HBH IS COMMITTED TO:
Helping people change in ways that can lead to greater personal happiness, competence and satisfaction. HBH applies effective, research-supported treatments in natural settings. We partner with our clients, their families and communities to analyze problems, design and implement change strategies, and develop mechanisms that encourage continued growth after our involvement.
2000
In 2009 our award-winning MST therapists were honored by national MST for repeating their accomplishments.
2002-2004
1988-1992
2008 saw HBH again collaborating with the Prevention Research Center of PSU on a four-year PATHS project funded by the PA Department of Health. This project was a long-term study focused on preventing the criminal development of high-risk youth. The study looked at the behavioral and neurodevelopmental impact of the PATHS Curriculum in a randomized trial. The role of HBH was the development and delivery of PATHS-based parenting education. HBH collaborated with Elwyn, Inc. of Philadelphia funded through a PEW Foundation grant to teach and coach HeadStart staff in North-East Philadelphia the PATHS Preschool Program. Also in 2008, two of our dedicated MST therapists received national recognition for fidelity to the model.
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 Generacion Diez to non-migrant students at risk of delinquency. HBH opened an office in Harrisburg in 2000 and moved to a 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 2nd and 3rd-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 21st 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 a hub for Adams County activities.
In early 2019, we were awarded a grant from The Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at the University of Colorado Boulder for the implementation of Botvin LifeSkills Training (LST) for Midd-West School District. The grant will provide training and technical assistance, as well as curriculum materials, for the LifeSkills Training program for a period of three years, beginning in Fall 2019. We launched two new programs: Two Families Now and Visitation Services to support families going through a divorce. At the end of the year, we partnered with Dickinson College on a grant to implement the Family Check-Up in Cumberland and Perry Counties. The Family Check-Up ® (FCU) model is a strengths-based, family-centered intervention that promotes family management and addresses child and adolescent adjustment problems. Funding for this program was provided in full by the Partnership for Better Health. The Family Check-Up program will start in 2020. The Red Tomato Farm Program held a second Chili Cook-Off and added an art auction this year. The fundraiser, benefiting Carlisle Arts Learning Center, was successful. At the end of the year, we raised funds for the Newville Fire Co. again with Christmas Trees for a Cause. 2019 marked the year that the Inn has been added to the Airbnb community to promote the bed and breakfast at Red Tomato Farm. This project is supported by The David and Libby Rosen Center for Healthy Families. The community at large can now find and book three guest rooms on Airbnb. We have had several guests stay at the farm this fall, coming as far as the UK! We look forward to more guests finding the Inn on Airbnb and enjoying their stay at the farm. Beginning in the school year 2019-20, Dr. Rosen was appointed as an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychology at Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA. He taught the Introductory Course on Community Psychology for several semesters.
A milestone was reached in 2014 when we created the position of Development Officer. This position marks our first serious attempt at marketing and disseminating. This year we started our presence on social media, having a new page for Hempfield. Plans to add one additional working farm for individuals with disabilities rapidly moved forward in Cumberland county with a property being purchased in Newville, PA. We received grant funding from PCCD to implement the Incredible Years Programming (IYS) in Adams County.
2012
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 a 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.
In 2005 we expanded our MST services into Elizabethtown (Lancaster County) through a 4-year PCCD grant in collaboration with the E-Town Community and Economic Development Corporation and the local District Justice Office. We also expanded Nurse-Family Partnership to Carlisle (Cumberland County) through a grant from the Carlisle Area Health and Wellness Foundation. This project was the first PA initiative to be funded solely through non-governmental funding.
Construction for the farm and licensing as an adult day program was completed in early 2015. Red Tomato Farm & Inn opened on May 11, 2015, and continues to take referrals for the day program. In our Snyder County office, we applied and were awarded a Communities-That-Care grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency which started in January 2015. In 2015, we continued to implement the CTC Grant, which created the Shikellamy Youth Pride CTC Coalition. In September 2015, a successful town hall meeting was held for the CTC grant which brought community members around the table to join our CTC initiative. HBH was successful in getting Aggression Replacement Training (ART) approved as a Medical Assistance funded program. This effort provides sustainable funds for this service.
2022
2011
2006
2012 was a year of major growth and activity. In May we hosted our 6th Annual International PATHS conference with our long-term colleague Mark Greenberg from PSU. Two other collaborations occurred. We served as training and technical assistant consultants for the PAXIS institute to a national cohort of 20+ implementation sites of Good Behavior Game (GBG) funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. We also collaborated with Communities-in-Schools of PA in the implementation of the Incredible Years Series (an evidence-based program for young children with conduct problems and their parents) in Dauphin and Adams Counties. HBH was successful in getting IYS approved as a Medical Assistance funded program, the first organization in PA to do so. This effort provides sustainable funds for the new service. In our Snyder County office, we applied and were awarded a Communities-That-Care grant from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. That planning grant led to the receipt of a grant for Aggression Replacement Training (Goldstein) which is group therapy for aggressive adolescents which in the lifetime of the grant added an ART Train-the-Trainer to our HBH staff.
In 2011, our MST program was featured in the sentencing project’s (Washington, DC) documentary, “unlocking justice” as part of their 25th-anniversary celebration.
In early 2020, we received a two-year grant from PCCD to fund a new implementation of the Incredible Years program for Steelton-Highspire Elementary School-aged children. We had six new facilitators training for the Family Check-Up Program in February and by April we were able to apply the program to a virtual platform due to the Covid-19 Pandemic and Social Distancing Restrictions. In the late summer and early fall, we explored the possibility of adding a pre-vocational program in Perry County and determined that the need exists. By the late fall and early winter, we had located and purchased a property in Green Park, PA, and aptly named it the Stone House Farm & Inn. This will be the future educational farm site offering opportunities in career awareness, employability skills, and trade experiences for all students and adults in Perry County. In the future, this location will also be a bed and breakfast, open to the community.
2021
1998-1999
In 2007 Hempfield was invited to establish NFP in Franklin County. HBH was also awarded that year, a Pennsylvania Department of Education grant in collaboration with the Chester County Intermediate Unit to teach and coach all preschool teachers in the PATHS Curriculum. A four-year grant to teach and coach all the elementary grade teachers in Tredyffrin-Easttown School District through the PCCD meant that HBH spent considerable time in Chester County in the latter half of the decade. In 2007 the HBH MST Team was competitively selected for the SAMSHA Fidelity Award and was the only MST team nationally selected.
2007
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.
2001
In early 2021, we received one year of grant funding from the Perry County Community Foundation to fund 20 Perry County teachers to provide lab experiences as an extension of their classroom that pertains to their content area, adhere to school district curriculum standards, and connect students with practical experiences. Opportunities to study math, science, art, and history for all grade levels and student populations are available in a real-world setting. The farm site will provide all students the opportunity for field experiences to foster career awareness to develop the following essential workplace skills; teamwork, problem-solving, and critical thinking. We continue to make renovations to the Stone House Farm & Inn and are aiming for an opening in Spring 2022 for the pre-vocational program. In the fall, we partnered with Newport Area School District on a grant from the PA Department of Education to expand the Career Exploration Program for their students by identifying potential career exploration sites and utilizing a job coach to oversee students in the program. We also partnered with Northumberland County to obtain DDAP Funding to provide new implementations of the Family Check-Up Program and Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools. This fall, Dr. Rosen continued his journey as an adjunct professor at Dickinson college with the continuation of the Introductory to Community Psychology course while also adding Advanced Senior Seminar in Community Psychology to his course offerings for the spring semester. Red Tomato Farm & Inn safely and successfully had another Back Yard Bash with the band classic rock band, Hit n Run. During this event, there was an art auction and chili cook-off to benefit Carlisle Arts Learning Center, which received a $1000 donation from the event.
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.
2015
2013
In the early part of the year, Hana Rosen-Westhafer took over as the President of Hempfield Behavioral Health. She succeeded the previous President, Howard Rosen, who now serves as the Founding President. While Dr. Rosen continues his involvement cultivating programs and building relationships at Hempfield, he also continues to pursue teaching at Dickinson College as an Adjunct Faculty member in the Psychology Department most recently offering a fall semester seminar in Community Psychology. Also in early 2023, we embarked on a project to renovate our new property in Selinsgrove, which we proudly named Gallery 304. The focus of this property will be an art gallery that will showcase local artists, have a retail art and craft outlet, and a small coffee shop. We are excited to provide skill-building opportunities for transitional students and adults through the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR) and the Office of Developmental Programs (ODP). In the spring of 2023, we were awarded a two-year grant from the PCCD (Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency) for the social-emotional learning program, Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) for grades K-5. The grant is being implemented at the Shikellamy School District, and we trained K-2 teachers during the summer. They began implementing the program in their classrooms in the fall with outstanding results. As part of the grant funding from the Perry County Community Foundation, we invited eight artists to begin their environmental art instruction and installation at Stone House Farm & Inn during the spring, summer, and fall. We successfully funded eight artists to create varying types of environmental art projects at the farm, in which the community participated. Final projects included cell phone photography, fossil stepping stones, embroidery, natural dying, ceramic tiles, a fire-pit build, the community view project, and pit-fired pottery. Each project is now on display at Stone House Farm & Inn. In Perry County, we had our first OVR-funded students participate in summer and fall cohorts at Stone House Farm, where they learned skills and earned badges to commemorate their achievements while building their resumes for employment. Red Tomato Farm & Inn utilized their new raised garden beds to grow vegetables and herbs this summer, and our prevocational program benefitted from Airbnb and VRBO stays, with the highest rate of reservations, totaling 36 from April to November in 2023. Over the summer, we welcomed a new employee to our team. They are serving as a school-based therapist for elementary students at the Shikellamy School District. The main objective of this role is to work with students individually and as a group in order to provide them with the necessary support and tools to succeed both in the classroom and at home. We continued to provide our trauma treatment programs, Cognitive Behavioral Interventions for Trauma in Schools (CBITS), and the Bounce Back Program, to schools within the Northumberland School District in partnership with Northumberland County Drug and Alcohol. We are proud to report that both programs continue to be highly successful and well-received. In the fall, we were awarded an 18-month grant from PCCD for the implementation of Phased-Based Treatment for Problem Sexual Behaviors (PBT-PSB). Brian Allen, Psy.D., and his staff presented Hempfield staff with a two-day training in December, and we look forward to implementing this program in 2024 with utmost confidence.
Hempfield Behavioral Health 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.
We continued our work with the Shikellamy CTC in 2017 as the coalition continued to work through the five phases of the model by completing the Risk and Protective Factor Report and Resource Assessment Report and started their training for the Community Strategic Plan. In year two of the PATHS Grant, teachers in grades 3-5 received their training for the PATHS program and received weekly coaching during the school year. In November 2017, Midd West School District was evaluated by a PATHS Master Trainer and Program Consultant for the PATHS Plus Program and received a recommendation as a PATHS Model School for their exemplary implementation. Red Tomato Farm & Inn continued to see new initiatives added to their daily programming including the Arts Live Program which is a creative collaboration between Hempfield Behavioral Health and local artists hosted at Red Tomato Farm & Inn from March-October. We also partnered with Carlisle Area School District to have a student art show, which served as the first of many art shows to come at our Inn.
2005
In 2016 we continued to make positive changes for youth through grant funding as we successfully applied for and received a continuation grant for the Shikellamy CTC through funding from PCCD. For a completely new idea, we teamed up with the Penn State Cooperative Extension to offer the PROSPER Program in the Shikellamy School District. The concept of adding PROSPER to a functioning CTC is fairly new and we were proud to be part of this experimental initiative. This year we also explored the opportunity to bring Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies (PATHS) to the Midd West School District and we were awarded a two-year grant from PCCD that started in July 2016. During the first year of the grant, we trained all of the kindergarten - 2nd grade teachers in the PATHS program and provided weekly coaching during that school year. Their implementation was of very high quality. In mid-2016 Red Tomato Farm & Inn opened its bed and breakfast to the public and started offering a Respite Program. Shortly after that, we started to offer a Pre-Vocational Program in addition to the Day Program. The Pre-Vocational Program focuses on housekeeping, hospitality, retail sales, and event planning, utilizing the Inn. The farm added new initiatives to their daily programming including the Guest Chef Program which brings community members to the farm to share their favorite recipes in our kitchen offering participants the opportunity to serve as sous-chefs and taste testers. We have teamed up with a yoga instructor to offer chair yoga classes monthly at the farm with our participants. During the summer, we enjoyed our first annual Backyard Bash at the farm, featuring a live band and a fall festival featuring artisan vendors and a bluegrass jam. HBH received an updated look in 2016 with a new logo and tag line: Innovation, Community, Experience, and an updated website. Additionally, we added a second Facebook Page focused on the community aspect of our Inn.
2014
In the spring of 2002, HBH and Professor Mark Greenberg (PSU) co-sponsored the 1st 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 21st 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.
MISSION + VISION
Hempfield Behavioral Health, Inc. (HBH) is an innovative, family-based, small business that delivers sustainable psychological and behavioral health services in the community. We ascribe to the codes of ethics of the American Psychological Association (APA) and the National Association of Social Workers (NASW). The welfare of our clients is our primary concern.
At the beginning of 2022, we started to work with Newport School District to assist them in the rebuilding of their Career Exploration program by establishing business partners with which students could explore careers within the nearby community, establishing relationships with 12 new businesses. We interviewed and hired two full-time staff members as part of our Northumberland County DDAP Funding for Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) and The Family Check-Up Programs. We completed training for both programs and started to provide services to families and schools in the county in late February. We held two cohorts of the Incredible Years Small Group Therapy at Steelton-Highspire Elementary School in the spring to finish the 2020 PCCD Grant. We wrapped up Perry County student experiences in the spring with our Perry County Community Foundation grant, which funded seven school projects including 19th Century Leather Crafting, an Archeology Dig, Poetry in Nature, Creating a Business Plan, Designing a Sign, Water Quality Survey and, A Local's Guide to West Perry. Renovations were completed on the house at Stone House Farm & Inn. During the summer months raised beds were established. Several Perry County students attended the farm several days a week as part of the Newport School District Department of Ed Career Exploration Grant. They worked on skills around the farm and visited many locations in the community during their time with the program. We opened a second Airbnb site at Stone House Farm and had several guests stay at the Inn during the summer and fall. In early fall, we received approval from the state to open the Perry County HUBS program at Stone House Farm. We also received one year of grant funding from the Perry County Community Foundation for a new art program at Stone House Farm in partnership with the Perry County Council of the Arts. This grant will fund eight artists as they create varying types of environmental art projects at the farm in which the community will be invited to also participate. Finally, to wrap up 2022, after many years of searching, we purchased a property in downtown Selinsgrove which will serve as the new home for our Snyder County MST team, CBITS, and FCU staff as well as a future location for the Selinsgrove HUBS program.
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2009
1994-1995
2013 saw us returning to our roots as we were invited to manage an innovative adult day program for individuals with disabilities that operates on a working farm. Hope Springs Farm was licensed and operation for 40 individuals began on July 1. We also entered the residential services sector with a group home in Hershey for two young women. We expanded Aggression Replacement Training into Dauphin County on a grant awarded from the PA Commission on Crime and delinquency. We were then awarded a grant to implement the PAX Good Behavior Game, which we delivered in the Shikellamy School District in three of their elementary schools and three Pre-K Counts programs through the CSIU.
2010
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 4th graders. The TEN Program expanded in 1999 to 3 elementary schools and by the 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. Generacion Diez was named one of only eight Pennsylvania Office of Children, Youth, and Families model delinquency prevention programs.
1995-1997
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HBH saw a significant milestone achieved in 2010 when the MST Project Director co-authored a chapter on MST with our consultant. 2010 also marked the 5th Annual PATHS conference co-sponsored with the PSU Prevention Center.
2018
2004
As we near the end of our very successful PATHS Grant, in 2018, we are excited to send several representatives from Midd West School District and a Hempfield representative to the International PATHS Conference in Chicago to present at several break-out sessions, offer insight on a round table discussion on the implementation of the PATHS Program and discuss best practices with other members of the PATHS Community. Approaching the end of the CTC grant, the mobilizer has successfully secured a home for the Coalition post-grant with the local United Way will provide oversight in the CTC model, and continue to foster a high-functioning Coalition in the Shikellamy Community. In March, we launched a new Community Participation Supports Program (CPS) called Hempfield Hubs which is 100% in the community in the Harrisburg area, Newville/Carlisle, Selinsgrove, Lewisburg, and Sunbury, and are currently accepting new referrals for this program. In July PCCD awarded us with a two-year grant for Aggression Replacement Training. We will implement the program in Steelton-Highspire and Mount Carmel Area School Districts for their middle school students. In September we held our first fundraiser at Red Tomato Farm & Inn, a Chili Cook-Off to benefit Carlisle Arts Learning Center (CALC). We raised $1000 and our RTF farm participants presented a check to CALC. In October, we re-branded our Red Tomato Farm tag line to Home Grown, Community Minded. In December, we launched our second fundraiser to benefit the Newville Fire Co. called Christmas Trees with a Cause. We partnered with a local tree farm to take orders for fresh trees to be picked up at the farm. We donated $500 to the fire company.
OUR WORK LEADS US TO: Collaborate with others working in similar areas or with the same methods; Disseminate our work to the professional and general community; Seek opportunities to apply our practice in new areas; Be flexible and responsive to new research findings and the applications to natural settings; Evaluate our effectiveness, cost effectiveness and consumer satisfaction; and Attract creative, highly competent associates.
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Hempfield History
2008
2019
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.
Hempfield’s collaboration with PSU’s Center for Families in Diverse Context lead to funding in 2006 from the Wallace Foundation to examine the potential of migrating the Good Behavior Game from the classroom to the after-school setting. When this pilot project showed settings level effects of youth behavior as well as collective efficacy, the National Institute of Drug Abuse funded PSU for a larger, three-year clinical trial of GBG in afterschool with HBH responsible for the implementation component.
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