, Outpatient Mental Health Services, Respite Care Services, Social Rehabilitation Services, Supported Housing, Supported Employment, Psychiatric Inpatient, Crisis Diversion Services, and Day Treatment (Partial Hospitalization).
  
  
• FOR ASSISTANCE WITH PSYCHIATRIC EMERGENCIES, 24 hours a day, please call:
  
  •York Hospital Crisis Intervention Services (Wellspan) at (717) 851-5320
  
  •Gettysburg Hospital (Wellspan) at (717) 334-2121
  
  •Hanover Hospital (True North Wellness Services) at (717) 637-3711
  
  •True North Wellness Services (Mobile Crisis) at (717) 632-4900