• An Alternative to Incarceration
    An Alternative to Incarceration

    PHMC's Forensic Services programs reduce recidivism and enhance community safety. We support about 10,000 justice-involved youth, adults and families each year.

    Programs
  • An Alternative to Incarceration
    An Alternative to Incarceration

    PHMC's Forensic Services programs reduce recidivism and enhance community safety. We support about 10,000 justice-involved youth, adults and families each year.

    Programs

Family Court Clinical Evaluation Unit

The Family Court Clinical Evaluation Unit (CEU) serves as the hub of substance use services for individuals and their families involved in the City of Philadelphia’s Family Court. Family Court is also referred to as the Court of Common Pleas, Family Division. As a function within Dependency Court (a court for individuals who have children involved in the child welfare system), PHMC’s CEU supports participants through their drug and alcohol treatment. The goal is to reunite them with their children and families.

PHMC’s Clinical Evaluation Unit serves as the liaison between court officials and participants. Services are designed to empower participants to modify risky behaviors and lifestyle habits that can affect their children.

Services

  • Drug and alcohol assessments to determine the need for substance use services

  • Based on the assessment results, recommendations for the necessary level of care and a treatment program

  • Case monitoring of substance and alcohol treatment

  • Communication with the court with respect to participants’ treatment compliance

  • Coordination with Community Umbrella Agencies and the City of Philadelphia’s Department of Human Services

Referrals & Eligibility

  • Family Court Dependency judges refer participants to Family Court Clinical Evaluation Unit, via a written Dependency Review Order.

  • Participants must have an open Dependency case through Family Court, and a perceived or substantiated substance use concern.

 

PHMC's Forensic Services programs support about 10,000 individuals each year.

We serve justice-involved youth, adults and families.

Manny* used his time in PHMC’s Forensic Services program to work on his housing, substance use, employment, and legal goals. Admitted to the Intermediate Punishment Program (IPP) as a non-violent offender and evaluated for chemical dependency, he benefited from the program’s behavioral health assessments, substance use treatment, vocational training, case management, and intensive probation supervision.

 

Manny achieved sobriety throughout the IPP program and has maintained it since, and recently completed both his treatment and the IPP program. He has started a new job at a plastic company, and is in a much stronger position with respect to his employment and housing stability.

 

*Name changed to protect identity.

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