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 and schools.

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

The Bucks County LIFE Program has come to Access Services as of November 1,2010.  LIFE serves Bucks County families who have a child or adolescent who has emotional, behavioral, social and/or learning challenges. A team of parent support specialists come alongside of families to provide information, connection to community resources and the support they need to empower them to advocate for their child. The LIFE program team provides families with opportunities to share common concerns through support groups and workshops.  In addition, the LIFE program staff work with local child-serving systems, and participate in various training, quality improvement projects and new initiatives.  The Bucks County LIFE program seeks to prevent children and their families from languishing without optimal services and from unnecessary hospitalizations and out of home placements.  The LIFE program is a community service aimed at keeping children in their homes and communities where they can grow and find acceptance and success.

For more information about the Bucks County LIFE Progam, contact Heather O'Donnell at 1-888-442-1590.
Visit them on the web at www.lifeinbucks.org.

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.

To learn more about becoming a Host Family click here.

A call for help

1-877-HELP-709  - Bucks County hotline available 24-7
1-888-HELP-414 - Montgomery County hotline available 24-7

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.

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.

Learn how the Children’s Crisis Support Program helped Ian connect with his family, watch his video here.

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.