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The Malvern Institute was founded in 1948. [1] However, its roots date back to the early 1940s and the founding of the first Alcoholics Anonymous chapter in Philadelphia.. Dr. C. Dudley Saul and Dr. C. Nelson Davis were both early supporters of AA and traveled together to lecture on behalf of AA [2] after becoming convinced of how a 12-step program could benefit recovering alcoholics.
- Provide funding for the PA Get Help Now Hotline 1-800-662-HELP to provide individuals with substance use disorder and their families with treatment information and services in their area. DDAP also contracts with the Council on Compulsive Gambling of Pennsylvania, Inc. to manage its toll-free Pennsylvania Gambling Helpline 1-800-GAMBLER
Many have remained state-operated facilities, such as office building repurposed as correctional centers. A few former state hospitals have been demolished. Western Center was also a state facility for the mentally disabled and was located in Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania. It consisted of multiple buildings.
George Junior Republic uses a behavior/education treatment model and provides psychological testing, psychiatric evaluation, education, vocational training, recreation and athletics to delinquent youth. Special needs programs and drug and alcohol diagnosis/treatment areas are also provided.
Its treatment centers are modeled after the Healing Place, also part of the network, in Louisville. “Clients work with peers in similar circumstances to motivate one another to adopt social skills and to learn core principles central to Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous programs,” according to the facility’s promotional materials.
UPMC Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, the largest hospital in Pennsylvania with 1,577 beds and 77 operating rooms, October 2015 Lehigh Valley Hospital–Cedar Crest in Allentown, the third-largest hospital in Pennsylvania and largest hospital in the Lehigh Valley, with 877 beds and 46 operating rooms, July 2008
Diagnostic and classification center, riots occurred here in 1989 State Correctional Institution – Huntingdon: Smithfield Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania: Opened 1889 first for young offenders and then "defective delinquents" modeled after the Elmira Correctional Facility: State Correctional Institution – Smithfield
An intensive outpatient program (IOP), also known as an intensive outpatient treatment (IOT) program, is a structured non-residential psychological treatment program which addresses mental health disorders and substance use disorders (SUDs) that do not require detoxification through a combination of group-based psychotherapy, individual psychotherapy, family counseling, educational groups, and ...