Helping Hand Behavioral Health offers programming, therapy, and housing for adults with mental health, substance use, and co-occurring issues.

Helping Hand manages three Residential Health Care Facilities (RHCFs), one in Atlantic County, one in Camden County, and one in Gloucester County, which provide a structured and stable environment for adults with a chronic mental illness who need a little extra assistance in maintaining their independence in a community setting. The residences provide nutritious meals, linen and laundry services, medication supervision, and nursing staff to oversee medical care management. They are staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and two are conveniently located on an NJT bus route.

Helping Hand offers three levels of care for assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of Addictions, Substance Use, and Co-Occurring Disorders: Partial Care, Intensive Outpatient, and Outpatient. We provide a safe, stable, therapeutic environment to a wide range of program participants, including those with mild to severe circumstances, chronic relapsers, and those struggling with the widespread epidemic of opiate addiction. We provide our clients with solid relapse prevention and recovery management skills as well as pro-social recovery networks to attain and maintain recovery and mental health stability. We have a psychiatrist and psychiatric APNs available to prescribe medications for our program members, including MAT (medication-assisted treatment).

Helping Hand offers two levels of care for Mental Health Services. The first is Outpatient Counseling Services, which allows an individual, couples, and families (18+) to meet one on one with a therapist for counseling and to make appointments with our psychiatric APNs for medication monitoring, if clinically indicated. The second is a Partial Care Day Program for adults with a chronic mental illness, which conducts classes throughout the day to teach our members about their diagnosis, self-esteem, wellness, medications, side effects, health, nutrition, hygiene, anger management, stress management, addictions, recovery, symptom management, etc. Our psychiatric APNs are available to prescribe and manage medications, and the program is supported by case managers who assist our clients with formulating goal-driven treatment planning, skills building, making medical appointments, managing their benefits, and so much more.

Eligibility	Age 18+ Medicaid Recipient Diagnosis of a mental illness
Age Groups	Adults
Community Services	Basic Needs / Assistance Housing / Shelter Employment / Training Independent Living Skill Program Life Skills Training Family & Support Services Case Management LGBTQ
Health Services	Behavioral / Mental Health ADHD / ADD Anger Management Anxiety Behavioral Depression Dissociative Disorders Family Conflict & Distress Grief / Loss Mental Health Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Personality Disorders Psychosomatic Self-Injury Substance Use Trauma / PTSD Womens / Mens Crisis / Safety Crisis / Safety / Prevention Suicide / Suicidal Ideation Intellectual and Developmental Needs Advocacy Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (I/DD) Medical Health / Wellness / Nutrition Integrated Mental / Physical Health Services
Treatment Services	In-Community Services Behavioral Assistance Bio-Psycho Social (BPS) Needs Assessment Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Outreach Services Professional Services / Wraparound Psychological / Psychiatric Evals Substance Abuse Evaluations Outpatient Services Assessment / Evaluation Counseling Counseling / Therapy, Family Counseling / Therapy, Group Counseling / Therapy, Individual Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Integrated / Functional Medicine Intensive Outpatient (IOP) Medication Monitoring Social Skills Trauma Informed Therapy Treatment Settings In Community Telehealth
Payment Options	Managed Care Medicaid Self Pay
Areas Served	Atlantic County

Last Updated: 06/29/24