Promoting healthy relationships, self-actualization, resilience and social responsibility!
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Founded in 2009, Acollective Consulting LLC “aka” the Chambers Foundation is a community based youth serving organization headquartered in Chester, Pennsylvania; established to serve the social, emotional, and cognitive development needs of disenfranchised youth ages 12-21. The vision of which is to promote healthy relationships, self-actualization, resilience and social responsibility among at-risk youth who have been adversely impacted by trauma such as violence, physical, emotional, substance and sexual abuse. Thus, the Chambers Foundation works to achieve this vision through the provision of residential housing, trauma informed care and positive youth development practices that equip youth and families with the skills and social supportive constructs to overcome barriers.
In 2015, the Chambers Foundation discovered the need to expand its scope of services by establishing a residential treatment facility as a home for adjudicated delinquent and dependent youth. The program assists youth and families with eradicating barriers to reunification while offering our residents a healthy home-like setting where they can work with staff members to develop positive relationships, receive academic, behavioral and emotional support and become adequately equipped for adulthood.
Learn More!Our residential program was established to assist both youth and their families with eradicating barriers to reunification while offering our residents a safe, healthy home-like setting where they can work with staff members to develop positive peer and adult relationships, receive academic, behavioral and emotional support and become adequately equipped for adulthood.
To foster positive social engagement and connectedness the Chambers Foundation offers a continuum of services provided both in-house and within the broader community. These ancillary services are provided to those enrolled in both our residential and day treatment programs.
Age appropriate career and technical education is provided to all of our clients based on his/her specific area of interest. Through well managed partnerships with local businesses and community organizations we currently offer training in Culinary Arts, Microsoft Applications, Building and Landscaping and a Barbering Initiative.
The nature of our STARR coaching is to build relationships through empowerment and accountability. This is a peer-led, group-level, social-skills training program designed for females between the ages of 12-21. It is assumed that the youth desires to see a change in their lives. The coach, as a change expert, empowers the youth to fulfill their potential through goal setting. Learn More!
Licensed by the State of Pennsylvania in July 2016, our 24,000 sq. ft. residential treatment facility is Title IV-E approved and nestled away in the downtown business district of Chester, Pa. Equipped with sleeping dormitories, a full service kitchen, classrooms, gymnasium, hair salon, theatre and lecture hall, we provide a safe, nurturing, inclusive, environment in which all residents can thrive and feel at home.
The Chambers Foundation uses The Sanctuary Model for Trauma Informed Care as the framework for our organizational philosophy. With our ultimate goal in our residential program being family reunification, our programmatic approach is built upon the Strengthening Families model; a research-informed program practice established by the Center for the Study of Social Policy, that seeks to increase family strengths, enhance youth development and reduce the likelihood of child abuse and neglect.
Our program also offers intensive case management and ISP development to ensure that we are meeting the individualized needs of our resident population. The ISP highlights the individual treatment goals for our youth and the shared goals for the family. Once created the ISP serves as a roadmap to reunification or for the purpose of preparing our youth for successful transition to independent living when reunification is not a feasible option.
In addition to our core therapeutic services, we also offer supplementary age and culturally relevant services to assist our residents with future planning, socialization and technical skill development. These services currently include workforce and leadership development and pro-social and recreational opportunities.
Residents entering our program must be adjudicated delinquent and/or dependent as defined by the State of Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare’s Office of Children, Youth and Families. General enrollment criteria suggests that youth possess a full scale IQ of 70 or above and a minimum of 2nd grade reading level. We employ this approach to ensure that youth are able to fully participate in treatment, without severe physical and mental restrictions. However, understanding the impact that trauma has on the cognitive and behavioral development of young people, we assess qualifications for general enrollment on a case-by-case basis.
Age appropriate career and technical education is provided to all of our clients based on his/her specific area of interest. Through well managed partnerships with local businesses and community organizations we currently offer training in Culinary Arts, Microsoft Applications, Building and Landscaping and a Barbering Initiative.
All clients participate in weekly character building life skills and leadership workshops to promote social development, civic responsibility and provide them with the tools necessary to identify and address issues that affect them within their homes, schools and communities.
Clients receive merit-based incentives and participate in regular recreational exercises to promote bonding and positive peer/staff engagement. These extracurricular activities include trips to amusement parks, sporting events, movies, shopping trips, off-campus dining experiences etc.
Reduce recidivism or the occurrence of problematic behaviors, by enhancing prosocial skills!
Improve self-esteem!
Enhance positive relationship building, & Social responsibility!
Promote conflict resolution and anger management!
STARR is a peer-led, group-level, social-skills training Program designed to reduce antisocial or risky behaviors of females between the ages of 12-21. The nature of our STARR coaching is to build relationships through empowerment and accountability. It is assumed that the youth desires to see a change in their lives. The coach, as a change expert, empowers the youth to fulfill their potential through goal setting. Coaches challenge, stretch, push and hold the youth accountable all the while communicating an affirmation of “I believe in you”.
View Gallery!For referrals, volunteer inquiries or to learn how you can get involved please contact us below:
801 Sproul Street, Chester, PA 19013
