Bethesda Lutheran Services

Bethesda Lutheran Services has cared for children, youth and families in northwestern Pennsylvania since 1919, when it was incorporated as the Orphans' Home of the Pittsburgh Synod; it now reaches more than 7,000 children, youth and families. Its Meadville campus offers residential treatment, a Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility, Intensive Treatment Units staffed around the clock by specially trained staff, alternative education, partial hospitalization, and community- and school-based behavioral health services. The organization works with young people who have significant psychiatric needs, at child-to-staff ratios set by the level of care. Both public and private coverage are taken: Medicaid, Medicare, private and military insurance.