The Advocacy Alliance provides an array of community based programs and supports for individuals, families, professionals and others designed to promote Recovery in adults who have a mental illness and Resiliency in children and adolescents who have emotional disorders.
To learn more about our various mental health programs and support services, please choose from the following options.
The Advocacy Alliance's advocates ensure that persons in the community who experience mental illness are heard, serve as their own spokespersons, and that the focus of their treatment, housing and employment is based on their individual needs for Recovery. Our advocates, including Certified Peer Specialists, also work at Clarks Summit and Allentown State Hospitals and in community adult psychiatric in-patient units, helping to see that persons understand their rights, their rights are respected, and their services are helpful. For more information about our Adult Mental Health Advocacy Services, please click here.
The Advocacy Alliance's advocates, including Family Peer Advocates, work with families of children who have emotional/behavioral disorders to help them understand and ensure the protection of their rights in the children’s mental health and other child-serving systems of care, as well as at the Youth Development Center at Hickory Run. Our advocates ensure that families’ voices are heard and included in the dialogues on the regional, state, and federal levels, the results of which are policies and programs which affect children and their families. For more information about our Child and Family Mental Health Advocacy Services, please click here.
The Advocacy Alliance's representative payee program is a system of financial and budgetary management for persons who have a mental illness, persons who have mental retardation, and older adults who are unable to manage their monthly Social Security benefits, other benefits, and financial affairs.
If you are interested in receiving more information about our Representative Payee services, please email us or call toll free at 1-877-315-6855.
The Advocacy Alliance's vendor/fiscal agent services provide employer related services for persons who have a physical disability, persons who have mental retardation or their representatives, and older adults or their representatives. We partner with the person or their representative in the use of self-directed attendant care services by assuring compliance with federal, state and local employer requirements, thereby reducing their burden as employer without diminishing their right of self-direction.
If you would like more information regarding our Vendor/Fiscal Agent Services, please email us or call us toll free at 1-877-315-6855.
When adults are adjudicated incapable, a Guardian of Estate is needed to manage the individuals’ assets to assure that their needs are met and to protect them from designing persons. The Guardian of Person is needed to assist individuals to live in the least restrictive settings with the necessary support services that can enhance or maintain their care and safety. A Power of Attorney (POA) is a written legal document that allows an individual to appoint someone to be their agent in order to give the person authority to act on the individual's behalf.
If you would like more information regarding our Guardianship of Person/Estate and/or /Power of Attorney services, please click here.
The Advocacy Alliance provides and array of community based programs and supports for individuals, families, professionals and others designed to promote Everyday Lives for persons who have mental retardation and other developmental disabilities.
To learn more about our various mental health programs and support services, please choose from the following options.
The Advocacy Alliance facilitates Health Care Quality Units (HCQUs), the responsible entities to the County Mental Health/Mental Retardation Programs for monitoring the overall health status of persons with mental retardation receiving services. The HCQUs work to support and improve the mental retardation community service systems by building capacity and competency to meet the physical and behavioral health care needs of persons who have mental retardation. The primary activities of the HCQUs include: assessing the person’s health and systems of care; providing clinical health care expertise to residential and day program providers; providing health related training; and integrating community health care resources with state and regional quality improvement structures and processes. The primary goal of the HCQUs is to assure that the persons served by mental retardation programs are as healthy as they can be, so that each person can fully participate in community life.
For more information about our HCQUs, including information about our Web Based Educational Programs, please choose from the following locations.
Incident Management is a subset of a larger risk management process that ensures that the health, safety, and rights of persons receiving mental retardation and persons receiving mental health supports and services are respected.
Incident Management is a statewide process for reporting, categorizing and investigating incidents entered in the HCSIS (Home and Community Services Information System) Database System. All reports are reviewed in order to determine that appropriate actions have taken place to protect the individual receiving mental retardation and/or mental health supports and services.
If you would like more information about Incident Management, please email us or call us toll free at 1-877-315-6855.