JJC's Behavior Health program provides psychiatric and psychological supportive services, evaluations, therapy and behavioral rehabilitative services to children and adolescents living within the Philadelphia county. We provide an array of therapeutic interventions and implement trauma informed evidenced based models of therapeutic practices such as Cognitive Behavior Therapy. Our clients come to JJC with having experienced …
Provides prevention and intervention services to children and youth who are identified by the School District of Philadelphia experiencing difficulties in attending school on a consistent basis. JJC provides a rapid three tier intervention and prevention service to children and youth that have been identified as being truant or at risk of being truant from …
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Have you thought about what it would be like to foster a child in need but wanted more information on how to go about being a foster parent? JJC will provide all the information needed to go about being a foster parent and how to ready your home to accept a child in need of …
The Community Evening Resource Center (CERC) is a community-based program located in the Germantown section of Philadelphia. It will operate daily from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. Youth will be provided with structured activities that promote positive youth development. This includes engaging in community service, preparing for the workforce with job-readiness training, participating in group activities that offer young …
JJC's Parent Empowerment Program is designed to empower parents of all ages to build their confidence and competency skills as parents. The mission of the program is to help parents recognize and respond lovingly and appropriately to their children's developmental needs at various ages and stages of child development. Our classes are designed to strengthen …
Providing in-home family counseling sessions and site based programming for youth ages 10 to 17. JJC's IPS program began in 2011. The IPS program focuses on youth who are drifting into delinquency. IPS provides site based programming four times a week, in-home services, and connects and monitors youth in community service participation. A key component …
The In-Home Detention program serves youth who have been arrested for an act of delinquency and are referred through Family Court of Philadelphia. For more than 23 years, JJC has provided services for youth who have been arrested and charged with a crime who, through receiving In-Home Detention (IHD) and supportive services, connects each youth …
Beginning in February, 2020, JJC’s Aftercare Evening Reporting Center is a resource for justice involved youth between the ages of 16-20 who are in need of successfully completing terms of probation following a juvenile placement or to prevent placement in the juvenile justice system. This community based program is designed to provide youth with daily …
JJC provides a full range of permanency services to foster parents and kinship parents and pre-adoptive parents who are seeking permanency for children placed in their care. JJC's Department of Permanency Planning (DOPP) has been facilitating child adoptions since 1994 through the Pennsylvania Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN) to provide adoption, legal custodianship, and pre …
