Chestnut Ridge Counseling Services Inc

“The organization's board of directors completes an annual questionnaire to update information needed to be reported on the form 990. A preliminary copy of form 990 is provided to the board for review and final approval. Once the preliminary review is completed by the board and necessary changes are made by the auditor, the final form 990 return is presented to the board for final submission.”

“The chief executive officer will monitor ongoing and proposed transactions for conflicts of interest and disclose to the board president to permit the board to manage potential or actual conflicts, regardless if discovered before or after the transaction has occurred.”

“The board of directors performs annual evaluations of the client executive officer's management performance, as well as the performance of highly compensated employees and approves their compensation based on established guidelines and comparions of data from similar organizations.”

“The organization makes its governing documents, conflict of interest policy, and financial statements available to the public upon written request.”

“The organization provides comprehensive behavioral health services in a timely, professional, and compassionate manner to promote wellness and improve the quality of life of the children, adults, and families of the tri-state atea. Crcsi's staff of clinical professionals, including one of the largest groups of staff psychiatrists in pennsylvania, provide over twenty specialized treatmeant programs available for children, adolescents, and adults with mental health problems.”

“The organization's new directions program focuses on providing children and adolescents with a more intensive and frequent mental health treatment plan than that which is offered in traditional outpatient settings. The new directions program is the only licensed children's partial hospitalization program in fayette county. The target population is children and adolescents between the ages of 5-19 who are still enrolled in school. The program objectives are to treat underlying mental health conditions, to assist the child/ adolescent to cope with problems more successfuly, and to help them learn to demonstrate more age appropriate pro-social and rewarding behaviors. The ultimate goals of the program are to help the children successully re-enter the traditional public school setting, become well adjusted within their families and be productive in their communities.”

“The organization offers other programs, such as case management, crisis mobile, crisis walk-in, crisis phone, emergency delegate, home based family counseling, adult partial hospitalization, mental health family support services, mobile psychiatric rehabilitation, mobile medication nursing services, telepsychiatric services, and several other programs.”