All children with mental health challenges deserve family and a nurturing home environment that meets their therapeutic needs. Many children are living with mental illness in family homes, regular foster homes or group homes that require a level of support and care beyond that available in their current situation. To help these children, Access Services’ Therapeutic Foster Care program seeks extraordinary individuals to serve as Therapeutic Foster Parents.

Therapeutic Foster Parents provide a nurturing home environment for children aged nine to eighteen years of age with a need for mental health treatment. These outstanding individuals act as agents of planned change, fulfilling both a treatment and a foster role.

All children with mental health challenges deserve family and a nurturing home environment that meets their therapeutic needs. Many children are living with mental illness in family homes, regular foster homes or group homes that require a level of support and care beyond that available in their current situation. To help these children, Access Services’ Therapeutic Foster Care program seeks extraordinary individuals to serve as Therapeutic Foster Parents.

Therapeutic Foster Parents provide a nurturing home environment for children aged nine to eighteen years of age with a need for mental health treatment. These outstanding individuals act as agents of planned change, fulfilling both a treatment and a foster role.

Provides therapeutic foster care for children with mental illness.

Serves persons with cognitive, emotional and behavioral disabilities through innovative services which enable them to live rich and fulfilling lives with positive family and community relationships.

Programs include
- Individual, group, family marital therapies
- Respite care services
- Pharmacotherapy
- In-home supports
- Fostercare
- Life Day Program

Agency-supervised private family homes in which foster parents have been trained to provide individualized, structured services in a safe, nurtuing family living environment for children and adolescents with significant emotional or behavioral problems.

In addition to a client having a DSM-IV-TR Axis I diagnosis, clients entering into CRR services must have a written recommendation from a licensed physician or psychologist. The client then attends an Individual Service Plan Team (ISPT) meeting where a written treatment plan is established having a recommendation for CRR services. CRR Host Homes are currently available in Pennsylvania only. Service is available if individuals believe that they may be working with a qualified client or are interested in being a CRR Foster Parent.

Provides safe, stable home settings, coordinated with enrollment in CSF & Buxmont Academy's academic and READY Program (Restore, Empower, And Develop Youth). Enables collaborative support from houseparents to teachers, working together to help youth succeed.

Provides safe, stable home settings, coordinated with enrollment in CSF & Buxmont Academy's academic and READY Program (Restore, Empower, And Develop Youth). Enables collaborative support from houseparents to teachers, working together to help youth succeed.

Provides safe, stable home settings, coordinated with enrollment in CSF & Buxmont Academy's academic and READY Program (Restore, Empower And Develop Youth. Enables collaborative support from houseparents to teachers, working together to help youth succeed.

Provides safe, stable home settings, coordinated with enrollment in CSF & Buxmont Academy's academic and READY Program (Restore, Empower, And Develop Youth). Enables collaborative support from houseparents to teachers, working together to help youth succeed. Services at this program site serve children in grades 1-6.

Provides safe, stable home settings, coordinated with enrollment in CSF & Buxmont Academy's academic and READY Program (Restore, Empower, And Develop Youth). Enables collaborative support from houseparents to teachers, working together to help youth succeed.

Provides safe, stable home settings, coordinated with enrollment in CSF & Buxmont Academy's academic and READY Program (Restore, Empower, And Develop Youth). Enables collaborative support from houseparents to teachers, working together to help youth succeed.

Children’s Review Team is an out of home placement option. It is the mechanism to insure that every community resource and option for a child has been considered and exhausted prior to a child being referred to a therapeutic foster care program or a residential treatment facility. The Children’s Review Team will facilitate and connect children to the most appropriate mental health service as deemed by the Interagency Service Planning Team.

Children's Home of York's Permanency Program provides a variety of services for children and their biological, foster, and/or adoptive families from birth through the age of 18. Our structured, therapeutic family environment offers intensive support with the goal of helping children in our care secure a permanent family as quickly as possible. We work with a diverse pool of resource parents to provide kinship care and a variety of Permanency support services throughout Pennsylvania. The Children's Home of York maintains an on-going process of recruitment, screening, and training which enables us to offer diverse geographical and racial/ethnic environments essential to the successful placement of children and sibling groups of all ages who have a variety of emotional and psychological needs. In addition, we have two offices to provide regional support to our Resource Parent pool.

Provides a safe, nurturing environment for children and families in need of out-of-home foster care placements. Children ranging from infants to age 21 are offered intensive and comprehensive care that meets their individual needs and provides support to the child, natural family and foster family. Children in Individualized Foster Care program are in the custody of Children and Youth services and may have medical, behavioral, and/or independent living skill needs. Children receive individualized treatment and are taught how to increase pro-social behaviors and decrease negative behaviors through behavior modification techniques. Can also provide emergency care, teen-parent support, respite care, preparation for adoption or legal permanent custodianship.

Medical Foster Care provides homes for children with acute physical, emotional or mental disabilities as an alternative to hospitalization or institutionalization. CONCERN identifies particular foster parents who are capable of meeting the child's special needs and who are trained in the specific medical condition(s) of the child.

Intensive Foster Care is a community-based program for children and youth whose needs cannot be met in their own families and therefore requires out-of-home placements. CONCERN's specially trained foster parents create a family-like environment, which improves the child's opportunities for more normalized daily living experiences.

CONCERN’s foster care and adoption and permanency programs work with children and youth who are part of the child welfare system. Foster parents provide alternative living arrangements when it has been determined tha a child cannot remain the hte home of his/her biological parents. They match children with families who are able to best meet their needs.

Treatment Foster Care provides therapeutic foster homes for child welfare involved children and adolescents who possess mental health, developmental and/or mental retardation challenges. Sibling groups accepted. Program specializes in dually diagnosed children.

Provide 3 levels of Foster Care in a family based model, program also maintains Community Residential Rehabilitation Homes (CRR's) for children who cannot live with natural parents and also have serious mental health concerns.

A program for children with mental health issues that is a family-based alternative to placement in a more restrictive setting. An array of individualized mental health services are provided to children who reside in KidsPeace Host Home settings. A trauma-informed treatment approach is used.

BHRS provides clinical, child-centered, family-focused care for children with an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. Services for children and their families assist them in developing new skills and coping mechanisms. Services are provided on a one-to-one basis by culturally competent staff either in the child's home, school, daycare center or community.

Foster care and adoption services for children with behavioral or emotional challenges.

Program utilizes an integrated clinical support team to serve families by working with youth who at this moment are unable to live with their own families. The program allows youth to achieve their fullest potential by training and assisting families to provide the highest level of care. The primary goal of CRR-HH is to provide a structured community-based therapeutic environment within the context of a family for youth who are challenged socially, emotionally and/or behaviorally. The ultimate goal of CRR-HH is to provide care and treatment to the youth for the youth prior to transitioning to their identified discharge resource (family of origin, family member, adoptive home, legal guardianship, foster care, independent living, or adult services). Services provide mental health, relational and social skills needed for gradual transition to each youth’s individual discharge goal.

Designed to serve as a short respite placement, planned or emergency, with the strength of specially trained resource parents able to meet the needs of high-risk youth. The program provides a more appropriate environment to provide care and treatment within the context of a family setting. Youth will be accepted for placement regardless of race, color, religious creed, disability, ancestry, national origin, sex, or sexual preference. The program will also be available to serve youth transitioning out of more intensive levels of care in circumstances where the legal family is not a viable post-placement option.

Program utilizes an integrated clinical support team to serve families by working with youth who at this moment are unable to live with their own families. The program allows youth to achieve their fullest potential by training and assisting families to provide the highest level of care. The primary goal of CRR-HH is to provide a structured community-based therapeutic environment within the context of a family for youth who are challenged socially, emotionally and/or behaviorally. The ultimate goal of CRR-HH is to provide care and treatment to the youth for the youth prior to transitioning to their identified discharge resource (family of origin, family member, adoptive home, legal guardianship, foster care, independent living, or adult services). Services provide mental health, relational and social skills needed for gradual transition to each youth’s individual discharge goal.

Provides residential services to young mothers and children in need at two residential facilities located on a campus in Roxborough.

- Generations I: Provides Supervised Residential Housing for young mothers with one young child.

- Generations II: Provides Transitional Housing for young mothers with up to two young children.

- New Generations: Provides Permanent Supportive Housing for young mothers who have been identified as homeless, each with up to two children.

Places children with foster families who have been specially trained to care for children with trauma, medical, mental or behavioral needs. Also provides placement for pregnant teens and teenage mothers and their babies.

Provides residential services to young mothers and children in need at two residential facilities located on a campus in Roxborough.

- Generations I: Provides Supervised Residential Housing for young mothers with one young child.

- Generations II: Provides Transitional Housing for young mothers with up to two young children.

- New Generations: Provides Permanent Supportive Housing for young mothers who have been identified as homeless, each with up to two children.

Places children with foster families who have been specially trained to care for children with trauma, medical, mental or behavioral needs. Also provides placement for pregnant teens and teenage mothers and their babies.

Provides treatment and a therapeutic environment for children when conflict exceeds normal levels in the home. A special emphasis is put on healing the relationship between the child and his/her natural parents.

More information on Specialized Foster Care can be found here.

Provides the following services:

- Community Residential Rehabilitation Services (serves children with mental health issues)

- Foster Care (birth to 21)

- Family Living (serves adults 18+ with mental retardation in a Mentor Home)

- Respite Services (designed to provide an opportunity for parent/guardians and children/adults to have some time apart)

The programs we offer support children with a range of needs. We serve children with emotional and behavioral challenges and complex medical conditions. We also provide services for children and youth living with Autism and Autism Spectrum Disorder. Delaware County and parts of Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties, including: Therapeutic Support Staff;
Behavior Specialist Consultants;
Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Serivces; Case Management & Resource Coordination Services; Mobile Therapists;
Psychological Evaluations.

Provides Foster Care and Treatment services to youth who require 24-hour substitute care as a result of abuse, neglect and/or dependency issues in Philadelphia, Bucks, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester Counties. Services are typically provided for children 4-18 years of age.The children we serve in our Therapeutic Foster Care program may have intellectual and developmental disabilities or emotional and behavioral challenges, and we provide them with nurturing homes where they can thrive.

Foster family-based treatment for troubled and troubling children and adolescents, and teen mothers with children, up to age 18, in professional parenting homes; liaison work with birth families; parent support groups; parent education classes; and individual counseling.