CONCERN's 
Services  

Foster Care Services

Treatment Foster Care places neglected, abused and/or delinquent children and youth into foster homes in the community. Highly trained treatment foster parents provide emotional and physical nurturance, structure and discipline. CONCERN staff members provide intensive support services, counseling and case management.

Intermediate Treatment Foster Care is open to direct referrals from county offices of children and youth and to youngsters who have been placed in the Treatment Foster Care program for six months or more, but who no longer need the intensity of the support services provided in that program

Medical Foster Care (Medically Fragile in Maryland) provides homes for children with acute physical, emotional or mental disabilities as an alternative to hospitalization or institutionalization. Foster parents and staff undergo specialized training to deal with the disabilities of the children.

Traditional Foster Care places children who, for reasons beyond their control, cannot live with their own parents. 

Mother/Baby Program (Mother/Infant in Maryland) provides homes for a pregnant teen or young adult and her baby.

Life Skills Programs, including Community Life Skills, Life Skills Institute and Life Skills Foster Care, offer community-based, supervised living arrangements for adjudicated and dependent or delinquent youth ages 16 to 21. This program helps these youth secure employment and to develop skills which will enable them to live independently after leaving CONCERN.

COMPADRES Program features experienced bilingual foster parents who serve as mentors to families whose primary language is Spanish and who are interested in foster parenting.

Adoption Program (Foster/Adopt and Adoption) offers a permanency option for children of all ages. Foster/Adopt is designed to provide an adoptive resource for children in care whose goal has been changed from reunification with birth parents to termination of parental rights/adoption. The Adoption Program provides services through Pennsylvania Statewide Adoption Network (SWAN), which includes providing adoption services to the families who came to the agency through the foster/adopt program and families not affiliated with any agency to do their adoptive family profile and then help them become matched with a waiting child.

CONCERN Treatment Units for Boys (CTUBs) are staff-secure, residential facilities for adolescent males. The goal of this program is to change the mind sets and behavior patterns of the youth so they will be able to function appropriately in society and will return to the community as healthy, productive citizens.

Counseling Services

Counseling is provided on a confidential outpatient basis to adults and children from the community, as well as to the children and youth in CONCERN’s care. CONCERN Counseling Services is a licensed psychiatric outpatient program which also offers Employee Assistance Programs for large and small businesses. Psychological and psychiatric testing also is available.

Community Residential Rehabilitation (CRR) Service Program provides temporary treatment-oriented care within the structured and caring private residence of a family other than the home of the child's parents. Clinical therapy and case management services are offered in the host home to support the child and provide therapeutic intervention. Additionally, host home parents are considered an active part of the treatment team and assist with implementing interventions. The goal for this program is to stabilize the child's symptoms enough for the child to return home to his/her legal family or other permanent living situation.

Telephone Crisis Intervention Service is a 24-hour a day/seven day a week crisis intervention service that is designed to improve or resolve precipitating stress.  Services are provided to adults, children, adolescents and their families who exhibit acute problems of disturbed thought, behavior, mood or social relationships.  This service provides rapid response to crisis situations which threaten the well-being of individuals and/or others. 

Partial Hospitalization Program provides three hours of planned treatment programming per day in the form of group, individual and family therapy, as well as psychiatric and psychological services to clients in grades kindergarten through sixth.  An educational component of the program is provided by the local school district and CONCERN Counseling Services provides the mental health treatment component.  This program allows an environment where children have an opportunity to continue their regular education placement, as well as receive appropriate mental health services. 

 

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