Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services

PACTS is a network of child-serving systems and organizations that provides evidence-based practices for traumatized youth and their families.

Mission

To increase the number of children and families who receive the most effective trauma-specific care in Philadelphia. We will do that by increasing the capacity of our behavioral health partners to offer evidence-based practices to children and families impacted by trauma. We will also increase referrals from all child-serving systems — including physical health, education, Department of Human Services, juvenile justice, and victims’ services — to our PACTS partner agencies.

The Philadelphia Alliance for Child Trauma Services (PACTS) serves youth in Philadelphia who have experienced potentially traumatic events and are living with traumatic stress. Over the past six years, we have improved access, availability and quality of trauma-specific services for children and families.

Email PACTS@phila.gov for more information.