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Community Behavioral Health

Community Behavioral Health Services includes a wide variety of individualized community-based mental health and child welfare services. These services may be integrated with one another or other services of the Wordsworth's continuum. They can be divided into three primary catagories:

1) Prevention:

Prevention program are school linked services that offer children at-risk for behavioral health issues access to appropriate community based programs, and provide opportunities for community partnership and collaboration. The programs include:

• Consultation & Education (C&E) Specialists
• Beacon Program at Barrett Middle School
• ASSURE - Achieving Success through Recreation and Education
• After School Programs

Wordsworth School Linked Prevention Programs
3905 Ford Road
Philadelphia, PA 19131-2824
215.643.5400

2) Child Welfare

• Community Family-Based Services (also known as CFBS or SCOH, Services for Children in their Own Homes) use social work and community interventions to help families take control of their own lives. For families in crisis, home-based care may help prevent the need for residential treatment or foster placement. After residential treatment, home-based care provides support for the transition back to the family and community.

• Communnity placement services enable placement and therapeutic treatment for special needs infants, children and adolescents:
  • Foster Care Placement: Clients may receive other Wordsworth services as required:
    Supportive therapy by case managers
    Rehabilitative wrap around services
    Respite or emergency placement in Wordsworth residential treatment centers
    
  • Foster Family Treatment - Intensive: As an alternative to residential treatment or inpatient hospitalization, specialized staff provide direct care in the home with support and training to foster family and natural family members who are part of the treatment team.
    
  • Therapeutic Family Program: Children who are emotionally or behaviorally disturbed (or both) can be placed in the homes of Therapeutic Parents. Such treatment homes are licensed as Community Residential Rehabilitative Service (CRRS) host homes. Therapeutic Parents, as the primary treatment providers, receive intensive supervision by a Master's level clinician and support from a Therapeutic Aide. To further promote growth and change, the child and family also receive therapy by the clinician.

Wordsworth Child Welfare Programs
3905 Ford Road
Philadelphia, PA 19131-2824
215.643.5400

3) Behavioral Health Services

• Wrap Around Services: Strength-based treatment planning emphasizing active community, family and client involvement and coordination with all systems involved with child and family.
• Outpatient Mental Health Services: Children and their families receive outpatient psychotherapy evaluations and treatment, including individual, family and group mode.
• Adolescent Family Based Services: Team delivered, community based mental health and case management services, including family and individual therapy, resource development, and 24/7 on-call crisis stabilization services.

Wordsworth Behavioral Health Services
3905 Ford Road
Philadelphia, PA 19131-2824
215.643.5400

Please call 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for information on this or any of our programs, or Email us Info@Worsdworth.org