Bethany Baptist Church Resource Fair

The Bethany Church has organized this fair and invited several other community serving institutions such as HCCS (Hispanic Community Counseling Services) from Kensington Avenue and Allegheny Avenue (2 locations) in North Philadelphia to participate. HCCS will provide FREE Mental Health Awareness information materials to attendees and will make available FREE Behavioral Health Screenings to everyone interested in completing it on site thanks to the support of DBHIDS (Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services of the City of Philadelphia.

Janine Monico2023-07-19T11:46:15-04:00July 19th, 2023|Community, Faith-Based, Family, Mental Health, Screening|

Bethany Baptist Church Resource Fair

The Bethany Church has organized this fair and invited several other community serving institutions such as HCCS (Hispanic Community Counseling Services) from Kensington Avenue and Allegheny Avenue (2 locations) in North Philadelphia to participate. HCCS will provide FREE Mental Health Awareness information materials to attendees and will make available FREE Behavioral Health Screenings to everyone interested in completing it on site thanks to the support of DBHIDS (Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual Disability Services of the City of Philadelphia.

Christine Drake2023-07-18T15:36:48-04:00July 18th, 2023|Community, Faith-Based, Family, Mental Health, Screening|

Community Supports in Philadelphia: A Revolutionary Change in Civil Rights

Presenter: Jim Conroy, Pennhurst Memorial & Preservation Alliance Time 1:00pm In just 50 years, the nation has moved away from places like Pennhurst. And people are much better off. We know that, because the largest and longest study of movement from institution to community was done here. Moreover, few people realize the three most important lawsuits about the rights of people with disabilities all started in Philadelphia. They led to immense improvements in the civil rights of all citizens with disabilities. Things have been very tough in our system during [...]

luis castanon2023-07-18T09:28:29-04:00July 18th, 2023|Community|

Employment Forum

The topic of this Employment Forum meeting will be how CIS, School District of Philadelphia, IDS and Project Search at Drexel University was successful with providing services and support to their interns during the height of the pandemic. Moreover, the challenges with pivoting from in class sessions to virtual and back to in class.

luis castanon2023-07-18T09:13:01-04:00July 18th, 2023|Pandemic, Workplace Health|