Our History and Vision:

HBH began in central Pennsylvania in 1988, growing out of consulting and training activities with the publicly funded MH/MR and Child Welfare systems. In 1992, HBH was invited to open an office within the Medical Practice of Hempfield Family Practice, Ltd., and Dr. Rosen was appointed to the Allied Health Professional Staff of St. Joseph Hospital with Clinical Psychology privileges in the Department of Psychiatry.

HBH expanded its practice to include forensic work for Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth (DCSSC&Y) and in 1994 began participation in expanded Medical Assistance Services for children. In 1995 HBH began collaboration with national organizations including Homebuilders, Inc. and The National Network of Intensive Family Preservation Services. HBH hosted its first statewide conference with the co-sponsorship of the Pennsylvania Psychological Association, Juvenile Court Judges’ Committee, and Dauphin County Human Services.

HBH expanded to Snyder and Union Counties in the spring of 1995 to provide Family Preservation Services (FPP).  HBH began to focus on prevention services and in 1997 was funded by the Children’s Trust Fund Grant to work with first-time mothers at risk in a prenatal child abuse prevention program, Healthy Families Union County. In 1998 the PEACE Project, a program focused on sexual abuse prevention and education joined HBH through a contract with Adams County Children and Youth.   The PEACE Project organized the second national conference on child welfare issues including a one-day pre-conference institute by the National Family Preservation Network.

HBH collaborated with the Pennsylvania State University Prevention Center to bring PATHS (a Blueprint for Violence Prevention Model) to the Harrisburg City Schools and initiate a 4-year PATHS clinical replication in the fall of 1998.  HBH partnered with Dauphin County Social Services for Children and Youth in an after-school delinquency prevention program for at risk 4^th graders.  The TEN Program expanded in 1999 to 3 elementary schools and by school year 2001-02 was serving 200 at risk youth in five school sites.  HBH developed an after-school delinquency prevention program based on the same empirical prevention strategies for at risk students of Latino migrant workers in Adams County.  Generación Diez was named one of only eight Pennsylvania Office of Children, Youth, and Families model delinquency prevention programs. 

In 2000, HBH received a grant from the PA Commission on Crime and Delinquency to develop Healthy Families Dauphin County and a grant from the Children’s Trust Fund to expand Generación Diez to non-migrant students at risk of delinquency. HBH opened an office in Harrisburg in 2000 and moved to larger office space in Middleburg.  HBH collaborated with Bermudian Springs and Upper Adams School Districts in grants through the DOE Safe Schools grant program and focused programs on reducing and preventing school violence.  In the spring of 2000 HBH attracted funding from the Gettysburg Borough and the Pennsylvania Department of Education to provide after school programming, education mentoring, and PATHS.  In the fall of 2000, HBH purchased an office property in uptown Harrisburg to serve as headquarters.  On January 1, 2001 HBH filed with the Pennsylvania Corporation Bureau as an S-Corporation.

In January 2001, HBH and Widener Law School were awarded a PCCD grant to teach family mediation skills to 2^nd and 3^rd year law students at the civil law clinic as part of a strategy to reduce truancy among elementary and middle school youth referred to the local District Justice.   In the summer of 2001, HBH applied for licensure as a foster care agency and began replicating the Social Learning Theory Based Treatment Foster Care Program of the U.S. Department of Justice Blueprints.  HBH also obtained a license for adoption services and began pre and post adoptive family support services.  HBH was awarded a 21^st Century Community Learning Center, one of five awards in PA and 308 nationally.  In the fall of 2001, HBH was awarded a Safe Schools grant with Bermudian Springs School District for a system-wide PATHS Program.  HBH also received one of twelve statewide grants to implement a nurse-family partnership program for 125 low-income first-time mothers.   HBH became a formal internship site for the Pennsylvania College of Osteopathic Medicine.   Late in the fall, HBH purchased an office property in historic Gettysburg to serve as hub for Adams County activities.

In the spring of 2002, HBH and Professor Mark Greenberg (PSU) co-sponsored the 1^st International PATHS Interactive Conference in Harrisburg, PA.   As summer 2002 approached, HBH was awarded a 4-year grant for Multisystemic Therapy, the third Blueprint for violence prevention that HBH operates.  During the summer of 2002, HBH became the first and only Medical Assistance program provider to incorporate the “best practice” neuropsychological methods of the PATHS Program in home and community-based mental health services. In 2003 HBH partnered with Dauphin County, PA CASSP, and the PSU Prevention Center to write and field test PATHS lessons for use in community-based behavioral health programs for children.  HBH became licensed to conduct child and family profiles for adoption and began participation in the SWAN Program. In the summer of 2003, HBH was awarded a 3-year, PA 21^st CCLC grant in collaboration with the Harrisburg School District to expand TEN after school services to 180 additional elementary students. In the fall of 2003, HBH co-sponsored a Prevention Science Conference together with the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and the PSU Prevention Center. In our Snyder County office, HBH initiated a Parents Anonymous group and offers continuing professional support.

In 2004, HBH added an after school program for at-risk, middle school students in the Harrisburg School District funded by Dauphin County.  The after school program in Adams County added a component addressing abstinence for Latino youth with funds from PALO, a Latino organization that was awarded a competitive federal grant.

Over the next few years, HBH will continue to increase the availability of our services. We will continue to apply effective methods in innovative ways. We will work in both the public and private sectors to offer flexible, responsive services delivered in natural settings. We will continue to attract associates who share our beliefs and have a passion to satisfy our clients by providing effective, competently designed and delivered services.

Our general goals are to:

Expand psychological, counseling, and child welfare services in Dauphin, Adams, Snyder, Union and Lebanon Counties;

• Conduct and publish outcomes of prevention research;
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• Demonstrate and deliver high quality home-based services;
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• Develop model services for AD/HD, Autism, Attachment, and PTSD;
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• Develop replications of “Blueprint” delinquency prevention programs;
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• Develop adoption support services;
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• Provide consultation on case management service delivery; and
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• Develop an annual schedule of statewide training conferences and seminars.