Pinebrook Family Answers

Permanency services: Pinebrook Family Answers offers a five-tier foster care model designed to meet the individualized needs of children who primarily have been traumatized from parental neglect, sexual abuse and/or physical abuse; kinship care permanency services; and adoption services for special-needs children through the statewide adoption network (swan). The agency's adoption department also offers limited international adoption services, including home study and post-placement services in collaboration with other accredited adoption agencies. Transportation and Family visitation program, which includes placement transition services, connects children in out-of-home placement with their biological/legal families providing supervised Family visitation, as well as case management for identified caregivers, to support Family reunification goals. Placement transition services is an intensive, family-focused, community based, case management, Family reunification program working with caregivers to address areas of concern that resulted in out-of-home placement for their child or children.

Diversionary services: making the grade truancy intervention services is a truancy-reduction, family-support program which includes Family support services for elementary and middle school children and provides in-home case management and coordination of community services and support. Funded in part from healthchoices reinvestment funds, high fidelity wraparound initiative, an evidence-based practice and team-based collaborative process for helping youth with special mental health needs or at risk of out-of-home placement, works with youth and young adults, ages 8 to 21, and their families. A Family preservation program, shape serves families with children ages 0-18, providing need assessments, case management, coordination of community services and support. Shift is a program that supports familities in lehigh county in finding or maintaining stable housing to prevent or end placement for youth in the dependent care system. Unconditional child care is an intervention program for families whose children are at risk of expulsion from child care programs.

Outpatient behavioral health services: Pinebrook Family Answers operates three outpatient psychiatric clinics, which provide outpatient psychiatric and counseling services in the greater lehigh valley. The agency is a participating provider of services in the Pennsylvania healthchoices initiative and contracts with numerous commercial insurance companies and employee assistance programs.integrated behavioral health services is a model of service provision that places behavioral health providers in a team environment at other service organizations, such as medical offices, schools and police departments. The agency has partnered with st. luke's university health network and united way of the greater lehigh valley to place mental health professionals in mobile health care vans and hiv care settings. We currently have clinicians integrated into the allentown police department as well as schools, across the lehigh valley.family-based mental health services, an in-home Family therapy program, is designed to preserve families with children who are experiencing serious mental health issues and are at risk of being placed outside of the home.

Forensic services: includes adult re-entry and Family services funded in part from a federal grant, provides risk/needs assessment, evidence-based curricula in the county jails and community, gender responsive and trauma informed programming, supervised contact visits, as well as case management and planning; the transitional residence program, a unique housing program that addresses the needs of homeless women and their children to work toward housing stability; the alpha program provides teens on probation with academic, behavioral, and job readiness services designed to prepare them to enter the workforce and success in life; and a theft remediation service.