Penn Foundation Inc

Programs: Mental health services during the 2016-2017 fiscal year, penn foundation's mental health programs provided approximately 75,400 services to nearly 5,800 clients. Mental health outpatient services provides comprehensive evaluations, counseling, and medication management for individuals, couples, and families presenting with mental health and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Assertive community treatment (act) blends the disciplines of psychiatry, psychology, nursing, addiction, social work, and psychosocial rehabilitation, offering a multidisciplinary team of professionals that work together to provide highly individualized treatment, outreach, rehabilitation, and support services in individuals' homes and communities. Adult participants in this program have a serious mental illness and reside in northern montgomery county. They may present with co-occurring mental health and substance use issues as well as multiple psychiatric hospitalizations. Forensic assertive community treatment (fact) offers the same services as act (described above) to residents of upper bucks county and the lansdale, souderton, and telford areas of montgomery county. Admission requirements for bucks county residents include involvement with the legal system or time spent in bucks county prison.

drug and alcohol services: penn foundation's john w. And emily clemens recovery center offers a comprehensive continuum of services for drug and alcohol disorders, including persons with co-occurring psychiatric disorders. During fiscal year 2016-2017, nearly 46,500 services were provided to approximately 2,900 individuals. The recovery center offers general outpatient services, which includes comprehensive evaluations, pcpc evaluations for higher level of care placement, medication management, medication assisted treatment, and individual, family, and group counseling; intensive outpatient services (iop), which involves individual and group counseling for up to nine hours per week, either during business hours or in the evening; partial hospital, a day program providing intensive, structured treatment for 30 hours per week; inpatient, a 55-bed on-site unit offering detoxification and rehabilitation in a structured environment; and mobile engagement services, a mobile outreach service in which therapists work with the family, employer, school, children and youth, and other concerned parties to engage individuals who are resistant to treatment, meeting with them in the home and other non-traditional locations. In 2016, penn foundation was accepted by the department of human services of pennsylvania to be one of 45 centers of excellence for opioid use disorders. The center of excellence offers a dedicated care management team to follow 300 individuals that have been impacted by the opioid epidemic for one year. The care management team is comprised of various specialties to help provide comprehensive care and resources to increase the prevalence of recovery and maintaining whole health. In 2012, the moyer foundation partnered with penn foundation to offer camp mariposa, a national addiction prevention program for youth ages 9 through 12 who are living with addiction in their families. Campers have opportunities to learn about the disease of addiction and its impact on the family, techniques for coping with a loved one's addiction, tips for prevention, and available resources that they can turn to for help. Campers are also able to participate in selected organized activities such as crafts, sports, water activities, and adventure education. Sessions are held once every other month for ongoing and consistent education and support.

through its programs for children and adolescents, penn foundation provided over 21,700 services to nearly 850 children and adolescents during the 2016-2017 fiscal year. Wrap around (behavioral health rehabilitation services) is a community- based empowerment approach for families of children and adolescents (birth to 21 years of age) with emotional and/or behavioral difficulties. This program provides individualized, intensive counseling and behavioral management services for 1-2 years. The ultimate goal is to stabilize the child through intensive interactions and active involvement of all resources and supports in the child's life (i. E. Family, school, church, etc. ) services include one-on-one interventions in the home and community settings, behavioral consultations, mobile therapy, play therapy, creative arts therapy, psycho-education, and school-based interventions. Designed to bring the classic summer camp experience to children who typically would not have the opportunity, camp courage is a four-week camp for children with mental health or developmental disorders. Camp courage uses a high staff-to-camper ratio (3:1) and therapeutic support in an outdoor setting to enhance the child's personal development and to create opportunities for socialization, belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. This added support allows our campers to have a very positive and successful camp experience. In july 2016, 24 children attended at least one week of camp. Family based services provides 32 weeks of intensive community and home- based therapy and support for children and adolescents (up to age 21) with emotional and behavioral problems and their families. Children and adolescents in this program are typically at-risk for out-of-home placement. Services focus on working with the family to successfully maintain the child in the home. Interventions include in-home therapy, casework services, family support services, and 24/7 crisis management. The family autism center provides comprehensive developmental assessments for children, ages birth to 10, with communicating, relating, and learning challenges often manifested through behavior. The family autism center opened in february 2017 offering ados evaluations, considered the gold- standard in autism assessments. The center will be increasing services offered to both children with autism as well as family members. The center also provides information and referral services for the community. Children's school based works with the pennridge school district to provide group sessions at the district's four secondary schools for students who demonstrate at-risk behaviors or emotional issues. Referrals to other resources for children and/or families are also provided. Student assistance program (sap) partners with three area school districts-quakertown, palisades, and pennridge-to identify students "at risk" for developing emotional, mental health, and/or substance use problems; provides assessments; and, as needed, refers students and their families to treatment services. Early intervention supports coordination is designed to help families with children, age birth to three, with developmental delays. Services, which include assessment, treatment planning, referral, and coordination of services, are individualized based upon the unique needs of each child and the child's family and are provided in the child's home, daycare center, or other settings familiar to the family. Staff members work with each family to provide them with strategies and ideas that they can easily incorporate into their child's existing routines.

hospital services emergency services offers assessments, supportive problem solving strategies, and direct linkages to all levels of treatment for mental health and substance use emergencies. Our trained professionals are available daily from 7:00 am until 11:00 pm. The crisis line is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide support to the community. Consultation services provides psychiatric evaluations and support to medical service inpatients in a hospital setting. Chaplaincy services offers spiritual support and guidance to patients at grand view hospital and their families. The chaplains make daily rounds in the emergency room, intensive care, oncology, and telemetry units. During the 2016-2017 fiscal year, approximately 5,900 individuals received 6,550 hospital services. Id supports coordination services intellectual disabilities supports coordination locates, coordinates, and monitors services and resources for adults and children with intellectual disabilities. This service aims to educate clients and their families about available resources and empower them to make decisions regarding their care and everyday lives in the community. During 2016-2017, nearly 600 clients received approximately 25,700 services. Mental health navigation case management services peer support is a unique program partnering certified peer specialists with individuals receiving behavioral health services who desire such mentoring as a key intervention in their recovery. In 2016-2017, over 110 clients received 2,800 peer support services. Peer support facilitates empowerment and self-determination in a variety of ways, including but not limited to, advocacy, psychoeducation, exposure to/development of natural supports, community integration opportunities, and skill acquisition as it pertains to the recovery of meaningful daily activity and community roles. Mental health case management helps individuals and families in choosing, locating, and accessing community resources such as housing, financial benefits/entitlements, employment, and educational opportunities, etc. To further their recovery. In 2016-2017, over 1,200 clients received over 15,900 mental health case management hours of service. There are two levels of assistance - administrative case management and blended case management/recovery coaching. Administrative case management provides short-term assistance to adults and children in accessing community resources such as low-income housing, financial entitlements, vocational rehabilitation services, and support groups. This program also monitors and assists with the implementation of aftercare planning with people receiving inpatient care at area state and community hospitals and residential treatment facilities. Blended case management/recovery coaching provides longer term assistance to children, young adults, and adults with serious mental health or co- occurring mental health and substance use disorders in maximizing their potential for independent community living, improved educational/vocational status, increased social support networks, and reduced psychiatric hospitalizations. Individuals registered with blended case management have contact with their case manager/recovery coach based on their level of need. The minimum level of contact is once every 30 days but may be more frequent depending on the individual's needs/wishes for assistance. Blended case management also offers a 24-hour, 7 days-a-week coverage on-call schedule to support individuals who are in crisis. Health-connections helps individuals to improve their physical and behavioral health care by working as a team with their primary care practitioner (pcp), their other physical and behavioral health care providers, and their physical and behavioral health care plans. Participants work closely with a nurse navigator and behavioral health navigator who ensure communication across healthcare providers, provide health and wellness education, and assist in accessing needed health services. In 2016-2017, nearly 150 clients received over 2,300 services. In 2016, penn foundation received a grant from the healthspark foundation for a program focused on hospital discharge planning and care coordination. This collaboration with grand view health and lansdale hospital supports older adults dually eligible for medicare and medicaid who have both behavioral and chronic health conditions. The goal is to prevent hospital readmissions and increase patients' health knowledge and condition management capabilities. Reach ipr (intensive psychiatric rehabilitation) assists individuals with mental health or co-occurring mental health and substance use issues in setting and achieving personal goals in their living, learning, working, and social environments. Services are provided on an intensive, time- limited basis through group work and individual meetings. By working through five phases - readiness assessment, readiness development, goal choosing, goal achievement, and goal keeping - individuals in this program develop skills that they can transfer to real life. During fiscal year 2016-2017 61 clients received approximately 2,500 hours of service. Wellspring clubhouse is a voluntary social, educational, and vocational rehabilitation program that promotes recovery and instills hope among members with mental health and/or co-occurring substance use challenges. The clubhouse model features a work ordered day and member leadership and involvement in all aspects of the program. Members work side-by-side with staff as colleagues in three work units - health & wellness, member services, and career development - to learn or teach skills and to offer support and resources needed to achieve a satisfying and improved quality of life in the community. During fiscal year 2016-2017, over 170 clubhouse members received nearly 9,775 hours of service. In 2014, wellspring clubhouse received a grant from the pew charitable trusts in the amount of 180,000 over three years to provide mobile psychiatric rehabilitation services and, in cooperation with several of penn foundation's other rehabilitation programs, to offer cognitive remediation therapy (crt). Crt, a new initiative for penn foundation, involves the use of computer exercises to work with people individually to improve their cognitive - thinking/understanding/remembering - functioning. In 2017, due to the successful outcomes, pew extended the grant for 180,000 over an additional three years, to 2020. Residential services provided within an integrated community known as penn villa, residential services offers housing support for adults (18 years of age and older) with serious mental illnesses and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Within a caring community of current residents, alumni, and staff, residents experience independence, personal growth, and holistic recovery. Support is provided by penn foundation staff within a group home and five townhomes. Ten other townhomes were built by habitat for humanity, an organization that provides low-cost home ownership opportunities to eligible individuals and families. All 15 townhomes are part of an independent homeowner's association. Supported housing operates within the five townhomes and offers daily support and supervision to residents. During 2016-2017, 5,475 services were provided to 15 individuals. Maximum community residential rehabilitation operates within the group home and is a transitional program offering residents 24/7 on-site staff support and supervision. During 2016-2017, 2,831 services were provided to 8 individuals. Provided to former residents, alumni services include individual contact from staff for social support, assistance in accessing community resources, and support when moving. Alumni are also able to participate in recreational activities available to current residents. During 2016-2017 875 hours of alumni services were provided to 40 individuals. The co-occurring mh/aod residential program, known as the village of hope, is a transitional (up to two years) supported housing program specifically for homeless adults who have been diagnosed with both a mental health and substance use disorder. It is designed to provide assistance in gaining the skills necessary for successful re-entry into the mainstream of life. Two houses - one for men and one for women - each serve up to eight individuals each and offer 24/7 staff support. During fiscal year 2016-2017, village of hope provided 10,400 services to 26 individuals. Christian pastoral services dayspring counseling offers individuals, couples, and families faith-based counseling services from a christian perspective. Based on the biblical principles of hope, healing, compassion, and humility, dayspring is meant to complement and enhance the ministry of pastoral care already offered by churches in the community. A membership assistance program, in which churches share the cost of counseling for their me