To give hope, help and healing to children, families and communities.

KidsPeace is a private charity dedicated to serving the behavioral and mental health needs of children, families and communities. Founded in 1882, KidsPeace provides a unique psychiatric hospital; a comprehensive range of residential treatment programs; accredited educational services; and a variety of foster care and community-based treatment programs to help people in need overcome challenges and transform their lives. KidsPeace provides emotional and physical health care and educational services in an atmosphere of teamwork, compassion and creativity.

Community Programs: KidsPeace community programs provide services to kids, biological families, and foster families in the communities where they live, in an effort to ensure continued health and happiness for every kid. A spectrum of mental health services that include outpatient mental health clinics, partial hospitalization, autism-specific services, as well as in-home and education services are offered.

• Outpatient Services: for both children and adults, including walk-in services 9-5 Mon through Friday. Individual, group and family therapies that maintain children at home while focusing on symptom reduction, prevention of functional decline and elimination of more restrictive treatment.
• Autism Services, including: Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS): Community-based counseling primarily for clients with Autism Spectrum Disorders and their caregivers to develop the communication and coping skills necessary to function in the community. The Early Intervention BHRS program is a specialized program that provides young children with Autism Spectrum Disorders a more intense, individualized level of therapy, while using key elements of Applied Behavior Analysis to help children meet their developmental goals.
• After School Autism Program (Bethlehem Site): Communication and socialization skills are introduced and practiced in a structured environment for autistic children after-school on weekdays.
• Sarah’s Smile® Summer Autism Program (Bethlehem Site): Summer therapeutic activity program for clients with Autism Spectrum Disorders that focuses on communication and socialization within small groups.
• Acute Partial Hospitalization Programs (Bethlehem Site):Acute, sub-acute and school-sased services provided six hours daily in school setting with treatment based on intensity of presenting issues and including a variety of individual and group therapies, as well as academic programs.
• Family Group Decision Making (FGDM): An empowering, family-centered process that recognizes the importance of involving family groups in decision-making about children who need protection or care.
• Behavioral Health Rehabilitation Services (BHRS): Medically necessary mental health services for children in the community who are Medicaid eligible. Services may include Therapeutic Staff Support (TSS), Mobile Therapy (MT) and Behavioral Specialist Consultant (BSC).
• Sexual Issues Treatment and Education (SITE): Community-based specialized treatment that integrates cognitive, affective or behavioral approaches to youth with victim or offender sexual issues.   Services include individual, family and group therapy.

PA Psychiatric Hospital: KidsPeace provides a free-standing psychiatric hospital that serves community members aged 5-21 in four different levels of care and receives direct admissions of clients in crisis. KidsPeace Psychiatric Hospital is a one-of-a-kind hospital, dedicated solely to healing and addressing the unique mental and behavioral health care needs of children and young adults experiencing severe crisis. 

KidsPeace Psychiatric Hospital
5300 KidsPeace Drive
Orefield, PA 18069 Phone: 800-257-3223

PA Residential: KidsPeace residential programs serve a variety of issues in safe, secure facilities on our campus. The decision to place a child in residential care is not an easy one for the child or the guardians. However, sometimes it is necessary to provide the child with the comprehensive therapeutic support he or she needs to overcome crisis. 

Pennsylvania Residential
5300 KidsPeace Drive
Orefield, PA 18069

Foster Care & Community Programs (FCCP): KidsPeace offers a variety of distinct services at each of our different foster care locations.

Juvenile Justice

NOTE: In May 2016, KidsPeace announced that it would close the Mesabi Academy program by June 30.  The program is not accepting new admissions.

Though we are a correctional facility, we view the clinical/therapeutic component as a very important aspect of our program and utilize an interdisciplinary treatment team approach to gain a holistic view of the youth with whom we are working. KidsPeace Mesabi Academy, a subsidiary of KidsPeace, is licensed by the Minnesota Department of Corrections and is a member of the Minnesota Counsel of Child Caring Agencies (MCCCA). We offer services for delinquent and non-delinquent males ages 10–18, as well as Extended Juvenile Jurisdiction youth to age 21.

Age Groups	Children Adolescents Adults
Community Services	Family & Support Services Adoption / Foster Care Family Support
Health Services	Behavioral / Mental Health Substance Use / Addiction Intellectual and Developmental Needs Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)
Payment Types	Low Cost / Donation Private / Commercial Insurance Self Pay

Last Updated: 08/08/16