Hispanic Community Counseling Services (HCCS) is a Latino-operated, community-based, outpatient agency offering behavioral and mental health intervention services that enable individuals and families to meet the challenges within today's scope of "problems of living." HCCS is a multidisciplinary, multicultural, bilingual behavioral health care practice. Our main focus is the provision of culturally appropriate and recovery-oriented mental health services to the communities of North Philadelphia.

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Services Offered

Adult Outpatient Services

Common diagnoses for clients at HCCS include disorders of mood, anxiety, personality, addiction and psychosis. HCCS currently offers the following services within the traditional outpatient menu of Services Offered:1. Psychiatric Evaluation are diagnostic services offered by a psychiatrist designed to assist the treatment team to effectively diagnose and treat clients.

2. Medication Management are services of a psychiatrist that monitor and manage medication protocols for clients.

3. Individual Counseling is person-centered and geared to encourage independence and self-support. Clients receive an individualized treatment service plan that includes a thorough clinical assessment, proposed treatment interventions that focus on the clinical feature needing intensive outpatient service, and projected outcomes that can be achieved though strengths-based treatment.

4. Family Therapy is often incorporated to educate family members on the client's mental illness. Family members are strongly urged to participate in sessions.

5. Group Therapy is provided to explore behavioral patterns, relationship issues, attitudes, and feelings. The goal is to facilitate group sharing of emotions and personal thoughts as they assist each other to deal with their experiences and to decrease isolation.

6. Psychological Testing and evaluation are employed to further assess the client's level of functioning, psychosocial dynamics or to aid in diagnostic determination.

7. Co-occurring Services are aimed primarily at clients with substance dependence accompanied by psychiatric disorders. The treatment will combine or integrate mental health and substance use interventions at the level of the clinical interaction.

8. Mobile Therapy is a treatment modality designed to provide the customary therapeutic outpatient mental health services rendered in the client's residence or any community setting corresponding to the client's situation, for a definite period of time, meeting medical necessity, and integrated into the client's recovery plan as a necessary component of the clients' psychotherapeutic regimen.

Child, Youth & Family Outpatient Services

Children Services (5 to 12)

Whether you are a parent or caregiver of a child affected by trauma or mental illness, we are here to help you. We support comprehensive and emotional development in children who have experience abuse, neglect, or other trauma. Moreover, we provide children with mental illness understand their condition, recover from it, and acquire the tools to build a rich and happy life. Our approach integrates compassion, empathy, and expertise and its fitted to your family's specific situation. Clinical staff will ensure that there is an integration your values and culture, helping you draw from both as sources of strength and healing.

Youth Services (13 to 17)

In an atmosphere of trust and support, adolescents are encouraged to be open about how their behavioral or substance abuse has caused serious difficulties in their lives. We provides a structured and supportive environment for adolescents to learn healthier ways of coping. Treatment includes individual, group and family therapy, anger management, communication skills, emotional regulation, impulse control, self-esteem, social skills, stress management, self-injury and substance abuse. We diagnose and treat adolescents with a variety of problems such as depression, anxiety, attention deficits, and other behavioral problems. By working closely with the youngster, family, primary care provider, school personnel, and others, we ensure that assessment and treatment is designed to meet the needs of adolescents and their families.

Parent Counseling & Guidance Group

Working together, families identify roles, expectations, and negative patterns while exploring the overwhelming effects of behavioral problems and/or substance abuse on the family system. Within a supportive environment, parents learn better ways to handle frustration, guilt, apathy, and overwhelming feelings. Parents are taught communication skills, limit-setting, and ways to identify negative family patterns and substance abuse. Family Therapy is often incorporated to educate family members on the client's mental illness. Family members are strongly urged to participate in sessions.

Our Parent Counseling & Guidance Group works with families raising children and adolescents with developmental disabilities. The team's goal is to help families improve coping with everyday stressors as well as to develop strategies to address more complicated behavioral and emotional issues. Our clinical team members are master's level mental health therapists trained in the Positive Behavior Support model.

The program offers:
Help understanding the meaning of your child's behavior
Strategies for working with your child more effectively
Links to community support

Fees and Payment

Our clinic fees are based on a sliding scale. The amount paid depends on your income, making care affordable to everyone.

Services Offered To:
Adults
Couples
Teens
Children

Special Groups:
Bilingual

Payment:
Sliding Scale
Medicare
Medicaid