Merakey Pennsylvania Avenue

Advancing recovery, development, and family wellbeing, Merakey Pennsylvania Avenue is a behavioral health and developmental services center for adults, people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, children, adolescents, young adults, and families. They address psychiatric conditions, emotional concerns, communication needs, behavioral challenges, family conflict, and school difficulties through coordinated clinical, developmental, and youth services.

Connect Care across Lifespans

They provide therapy, psychiatric evaluation, medication management, case coordination, behavior planning, employment guidance, daily-living instruction, youth counseling, family-based treatment, and community care. Each program serves its designated population while sharing a focus on health, relationships, safety, personal growth, and independence. Their broad range of services gives individuals and families clearer paths toward progress across different stages of life.

Expand Opportunity in the Community

Located along Pennsylvania Avenue, this center is part of Merakey, a nonprofit dedicated to helping people, families, and communities. Merakey began in Philadelphia in 1969 as The Northwest Center, later became NHS Human Services, and has grown into a multi-state provider serving 12 states across behavioral health, autism, addiction recovery, intellectual and developmental disability, education, foster care, aging, and veteran services. At this location, they carry that mission forward through recovery, resilience, self-direction, and meaningful participation in everyday life.