Download a pdf file of the current 2007 HSC annual report.

Download a pdf file of the 2006 HSC annual report.
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Each year the Human Services Center provides an accounting of its programs, achievements and financial dealings to the community. These reports reflect the broad array of quality of behavioral health services, community outreach and diverse treatment programs offered by HSC.

Board of Directors:

• Marlene Stoddard, RN, MSN
  President
• Thomas A. Shumaker, Esq.
  Vice President
• Minerva S. Rapp
  Secretary
• Linda Speed
  Assistant Secretary
• Paul Lynch, Esq.
  Treasurer
• Condi Augustine
  Assistant Treasurer
• The Honorable
  Melissa Amodie
• John Coleman, BSEE
• Donald Currie
• Douglas Danko
• John DeCaro, Ph.D.
• James Fitzpatrick
• Kenneth Huddle
• Jon Kosior
• Edna LaMont, RA
• Marvin Lebby
• Walter Luikart
• Gary F. Lynch, Esq.

• Roy Meehan
• Susan Miller
• Philip J. Schaville, O.D.P.C.
• George Stefanis, R.Ph.
• Fred Stoner, M.D.
• Arthur Zarone

Chair, Lawrence County
  School Superintendents
  Professional Advisory
  Committee

Directors Emeritus

• Robert E. Jamison, Esq.
• Daniel Levine

Executive Director

• Dennis W. Nebel, Psy. D.

"We can’t underestimate the role of community mental health centers, such as HSC..."

The Year’s Highlights
HSC received a regional award from the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials for the Grant Street Project. The Center helped establish a support group for family and friends of individuals who have committed suicide. The support group meets at the Center on a regular basis.
HUD awarded the Human Services Center a grant of approximately $240,000 to provide permanent housing for homeless adults who have a history of mental illness. Staff of HSC were invited to speak at a statewide conference on housing. The focus of the presentation was on innovative approaches to funding housing initiatives. Westfield, a residential and treatment program for adults with developmental disabilities, became a program of HSC. (Previously, it was under the auspices of another corporation.)

"Bold New Approach"
In 1963, President Kennedy’s Community Mental Health Act sought to make mental health services more accessible and to reduce our nation’s use of state mental institutions. This "bold new approach" of 40 years ago seems only logical today. However, we can’t underestimate the role of community mental health centers, such as HSC to...

• educate people about mental health problems,
• provide affordable, timely, and accessible care,
• respond to people when they face a crisis, and
• reduce the stigma of mental illness.

For more than 40 years, the Human Services Center has developed such programs to meet the mental health needs of the community.
Each year, over 1,000 residents seek our services with 98% in a recent survey believing that the services they received helped them with their problem(s). At any given time HSC serves in excess of 3,000 residents of our community. HSC has developed comprehensive services for the seriously mentally ill individual -- reducing the number of Lawrence County residents in a state mental institution from 363 in 1963, to 6 in 2004. We’ve developed self-help groups for problems including gambling, Alzheimer’s Disease, ADHD, autism, grief, and depression. We’ve also organized educational programs on mental health problems to inform the public and to reduce the stigma of mental illness. We’re committed to the original objectives of the Community Mental Health Act and feel, in large measure, that the "bold new approach" to mental health care has been realized in Lawrence County.

HSC is...
...a comprehensive community mental health center that employs 200 behavioral health care professionals and support personnel. We are the region’s largest provider of outpatient mental health services.
Our staff is represented by AFSCME 2902 which has collaborated with the Center to engage in mutual problem solving, preserve and promote the well-being of our employees, and enhance the quality of our services.
The clinical staff is comprised of licensed social workers and psychologists, board-certified psychiatrists, master’s level therapists, and psychiatric nurses.
The Center has received numerous awards and legislative citations. HSC was a recipient of the Lawrence County Chamber’s "Business of the Year" award in 1997.
The Center has the most comprehensive array of housing options of any community mental health center in Western Pennsylvania. A National Award of Merit was given to HSC by the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials for its SRO Housing program. HSC has also been recognized by HUD and has received Best Practices’ awards.
By providing community-based care for individuals with serious mental illness and thereby avoiding long and expensive stays in state mental institutions, the Center has saved taxpayers millions of dollars each year.
HSC organizes educational programs, develops support groups, participates in health fairs, makes presentations to community groups, and distributes information on a wide variety of mental health topics.

"Our Center has assumed a leadership position within the county to pursue programs that enhance the quality of life of area residents."