Bethanna

Behavioral health services bethanna provides children's outpatient mental health services, intensive behavioral health services, clinical transition and stabilization services, children's mobile crisis, children's mobile intervention services and community engagement. Bethanna utilizes a variety of evidenced based and evidence informed models of care promoting healing centered and trauma informed care.

Community umbrella agency (cua) services bethanna provides case management, family strengthening services and community engagement as the cua serving center city and south philadelphia. Bethanna partners with the philadelphia department of human services to achieve the goals of improving outcomes for children: more children and youth maintained safely in their own homes and communities; more children and youth achieving timely reunification or other permanence; a reduction in the use of congregate care; and, improved child, youth and family functioning.

Adoption - bethanna's first priority is to safely reunite the child and parents. However, when it is not possible for a child to return to his/her biological family, bethanna seeks adoptive families to ensure the child has a permanent home. Bethanna is an affiliate of the pennsylvania statewide adoption and permanency network (swan).the pece parenting education program presents practical parenting skills and encourages open communication and positive and safe interactions between children and parents. The program involves videotaped lessons, group discussions, and interactive sessions between parents and their children. The pece program currently offers classes to parents in the process of reunification, kinship care parents, and fathers who are incarcerated in the philadelphia work release program.