Assessment & Treatment Alternatives Inc

“The 990 is circulated among and reviewed by the members of the governing board prior to filing.”

“All members of the governing board and key employees must sign the corporate conflict of interest form annually.”

“All staff salaries, including directors and the ceo, are reviewed on an annual basis. Increases or other changes must be approved by the governing board.”

“All 990 forms and other related documents are available for review by request.”

“Assessment & treatment alternatives, inc. ("ata"), a nonprofit organization located in philadelphia, pennsylvania, is a forensic mental health clinic that specializes in the assessment and treatment formulation for children, adolescents and adults with emotional and behavioral problems. Ata provides its services in philadelphia and the surrounding counties through the programs listed in line 4 below.”

“Intensive behavioral health services ("ibhs") strives to provide age appropriate behavioral health interventions to reduce the barriers to learning due to the child's mental health diagnosis. Services and interventions occur within the context of the home, community and/or school to ensure emotional and behavioral problems are addressed across all milieus. Ibhs treatment services include individual and group therapies as well as individual interventions and behavioral consultations as needed in the home, community and/or school. Treatment is specific to the strengths and needs of the child and also builds resources to develop resiliency. The ibhs behavioral health staff worker has the ability to work with multiple children within the school with support from a master's level behavior consultant and group therapist. The master's level consultant and the group therapist provide more specialized therapies such as social skills, anger management, problem solving, conflict resolutions and other treatment services, which are delivered at least once a week.”

“Outpatient treatment ata provides a number of mental health services to the forensic community including individual therapy, psychiatric evaluations and consultation.”

“Tap (treatment + accountability = protection for the community the unique characteristics of the sex offender require specialized assessment and treatment skills. Adolescent and adult sex offender specific treatment consists of therapeutic interventions that focus specifically on the offender's sexual offenses. Treatment must address the offender's thinking errors, deviant arousal patterns, values and deviant behaviors while at the same time maintaining the safety of the community. Once deviant arousal patterns and behaviors are understood, interventions can be introduced to treat various other problems, such as lack of social skills and family problems. Understood, interventions can be introduced to treat various other problems, such as lack of social skills and family problems.”