Access Services - Creating Better Ways To Serve People With Special Needs

Bringing therapy to you.

Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services is a state-funded program that provides therapeutic interventions to children under the age of 21 who are experiencing emotional or behavioral problems. The program employs a family-centered philosophy and is based on the principle of “wrapping” services and supports around the specific need of the children and their families. Individualized service is provided as a process of working with children and their families in their home communities.

For more information about Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services, call the Access Services office closest to you.

Opening our hearts and homes.

All children with mental health challenges deserve family and a nurturing home environment that meets their therapeutic needs. Many children are living with mental illness in family homes, regular foster homes or group homes that require a level of support and care beyond that available in their current situation. To help these children, Access Services’ Therapeutic Foster Care program seeks extraordinary individuals to serve as Therapeutic Foster Parents.

Therapeutic Foster Parents provide a nurturing home environment for children aged nine to eighteen years of age with a need for mental health treatment. These outstanding individuals act as agents of planned change, fulfilling both a treatment and a foster role.

For more information about Therapeutic Foster Care, call the Access Services office closest to you.

To download a Host Family Brochure, click here.

A call for help.

The Children’s Crisis Support Program offers crisis hotline support to children and adolescents in Montgomery and Bucks Counties. The purpose of the program is to help children and families manage crisis successfully through individualized crisis response and planning. The hotline is available 24-7.  Crisis intervention is provided to assist families to better manage crisis situations and direct them towards resolutions and resources to better manage future crises.

The Bucks County hotline is available 24-7 at 1-877-HELP-709.

The Montgomery County hotline is available 24-7 at 1-888-HELP-414.

For more information about the Children's Crisis Support Program, call the Access Services office closest to you  or download our Bucks County Brochure or Montgomery County Brochure.

Safe for them. Necessary for you.

In our experience we have found that it is important to strike a balance between personal time and time spent caring for others. For those caring for a child with behavioral or mental health needs, we offer a safe and sensible way to take a break from the pressure and stress of your daily care routine. Respite Services will provide a temporary home for your loved one, with a qualified Access Services Host Family, capable of meeting all of his or her personal needs

For more information about Respite Services, call the Access Services office closest to you or download our brochure.