Devereux Whitlock - Community Behavioral Health Services
Devereux continues to reach out to local communities to provide therapeutic interventions. Community Behavioral Health offers supportive services to individuals and family members in their home, schools or other settings in the community. Providing community-based services for individuals serves as a first step approach to maintaining intact families or enabling people to remain active participants in the community. Services available include: psychological assessments, behavioral assessments and consultations, therapeutic staff support, behavioral support services, individual therapy and counseling, group therapy, parent training, vocational assessment, sexual disorders assessment, in-home respite services, and case management services.
Wrap Around Services
Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS) or "Wrap Around Services" are designed for children in the state of Pennsylvania who are between the ages of 2 and 21 and meet the criteria for Medical Assistance. The child must also have a primary psychiatric diagnosis, and be at risk for a more restrictive placement.
The goal of The Devereux Whitlock Center's Wrap Around Services is to support the child in his or her natural environment (home, school, community) with behavioral interventions overseen by a Master's Level Clinician. The intensive short-term services will work to transfer the necessary skills to the primary care-giver, and allow for the child to function with his or her natural supports.
We have been providing wrap around services since 1998, and serve children with developmental delays such as autism and mental retardation as well as children with behavioral issues like ADHD and OCD. To learn more about the program and how we can help your family, please contact Alicia Kolber, Program Director, at (610) 251-2082.
Bulletin Board
- We have moved! The CBH department has moved to 85 Old Eagle School Rd., 2nd Floor, Strafford, PA 19087. There is parking in the front, as well as behind the building.
Our business hours are 7:30 - 5:00 Monday-Friday. If you are dropping off your paperwork after business hours, please use the mail box located by the back entrance of the building. You may mail your paperwork to the above address as well.
Directions To The Devereux Wrap-Around Program
Directions To Devereux Whitlock Campus
- Need Child CPR and First Aid? Call Saree Swidersky at (610) 688-1636 to register. Late arrivals will not be admitted.
- See Devereux Core Trainings for more information.
- In need of more training hours to meet the requirements? Try http://www.drexelmed.edu/bhe/ for some excellent (and free!) options. Let them know you are from Devereux when you register.
Admission Criteria
Children aged 2 to 21 years of age with Medical Assistance eligibility and who qualify, based on an evaluation and authorization by a psychologist or physician, for these services. Individuals are referred to the program through Magellan Behavioral Health or by calling Devereux Whitlock's Community Behavioral Health.
Devereux Whitlock Community Behavioral Health
| Judy Lau, Community Programs Administrator | (610) 251-2086 |
| Alicia Kolber, Program Director | (610) 251-2082 |
| Rich Allen, Clinical Coordinator | (610) 251-2080 |
| Joyce Mesick, Clincal Supervisor | (610) 251-2054 |
| Lyndsay Barr, Staffing Coordinator | (610) 699-2084 |
| Molly Polinski, Administrative Support | (610) 699-1427 |
| Colleen McMinn, Administrative Support | (610) 296-2037 |
| Crissy Book, Senior Case Manager | (610) 251-9905 |
| Nadia Inman, Case Manager | (610) 699-6954 |
| Detra Williams, Case Manager | (610) 296-2083 |
| Jennifer Taylor, Case Manager | (610) 699-1107 |
| Ashleigh Forwood Case Manager | (610) 699-1998 |
| Adrienne Busker, Case Manager | (610) 699-1108 |
| Joe Simmons, Case Manager | (610) 699-2082 |
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