Halfway House

Libertae is licensed to provide residential treatment to women who meet the admission criteria for the Halfway House and Family House levels of care. These are long term residential programs and are described below based on the Pennsylvania Client Placement Criteria (PCPC).

The Halfway House is a community-based residential treatment and rehabilitation facility that provides services for chemically dependent persons in a supportive chemical-free environment. This setting provides substance abuse treatment (individual and group therapy), emphasizes protective and supportive elements of family living, and encourages and provides opportunities for independent growth and responsible community living. Women with a co-occurring mental health disorder are welcome as long as program participation and the ability to function in a community living environment are possible. Mutual self-help, assistance in economic and social adjustment, integration of life skills into daily life, as well as a solid program of recovery based on the 12 step philosophies are core the program structure. Clients entering the Halfway House must have already had some experience in another type of drug and alcohol treatment setting. Women learn tools for recovery through the relationships the develop with fellow residents, the Twelve-Step Fellowship, the Libertae counseling staff and our network of social resources.

Family House

Libertae is licensed to provide residential treatment to women who meet the admission criteria for the Halfway House and Family House levels of care. These are long term residential programs and are described below based on the Pennsylvania Client Placement Criteria (PCPC).

The Family House program is a long term residential program for women who are pregnant and/or parenting and whose addiction symptomatology is demonstrated by severe impairment of daily life functioning. This level of care serves those women with chronic deficits in social, educational, and economic skills, impaired interpersonal skills, and significant drug-abusing histories which may include criminal lifestyles and subcultures. Women with a co-occurring mental health disorder are welcome as long as program participation and the ability to function in a community living environment are possible. This treatment model is more accurately described as habilitation, as opposed to the rehabilitation model. Services provide for global changes in lifestyle, such as alcohol and drug abstinence, elimination of antisocial activity, a new outlook regarding employment, and the development, display and integration of positive social attitudes and values. Mothers receive prenatal care services, and babies are born in sobriety; children are reunited with their mothers, attend school, enjoy recreation, and receive every opportunity to lead healthy and happy family lives. Children attend the Family Center, Head Start or local public schools and are referred to and receive any needed supports, assessments or services.

The Family House program also includes a fully licensed, Keystone Star, professionally staffed therapeutic childcare center, named the Family Center. The pre-school age children residing in the Family House attend the center during the day while the mothers are participating in treatment programming. Additionally, mothers are required to spend time in the daycare center participating in the center activities and the center’s parenting certificate program.

Crossroads

In response to a need for housing and the additional time necessary for women to establish themselves in the community, the Libertae Crossroads Transitional Housing Program was opened in 2002. The residence is available as a continuum to the women who have completed their treatment in one of the Libertae programs and can remain at Crossroads for up to twelve (12) months.