Bell Socialization Services

Residential living arrangements - provide a structured environment for consumers needing to learn skills for community living. Group homes provide supervision to the consumers, according to their needs documented in their individual service plan. Staff is available 24 hours a day to help residents adjust to community living. Residents work on personal goals as part of their rehabilitation. Referrals need to be directed through the york/adams mental health - intellectual and developmental disabilities program. This program served approximately 43 people throughout the fiscal year.

All other assisted living programs provide, furnish, and maintain suitable living quarters, facilities and Services for disadvantaged individuals and families, primarily those which are mentally and emotionally disabled. This program included the Bell shelter and bridge housing. The Bell shelter is a family shelter which provides living quarters for families for up to 30 days. Bridge housing is a rehabilitative housing program which allows a longer-term option (up to one year), providing more time for homeless families to hone basic living skills, getting them on track for a successful independent living. The bridge housing utilizes six apartment units in york city.

C.h.i.p.p. (community hospitalization integration project program) - residential Services is a partnership between four agencies: the york/adams mental health-intellectual and development disabilities program, wellspan behavioral health Services, adams/hanover counseling Services, and Bell Socialization Services. This program provides residential Services in an apartment complex for seriously mentally ill consumers who were previously long-term patients (2 + years) at pa's state hospital institutions. This program also provides temporary support (30-90 days) for one mentally ill consumer at a time who is recovering from a local psychiatric hospitalization. During the current fiscal year, this program served approximately 24 individuals.