What We Offer


The Prevention Support Center is both an intranet resource and a team of staff members that are available to:

• Provide information and referral for all Prevention services through IRSS (Internal Referral Support Services)

• Answer questions and provide information about Prevention services designed to meet the needs of at-risk families

• Clarify policies, procedures and standards for DCBPS programs and services

• Provide a glossary of terms and acronyms commonly used in Prevention services

• Provide access to a wide range of DCBPS and other Prevention services, which include:

• Achieving Independence Center
  This is a new collaborative one-stop center designed to ensure that youth transitioning out of foster care have access to a full range of independent living services to meet their individual transition needs.
  

• Diversion Case Management Services
  Diversion case management services are designed to help prevent child abuse, neglect, and delinquency by helping families to address problems and access needed services with a goal of preventing a subsequent report for intervention to the Department.
  
  
• Parenting Education and Support
  These programs, provided through the Parenting Collaborative and Parent Action Network, seek to enhance parent-child relationships


• Office of Truancy Prevention
  The Office of Truancy Prevention is responsible for developing a comprehensive strategy to increase school attendance throughout the School District of Philadelphia


• Office of Delinquency Prevention
  The Delinquency Prevention Program seeks to address the service needs of chronically truant youth, first-time offending youth with minor charges (but who have not been formally adjudicated in Family Court), and other youth identified by DHS to be at highest risk for delinquency


• School Linked Behavioral Healthcare
  This program provides a continuum of support and services to children with behavioral healthcare needs and those at risk for behavioral healthcare problems


• Intensive Services for Compromised Care Givers
  Three new programs provide intensive services using home visiting models to prevent child abuse and neglect


• Community Based Youth Programs
  A variety of youth development and afterschool programs provide safe and constructive activities for youth
  
  
• Achieving Reunification Center (ARC)
  A "one-stop" center designed to provide services to assist parents in overcoming barriers toward family reunification. All services focus on helping parents/caregivers address conflicting mandates especially those guided by child welfare, public benefits and workforce policies. ARC brings systems together to help parents/caregivers achieve positive outcomes.
  

  Mission Statement