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
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A community counseling agency is a group therapy practice that offers affordable mental health services. Most are independent non-profit agencies, state agencies, or publicly-funded agencies. A few may restrict who is eligible for services, so it is a good idea to check when you call.
Community counseling agencies are generally more affordable than other therapy providers, but how much more affordable they are will depend on whether you qualify for a discount or sliding scale fee (or if they accept your insurance). Many, but not all, have a policy that they won't turn away anyone due to inability to pay. You should ask about their fees when you first call.
Expect to talk to kind people who want to help you find the care you need. Most community agencies strive to connect you with a live person within 24 hours, if not immediately. If you're asked to hold or leave a message, don't give up; just leave a message and wait. You should hear back pretty quickly.
Most agencies try to set up an initial assessment appointment within a week (some do within 24 hours), though the waitlist to start therapy is usually longer—about a few weeks on average. If you're not eligible or if the agency is not right for you, it's usually still worth it to call or drop in, because staff are knowledgeable about local options and can often refer you to one.