Bethesda Childrens Home Lutheran Social Services

Community services:foster care & permanency services: our program provides temporary emergency foster home placement and ongoing supportive foster home placement for children and youth from various counties in pennsylvania. As a statewide adoption and permanency network (swan) affiliate, the program also provides permanency services to youth and families. Swan services that are currently offered include family profiles, child profiles, child preparation, and finalization. This department also operates the petersen foster care home, a unique home for children unable to thrive in a standard foster care setting.erie county independent living program: our program provides services to youth ages 14-23 from erie county. The program assists youth transitioning from placement to independent living with the skills and resources necessary to make them productive members of society. The program helps youth accomplish goals with employment, enrollment in educational or vocational training, and maintaining a stable place of residence after discharge. Partial hospitalization: our program offers children and youth ages 5-18 a safe, structured environment while enabling the children or youth to return home at night and maintain important family and community relationships. Services include individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, psychiatric evaluation, and medication management.acute partial hospitalization: our program is a short-term, 15-day stabilization program that allows for diagnostic evaluation of a child's needs ages 5-11. This program provides a safe, structured environment while enabling the participants to remain home at night and maintain important family and community relationships. Services include individual therapy, group therapy, family therapy, psychiatric evaluation, and medication management.after school care program - trinity center: our program runs monday though friday for youth in kindergarten through eight grade (ages 5-15). The program begins with homework assistance and includes other activities. Dinner is also provided.summer recreation program - trinity center: our program runs from the first week in july through the third week in august, monday through friday for youth ages 5-15. Activities include card games, name games, gardening, drum circles, swimming, jump rope competitions, talent show, painting, and movie days.

Education services:alternative education: as an approved provider of alternative education for disruptive youth, our program contracts with local school districts to provide students in grades 6-12 with comprehensive academic instruction along with therapeutic and developmental counseling to assist them in meeting their behavioral goals and returning to the regular school setting.community & school based behavioral health: our program works with the corry school district and focuses on ensuring that families or youth that need outside services or assistance are able to receive them. It is a short-term program that typically consists of 6-7 sessions. It is meant to assist with issues immediately and refer out to what the family and youth need most.student assistance program: our program is designed to assist school personnel in identifying issues including alcohol, tobacco, other drugs, and mental health issues that pose a barrier to a student's success. The primary goal is to help students overcome these barriers in order that they may achieve, remain in school, and advance. Services are provided to corry school district, fort leboeuf district, harborcreek district, union city district, and three erie nonpublic schools.

Evidence or research based programs:our programs are committed to recognizing and responding to the impacts of trauma on mental health and physical well-being. We are developing strategies to create and enhance a trauma informed, system-of-care approach.