Compassionate Support Services in Centre County, PA

Compassion and understanding are key to reaching your full potential. Skills of Central PA provides support for children, teens, and adults who need a bit of support to handle daily activities and live a full life as independently as possible.

Throughout Centre County, we provide a helping hand to residents. Explore these compassionate support services and how to reach us for more information.

Behavior Support Services in Centre County, PA

Sometimes, specialized guidance is all it takes to prevent uncontrolled emotions and sensory overload from ruining a social event, a day at work, or a shopping trip in a bustling store. We can help.

Adults and children in need of specialized intervention for autism, developmental disabilities, and severe behavioral challenges are among the people we help. We don’t believe in a cookie-cutter approach to behavior support services. Instead, we get to know the person and the people in their inner circle and create a customized care program.

Behavior support services in Centre County include:

• Accompanying the person to work and out in the community to explore their behaviors. Guide activities that teach interaction skills.
• Establishing person-centered, effective support programs.
• Evaluating triggers to establish calming environments.
• Teaching strategies that improve interactions and daily life.

Community Homes in Centre County, PA

Skills of Central PA’s specialists support people up to 34 hours a day in one-, two-, three-, or four-bedroom homes around the area.

Community Homes services include:

• 24-hour access to transportation.
• Assistance with finances through pooled trusts and account establishment.
• Direct supervision and support with daily activities of living, including personal care and community involvement.
• LPNs provide medical care to support health and wellness.

Community Participation Support – Adult Training Facility in Centre County, PA

When you struggle with a developmental, mental, or physical disability, participating in the community often feels impossible. Community Participation Support helps you explore your interests, find gifts and strengths, and become an active member of the community.

Community Participation Support Services offer:

• Assistance in finding ways to get around the community using public and private transportation.
• Opportunities for adult learning.
• Personalized help in developing fine and gross motor skills.
• The chance to participate in community activities and volunteer organizations.

Employment Services in Centre County, PA

When you want to work but need guidance and support to realize that dream, Skills staff help you find and secure a job that pays competitively and matches your interests.

Employment Services include:

• Career assessments
• Follow-up and retraining
• Job readiness courses
• Job searches and placement
• On-the-job training with Employment Training Specialists
• Resume building and interview techniques
• Shadowing opportunities

Lifesharing in Centre County, PA

The people who support you to live your best life aren’t always your family. Just as it could be your family if they had a little more support and education on helping you throughout the day. Skills of Central PA’s Lifesharing program supports individuals in that position.

You might do better living with a neighbor than with your parents. You might need support bringing a parent who is sundowning into your home.

Our Lifesharing services provide:

• 24-hour orientation and ongoing annual training
• Access to nursing support and oversight
• Monthly check-ins with a Lifesharing program specialist
• Stable long-term relationships
• Supportive, safe homes

Mobile Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Peer Support in Centre County, PA

Over a third of Centre County’s residents are in more rural communities. The flexibility that mobile Psychiatric Rehabilitation Services provides is essential for those people.

Mobile Psychiatric Rehabilitation & Peer Support services include teaching important skills like the following, or helping with:

• Assistance at appointments and meetings
• Coping skills and stress management
• Emotional support
• Establishing a Wellness Recovery Action Plan and Psychiatric Advance Directive
• Goal planning
• Informed choice and decision making
• Life skills
• Making friends
• Peer support and relationships
• Self-advocacy and positive social interactions

Opportunity Centre Clubhouse in Centre County, PA

The Opportunity Centre Clubhouse is a social and vocational rehabilitation program licensed by the Office of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. It’s certified by the International Center for Clubhouse Development.

Those who are 18 or older and diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, a major mood disorder, a psychotic disorder, or schizophrenia are welcome here to find support for:

• Education
• Jobs
• Learning
• Socialization
• Wellness

Community Participation Support – Vocational Training in Centre County, PA

Finding and landing job opportunities in the community can be challenging for some people, but it doesn’t have to be. Our supportive team can help people feel like part of the work community through Vocational Training in Centre County.

Skills of Central PA’s Community Participation-Vocational Training support program offers:

• Self-advocacy training
• Social, mobility, and awareness training
• Transition services
• Vocational training opportunities and preparation

Our Community Reach

As its name suggests, Centre County, Pennsylvania, is in the center of the state, but that’s not how it got its name. The county is named after Centre Furnace, a historic coal furnace built by General Samuel Miles and Colonel John Patton, which supported a thriving village of ironworkers and farmers.

It’s home to six state parks, the State College Regional Airport, and Pennsylvania State University. Skills of Central PA supports the population of 157,393 in this county, including people living in the five largest cities/towns/boroughs.

• State College – Population 41,228
• Park Forest Village – Population 8,831
• Bellefonte – Population 5,896
• Boalsburg – Population 4,582
• Pleasant Gap – Population 3,208

If you need compassionate support or assistance for yourself or a loved one to live a full, independent lifestyle, contact our teams at the following addresses or phone numbers.