Pinebrook Family Answers

Behavioral health services: pinebrook family answers operates three outpatient psychiatric clinics, which provide outpatient psychiatric and counseling services in the greater lehigh valley. The agency is a participating provider of services in the pennsylvania healthchoices initiative and contracts with numerous commercial insurance companies and employee assistance programs.integrated behavioral health services is a model of service provision that places behavioral health providers in a team environment at other service organizations, such as schools and police departments. We currently have clinicians integrated into the allentown police department, various lehigh county municipal police departments, as well as elementary, middle, and high schools across the lehigh valley. Family-based mental health services, a structured, in-home family therapy program, is designed to preserve families with children who are experiencing serious mental health issues and are at risk of being placed outside of the home.suicide coalition pbfa provides backbone support to the lehigh county suicide prevention coalition. The suicide prevention coalition (spc) promotes the sharing of data, reports, best practices, and local stories to inform and enlighten discussions and strategies for suicide prevention and other deaths of despair. This approach aims to create a well-informed and collaborative environment to effectively address these critical issues. The spc also operates the lehigh county l.o.s.s. Team an initiative in partnership with the lehigh county coroner's office. The team is made up of compassionate community members and suicide loss survivors trained to reach out to the newly bereaved suicide loss survivors. The coalition currently receives funding from lc mental health as well as a one-year federal samhsa grant.

Diversionary services: making the grade truancy intervention services is a truancy-reduction, family-support program which includes family support services for elementary and middle school children and provides in-home case management and coordination of community services and support. Funded in part from healthchoices reinvestment funds, high fidelity wraparound initiative, an evidence-based practice and team-based collaborative process for helping youth with special mental health needs or at risk of out-of-home placement, works with youth and young adults, ages 8 to 21, and their families. A family preservation program, shape serves families with children ages 0-18, providing need assessments, case management, coordination of community services and support. Shift is a program that supports families in lehigh county in finding or maintaining stable housing to prevent or end placement for youth in the dependent care system. Unconditional child care is an intervention program for families whose children are at risk of expulsion from child care programs.

Forensic services: includes adult re-entry and family services funded in part from a federal grant, provides risk/needs assessment, evidence-based curricula in the county jails, gender responsive and trauma informed programming, supervised contact visits, as well as case management and planning; the transitional residence program, a unique housing program that addresses the needs of homeless women and their children to work toward housing stability; fast is a family-based alternative sentencing program which works with a county-wide, multi-disciplinary team by providing comprehensive services including intake and assessment, highly individualized one-on-one case management, evidence-based classes and peer mentoring to divert parents and caregivers from incarceration and address their needs in the community and reduce out of home placement of children; the alpha program provides teens on probation with academic, behavioral, and job readiness services designed to prepare them to enter the workforce and success in life; and a theft remediation service.