Tools for Transformation Series

The Tools for Transformation Series are resource packets produced by the DBH/MRS to provide tools and a greater understanding of key recovery concepts for persons in recovery, family members, service providers and DBHIDS staff as part of the Philadelphia DBHIDS Recovery Transformation.

100,000 Homes Campaign Overview

The 100,000 Homes Campaign brings together change agents from across the country to find homes for 100,000 of the most vulnerable and long term homeless individuals and families by July 2013. The 100,000 Homes Campaign is designed to fundamentally alter our response to chronic homelessness by giving communities concrete tools and connecting the change agents read

The Philadelphia Experience

Philadelphia’s recovery transformation was featured in Resource Links, the Northeast ATTC’s quarterly magazine. The Winter 2010 edition of Resource Links, a Northeast ATTC quarterly magazine featuring addiction research and practice in New York and Pennsylvania, highlights our Tools for Transformation and several Philadelphia agencies that operate using recovery-oriented approaches.

We are Changing our Name

Effective March 1, 2011 we will become the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services. Effective March 1, 2011 the Department of Behavioral Health and Mental Retardation Services will become the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services. The term ‘intellectual disability’ is the current terminology for what has been known as ‘mental read