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Philadelphia, PA


 Community Services

 

1415 North Broad Street
Suite 226
Philadelphia, PA 19122
Telephone: 267-238-1492
Fax: 267-111-2222

 

 

 

For further details and information contact:

James Cook,
Director of PA
Phone: 267-238-1490
Fax: 267-238-1497
Email: phili@ntuplc.org

 

 

 

PLC has developed a rich tapestry of behavioral and mental health services combining core principles of ancient African and Africentric worldview with Western techniques of humanistic psychology targeting troubled young people and families of minority communities. The Agency is recognized through the United States, across Africa, and in the Caribbean as a pioneering mental and family health services provider.

PLC’s experience has taught that each of us function as a part of a unit, so our treatment methodology—NTU—targets the individual as a part of a unit, typically the family. The family is treated with the objective of helping it to fulfill its role as a contributor to the community, within which it functions, allowing the community to claim its position in the society. So while PLC may measure its achievements in terms of individuals treated or children placed, each of our interventions works with the entire
family.

Services

PLC provides HIV Prevention and Parenting Collaborative services.
 

Projects

Through our programs —

  • Nia, providing therapeutic and traditional foster care in DC, Maryland, Delaware and Philadelphia;

  • Njia, working with adjudicated youth to keep them out of jail;

  • Watani, offering home-based counseling and therapy to adjudicated youth and their families;

  • Amba Ahli, working with families in danger of court-mandated separation to keep them together;

  • Utani, offering support services for economically disadvantaged families caring for related children;

  • Wadinasi, providing education and support services to prevent abuse and neglect in young one-parent families; and our Centers, Waverly--providing after school enrichment and Jamaa-- support and assistance for economically disadvantaged communities—

— we have provided our extended community a continuum of mental, behavioral, and family health services targeting infants through senior citizens. PLC is serving individuals, families and organizations Washington D.C., Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Africa.

 

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