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2023 YEAR IN REVIEW

Explore our remarkable journey in our 2023 Year in Review.听Discover the impactful moments, achievements, and stories that defined our commitment to child well-being and mental health.

Jan 2023

百丽直播 receives $700,000 state grant for program for youth and adults at risk of or affected by gun violence in Lehigh Valley communities.

Lehigh County announces support for 百丽直播 鈥渨alk-in assessments鈥 program 鈥 will fund the assessments as well as case management for follow-up services for children and families who receive assessments.

FEB 2023

百丽直播 introduces new three-year strategic plan; Theme of 鈥淩eset/Refine/Re-imagine鈥 reflects both the overarching goals of the organization and individual and departmental objectives through 2025.

Volunteers send Valentine鈥檚 Day messages of Hope, Help and Healing to kids in PA residential treatment programs.

百丽直播 New England (Maine) hosts Community Mental Health Services Awareness Day at Graham Lake Campus, where state officials and legislators met with providers to discuss how the state can continue to lead in providing help to those in need.

百丽直播 education programs at Orchard Hills mark Black History Month; older students studying Black leaders fighting against historic and ongoing racism, while younger students learn about inventor Garrett Morgan, creator of the first traffic light (patented 100 years ago).

百丽直播 Foster Care in in Fayetteville (NC) hosts 鈥淧arents鈥 Night Out鈥 where staff care for foster children to give foster parents a two-hour respite.

百丽直播 serves as a service site in Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley鈥檚 Volunteer Challenge; 15 Emmaus High School students work on redesign and planting of the Mary Stever Memorial Garden on the Orchard Hills Campus.

Lehigh Valley business leader Robert Oster joins 百丽直播 Foundation Board of Trustees.

百丽直播 highlights ongoing medical education partnerships for psychiatry 鈥 medical school residency with St. Luke鈥檚 University Health Network, and fellowships with Lehigh Valley Health Network.

MAR 2023

百丽直播 Foster Care in Reading (PA) and IBHS program launch new 鈥淎utism-Focused Foster Care鈥 program, with search for foster parents with experience and interest in caring for children on the autism spectrum.

百丽直播 CEO Mike Slack publishes guest column in Morning Call newspaper in response to news of expansion of mental health services by locally based health networks 鈥 noting that the development is welcome but does not address the fundamental issue of workforce shortages at service providers.

Following updates to the Bowdon campus鈥檚 power system, 百丽直播 Georgia donates the massive original power generator (nicknamed 鈥淕oliath鈥) to the city of Bowdon.

The Web-based version of the 2021 百丽直播 Annual Report wins a Gold Award for Online/Interactive Media at the Lehigh Valley ADDY Awards 鈥 a competition featuring entries of marketing efforts across ALL industries.

百丽直播 Maine Education completes renovation of space at the education program location in Old Town.

Trey Carter named to 百丽直播 National Board of Directors.

National Employee Appreciation Day is marked by 百丽直播 with the annual Associate Appreciation T-Shirt Distribution. Specially designed T-shirts are given to all associates, and groups and departments are encouraged to wear the shirts on that day, take a picture and send in to be included in a photo album attached to the internal Week in Review email.

APR 2023

For the second year, 百丽直播 sponsors a 鈥Mental Health Break鈥 promotion at the Lehigh Valley IronPigs Triple A baseball games.

百丽直播 associates and permanency specialists Amy Silfies and Nicole Gardecki named Permanency Teamwork Award recipients from Pennsylvania鈥檚 Statewide Adoption and Permanency Network (SWAN).

百丽直播鈥檚 foster care operations in Indiana and Virginia diversified into supervising visits between children and parents as referred by courts, child welfare services, private attorneys and by parents themselves who are involved in custody disputes.This service is growing as the offices鈥 approach to and feedback from the visits are appreciated by all parties 鈥 strengthening our relationship with local referring courts and child welfare agencies.

MAY 2023

The KidsHaven program marks its 10-year anniversary.Since its beginnings the shelter program has cared for more than 3,400 children in the charge of the federal government as unaccompanied minors crossing into the U.S.As part of the commemoration, program leadership salutes clinician Emma Marrero and late-night youth care worker Samuel Rodriguez-Cruz 鈥 both of whom have worked at the program since it started.

The second annual 百丽直播 Foster Care National Virtual Conference is held as part of observing National Foster Care Month.During the event, Monique (Mo) Shoemaker of Muncy, PA is named the 百丽直播 National Foster Parent of the Year.

百丽直播 Corporate Director of Clinical Services Dominick DiSalvo presents at NetSmart Connections 2023 user group meeting on how we are becoming a data-driven organization in the mental health space and how our use of technology contributes to meeting/exceeding our key performance indicator (KPI) goals.

百丽直播 dedicates public mural at Green Street Outpatient Clinic as part of hosting Community Day for the east Allentown neighborhood around the clinic.

百丽直播 Foster Care hosts 2nd annual 鈥淔oster Home Festival鈥 at 百丽直播 Berks campus in Temple.

JUN 2023

Hope Center for Youth and Family Crisis opens 鈥behavioral health urgent care鈥 (BHUC) facility in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina.Several hundred guests tour the facility and hear keynote remarks from North Carolina Secretary of Health and Human Services Kody Kinsley.Leaders from 百丽直播 and partner Alliance Health present a vision for the operation that includes mobile crisis de-escalation and facility-based crisis services along with the BHUC concept.

百丽直播 Foster Care in Maine opens new office in Lisbon Falls.

Building on experience at the FCCP level, 百丽直播 launches an organization-wide Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging (DEIB) Committee.

Gardening projects at 百丽直播 Georgia and the Orchard Hills campus are integrated into treatment and education plans at the facilities.

3rd annual 鈥淪unset Social鈥 event kicks off fundraising for new sensory-sensitive playground at Orchard Hills.

百丽直播鈥檚 Healing Magazine Spring/Summer edition published; spotlights barriers to mental healthcare in underserved communities and ways to overcome them.

百丽直播 Foster Care in Chalfont (PA) receives Bucks Innovation and Improvement Grant (BIIG) to fund community engagement and social activities for foster youth and families.

JUL 2023

百丽直播 Foster Care in Bloomsburg (PA) receives grant to create mentoring program for youth approaching 鈥渁ging out鈥 of foster care.

百丽直播 celebrates National Ice Cream Month with 鈥淚ce Cream Days鈥 at all locations.

AUG 2023

More than 165 associates and teams are nominated by colleagues for 2023 Associate Achievement Awards.

Foster care operations in New York and Indiana receive major state workforce developments grants for staff recruitment, retention and training, along with new program development and facility upgrades.

SEP 2023
百丽直播 Foundation announces award winners for 2023 from Foundation, Senior Leadership Team.Meanwhile, 鈥湴倮鲋辈 Stories鈥 video series features 2022 award recipient Rob Scott and the mountain biking program he started for clients at Orchard Hills.

Hope Center unveils new promotional video, showcasing the facility and explaining its purpose for the community.

百丽直播 Foster Care in Fayetteville (NC) holds annual fundraising art auction; event raises nearly $50,000 for programs there.

百丽直播 supporters Scott and Tricia Reines donate 26 ukuleles to music program for children in PA residential treatment.

OCT 2023

百丽直播 Foster Care in Bethlehem (PA) receives more than fifty handmade quilts for foster children from Coopersburg (PA) church through encouragement of board member Naomi Yergey.

百丽直播 Central Region Board of Associates formed to support activities of 百丽直播 Foster Care offices in Williamsport and Bloomsburg (PA).

百丽直播 Annual Associate Achievement Awards and Years of Service Coin Commemoration is combined into one recognition celebration; YOS coins are mailed in specially designed packaging to recipients鈥 homes, and award recipients are announced via Week in Review on October 13.

NOV 2023

Programs at PA Residential officially designated as 鈥渢rauma-sensitive鈥 by state health authorities; recognition comes as programs meet ten distinct standards of care.

百丽直播 New England hosts Ellsworth (ME) Chamber of Commerce 鈥淏usiness After Hours鈥 community event.

Four associates join 百丽直播 Lifetime Achievement group for those with more than 35 years of service to the organization.

百丽直播 Marketing and Hope Center exhibit at CrisisCon23, the first-ever national conference for providers of crisis-relates services.

2023 Associate Achievement Award and Years of Service Coin recipients are celebrated in a special video presentation streamed on 百丽直播鈥檚 YouTube channel.
DEC 2023

Healing Magazine鈥檚 Fall/Winter 2023 edition published; Spotlight section focuses on the evolution of the mental healthcare workforce.

百丽直播 Marketing and Customer Relations named 鈥淏est Exhibitors鈥 at annual Probation Association of New Jersey conference.

鈥淎ngel Tree鈥 gift drive ends with more than 1,400 gifts donated for children in Orchard Hills Campus programming and Bethlehem Foster Care.

Jennifer Udvardi-Morris, program manager at 百丽直播 Foster Care in Kingston (NY), authors guest column for Albany Times-Union newspaper on impact of staff turnover on the wellbeing of kids in child welfare programs; she calls on state legislators to do more in support of care workers.

百丽直播 annual end-of-year donation appeal features a child鈥檚 letter to Santa, asking for help for all the children in our Continuum of Care.

The 百丽直播 internal newsletter Week in Review publishes its 200th edition to close the year; it includes a reprint of the very first 鈥渓ife hack鈥 included in WiR, as a summing up of the lessons we seek to share to clients in care:

You cannot command the wind; you can only adjust your sails.