Home, School & Community Services

Supporting families, children, and adolescents through flexible, community-based mental health services. Healing happens best where life happens.

Supporting Growth in Every Environment

Our Home, School & Community services are designed to bring meaningful mental health support directly into everyday environments like the home, school, and community. By reducing barriers to care and offering personalized, relationship-focused support, we empower individuals and families to build strength, resilience, and lasting change. The following programs follow CASSP Principles.

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Intensive Behavioral Health Services (IBHS)

Our IBHS program delivers individualized therapy and behavior support directly in homes, schools, and communities. Services are tailored to help children manage emotional and behavioral challenges, including autism spectrum disorders.

IBHS services include:

A social worker working with a child in the local community.

Multisystemic Therapy (MST)/Juvenile Justice

MST is proven to have positive effects on juveniles who demonstrate external antisocial behaviors. MST focuses on improving and strengthening the social networks of the youth and their family. This family-driven approach is more intensive than some other traditional approaches, devoting several hours of treatment each week to youth and their family.

Main components of our MST program include:

Troubled teens drinking and smoking before receiving Multisystemic Therapy (MST)/Juvenile Justice services.

School-Based Outpatient Services

We are committed to helping students thrive by bringing traditional outpatient mental health services directly into schools. This approach removes obstacles like transportation issues and creates easier access to needed support, and allows therapists to capitalize on students’ existing academic and social networks by observing and treating clients within their natural environment.

Our school-based therapy services include:

Serving: Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon & York Counties only*

Funding for this program is insurance-based. Medical Assistance is accepted at every location with some schools also accepting specific commercial insurances. Please contact your school district for more information on accepted insurances. Students who receive services in this program become clients of Pennsylvania Counseling Services. Our school-based therapists maintain the same confidentiality standards of traditional outpatient therapists.

A student and counselor during a school based outpatient service appointment during school hours.

Family Based Mental Health Services

Through Family Based Mental Health services, we offer intensive, in-home mental health support for children and adolescents up to age 21. Our two-person therapy teams are available 24/7 to assist families in crisis, strengthen relationships, and build new coping skills.

Family Based Mental Health Services typically span an eight-month authorization period, offering consistent, hands-on support for long-term family success.

Our Family Based Mental Health Services are centered on these goals:

A family of 3 during a family based mental health service appointment.

The Warrior Project

The Warrior Project empowers young adults as they transition into independence. By focusing on relationship-building and goal-setting, this program supports youth as they prepare for adulthood.

Young adults may qualify for the Warrior Project if they:

Serving: Lebanon County only*

A group of young adults enrolled in the Warrior project which serves Lebanon county.

Triple P Parenting Program

The Triple P – Positive Parenting Program is a world-renowned, evidence-based program designed to equip parents with proven strategies to promote their child’s healthy development. This flexible system offers support for everyday parenting challenges and more serious behavioral concerns.

Triple P empowers caregivers to create loving, predictable environments where children can grow and thrive.

Triple P helps parents:

Serving: Dauphin County only*

A stressed mother consulting with a provider after being referred to the Triple P (Positive Parenting Program).

Check & Connect: Truancy Prevention

Check & Connect is an evidence-based mentoring program that improves student engagement, promotes attendance, and supports academic success. Our mentors partner closely with students and families for a minimum of two years. During this time, the mentor is regularly checking on the educational progress of the student, intervening in a timely manner to reestablish and maintain the student’s connection to school and learning and enhancing the students’ social and academic competencies.

Check & Connect includes:

Students skipping class before beginning the Check & Connect: Truancy Prevention program offered by Pennsylvania Counseling Services.

Student Assistance Program (SAP)

Our Student Assistance Program (SAP) identifies and supports students facing emotional, behavioral, or academic barriers to success. Through early intervention and teamwork, we help students thrive in school and beyond.

Our SAP services include:

Serving: Lancaster County only*

A thriving student who benefitted from the Student Assistance Program (SAP).

Learn how children’s therapy can improve your child’s life from the CDC

Insurance

We accept a variety of insurance plans to ensure our services are accessible to as many people as possible.

Additional Services Available

If you’re looking for more options, we also provide Mental Health outpatient services, and Drug & Alcohol outpatient services to meet a wide range of mental health needs.

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Support is closer than you think. Let’s work together to build strength and healing at home, in school, and beyond.

A therapist holding a patient's hand for comfort.