City of Philadelphia
DBHIDS Program Directory
Programs funded by the City of Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services (DBHIDS) sorted by type of service 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
Parenting and Pregnant Services
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The Single County Authority 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
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
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
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
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
Crisis
Mental Health First Aid
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services uses Mental Health First Aid, combined with other recovery and resilience-oriented strategies, as a public health approach to behavioral health. 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
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. It will describe different types of Opioids medically prescribed and non prescribed, identify overdose risk factors, the laws that govern the ability to help someone in distress, signs and symptoms of an Opioid overdose, what Narcan is and how to administer it.
Phone: 215-923-2116
Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center (BHUCC)
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Behavioral Health Urgent Care Center (BHUCC) is part of the continuum of crisis services developed to ensure a “no wrong door” approach to crisis care in Philadelphia. The BHUCC is designed to provide immediate assesment, triage, evaluation and intervention to adults whose crisis needs are deeped to be urgent. Services include: brief assessment, stabilization andintervention, nursing assessment and intervention, medication issues, psychiatric intervention, case management, substance use assessment and supportive referrals.
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
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 Philadelphia residents. BHSI functions as a quasi-managed care organization, authoring individualized care according to clinical/medical necessity, based on the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM).
Phone: 215-546-1200
Alternative Response Unit 3 (ARU3)
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Adult
ARU-3 is a multidisciplinary unit, consisting of: PFD emergency medical technicians, paramedics and behavior health specialists dedicated to addressing the mental health needs of the community. The team specializes in crisis intervention and responds to 302 calls involving individuals from special and vulnerable populations whose presentation does not pose a public safety concern.
Phone: 267-994-7527
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
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
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
Warm Hand Off
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Warm Hand Off Program, initiated by the Pennsylvania Department of Drug and Alcohol Programs (DDAP), is an intervention aimed at supporting overdose survivors who present in emergency departments (EDs). The program focuses on connecting these individuals with counseling and treatment services through direct referrals. Single County Authorities (SCAs) prioritize overdose survivors and establish processes within medical facilities to ensure immediate treatment referrals.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Crisis Intervention Response Teams (CIRT) Co-Responder 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
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
Employment
Job and Upward Mobility Program (JUMP)
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, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Lead efforts within DBHIDS regarding SSI/SSDI benefits and employment expertise, navigating the complexity of retaining these benefits while seeking employment.
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
Behavioral Health Training and Education Network Trauma Training
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Several trainings related to Trauma Experiences including: Prolonged Trauma, Vicarious Trauma, Historical and Intergenerational Trauma
Phone: 215-923-2116
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-2)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Alternative Response Unit (ARU-2) is an innovative, multidisciplinary program comprised of Paramedics, Case Managers, and Public Health professionals dedicated to providing compassionate, community-based services in Kensington, a Philadelphia neighborhood widely recognized as the epicenter of the city’s overdose crisis. The team responds to overdoses and individuals in the Kensington community seeking substance use treatment.
Phone: 267-994-7527
Alternative Response Unit (ARU-4)
Population: Mental Health, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
ARU-4 model is a multi-agency, multidisciplinary unit that extends focus on families as a whole and provides 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.
Phone: 267-994-7527
Alternative Response Unit (ARU)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Philadelphia Fire Department has partnered with the University of Pennsylvania on an innovative public-private program designed to encourage Penn students to call for emergency medical help by removing disciplinary and financial barriers to access care.
Phone: 215-573-3333
Continuity of Care (COC)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Forensic, Homeless, Forensic, Intellectual disAbilitiy
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The COC team is a multi-disciplinary team that serves children / adults, 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 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
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
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 as well as review other food resources in Philadelphia.
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:484-228-1229
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
Training
Behavioral Health Training and Education Network Trauma Training
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Several trainings related to Trauma Experiences including: Prolonged Trauma, Vicarious Trauma, Historical and Inter-generational Trauma.
Phone: 215-923-2116
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
Opiod 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 and locally, the city’s efforts to combat the epidemic.
Phone: 215-923-2116
Immigration and Refugee Wellness Academy
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Adult
IRWA is a free training program designed to empower and prepare Philadelphia’s multilingual / multicultural immigrants and refugees with knowledge, resources, and tools necessary to engage in activities that address behavioral health and intellectual disability challenges, trauma, and inequity experienced within the immigrant and refugee community.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Inpatient / Outpatient
Admissions, Discharges and Planning Team (ADAPT)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Inpatient
ADAPT’s main function is to manage referrals and admissions to Extended Acute, (EAC) inpatient psychiatric units as well as coordinate with others regarding Norristown State Hospital referrals.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Problem Gambling Prevention
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Outpatient
Services focus on increasing public awareness of problem gambling and advocating for support services and treatment for individuals who adversely affected by this issue.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Healing Hurt People
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Outpatient
Trauma informed, hospital-based violence intervention program. Offers case-management, and linkage referrals. Operates at St. Chris and has a host of community partners.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Rehabilitation / Habilitation
Journey of Hope Peer Institute
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
The JOH Peer Pilot Project aims to demonstrate that board certified, Certified Recovery Specialists (CRS) who are trained to address intense needs of JOH members will improve outcomes and provide direct and indirect inefficiencies for DBHIDS and the overall system.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Journey of Hope Couples
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
the Journey of Hope Project offers an opportunity for individuals experiencing prolonged homelessness and behavioral health challenges to embark on a path towards recovery, improve their health and wellness, live a self-directed life, and strive to reach their full potential.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Homeless Outreach
Population: Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Homeless Outreach offers hope for persons experiencing chronic street homelessness by building trusting relationships that leads to choices and opportunities.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Recovery House Initiative
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
DDAP licensed recovery houses, which seeks to improve tratment outcomes by placing individuals in positive, stable living environment that is conducive to their recovery.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Safe Haven
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Adult
The goal of the Safe Haven program is to have a direct impact on reducing the number of people who are living on the streets in Philadelphis for the most vulnerable behavioral health population.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Transition, Integration and Partnerships (TIP)
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Adult
TIP assists priority individuals connect to residential services. TIP assists eligible participants in finding living situations that optimize their recovery and meaningful connections to the community.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Resources
Student Assistance Program (SAP)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Youth
Student Assistance Program (SAP) is a state-wide mandated program to assist with identifying and assessing student needs for substance use and mental health in all city schools.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Peerstar Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Expansion
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
DBHIDS and Philadelphia Police Department will collaborate to streamline reentry through planning processes, enhancing partnerships with cross-systems agencies and referral sources, providing evidence-based practice-supported training, and establishing data collection / management plans.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Stepping Up Initiative
Population: Mental Health, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Adult
This initiative aims to reduce the number of individuals with mental illness who are admitted to jail, reduce their lengths of stay, connect them to community-based treatment and resources, and reduce the likelihood of their returning to jail.
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 access resources for both individual and communities.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Food Engagement through Efficient Delivery Service (FEEDS)
Population: Mental Health, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
In partnership with Philabundance, we plan to serve 50 households on a biweekly basis for one year with food box delivery to their homes. Each food box will consist of 50% fresh and 50% self-stable items and will be adaptable and attentive to the needs of members who may have cultural or allergen dietary restrictions.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Mobility Access through Supplemental Services (MASS)
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Youth
In partnership with SEPTA, we plan to serve 75 individuals with monthly Transpasses for one year distributions.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Social Determinants of Health SDOH Resource Finder
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
Findhelp.org is an online tool that connects Pennsylvanians with community-based organizations, county and state agencies, and healthcare providers, for referrals to community resources that help them meet their most basic needs such as food, shelter, transportation, and more.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Technology Equipment Access (TEA)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Through this cohort, 75 community members in Philadelphia will receive laptop to access telehealth and SDOH supports. We will also support community members with connectingwith OIT for free WiFi services through Comcast who is working with the City’s Office of Innovation and Technology.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Population Health
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Population health approaches take a much broader view, seeking to improve the health status of everyone in a community, not just those who are sick.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Suicide Prevention
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Suicide prevention advises, develops, and implements DBHIDS strategies to reduce risk factors, enhance protective factors, and improve mental health support for Philadelphians.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Suicide Prevention Task Force
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The Philadelphia Suicide Prevention Task Force (P-SPTF)’s mission is to work toward zero suicides in Philadelphia.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Groups
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Survivors of Suicide Loss Support Groups help loss survivors cope, connect, and work towards healing.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Community Collaborative
Population: Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The Philadelphia regional Collaborative is a group of partners who provide resources to individuals and families to think differently about what it means to support people with disabilities and their families in having the best life possible.
Phone: 215-685-5900
Ancillary
Single County Authority SCA Operations Team
Population: Substance Use, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
The Single County Authority (SCA) plans, coordinates (programmatically and fiscally), and implements the delivery of drug and alcohol prevention, intervention, and treatment services at the local level.
Phone: 215-685-5400
The Philly American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM)
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
To meet the needs of hospitalized individuals with active substance use disorder (SUD) and complex medical needs requiring post-acute care including wound care and / or intravenous (IV) therapy.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Core Services
Population: Substance Use, Forensic, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
Core Services is charged with providing a comprehensive array of support services (in the form of workshops) designed to assist participants in recovery while they are receiving formal drug and alcohol treatment to create additional opportunities for wellness and recovery.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Prevention Services
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Youth
The delivery of evidence based curricula to raise awareness of alcohol, tobacco, and substance use among youth in schools and the community.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Innovation Approaches Aging – Integration of Physical and Behavioral Health: Serious Mental Illness SMI in Long Term Care
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Adult
DBHIDS developed the Philadelphia Model to enhance services for those with Serious Mental Illness in Long Term Care to provide skilled nursing and structured supplemental behavioral health services.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Systems Mapping
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless, Forensic
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
External mapping of DBHIDS services.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Mobile Methadone
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
Mobile Methadone, contracted through Merakey, is intended to reduce barriers to treatment access by expanding the reach of opioid treatment providers and contributing to the array of local behavioral health services.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Trauma to Triumph (TtT) Next Level
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Closed Referrals
the Wellness workshops integrate therapeutic techniques, resilience, and awareness as the participants gain an understanding of the effects of community trauma on their mind, body, and emotions while moving towards emotional healing. The participants are living at Covenant House and are transition age (17-22 yo).
Phone: 215-685-5400
Trauma to Triumph (TtT) Resources for Reality
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Closed Referrals
This program will disrupt the pervasive presence of Race-Based Trauma for BIPOC (refers to the mental and emotional injury caused by encounters with racial bias and ethnic discrimination, racism) with intentional distribution of targeted resources to youth.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Trauma to Triumph – Rooted in Joy (Kensington)
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth
A BIPOC Trauma to Triumph Program series meeting 2x weekly invites Middle Schoolers of the Conwell School located in Kensington to explore guided activities as they engage in fun and creative expression that will celebrate cultural identity and personal experiences of growth.
The Wardrobe Assistance Resource Mission (WARM) Program
Population: Mental Health, Early Intervention, Forensic, Homeless, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Adult
The program is a collaboration with The Wardrobe that provides clothing to those who are facing clothing insecurity by providing people with the clothing and support they need to move forward. They provide outfits for work and life.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Attachment Bio-behavioral Catch Up Program
Population: Mental Health, Early Intervention, Intellectual disAbility
Youth / Adult: Youth
Infant Toddler Early Intervention connects Philadelphia’s infants and toddlers at special risk for social-emotional convers to Intant Toddler Early Intervention.
Phone: 215-685-5900
Miscellaneous
Network of Neighbors
Population: Mental Health
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
The Network of Neighbors is a free, citywide trauma response network. The Network provides support, technical assistance, and training to communities impacted by any experience of overwhelming or ongoing stress, trauma, loss, and or violence.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Behavioral Health Screenings
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Early Intervention
Youth / Adult: Adult
Preventative efforts such as anonymous behavioral health screenings, and improvement of mental health management through education, promote communal wellness, and increase overall wellness for community members.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Health Promotions Screening
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Youth + Adult
Health Promotion Screenings works alongside the HealthyMindsPhilly.org website and the Community Engagement Team to bring trained clinicians into events in the community to provide free educational mental health screenings.
Phone: 215-685-5400
Quick Screen Community Behavioral Health CBH Referrals
Population: Mental Health, Substance Use, Intellectual disAbility, Homeless
Youth / Adult: Adult
In partnership with Intellectual disAbility Services (IDS) and the Office of Homeless Services (OHS), the DBHIDS Quick Screen is used to briefly screen adults for mental health and or substance use disorder history and needs.
Phone: 215-685-5900
Kensington Hospital Wound Care Vans
Population: Substance Use
Youth / Adult: Adult
Mobile Wound Care is a collaboration between Kensington Hospital and DBHIDS to conduct wound care services and outreach to individuals in the Kensington area and throughout the City of Philadelphia.
Phone: 215-685-5900