City of Philadelphia
DBHIDS Program Directory
Below is a directory of programs funded by the City of Philadelphia based on the type of Service that is offered.
Case Management
Forensic Intensive Recovery Services Team (FIRST)
Population: Forensic, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
The FIRST Unit was designed to enhance the administration and coordination of court-stipulated substance use disorder services for eligible individuals involved in the criminal justice system within the first Judicial District of Pennsylvania.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Veteran Initiative Unit (VIU)
Population: Mental Health, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Veteran Initiatives Unit (VIU) provides comprehensive guidance to Philadelphia’s Veterans who have behavioral health challenges and justice system involvement and their families, aiding them in navigating healthcare systems, the criminal justice system, and community resources.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Systemic, Therapeutic, Assessment, Resources and Treatment (START)
Population: Mental Health, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Philadelphia START program is a specialized component of the Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility (BHID) System of Care, providing crisis prevention and intervention, consultation, and therapeutic support for individuals with co-occurring ID/ASD and mental health conditions.
Phone: 215-685-5900
Targeted Case Management (TCM)
Population: Mental Health, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The Targeted Case Management Unit monitors case management service utilization and care management practices for individuals, both adult and children, who live in Philadelphia and who have serious and persistent mental health or substance use challenges.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Philadelphia System of Care (PSOC)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth
The mission of Philadelphia System of Care is for every Philadelphia youth/family to be able to easily access behavioral health services and supports that partner with youth and families to reach their goals, in order to be healthy and home in the community.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Problem Solving Courts
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Targeted Case Management Unit monitors case management service utilization and care management practices for individuals, both adult and children, who live in Philadelphia and who have serious and persistent mental health or substance use challenges.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Wellness on Wheels (WoW)
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
Services provided on WoW include: Narcan distribution, overdose reversal trainings, wound care supplies, medication for opioid use disorder (MOUD), case management.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Parenting and Pregnant Services
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The SCA Pregnant and Parenting Services Unit seeks to support and partner with and serve pregnant and parenting individuals with substance use disorder through intervention, advocacy and connection to treatment, recovery support services including peer support and harm reduction.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Crisis
Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center (BHUCC)
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The FIRST Unit was designed to enhance the administration and coordination of court-stipulated substance use disorder services for eligible individuals involved in the criminal justice system within the first Judicial District of Pennsylvania.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Crisis Intervention and Stabilization Team (CIST)
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Adult
CIST is a longer-term crisis stabilization service that provides brief, intensive therapeutic crisis intervention to individuals in their place of residence or in the community, for up to six weeks.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Alternative Response Unit 3 (AR3)
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Adult
AR3 model is a multi-agency, multi-disciplinary unit focusing on Community Risk Reduction that will provide case management services to high utilizers of the system as well as responding to 302 calls for special/vulnerable population whose presentation is not a public safety issue.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Innovation Approaches to Behavioral Health: Crisis 2.0
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Adult
Crisis 2.0 is the expansion of adult crisis services that includes short term mobile crisis response teams, expansion of crisis response centers, and the development of a behavioral health urgent care center.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Philadelphia 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Awareness Campaign
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
988 is a nationwide number that connects callers experiencing emotional distress or thoughts of suicide, to trained, supportive counselors and in Philadelphia, callers are connected to Philadelphia Crisis Line (PCL) counselors, 24/7.
Phone: 988
Crisis Intervention Training
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
A collaboration between BHJD and Philadelphia Department of Police to provide local police officers with a 40-hour curriculum designed to improve their ability to recognize people experiencing a mental health crisis, to de-escalate such crises, and to increase their consideration of non-justice referrals for people they encounter in a mental health crisis.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Alternatives to Detention Adult Probation and Parole Department
Population: Mental Health, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
To reduce the further criminalization of individuals with mental illness, this initiative provides two behavioral health navigators to support persons involved with the Adult Probation and Parole Department (APPD).
Phone: 215-685-5400
Opioid Overdose Prevention and Narcan Rescue
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
This training covers Opioid 101 and Narcan Rescue, the impact efforts to the Opioid epidemic nationally & locally, the city’s efforts to combat the epidemic.
Phone: 215-923-2116
Crisis Intervention Response Teams (CIRT) Co-Responder Pilot Program
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Four Co-Responder teams, each consisting of mental health professional and a CIT officer, and 2 Outreach Co-Responder teams comprised of a CPS and Outreach Specialist receive referrals from 911 and patrol officers.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Behavioral Health Special Initiative (BHSI)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
The BHSI Program provides access to assessments, referrals, and drug and alcohol funding to uninsured or underinsured Philadelpiha residents.
Phone: 215-546-1200
Crisis Response Centers (CRC)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Emergency Centers for people experiencing a Behavioral Health Crisis.
Einstein: 215-951-8300
Friends Hospital: 215-831-4600
Pennsylvania Hospital: 215-829-5249
Temple University / Episcopal Hospital: 215-707-1200
HUP Cedar: 215-748-9000
Community Mobile Crisis Response Team (CMCRT)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Adult
Mobile Crisis Response Teams provide community-based crisis intervention services that deliver resolution-focused and recovery-oriented behavioral health assessments and crisis stabilization to those experiencing a crisis, in their home, work or community.
Consortium: 267-233-5259
Philadelphia Crisis Line (PCL) 302 petitions
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
PCL receives crisis calls from our local crisis line, transfer calls from 911, and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 988. The counselors also process civil commitments on the 24-hour Mental Health Delegate Line.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Mental Health First Aid (MHFA)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The purpose of the Philadelphia MHFA project is to increase the number of Philadelphians prepared to help individuals with behavioral health challenges, improve mental health literacy and reduce stigma.
Phone: 215-790-4996
Employment
DBHIDS Trauma Card Distribution
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Early Intervention, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
The purpose of this project is to provide information and resources to Philadelphians to learn the impacts of trauma and how to find and access resources for both individual and communities.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Shifting the Culture to Employment
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Through this pilot, 100 households in Philadelphia will receive Chromebooks to access telehealth and SDOH supports. We will also seek to couple the equipment with free WiFi services through Comcast who is working with the City’s Office of Innovation and Technology.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Shifting the Culture to Employment
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Through this pilot, 100 households in Philadelphia will receive Chromebooks to access telehealth and SDOH supports. We will also seek to couple the equipment with free WiFi services through Comcast who is working with the City’s Office of Innovation and Technology.
Phone: 215-685-5400
DBHIDS Trauma Card Distribution
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Early Intervention, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
The purpose of this project is to provide information and resources to Philadelphians to learn the impacts of trauma and how to find and access resources for both individual and communities.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Employment First
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Homeless, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Employment First Initiative ensures that individuals with intellectual and developmental disAbilities (IDD) are given opportunities to work in integrated, competitive employment settings.
Phone: 215-685-5900
Certified Peer Specialist (CPS) and Certified Recovery Specialist (CRS) Professional Development and Networking Meeting
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Early Intervention, Homeless, Forensic, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Adult
CPS/CRS Professional Development and Networking Meeting (PDN) occurs on a monthly basis to provide ongoing skill building and support for our CPS graduates.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Peer Workforce Development: Certified Peer Specialist CPS Employment and Technical Assistance Program (CETAP)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Homeless, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Adult
This PCCI program addresses certified peer employment challenges by providing CPS and CRS graduates with career counseling such as resume development, and employment referrals to agencies with available CPS and CRS positions.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Certified Peer Training
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Early Intervention, Homeless, Forensic, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Adult
Provide training opportunities for Philadelphia peers and providers.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Engagement
Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma (ReCast)
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Youth
Resiliency in Communities After Stress and Trauma works to assist high-risk youth and families and promote resilience and equity in communities that recently faced civil unrest.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Alternative Response Unit (ARU)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Alternative Response Unit (ARU-2) is a novel program consisting of Paramedics, Case Managers, and public health professionals working to provide services to the Kensington community, a neighborhood referred to as the epicenter of the overdose crisis in Philadelphia.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Continuity of Care (COC)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Forensic, Homeless, Forensic, Intellectual disAbilitiy
Youth / Adult: Adult
The COC team is a multi-disciplinary team that provides intensive, short-term outreach/engagement, assessment/linking, intervention, and advocacy using strength, recovery and resilience-based approaches that are trauma informed.
Phone: 215-413-2415
Early Intervention
Population: Substance Use, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Youth
DBHIDS Early Intervention services supports individuals ages 10 years and older who are at risk of addiction to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs to build their resilience and help develop positive decision making skills.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Mobile Outreach and Recovery Services (MORS)
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
The DBHIDS Mobile Outreach and Recovery Service (MORS) targets individuals seeking treatment for behavioral health care in communities deemed high risk substance use disorder (SUD) and heroin/opioid overdose.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Family Member Committee
Population: Mental Health, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Adult
Monthly meeting for family members to receive emotional support and educational resources.
Phone: 215-685-5400
PSOC Communities of Care Councils
Population: Mental Health, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Youth
Community-driven, local neighborhood monthly forums dedicated to youth behavioral health, resiliency, and wellness. Representative of local families, youth, providers, and community partners.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Youth MOVE Philadelphia
Population: Mental Health, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Youth
Youth with lived experience engage in training forum to develop young adult advocacy skills. Young adults with lived experience facilitate youth-led afterschool workshops related to behavioral health and wellness.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Forensic Support Team
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
DBHIDS implemented a Forensic Support Team (FST) to assist individuals on the Forensic Waitlist at the Philadelphia Department of Prisons (Class A) as they transition from jail to the state hospital, or a less restrictive setting, while under the court’s jurisdiction.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Norristown State Hospital Discharges
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
BHJD supports the discharge process for Philadelphians leaving NSH and returning to the community.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Norristown Waitlist Monitoring
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
Norristown State Hospital Waitlist Monitoring. Ongoing initiative focused on the rightsizing / downsizing of Norristown State Hospital.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Behavioral Health and Justice Division (BHJD) Portal
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
BHJD provides a virtual portal where justice partners such as the FJD, PD, DA, APPD, and Pre-Trial can make referrals for BHJD support.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Pretrial Services
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
BHJD has partnered with the Pretrial Services Division of the First Judicial District using MacArther Safety and Justice Challenge grant funds to install a behavioral health navigator to provide supports and service linkages to those under court-ordered Pretrial Services.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Resource Hub
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
A Resource Hub for Justice-Involved individuals. BHJD oversees Hub operations through its Behavioral Health Navigator staff, in coordination with FJD and other justice partners. BHJD Navigators are able to screen and link individuals to identified areas of need.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Alternatives to Detention ATD Philadelphia Police Department PDP Reentry and ATD Reentry
Population: Mental Health, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
To reduce the further criminalization of individuals with mental illness, this initiative provides two behavioral health navigators to support persons involved with the Adult Probation and Parole Department (APPD).
Phone: 215-685-5400
Department of Corrections (DOC) Reentry
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
Department of Corrections provides continuity of care discharge planning for Philadelphians returning from all 24 State Correctional Institutions.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Norristown State Hospital (NSH) Reentry
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
To reduce the further criminalization of individuals with mental illness, this initiative provides two behavioral health navigators to support persons involved with the Adult Probation and Parole Department (APPD).
Phone: 215-685-5400
Job and Upward Mobility Program (JUMP)
Population: Mental Health, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Youth
DBHIDS funds employment and training programs, and the Employment Systems Program Specialist manages the referral process through the DBHIDS Workforce Referral Form and records individual level data in the Employment Clearinghouse.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Actions in Recovery Toolkit (AIR)
Population: Mental Health, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Created to provide individuals and families who receive services with tools to navigate resources after discharge from a healthcare setting or transitioning to different level of care throughout the behavioral health system.
Phone: 215-685-5400
The Art of Reporting
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Adult
“The Art of Reporting: Changes to SNAP Rule” an informative session designed to help staff, partners, and community members understand recent updates to SNAP reporting requirements.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Communication Champion
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Successful communication is critical to individuals having choice, self-determination. The right to be heard is a fundamental human right and is much more than using spoken words.
Phone: 215-685-5900
Lifesharing (IDS Quality Management Initiative)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
LifeSharing is an alternative living arrangement that places individuals with intellectual disabilities in Philadelphia within a caring household designed to provide a supportive environment.
Phone: 215-685-5900
Philadelphia Family Voices
Population: Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth
Utilizes Family Peer Supports to assist families in navigating child serving services in Philadelphia. Family peers support families on various levels of need, specific to each individual families.
Phone: 215-685-5900
That All May Worship
Population: Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Adult
Everyone has the right to choose in their worship experiences regardless of their ability level.
Phone: 215-685-5900
Community Outreach & Engagement (COE)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
COE is responsible for managing all requests for DBHIDS presence at community events (resource tables, speakers, behavioral health screeners, etc).
Phone: 215-685-5400
Community Wellness Engagement Unit (CWEU)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The Community Wellness Engagement Unit (CWEU) is designed to provide greater access to Behavioral Health support, guidance, and linkages to care on a community level.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Faith and Spiritual Affairs
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Faith and Spiritual Affairs (FSA) is dedicated to informing faith and spiritual communities about behavioral health care services and reducing the stigma of behavioral health concerns.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Porch Light
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
DBHIDS is collaborating on a unique project with Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program (MAP) in an effort to bring powerful and positive messages to reduce stigma surrounding behavioral health and intellectual disability challenges.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Engaging Males of Color (EMOC)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless, Early Intervention, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Engaging Males of Color (EMOC) is a targeted initiative designed to address the impact of health, economic, and education disparities experienced by males of color.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Engaging Women and Girls of Color (EWGOC)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless, Early Intervention, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The Engaging Women of Girls of Color (WGOC) Initiative is an outward-facing community-driven platform for WGOC, not excluding women of trans and gender-non-conforming identities to control the narrative of their diverse life experiences and circumstances.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Immigrant / Refugee Affairs & Language Access Services (IRALAS)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless, Early Intervention, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
IRALAS initiatives are developed with data, research, and community input to ensure Philadelphia’s immigrant and refugee communities have equitable access to behavioral health and intellectual disability services.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Language Access Services
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless, Early Intervention, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
Serving uninsured immigrants / refugees with limited English proficiency and deaf and hard of hearing.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Language Access Steering Committee (LASC)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless, Early Intervention, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The DBHIDS Language Access Steering Committee (LASC) aims to ensure equitable access to behavioral health services by providing strategic guidance, innovative solutions, and support for developing, implementing, and continuously improving language access and immigrant / refugee service initiatives.
Phone: 215-685-5400
LGBTQUIA+ Task Force
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The LGBTQ+ Initiative ensures a culturally competent, inclusive, and safe internal working environment; it serves as a resource and support system for LGBTQ+ communities and the organizations who serve them.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Community Support Program
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
A coalition of providers, family members, individuals with lived experience and community members from Philadelphia County who work together to inform and improve behavioral services by advocating the use of CSP principles and exemplary recovery-oriented practices.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Same Day Work and Pay Peer Support
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Provide provisional peer support to Same Day Work and Pay programs.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Story Telling Training
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Story Telling Training is a FREE resilience and recovery-oriented training recognizing that the stories of individuals, their recovery processes and the experiences of their family members are critical tools in moving system transformation forward.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Trauma Informed Peer Services (TIPS)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Trauma-Informed Peer Support (TIPS) is a peer support model that aims to help people heal and recover from trauma by providing a safe and supportive environment.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) Training
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Wellness Recovery Action Plan (WRAP) is a SAMHSA evidence based practice self managment tool. WRAP is a highly individualized plan that helps individuals maintain their overall wellness.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Cure Violence Philadelphia (Cease Fire)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Trauma-Informed Peer Support (TIPS) is a peer support model that aims to help people heal and recover from trauma by providing a safe and supportive environment.
Phone: 215-685-5400