For an emergency, the county crisis line answers around the clock. For counseling or treatment, the door depends on how you pay: private insurance goes straight to a provider, Medicaid covers most of them through HealthChoices, and with no insurance the county pays and Service Access & Management authorizes it. Support groups are free and need no referral.
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Berks TASC, the Treatment Access and Services Center, runs a peer-to-peer Recovery Support Services program in which Certified Recovery Support Specialists work with people in the early stages of…
From Treatment Access and Services Center
Countywide
Peerstar matches adults in Pennsylvania with a Certified Peer Specialist, someone who has lived through their own mental health challenges and is trained to use that experience to support others in…
From Peerstar
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The Council on Chemical Abuse, known as COCA, keeps a list of the drug and alcohol treatment programs in Berks County that are contracted with it, so a person looking for care can see the local…
From Council on Chemical Abuse
Every rule, cost and phone number here comes from the provider. We are a guide to Berks County, not the program: call before you go. If something is wrong, every service page has a report link, and our corrections policy says what happens next.