Keystone Human Services - Comprehensive community based mental retardation, mental health, autism and early intervention services

About Us

Corporate Information

Keystone Human Services is a family of nonprofit organizations working together to serve the community, working to help people help people. We are committed to creating an environment where all people can grow, make choices and be valued and contributing members of society. Some of the agencies of Keystone have been providing service to people with disabilities and their families for over eighty years. For thirty-five of those years, Keystone has been known as Keystone Service Systems. During this time, Keystone has developed a comprehensive array of services and supports for people who are at risk or who have special needs. We have a rich history and a clear vision of how we can all work to create a better world. A set of highly developed values guide our work.

Keystone is a large and comprehensive provider of community services, bringing over $80,000,000 in resources to the people we serve. We are organized into agencies and systems of care designed to make the best use of the resources in our care and to provide the highest quality, most effective and most affordable services to the people we support. Keystone provides community services in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Delaware and Maryland, and has recently opened services internationally.

Keystone provides an array of community services in mental health, mental retardation, early intervention, pediatric rehabilitation, autism, child welfare and juvenile justice.

The Agencies of Keystone

Keystone Service Systems, Inc.
Keystone Residence
Keystone Residence of Lancaster County
Keystone Service Systems - North Central Pennsylvania
Keystone Family Support Associates
Keystone Partnership, Inc.
Keystone Community Mental Health
Keystone Children & Family Services
- Capital Area Head Start
- Susquehanna Service Dogs
Key Service Systems
Keystone Services of Maryland
Keystone Service Systems SouthEast
Keystone Institute
Keystone Human Services International

Enduring commitment to the people served

Keystone has a deep and enduring commitment to the people we serve. We work to promote our vision of the nature and structure of community services to vulnerable people.

A volunteer community Board

The Board of Keystone Human Services is comprised entirely of volunteers who come to the work with deep personal commitments. The Board Members have responsibility for the stewardship of the resources entrusted to our care, and for setting system-wide policy, planning, mission, oversight and strategy. Many of the Keystone Board Members are family members who have a close relative experiencing serious mental or physical disabilities.

Keystone's Structure – both large and small

Keystone is organized to preserve the best benefits of traditional community based agencies as well as the significant benefits and capacities of a larger comprehensive organization. This structure uses subsidiary agencies for specific services, constituencies and or regional needs. This structure permits Keystone to hold the licenses and funding sources necessary to build comprehensive regional systems of care. Common control of resources and services assures common fiscal, quality and clinical systems essential to the delivery of integrated services. In addition, as the community based non profit sector consolidates as a result of increasing competitive pressures, this structure allows other non profits to affiliate -- preserving their own rich history and identity while being part of a larger more comprehensive system.