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Allentown, Pennsylvania Mental Health
Allentown, Pennsylvania, dating back to 1762, is a city with lots of history. It’s a city that is proud of its heritage and proud of the services that it offers the community.
Allentown is the third largest city in Pennsylvania, but by national standards is still a small city. Small city or not, though, Allentown offers many big city services to its community. One of Allentown’s most prized services is its parks service which provides a wealth of safe play areas and parks.
Unfortunately, however, during our research, we found that Allentown may have left mental health initiatives out of its list of priorities. In fact, the Allentown website fails to even mention mental health in its “Health Department” section. Fortunately, though, Lehigh County, the State of Pennsylvania, and various private organizations pick up the city’s slack.
Allentown State Hospital
The Allentown State Hospital offers a quite setting, situated on 206 wooded acres. Despite its peaceful setting, however, patients generally only go to Allentown State Hospital under court order.
Once at the hospital, the patients are assessed, treated, and then reintegrated into the community once they are ready for that transition. The goal of Allentown State Hospital is to enable patients to return to the community and to help them live to their fullest potential.
Lehigh County Mental Health Program
The Lehigh County Mental Health Program was organized as a way to manage federal, state, and local funds. The funds are used to provide community based mental health services to people who suffer from mental illnesses.
The Lehigh County Mental Health Program directly provides the following services:
- Case management
- Children & Adolescents Services System Project (CASSP)
- Crisis intervention
- Service authorization
- Special Offenders in Rehabilitation and Education (SPORE)
The Lehigh County Mental Health Program, through contracts with other agencies, also provides the following services:
- Individual & family therapy
- Community treatment teams
- Family based mental health outpatient services
- Partial hospitalization
- Psychiatric evaluation
- Rehabilitation & employment services
- Residential & housing services
Valley Youth House
The Valley Youth House was opened in 1973 and, for the most part, serves patients from Lehigh and Northampton counties.
It serves as a line of defense for troubled young people, against abuse, neglect, and family disintegration. This line of defense is accomplished through prevention, crisis intervention, and long term help.
The Valley Youth House provides services which include residential programs, child welfare treatment services, prevention and intervention, and children’s mental health/ managed care services.
Other Mental Health Resources
Other Allentown area mental health resources include the following:
- Clubhouse of Lehigh County
- Hope House
- Pennsylvania Protection & Advocacy, Inc.
- Pinebrook Service from Children & Youth
- Via of the Lehigh Valley, Inc.
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