Psychiatric case management.

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.

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?

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

Training in all aspects of independent living including: personal finances, home care, transportation, companion services, social skills and self care. Assistance for finding and keeping housing.

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

An in-school skill-building program that will help students in 4th through 9th grade live lives free of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and gambling.

A series of lessons designed to reduce distress resulting from exposure to trauma. Includes a wide variety of skill-building techniques geared toward changing unhelpful thoughts and promoting positive behaviors.

Skill building program to help students from 4th through 9th grade live lives free of alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and gambling.

A series of lessons designed to reduce distress resulting from exposure to trauma. Includes a wide variety of skill-building techniques geared toward changing unhelpful thoughts and promoting positive behaviors.

The Crawford County Suicide Task Force is 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.

Peace4Crawford (P4C) is 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 supports

Case management with intake for assessment of intellectual and developmental disabilities and early intervention needs, arrangement and authorization for services monitoring of services, and follow through regarding employment, housing, education, transportation, and counseling as appropriate.

Crisis hotline for individuals who face mental health, substance abuse, trauma, violence or other issues that affect one's emotional wellbeing. The network of services includes a peer-operated Warm Line and Mobile Crisis Service capable of responding to mental health crises in the community. The DCCCT Warm Line (855.464.9342) is a phone helpline that uses Certified Peer Specialist to provide support to individuals who struggle with emotional and mental health challenges. The DCCCT Mobile Crisis Service (1.855.889.7827) is a trained crisis response team available 24 hours a day, seven days a week to provide on-site mobile crisis assessment, intervention and/or referral services in the individual’s natural environment.

DCSPATF offers information and education about, and assistance and support to, efforts to lessen the incidence of suicide and the stigma associated with suicide and suicide loss. The DCSPATF holds task force meetings.

Connect freinds family members and/or groups in the community to ongoing support groups. Visit their website, delcosuicideprevention.org for more information on support groups in the area.

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.

All services are indoors and must be accessed in person at Downtown Daily Bread (234 South Street in Harrisburg). Masks are required while inside the building.

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

• Needed items such as blankets, water, clothing, hand sanitizer, and snacks. Mail service is also available.
• WEEKDAYS If help is needed, come in person to the shelter located at 234 South Street in Harrisburg.
  
  
  Provides basic human services to the hundreds of homeless and hungry individuals who live in Harrisburg

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

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.

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 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, unemployment stress, anger management, parenting classes, marriage enrichment seminars, divorce mediation, weight management class for children, family life education programs and grief and loss bereavement counseling. Offers reunification services.

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.

Serving Mental Health Recovery: Provides support for people with Mental Illnesses and/or Drug and Alcohol addictions for FREE -- showers, meals, telephones, computers, transportation, social activities, education, help FINDING ACCOMMODATION & work. Offering support, acceptance, guidance & caring.

The Consumer/Family Satisfaction Team (C/FST) is to gather information regarding services received by consumers and family members to assess satisfaction with mental health and drug and alcohol services.

For over 25 years the Student Assistance Program has worked in Pennsylvania to help troubled students. In some situations we are a first line of support for students dealing with any family, drug & alcohol, sadness, peer drama, or bullying issues. We support students in school, but we also connect students and families to outside resources to help them negotiate some of life's most tumultuous storms.

HCP provides Student Assistance Program trained liaisons that serve in all of the middle and high schools in Franklin and Fulton County. Liaisons provide 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.

Elementary SAP- This program works directly with elementary students and families in Chambersburg School District and St Thomas Elementary in Tuscarora SD to assist in matching students and families with various needs and concerns and to reduce the barriers to learning at the elementary level.

Healthy Communities Partnership takes special care to understand the unique needs of teenagers, parents, and families. Sometimes the choices young people make affect more than themselves, their choices affect their families, schools, and communities. The following programs are designed to help teens and families navigate a variety of troubling waters.

Healthy U- This activity based curriculum has lessons for all age groups with a focus on all aspects of health and wellbeing. It is good for a community or school setting.

Healthy Communities Partnership takes special care to understand the unique needs of teenagers, parents, and families. Sometimes the choices young people make affect more than themselves, their choices affect their families, schools, and communities. The following programs are designed to help teens and families navigate a variety of troubling waters.

Girls Circle - a structured support group for girls from 9-18 years, 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.

Healthy Communities Partnership takes special care to understand the unique needs of teenagers, parents, and families. Sometimes the choices young people make affect more than themselves, their choices affect their families, schools, and communities. The following programs are designed to help teens and families navigate a variety of troubling waters.

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

HEALTHY YORK has a number of current initiatives:

Current Coalition Focus Areas:

Addressing the Social Determinants of Health,
Making York County more walkable,
Healthy Living,
Depression Awareness Campaign, Advance Care Planning,
and the Alliance for Personal Care Home Advancement

• Community effort is guided by:
  - A definition of health that considers root-cause of problems
  - Anaylysis of the Community Health Needs Assessment
  - Including our entire, diverse community in creating strategies and solving problems
  
  
  
  
• Depression Awareness Website: www.Feeling-Blue.com Offers information and resources for people suffering from mild or episodic depression. Click Here to be Directed to the Feeling-Blue Website Link
  
  
• Community Health Needs Assessment: The 2018 Assessment, is a public document available to individuals and organizations seeking to improve local health services and programs. Click Here to be Directed to the Assessment's Online Link
  
  
• March 2020 - Information on the Coronavirus: Guidance on the following concerns from the World Health Organization. Click Here to be Directed to the WHO's Online Link
  •When and how to wear masks
  •Myth-busters
  •Advice for health workers
  •Getting workplace ready
  •Protect Yourself and others from getting sick
  •How to cope with stress during the 2019-nCoV outbreak.
  •Practice food safety
  •Shopping/Working in wet markets
  •Stay healthy while travelling

Consumer-Run Warm Line provides peer support and resource information to proactively 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. The warm line is open seven days a week, six hours a day.

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.

Consumer-Run Warm Line provides peer support and resource information to proactively 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. The warm line is open seven days a week, six hours a day.

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.

Student Assistance Program (SAP) provides an array of support services in Dauphin County school settings.

Mental Health Consultants serve as liaisons to area elementary, middle, junior high, and high school student assistance teams and provide consultation regarding mental health issues to school personnel, students, families, and community members.

Student Assistance teams consist of school personnel and agency liaisons trained to identify, assess, and refer students at risk of drug, alcohol, and mental health issues. Yearlong services are directed toward prevention, intervention, and post-intervention (support and service in the event of a crisis involving the school).

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 funding and administrative oversight for services that support Lebanon County residents and their families living with a mental illness. Provides intake, assessment, and coordination of services. For those meeting the eligibility criteria, case management is provided to link, access, monitor and advocate for the consumer. Case Managers assist the consumer in coordinating referrals, linking to and monitoring services, facilitating meetings and working in conjunction with other providers.

In cooperation with community providers, provides Outpatient Mental Health Services, Parent Child Interaction Therapy and Suicide Prevention.

BLENDED CASE MANAGEMENT -These case management services provide a bridging of Intensive Case Management and Resource Coordination whereby consumers may move from one level of service to another level of service without compromising continuity of care.

OUTPATIENT MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES - These are clinic based, treatment oriented services provided to individuals (children, adolescents or adults) or his/her families suffering from a diagnosed mental health disorder.

PARENT CHILD INTERACTION THERAPY - An evidence-based treatment that has demonstrated clinical improvements in the behavior of pre-school-aged children.

SUICIDE PREVENTION - with community providers, holds a Suicide Prevention Meeting every second Tuesday of the Month. The goal of the committee is to educate the community on Suicide Awareness and Prevention and Mental Health resources.

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Hours are Monday through Friday 9:00am to 4:00pm at 717-397-7461. Most services and program are free of charge.
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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. 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.

Services include Advocacy, Consumer Community Supports, Education, Social Rehabilitation, and Support Groups. Individual Advocacy provides assistance to persons who need help in dealing with the mental health system: Community Advocate: - one-on-one advocacy to families and consumers; Ombudsman Program - information and managed care and assists with filing complaints and grievances; Parent/Child Advocacy - support, information and technical assistance to parents, children and staff involved in schools and human service agencies.

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

Services that serve the adult population include Adult Advocacy, Compeer, Representative Payee, and Guardianship.

Services that that serve the families of adults and children with mental health disorders and the community at large include Class Advocacy, Information and Referral, Public Education; the Children's Programs and Education Advocacy.

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

QPR stands for Question, Persuade, and Refer “ 3 simple steps that anyone can learn to help save a life from suicide. Just as people trained in CPR and the Heimlich Maneuver help save thousands of lives each year, people trained in QPR learn how to recognize the warning signs of a suicide crisis and how to question, persuade, and refer someone to help. Each year thousands of Americans, like you, are saying Yes to saving the life of a friend, colleague, sibling, or neighbor. QPR can be learned in our Gatekeeper course in as little as one hour. QPR can be taken in person or on line. Email us for further information.

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.

- 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

This service has members who can help individuals understand Mental Health Advance Directives and, if desired, assist in completing one.

Also offers training sessions to groups on this subject.

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

NAMI PA Butler County provides support, education, and advocacy 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.

Provides support, education, and advocacy efforts for families of children and adults with a mental illness or serious emotional disturbance. Offers phone support, education, and practical information. The group is for family members and friends.

In Our Own Voice (IOOV) is a unique public education program developed by NAMI, in which two trained consumer speakers share compelling personal stories about living with mental illness and achieving recovery.

NAMI Basics is the new signature education program for parents and other caregivers of children and adolescents living with mental illnesses. The NAMI Basics course is taught by trained teachers who are the parent or other caregivers of individuals who developed the symptoms of mental illness prior to the age of 13 years. The course consists of six classes, each lasting for 2 ½ hours. Classes may be offered weekly for six consecutive weeks, or may be offered twice per week for three weeks to accommodate the hectic schedules of parents. All instruction materials are FREE to participants.

The NAMI Family-to-Family Education Program is a free, 12-week course for family caregivers of individuals with severe mental illnesses. The course is taught by trained family members. All instruction and course materials are free to class participants

NAMI, the National Alliance on Mental Illness, is the nationals largest grassroots mental health organization dedicated to building better lives for the millions of Americans affected by mental illness.

What We Do

We educate. Offered in thousands of communities across the United States through NAMI State Organizations and NAMI Affiliates, our education programs ensure hundreds of thousands of families, individuals and educators get the support and information they need.

We advocate. NAMI shapes national public policy for people with mental illness and their families and provides volunteer leaders with the tools, resources and skills necessary to save mental health in all states.

We listen. Our toll-free NAMI HelpLine allows us to respond personally to hundreds of thousands of requests each year, providing free referral, information and supportâ??a much-needed lifeline for many.

We lead. Public awareness events and activities, including Mental Illness Awareness Week and NAMI Walks, successfully fight stigma and encourage understanding. NAMI works with reporters on a daily basis to make sure our country understands how important mental health is.

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.

Grassroots mental health advocacy organization focuses on educating the public about mental illness to reduce the stigma associated with it, advocating for laws and policies supportive of individuals with mental illness and helping individuals with mental illness connect with support groups in their communities.

Provides support groups, advocacy, and education for individuals and family members dealing with mental illnesses.

A 12-week family education course (Family-to-Family) and a 10-week education course for persons who have an illness (Peer-to-Peer) are offered periodically during the year. Educational videos, pamphlets and a lending library are available at the office location.

NAMI Support Group Meetings:

Luther Memorial Church
1907 Hollywood Drive, York
Time: 1st Tuesday of the month, 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Contact: Susan Hein or Danielle @ 717-848-3784
Details: This support group is for family members/caregivers of those with mental health diagnosis.



Weekly Support Group for Consumers:

• NAMI Connections Support Group
  Luther Memorial Church
  1907 Hollywood Drive, York
  Time: Wednesdays, 6:00pm to 7:30pm
  Contact: Susan Hein or Danielle @ 717-848-3784
  Details:This support group is for persons with a mental health diagnosis.</>
  
  
• NAMI York County office
  140 Roosevelt Avenue, York, PA 17401
  Time: Thursdays 10:00am-11:30am
  
  
• NAMI Connections Support Group, Lewisberry
  Family First Health
  308 Market Street
  Lewisberry, PA 17339
  Time: 3rd Thursday of each month, 2:00pm to 3:30pm
  Details: This support group is for persons with a mental health diagnosis.

Provides information, education, support, and advocacy for matters related to mental health issues. Services include a mental health information and referral helpline, online discussion groups, legislative and judicial advocacy, education and awareness, and information for individuals and families facing mental health problems.

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 family members, caregivers, and loved ones of active duty service members or veterans with 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

State Mental Health and Substance Abuse Agency

Professional Counseling Services for individuals and families experiencing drug, alcohol, dual diagnosis, gambling and related problems.

Provides a meeting place where adults and children impacted by cancer, along with their families and friends, join with others to build social and emotional support as a supplement to medical care. Formerly known as Gilda's Club.

Elevates and connects the voices of families of children, youth, and young adults who have social, behavioral, emotional, and learning challenges to resources, to each other, and to collaborative community partners across
the State of Pennsylvania.

A new blog and resource base created and maintained to promote substance abuse treatment and educational resources (and mental health and housing resources for the residents, case managers and social service representatives of Delaware County, PA.

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

Teaches community members how to assist a person experiencing a behavioral health problem.

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



- Other prevention training programs are also available

Provides consulting services to female youth ages 13-21. Utilizes Achievement Consultation to help girls to grow into successful women. Key areas of focus within this process are Family Development, Care Coordination, Life Coaching, Life Skills, Job Development, Job Readiness/Employment Soft Skills, Counseling and Mentoring for girls and their families.

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.

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.

Transitional housing for homeless male veterans. The program aims to service male veterans who are homeless and may have post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), substance abuse problems, mental illness, dual diagnosis, and those who are disabled.

Provides individual and group therapy for persons with anxiety, depression, eating disorders and post-partum depression as well as serious mental illnesses such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Psychiatric services and evaluations provided.

A Certified Recovery Specialist (CRS) is an individual who is living in recovery who can help and support someone struggling with drug or alcohol addiction. Certified Recovery Specialists meet with individuals in the community to support their recovery process and can offer peer-to-peer coaching and help to build essential recovery skills.

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.

For some persons with mental illness, taking psychiatric medications can be confusing and frustrating. Many people stop taking their medications as prescribed leading to mental health crises. The goal is for medications to be taken consistently, safely, and as prescribed and ultimately independently.

Assists persons with mental health care needs at any stage of life in their recovery by providing comprehensive rehabilitation, treatment and supports essential for living, working, learning and participating fully in the community.

Case Managers help individuals access and link to the 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.

This child-centered service 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 mental health and substance abuse disorders. Services are individually tailored to meet the client's needs and include individual and group therapy, psychiatric services , and medication management by mental health and drug/alcohol professionals. There are both short-term (21-30 days) and long-term (31-90 days) stays.

A recovery-focused residential, step-down program with 14 beds and an average stay of six months. Treatment focuses on developing social skills and increasing mental and physical health stability.

Mental Health Workforce Development Program (Beams to Bridges) equips Black children, youth, and families with the knowledge, skills, and competencies needed to serve as Community Mental Health Workers.

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

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.

A comprehensive program to prevent teen suicide. Provides identification, referral, outpatient assessment and treatment, and parent education. Educates school personnel and mental health professionals. Offers grief group treatment for bereaved children and adolescents, and adult survivors of suicide. Their monthly Normal Teenage Behavior and Depression workshop discusses strategies for coping with teenage depression as well as causes and treatments and how it affects the family. The STAR Center is a program of Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic.

IF YOU ARE IN CRISIS, CALL 1-800-273-TALK or 1-800-SUICIDE.
In Allegheny County, call: re:solve Crisis Network 1-888-7-You Can (1-888-796-8226).

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: Empowerment/Strengths-based counseling which recognizes the survivor's strength and resiliency and works to build new coping skills around existing strengths.

- Support Group Counseling:
Homicide Support Group
Adolescent Sexual Assault Support Group
Adult Survivors of Sexual Assault
Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Assault/Abuse
Parents/Significant Others of Child Sexual Assault/Abuse

- Child Abuse Treatment and Family Therapy Program: This program provides free, long-term therapy to abused children who may not otherwise have the opportunity to process their trauma in a professional, therapeutic environment. The staff also works with the non-offending caregivers of these children, involving them in their child's healing.

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

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
  

Mental Health Program

• 
  
  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