PINEBROOK FAMILY ANSWERS

Programs

1. Permanency services: Pinebrook Family Answers offers a five-tier foster care model designed to meet the individualized needs of children who primarily have been traumatized from parental neglect, sexual abuse and/or physical abuse; kinship care permanency services; and adoption services for special-needs children through the statewide adoption network (swan). The agency's adoption department also offers limited international adoption services, including home study and post-placement services in collaboration with other accredited adoption agencies. The transportation and family visitation program connects children in out-of-home placement with their biological/legal families providing supervised family visitation to support family reunification goals. Placement transition services is an intensive, family-focused, community-based, case management, family reunification program working with caregivers to address areas of concern that resulted in out-of-home placement for their child or children.

   $1,390,246 spent$390,620 earned by the program
   17% of program spending

2. Behavioral health services: Pinebrook Family Answers operates three outpatient psychiatric clinics, which provide outpatient psychiatric and counseling services in the greater lehigh valley. The agency is a participating provider of services in the pennsylvania healthchoices initiative and contracts with numerous commercial insurance companies and employee assistance programs.integrated behavioral health services is a model of service provision that places behavioral health providers in a team environment at other service organizations, such as schools and police departments. We currently have clinicians integrated into the allentown police department, various lehigh county municipal police departments, as well as elementary, middle, and high schools across the lehigh valley. Family-based mental health services, a structured, in-home family therapy program, is designed to preserve families with children who are experiencing serious mental health issues and are at risk of being placed outside of the home.suicide coalition pbfa provides backbone support to the lehigh county suicide prevention coalition. The suicide prevention coalition (spc) promotes the sharing of data, reports,…

   $4,446,616 spent$3,670,312 earned by the program
   54% of program spending

3. Diversionary services: making the grade truancy intervention services is a truancy-reduction, family-support program which includes family support services for elementary and middle school children and provides in-home case management and coordination of community services and support. Funded in part from healthchoices reinvestment funds, high fidelity wraparound initiative, an evidence-based practice and team-based collaborative process for helping youth with special mental health needs or at risk of out-of-home placement, works with youth and young adults, ages 8 to 21, and their families. A family preservation program, shape serves families with children ages 0-18, providing need assessments, case management, coordination of community services and support. Shift is a program that supports families in lehigh county in finding or maintaining stable housing to prevent or end placement for youth in the dependent care system. Unconditional child care is an intervention program for families whose children are at risk of expulsion from child care programs.

   $1,764,113 spent$162,625 earned by the program
   21% of program spending

4. Forensic services: includes adult re-entry and family services funded in part from a federal grant, provides risk/needs assessment, evidence-based curricula in the county jails, gender responsive and trauma informed programming, supervised contact visits, as well as case management and planning; the transitional residence program, a unique housing program that addresses the needs of homeless women and their children to work toward housing stability; fast is a family-based alternative sentencing program which works with a county-wide, multi-disciplinary team by providing comprehensive services including intake and assessment, highly individualized one-on-one case management, evidence-based classes and peer mentoring to divert parents and caregivers from incarceration and address their needs in the community and reduce out of home placement of children; the alpha program provides teens on probation with academic, behavioral, and job readiness services designed to prepare them to enter the workforce and success in life; and a theft remediation service.

   $672,115 spent$2,272 earned by the program
   8% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $8,273,090.