Since 1957, Creative Health Services has provided quality behavioral healthcare designed to empower and promote wellness for individuals, families and communities.
Creative Health Services is Pottstown's community behavioral health center helping more than 6000 children, adults and families improve their lives every year. Our staff meets with people at our many campuses, in schools, homes and community settings. Our services are designed to help people overcome the adverse experiences that impact their lives.
Our service areas include some of the following: Counseling/Mental Health Outpatient Program; Drug & Alcohol Services; Montgomery County Case Management for Children and Adults; Family Services; Integrated Health Initiative including Specialized Intensive Treatments for Adults with Serious Mental Illness; Career Services Center; Peer Support; Tobacco Cessation; Police Liaison & Family and Community Justice; Enhanced Long Term Structured Residence; and more including comprehensive opiate addiction treatment, including Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) for OUD. Visit our website at creativehs.org to learn more about our care options.
Child and Adolescent Services promote hope and healing for a child or adolescent experiencing depression or anxiety, trauma or loss, behavioral difficulties, eating disorders, or family relationship issues—to name a few.
Our Family Services Programs promote understanding and cooperation among family members in order to solve the problems of one or more people in the family through strength based, trauma informed and caring treatment services that reach out to families in their homes or community environments.
Our services are here to help adults with a serious and ongoing mental health issue and/or a substance abuse problem that interferes with the ability to function in relationships or in the community. Based on your goals, we will explore care options to get you connected with the professionals who can be a part of improving your life—setting you on your personal path to recovery.
Repeated exposure to one or more adverse experiences can negatively impact brain development, cognitive and neural function, and relationship formation. Trauma awareness is foundational to our services as we help those suffering from depression, anxiety, Substance Use Disorders (SUDs), Opioid Use Disorder (OUDs), Co-Occurring Disorders (CODs), bi-polar disorder and schizophrenia, and any behavioral health issue in between.
At Creative Health we are passionate about facilitating the understanding of the impact of trauma or Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) on children, families and the community. In order to translate that awareness and understand into practice, we have successfully established and nurtured partnerships with other community providers to deliver coordinated and collaborative trauma-informed care. Trauma is a response to a stressful experience, or series of experiences where one’s ability to cope is dramatically undermined.¹ Instrumental in developing and building the Pottstown Trauma Informed Community Connection (PTICC), Creative Health works to help everyone replace “What’s wrong with you?” with “What happened to you?”² People communicate through their behaviors, so our goal is to meet people where they are, hear their stories and offer tailored treatment and support services that lead individuals to create and live a life of purpose and meaning connected to loved ones and the community.
To learn more, visit creativehs.org.
[1] Massachusetts Advocates for Children, 2005
[2] Joe Foderara, LCSW, BCD in Bloom, Sandra L. MD and Farragher, Brian (2011) Destroying Sanctuary. Oxford University Press, Inc.
