Program areas at Public Health Managment Corporation
Education services - phmc operates a series of education and special services for children and young adults with special needs. The mill creek school is a secondary educational program for youth with emotional or social concerns. Mill creek offers a comprehensive academic curriculum for students. It is fully licensed by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the state of new jersey for grades 7 - 12.phmc's child development and family services division ("cdfs") receives grants and contracts to provide direct service, training and capacity building initiatives, facility expansion projects and policy development to ensure quality learning experiences for children. Cdfs early childhood business supports programs (fund for sustaining quality, ece fiscal hub, philadelphia inclusion innovation initiative, ece curriculum bank and fund for quality) deliver supports to the changing needs of early childhood business operators.
Health services - phmc provides primary care, case management and supportive services to the homeless populations in shelters and to persons in transitional housing in the region. In addition, phmc operates a network of five full-service community-based federally qualified Health centers employing an innovative nurse-managed model, which serve to increase access to high quality primary care for at-risk community members. Phmc's Health centers provide integrated behavioral Health services and encompass specialized services for community members with hiv/aids and hepatitis c, and for homeless community members, many of whom are seniors or veterans, and most of whom have complex Health care needs. Phmc administers hiv-aids prevention and services programs, including community Health outreach, which conducts Health promotion services for individuals at high risk of hiv and hepatitis c infection and transmission. Outreach staff engage with substance users in individual street level encounters and group venues such as homeless shelters and feeding programs, and provide hiv/hcv risk reduction education, counseling and referral to substance abuse, hcv screening and hiv early intervention services.phmc operates a full continuum of behavioral Health treatment and outreach programs to address all aspects of addiction, mental illness, and/or trauma. This includes programs like chances, an intensive outpatient and outpatient substance use treatment program for chemically dependent women and their children. Interim house west is a residential treatment program for women with substance abuse and mental Health disorders and their children. Pathways to recovery is philadelphia's short-term co-occurring disorder treatment partial hospitalization program. The pathways to recovery program is for philadelphia residents with co-occurring substance use and mental Health challenges.
Coordination and administration service programs- these coordination and administration services are provided to governmental agencies and other not-for-profit organizations and are primarily centered around Health management staffing, as well as intermediary services that oversee subcontracting to agencies providing direct services, and monitor quality and financial processes. Management services entail managing contracting and subgranting processes, monitoring program quality, developing and maintaining data systems and tracking outcomes, providing and coordinating professional development and training activities, supporting provider networks to create learning communities and improve programs, and efficiently overseeing payments to provider agencies. Cdfs intermediary programs include elrc 19 (chester county), phlprek, out-of-school time (including 21st century community learning centers), parenting collaborative, emergency fund and prevention fund.
Child and family social servicesphmc provides service coordination through the childlink program for families of infants and toddlers who have development delays. Service coordinators help the family access early intervention services and community supports to address the needs of their child. Service coordinators also provide periodic developmental screenings to children at risk of developmental delay. Phmc administers personlink, which provides supports coordination in philadelphia, montgomery, chester and Delaware counties to individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Supports coordinators secure services that allow individuals to live at home and participate in their community. Supports coordinators develop a service plan and monitor service delivery to ensure the individual's Health and safety.health promotionphmc administers a broad range of Health promotion programs that supports individuals, families and communities in creating and sustaining healthy lifestyles. Health promotion's services focus on disease management, tobacco cessation, asthma and lead poisoning prevention, traffic safety, adolescent sexual Health and pregnancy prevention, nutrition, active design and other Health and wellness initiatives. This includes the philadelphia area sexual Health initiative (pashi),which offers programs to improve the sexual and reproductive Health outcomes for youth in the greater philadelphia region. Additionally, the economic inclusion department offers workforce development programming and services that help community investments improve Health outcomes, including phmc's involvement in rebuild, the city of philadelphia's effort to restore parks, recreation centers, and libraries in underserved neighborhoods.community engagement and forensicsphmc's community engagement services provides behavioral Health treatment and related services designed as an alternative to incarceration; services for homeless and special populations. Specifically, phmc's forensic services programming enhances community safety by reducing criminal recidivism due to substance abuse and mental illness through behavioral Health treatment and related services. These programs are provided under criminal justice supervision and serve as an alternative to incarceration. Phmc's forensic services coordinates criminal justice substance abuse treatment for nearly 10,000 individuals each year. Additionally, through phmc's homeless services, the organization offers transitional housing for women and their children as well as a medical respite for individuals being discharged from the hospital.community mental healthphmc provides a full array of behavioral Health services to children, adolescents and families, in facility and community-based settings. Family based mental Health services provides team-delivered, in-home family therapy and support services to children and adolescents with severe emotional/behavioral Health needs who are at risk of being placed out of their home. Behavioral Health rehabilitation services (bhrs) provides an array of behavioral Health treatment services in school and home settings to help children and adolescents successfully manage their behaviors to be successful in the community. Multisystemic therapy for problem sexual behaviors (mst-psb) is an evidence-based, intensive treatment program that works with youth who have engaged in problematic sexual behaviors. The community-based services are family driven and maintain victim, community and client safety as the top priority. The program serves youth who are involved, or are at risk of becoming involved, in the juvenile justice system.other professional/technical assistancephmc provides management services for local, state and federal government entities and back-office services and strategic support to subsidiary organizations. Back-office support includes accounting, information technology, human resources, communications, quality management, facilities and other administrative services.research and evaluationphmc's research and evaluation group is committed to utilizing rigorous research and evaluation methods to illuminate today's most critical Public Health problems. Research and evaluation are the backbone of good Public Health practice, creating a strong foundation for the design and delivery of programs and services that can effectively prevent disease and improve Health. The research and evaluation group supports phmc and its subsidiaries and programs using evaluation data to guide and continually improve overall effectiveness, and to measure impact. In addition to supporting phmc and its subsidiaries and programs, the research and evaluation group is engaged in Public Health research and program evaluation with a diverse portfolio of external clients and funders. The research and evaluation group houses the community Health data base's household Health survey, the largest, local Public Health survey in the country.