Merakey South Brown Street

Strengthening safety, resilience, and family connections, Merakey South Brown Street is a child, family, and foster care services center for children, adolescents, young adults, birth and foster families. They address emotional concerns, behavioral health needs, family conflict, school challenges, and placement-related difficulties through youth therapy, family-centered care, and child-welfare services.

Build Stability through Support

Their services include youth therapy and psychiatry, family-centered treatment, school and community care, crisis guidance, child-welfare assistance, and family-strengthening programs. Foster care services add support around placement stability, reunification, caregiving, and the long-term emotional wellbeing of children and families. These services help create safer relationships, steadier routines, and stronger family stability.

Strengthen Families for the Future

Located along South Brown Street, 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 safety, resilience, stronger relationships, and lasting family wellbeing.