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1933 Montana Avenue, NE
Washington, DC 20002 Telephone: 202-842-2016
Fax: 202-842-0604
For further details and
information contact:
Peter Fitts
Program Director
Telephone: 202.842.2016
Fax: 202.842.0604
Email:
dcps@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 a
broad range of quality services, including traditional and treatment
foster care, parent education, in-home family counseling and therapy,
psychological testing, substance abuse prevention intervention, crisis
intervention, family preservation and support, child development services,
rites of passage.
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.
Please take a moment to look through our most recent annual report if you
would like to learn more about our FY 2001 programs.
Link to annual report
here.
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