Wellsboro Office Launches Family Based Mental Health Services in Tioga CountyThe Wellsboro office launched a new program called Family Based Mental Health Services (FBMH) in Tioga County. The program helps children and adolescents with serious mental illness or emotional disturbance by providing services in their homes and focusing on the family as a whole. Currently, seven families are enlisted and 12 more families are on a waiting list. The services are provided by a team consisting of a mental health professional and a mental health worker. Each team may serve a maximum caseload of eight families at a time. A second team will be added over the summer. |
About CONCERN CONCERN, a nonprofit child welfare agency, has provided foster care, life skills training and delinquency services to over 13,000 children and teens since 1978. Founded with three foster parents and eight foster children, CONCERN has grown to 16 office sites with a range of children and youth services, ranging from foster care to delinquency services and counseling. LEARN MORE ABOUT CONCERN . . . |
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Volunteer as a FamilyLike many other, our family runs in five different directions eight days a week – and we only have four members! Adding family volunteer time as part of a school project sounded like one more chore on the family “to do” list, and I didn’t enter into the project with enthusiasm. However, by committing ourselves to helping our community once a month, we discovered. . .
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