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

Services

Education

The learning environment for your child will make a difference in their life. Reaching their full potential may require some supports. Equally, adults continue their education throughout their lives.

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Head Start: Head Start is a federally funded, comprehensive child development program. Children enter the program in the year before they enter public school. The purpose of the program, as its name suggests, is to provide these children with a head start in life.
Early Head Start: This program offers Head Start services to eligible children from birth to three years of age.
Student Assistance Program: Student Assistance Program (SAP) provides an array of support services in school and community settings. Mental Health Consultants serve as liaisons to area middle, junior high, and high school Student Assistance teams and provide consultation regarding mental health issues to school personnel, students, families, and community members.
Service Dogs: Susquehanna Service Dogs trains and provides service dogs and hearing dogs to assist children and adults with physical disabilities to become more independent.
Toddler Group: A mini-preschool class for children around the age of two that helps prepare them for preschool.
Assistive Technology Library: A toy and equipment lending program free of charge to families of children ages birth to three with special needs.
Partial Hospitalization: Services for individuals experiencing conditions that impair their day to day functioning and place them at risk of inpatient hospitalization.
Psychiatric Rehabilitation: These services assist children and adolescents in gaining the behaviors and skills to function in home, school, and community environments.
Adult Social Rehabilitation: The Keystone Education Center provides the opportunities and resources needed to attain individual goals in the areas of vocation, education and community living.
Child Day Care: This service offers full day childcare for children ages birth to school age. Daytime meals, snacks, and structured activities are provided.
Therapeutic Staff Support: These services provide one to one interventions in an educational or other natural setting when the child's behavior, without this intervention, would require more restrictive treatment.
Behavioral Specialist Consultants: These specialists are part of an intensive therapeutic service designed to stabilize and maintain the child in his or her own home setting. The BCS designs and directs the implementation of a behavior modification intervention plan that is unique to each child or adolescent.
Mobile Therapy: The purpose of this service is to provide child-centered, family-focused, individual and family psychotherapy. This service is part of a series of intensive therapeutic services designed to maintain the child or adolescent in his/her home.
Home & Community Based Services: Services are designed to provide support to people with developmental disabilities on a very individualized basis. Support is primarily provided to persons who are living at home with their families, and may also be provided in other environments to enhance existing services.
Occupational Therapy: Occupational therapists help address eye-hand coordination hand skills, play skills, self-care adapted skills such as feeding and dressing, and sensory processing including tolerance for touch and movement.
Speech Therapy: Speech-language pathologists are concerned with how a child understands his world and learning to interact and communicate with others. They may assess a variety of areas such as expressive communication (e.g. use of gestures, sounds, words, sentences, etc.), receptive language (understanding of what is said), articulation (sound production), voice (pitch, quality), and fluency (flow of words).
Physical Therapy: Physical therapists are concerned with a child's gross motor skills and achievement of developmental milestones. Gross motor skills involve the coordinated movement of the large muscle groups to achieve functional movement.
Parenting: These parenting classes are for parents who want to build on their existing parenting skills or want to learn new ways to deal with their children's problem behavior. This program offers logical strategies and easy-to-learn techniques that address communication, discipline, decision-making, relationships, self-control, and school success.
Fatherhood Initiative: This program seeks to address the issues of drug and alcohol abuse in teenage dads, adult drug and alcohol abuse, teenage delinquency, teen pregnancy and child abuse.
Vocational Education: A classroom program designed to prepare participants for a job search and for securing employment.
Educational Testing: Academic testing designed to provide an assessment of intellectual abilities and academic achievement in order to assist educational professionals to design the most appropriate setting and curriculum for the student.
Career Testing: Provides testing and assessment of aptitude and ability regarding career planning and/or change.
Intellectual Testing: Provides testing of intellectual functioning for children and adults using individually given nationally recognized tests.
Personality Testing: Provides assessment of long term enduring behavioral and emotional tendencies. This supports better understanding of an individuals behaviors, motives, and relationships with others.
Consultation and Education to Day Care Services: Services and education provided to the staff of licensed day care centers within Dauphin County designed to assist with the day care staff in appropriate interactions and interventions for children with behavioral or emotional difficulties.
Counseling: Specialized psychological evaluation and psychotherapy for children, adolescents, adults, and families. Individual, group and couple services are provided as appropriate.