Trinity Reformed United Church of Christ, Mountville, Pa

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Bethany Children’s Home

 

MISSION AND VISION

The mission of Bethany Children’s Home is to continue a Christian ministry, begun in 1863, to serve children and families within our care. Using the Sanctuary Model, we strive to provide a safe place of nurture, protection, and supportive care to aid our residents in their self-understanding, growth, and healing toward a brighter, healthier future. Our vision is of a community where all youth and staff are safe in their environment and feel safe within themselves. To bring this vision into reality, we provide the resources needed to children and families to work through their losses, enabling them to have a brighter future.

PROGRAMS

Youth in Bethany’s Residential Treatment Program and Short Term Intensive Treatment Program reside in 7 cottages on Bethany’s scenic campus in Womelsdorf, PA. The cottages combine to offer 78 beds to male and female youth.

Youth in the Residential and Short Term programs are provided with these services, in addition to a few services unique to the respective programs.

  • Weekly individual therapy
  • Group therapy
  • Licensed and Master’s Level Therapists
  • Family therapy through contract counselors
  • Psychological Services through contract counselors
  • Drug and Alcohol services in conjunction with Caron Counseling
  • Immediate School Placement
  • Alternative education program and special education through Conrad Weiser School District is available
  • On-ground tutoring lab with licensed teachers is available and mandatory for any student with educational deficiencies
  • Balanced and Restorative Justice Principles outcomes for JPO youth
  • Opportunities for community service
  • Ansell Casey Life Skills Assessments
  • Formal Life Skills Training and Education for all youth 16 and older
  • Personalized Transition and Permanency Planning starting at age 16
 RESIDENTIAL Program
The Residential Treatment Program is intended for youth who require support and services to obtain skills in order to move to a less structured setting or return home. The following are services unique to the Residential Treatment Program.
  • Life Skills and Independent Living Group for all youth 16 and older
  • Assistance with higher education planning
  • Assistance in finding employment and housing
 SHORT TERM Program

The Short Term Intensive Treatment Program is a 90-day program intended for youth whose permanency goal is reunification or for youth who require intensive initial treatment services before Residential Treatment Services begin. The following are services unique to the Short Term Intensive Treatment Program.

  • Twice weekly individual therapy
  • Immediate School Placement in an on-campus alternative education program via CW School District

 Shelter Care Program

Bethany’s Shelter Care program provides emergency services and immediate housing to youth ages 6-18. The Shelter Care Program provides the same services offered to all youth in other programs at Bethany, plus the following unique services.

  • Crisis Intervention/emergency services
  • Short term housing
  • Immediate School Placement in Alternative Education Programming
  • 24 hour awake child care staff
  • On-site Director of Shelter Care and Social Services Staff
  • Off campus educational field trips
  • Use of outside groups for education on topics such as drugs and alcohol prevention, pregnancy prevention, and maintaining healthy relationships
  • Independent Living

Independent Living Program

 Bethany’s Independent Living program is on campus using the houseparent model and geared towards youth age 16-20 who have maintained satisfactory educational progress (or may be working on their GED or college/higher education program), have demonstrated the ability to function appropriately with a minimal level of supervision, and have consistently utilized appropriate social skills and coping mechanisms to maintain appropriate interaction with his/her peers, staff, and the community.

The IL program offers 28 beds in two cottages. Youth in the IL program receive all of the services and supports provided in the Residential Treatment Program, plus the following:

  • Advanced Life Skills Education and Independent Living Training
  • Completion of a personalized transition plan
  • Development of a personal portfolio (birth certificate, social security card, etc.)
  • Completion of a level system working toward Supervised Independent Living
  • Required educational programming, work, and/or community service hours to equal 40 hours weekly
  • Expectations and privileges based on level system
  • Outcomes are tracked

http://www.bethanyhome.org/

Sunday Schedule

​10:00 am–Trinity Café
Join us for coffee, conversation and more in the fellowship hall located in lower level of the church.
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10:30 am–Worship Service
in the Sanctuary located in the upper level of the church.

 

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Scott is an amazing musician -- If Sunday afternoon is open you might want to attend!Making weekend plans? Santee Chapel will resound with the sounds of the season this Sunday at 4pm. Our free Christmas concert features piano, organ, and Celtic harp and the incomparable musician Rev. Scott Siciliano. Plus treats afterwards! ... See MoreSee Less

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We have entered the season of Advent. A season when even as we experience less daylight, we prepare for the coming of the light of God. Our word for the week is wait.
Waiting may not be something we do well. We are used to getting information and communications instantly with computers and smart phones; we get frustrated when the line moves too slowly in the store, bank, or fast food drive thru; and I would really like God to answer my prayers RIGHT NOW.
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“If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must picture God as the whole page on which the line is drawn. We come to the parts of the line one by one: we have to leave A behind before we get to B, and cannot reach C until we leave B behind. God, from above or outside or all round, contains the whole line, and sees it all” (Mere Christianity, Book 4, Chapter 3).

So my dear ones, I pray that in the midst of your Advent days you will experience a moment of God's time, a glimpse of the eternal realm of God's peace for which we wait.

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