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- EIN 23-2654908
- (610) 799-8038
- 4085 Independence Dr Schnecksville PA 18078-2574 USA
- www.kidspeace.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Mental Health, Residential Mental Health Treatment
Mission: Kidspeace is a 133-year-old healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, families and communities. With 40 centers across the country, this national organization helps thousands of children each day through life-saving treatment, and reaches millions more kids and families each year with prevention and public education campaigns designed to help kids avoid and overcome the kinds of crises that can strike any child. Founded in bethlehem, pa, kidspeace has more than a century of experience in healing and guiding children through disasters, personal traumas, family problems, abuse, neglect, depression, and, today, the many stresses of modern life. Kidspeace exists to give kids peace.
Programs: Residential mental health treatment: residential care and education for children facing crisis ages 6-18; services include counseling, art/music therapy, recreation facilities; all of these are provided in a safe & secure environment to ensure clients overcome crisis (127,793 days)
kidshaven - this program provides short term counseling, education and housing to children/adolescents in the refugee population who cross international borders into the united states. The goal of the program is reunification of these children with family members who live in the united states (17,036 days)
foster care programs: community foster care for children facing crisis (57,492 days)
outpatient mental health treatment programs: outpatient therapy for children facing crisis-specifically, two acute partial hospitalization programs service clients in the region. This allows a transition from an inpatient hospital setting or a more formal and structured treatment setting over and above what a typical outpatient program provides (45,643 sessions)