Clinical Services - Pennsylvania

  Holcomb Behavioral Health Systems

Holcomb has acquired affiliates and subsidiaries that extend its range. In 1997 the Alcoholism and Addictions Council of Delaware County brought its extensive resources to Holcomb, placing the agency squarely in the area of substance abuse treament. Two years later another such group, Open Door, Inc., of Delaware, became an affiliate. And Holcomb's subsidiary TOVA uses the medium of drama to give a voice to people facing challenging personal and social issues. This past year, Holcomb doubled the size of its home office in Exton, including a new outpatient treatment suite; opened an office in Allentown to provide wraparound mental health services for children and outpatient mental health treatment for adults; and opened an office in Dover, Delaware, its third in the state. Project Reach, the agency's mobile crisis intervention service inaugurated a 24-hour teen hotline that has exceeded projected calls in its first month of operation. And Open Door has just started a karate program for young people to help them let off steam in a healthy way.
  Acute Clinical Services

Mobile Crisis Intervention (Project Reach): Provides immediate, professional, on the scene intervention in mental health crisis situations involving adults, children, adolescents, and families. Twenty-four hour, seven day a week availability. Designed to prevent hospitalizations through clinically based crisis intervention in any setting, linkages with other involved agencies, referral and follow-up.

Twenty-four Hour Mental Health/Drug and Alcohol Hotline: Twenty-four hour, seven day a week counseling, referral and information for any caller experiencing stress due to a mental health crisis.
  Intensive Rapid Stabilization/Crisis Management: Clinical in-home teams deployed within twenty-four hours to respond to imminent crisis situations in home, school, or any other setting. Teams will provide brief, intensive assessment, therapy, and/or behavioral services designed to stabilize the client or family and prevent hospitalization; then facilitate linkages to needed resources.

Psychiatric Evaluation/Treatment: Emergency evaluation/treatment by a qualified psychiatrist will be facilitated within twenty-four hours, either in-office or mobile.

Psychological Evaluation: Emergency psychological evaluations will be facilitated within twenty-four hours, either in-office or mobile.

Clinical Services - Addictions/Substance Abuse Treatment

Outpatient Counseling: Individual counseling on addiction and substance abuse issues for adolescents, adults and families.

D & A Intensive Outpatient Programs (IOP): Provide a combination of educational and clinical groups combined with one-to-one couseling for individuals who require intensive addictions treatment on an outpatient basis.

Assessment: Determines treatment needs for individuals referred by Children and Youth, the Courts, Juvenile Probation and Parole and other public systems. Referrals and linkages are follow-up components to the assessment process.

Case Management: Provides assertive, mobile case management services to the substance abusing at-risk population and to men and women referred by the criminal justice system. Supports addictions treatment and enhances life supports to maximize clients' potential to achieve a drug-free lifestyle.

DUI Programming: Provide services to meet court-mandated interventions for individuals convicted of DUI charge(s). Track I offenders (i.e., first time offenders) are provided extensive educational programming regarding substance use, DUI issues and the legal system. Track II offenders are provided with formal substance abuse counseling as clinically indicated.