ACCESS Services, a non-profit organization, is committed to improving the outlook for people with special needs. Staff, associates and volunteers are dedicated to providing innovative services to children and adults through community supports, residential supports and wrap around services; empowering them to live rich, fulfilling lives with positive family and community relationships. Services are provided from three locations: Lehigh Valley, Delaware Valley, Schuylkill and Carbon Counties.

PRIMARY CONTACT:  Suzanne McFadden (610) 866-6667 Ext. 232

 2.  BEHAVIORAL HEALTH ASSOCIATES

     413 Bridge Street

     Weissport, PA 18235

Behavioral Health Associates is a non-profit agency that provides wraparound services for children from the ages of 3 to 21 in Northampton, Lehigh, Schuylkill, Carbon and Monroe Counties. These services may include Behavioral Specialist Support, Mobile Therapy, and Therapeutic Staff Support. Our professional staff all has either bachelor's or master's degrees in Human Services related fields, in addition to experience working with children of all ages and abilities. Our agency employs two full-time licensed psychologists who provide supervision with treatment planning and with staff. Our agency also employs a psychiatrist who can serve the medication needs of children and who can monitor their progress with medication. We have a wide range of staff available for many problems including sexual abuse issues, conduct disorders, ADHD, Autism and Pervasive Developmental Delay and depression. 

PRIMARY CONTACT:  Jackie Urban (610) 379-0067

3.  COLONIAL NORTHAMPTON I.U. #20

Colonial Intermediate Unit 20 provides mental health treatment to

most mental health diagnoses.  We have an extensive list of Therapists, Behavior Specialists, and Therapeutic Staff Support persons who specialize in all areas of mental health. Our goal is to staff cases within ten days of the interagency meeting.

PRIMARY CONTACT: Tyra Caudill, (610) 252-5550 Ext. 6166

4.  CARBON-LEHIGH I.U. #21

The goal of our Behavioral Health Rehabilitative Services (BHRS) program is to help children, adolescents, and their families deal with severe emotional disturbance and/or family conflict, and potentially dangerous behaviors. These services exist to prevent a child from being removed from their current school or home setting, and from being placed in a more restrictive school or residential setting. These services are provided by the Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21 in the home, the community, and the school to teach children and adolescents the skills    necessary to cope and be successful.

PRIMARY CONTACT:  James J. Kochie (Program Supervisor)                           (610)769-4111 or 1-800-223-4821 ext. 1254

5. CONCERN

   90 S. Commerce Way, Suite 300

   Bethlehem, PA 18017

Concern's counseling service at the Lehigh Valley Office has offered quality outpatient and wraparound services to children, adolescents and families in Northampton and Lehigh Counties since 1995. Services provided have included individual and family therapy, marriage and

couples counseling, BHRS (Wraparound services – Behavior Specialist, Mobile Therapy and Therapeutic Staff Support), psychological and psychiatric evaluations, follow-up and monitoring. Children of all ages with a mental health diagnosis are served. Adults, 18 years old

and over, and families are only served through our outpatient clinic.  An Employee Assistance Program (EAP) is available to contracted agencies to provide initial diagnostic assessment and referral.

PRIMARY CONTACT: Beth Moss, Provider 50 Casemanager, Janet Sena, (Clinical Supervisor)

                                      Telephone #: (610) 691-8401

6. HOLCOMB BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SYSTEMS

   1405 N. Cedar Crest Blvd., Suite 105

   Allentown, Pa. 18014

Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems serves Northampton and Lehigh County with a variety of services. Services include: BHRS, ICM and Outpatient Therapy including medication management as well as a non-JCAHO for adolescent boys ages 12-18.  BHRS services includes Behavioral Specialist Consultants, Mobile Therapists, and therapeutic Staff Support workers. We provide services to children and adolescents up to the age of 21 with all types of mental health diagnoses. Staff are trained to work with children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Diagnoses. We have a psychologist on staff who will conduct evaluations to authorize BHRS as well as a psychiatrist available for medication management.

PRIMARY CONTACT:   Dawn Conner, LMFT, BHRS Coordinator                                               Telephone Number: (610) 435-4151

7. MILESTONES

Milestones Community Healthcare, Inc. focuses on individuals with a variety of mental health issues. The Children's Program serves pre-school aged children and older with Autism and Autism related disabilities.  We provide intense behavioral interventions in a home or school environment with staff trained to specifically implement behavioral interventions. Milestones is currently serving families in Lehigh/Northampton and other counties throughout Pennsylvania.

PRIMARY CONTACT:  Kaitlyn Brobst, (Program Coordinator)

                                        Telephone Number: (610) 973-0970 Ext. 1004

8.  MILESTONES – (FORMERLY NEW HOPE OF PENNSYLVANIA, INC.) (MONROE COUNTY)

    1056, RR1

    Cresco, Pa. 18326

PRIMARY CONTACT: Colleen Donahue,

                                       Telephone #: (570) 595-3686

9. KIDSPEACE

   Allentown, PA 18109

Kidspeace Communuity Autism Services offer several programs in their continuum of care. Kidspeace BHRS provides clinical services to children and adolescents who are diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Services can be provided in the home, school, daycare and community to help children and their family’s members develop new skills and coping mechanisms. Services are individualized and based on the principles of Applied Behavior Analysis focusing on intensive teaching to overcome deficits in language, social and problematic behaviors. In addition, Kidspeace offers two site-based Autism programs- The Autism After School Therapeutic Program and Sarah’s Smile Summer Programs. Both of these programs provide a site-based opportunity to develop, practice and generalize a wide variety of social skills with peers.

PRIMARY CONTACT:  Emily Leayman

                                        Telephone Number: (610) 435-2608

10. NORTHWESTERN HUMAN SERVICES OF LEHIGH VALLEY

NHS of Lehigh Valley offers the following services: Behavioral Specialist Consultant, Mobile Therapy, (strictly to the clients within the NHS continuum of care). NHS provides BHRS services to children under the age of 21 years old within the Foster Care Plus program or to those who have completed either the Therapeutic Family Care or Foster Care Plus Program, and have returned to their home community, but still require services.  NHS also serves dually diagnosed children, as long as the service need is based upon the mental health issues, and not the mental retardation. NHS employs case managers to manage each child's case, thereby ensuring intra/interagency coordination of services and continuity of care. Services may occur in the home, school, and/or community, depending upon the child's needs. 

PRIMARY CONTACT: Colleen Rieger, Program Supervisor,

                                       Telephone Number: (610) 866-8842 X261

11.The Progressions Companies, Inc.

    881 Marcon Boulevard, Suite 3900

    Allentown, Pa. 18109

The Progressions Companies, Inc. while new to the Lehigh Valley Region, has been providing mental health services in Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties for over 30 years.  The Progressions Companies of the Lehigh Valley provides Behavioral Health

Rehabilitative Services (BHRS) to children and adolescents ages 3 to 18 years old, primarily servicing children with a behavioral health diagnosis.

Primary Contact: Monique Nieves, (Lead Case Manager)

                                 Telephone Number: (610) 266-2656

12.  REDCO GROUP DEVELOPMENTAL SUPPORT SYSTEMS

Behavioral health services have been generally limited to children with a mental health diagnosis, for that reason, the REDCO Group–DSS division developed a specific model for behavioral health services to treat children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders and/or a DSM IV, Axis II diagnosis of mental retardation who demonstrate challenging behaviors that adversely affect the ability of the child to live at home or in the community. Recognizing that a high percentage of children with ASD also carry a diagnosis of mental retardation, the program model is specialized to treat the child and provide supports and services to the family and significant others involved in the child’s life.  

Primary Contact: Tim Sohosky

                                  Telephone #: (570) 622-6882 Ext. 3330

13.     Elwyn/The Autism Research Community Hub

    1347 Hausman Road,

    Allentown, Pa. 18104

Elwyn is a non-profit human services organization that has been providing services to people with special needs for over 155 years. Elwyn currently provides Provider 50 services in Delaware, Chester and Philadelphia counties, and is committed to offering evidence-based, resiliency-oriented services to children under the age of 21 in the Lehigh Valley. These services will be available to children with various behavioral health diagnoses. Individually designed treatment plans will be prepared in cooperation with the family and their support system. Services may occur in home, school or community, and will incorporate multiple disciplines in an effort to address the specific and unique challenges of the child. A clinical team of behavioral health professionals, which may comprise of a behavioral specialist, mobile therapist, and therapeutic support staff, offers families and children tools to succeed within their least- restrictive educational and living environments.

PRIMARY CONTACT: Judith M. Spangenberg,BHRS Coordinator

14.  Glenn R. Koch

     Primary Contact: Carol Weikerd  

 Allentown, PA 18109

 (610) 266-0610     

15. Martin W. Breidenthall

    Team Counseling Concepts, Inc.

Orefield, PA 18069-2305

Team Counseling Concepts, Inc. is a provider of behavioral health services. These services can take place within the home, school and/or community, based on the needs of the individual child. As a company,

Team Counseling Concepts, Inc. specializes in servicing children

diagnosed with Autism and Autism related disorders. The word “team” in Team Counseling Concepts, Inc symbolizes the company’s style of service. The members of team, such as the behavioral specialist, mobile therapist, therapeutic staff specialist, psychologist, program coordinator and parents, all work together to develop the best and most appropriate program for the individual child. The program used with the individual child is based on the principals of Applied Behavioral Analysis (ABA). Extensive training, initial as well as on going, is provided for all staff. As a team, our main goal has and will always be the well-being and potential progress of every individual child.

PRIMARY CONTACT:  Colleen Haas (Director of Human Resources)

                  Telephone #: (610) 395-6322

16. Penn Foundation

      807 Lawn Avenue, P.O. Box 32

      Sellersville, Pa. 18960

Penn Foundation is a non-profit agency dedicated to provide comprehensive behavioral healthcare to persons in need of hope, healing and compassion. We are an organization that provides a place where people of all ages can grow, develop or recover to their fullest mental, emotional and spiritual health. Some of the many services offered include Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS), Family Based Services and Autism Support Services within the Bucks, Montgomery, Northampton and Lehigh Counties.

PRIMARY CONTACT: Debra Springer

                 Coord. BHRS and Autism Support

                     Telephone #: (215) 453-5178 x256