Preferred Family Healthcare (PFH)

Preferred Family Healthcare ("pfh") offers mental health treatment programs for youth and adults suffering from a serious emotional disturbance or serious and persistent mental illness. Designated as a community mental health center (cmhc) in Arkansas (doing business as health resources of Arkansas) and Missouri, pfh is able to serve individuals who experience difficulty accessing services due to being uninsured. Additionally, pfh operates a vast network of outpatient clinics throughout Arkansas and Oklahoma (doing business as dayspring behavioral health) providing treatment in over 43 clinics and over 150 schools across both states. Pfh has been at the forefront of designing interventions that have progressively allowed for more and more clients to maintain independence and mental wellness. Such interventions include health home engagement: pfh participates in the health home initiative in Oklahoma and Missouri providing care coordination to individuals whose mental illness and physical health symptoms identify them as high-risk. Accomplishments: pfh ...

Preferred Family Healthcare's ("pfh") community services programming supports individuals with an intellectual or developmental disability, as well as the community they reside in, by providing individualized supported living services ("isl") and community integration. As the oldest and largest provider of isl services in Missouri, pfh provides support to persons in their own home as they build and practice skills in the areas of health and safety, household skills, social skills, community participation, self-advocacy, leisure skills, and development of personal interests. Community integration focuses on providing the individualized support needed to participate in the community, to learn community skills, and engage in recreational or educational activities. Persons served through the isl or community integration efforts hire and evaluate their support staff and their service plans are fully person-served-directed. Accomplishments: pfh has helped pioneer assistive technology for use by persons with intellectual and developmental disabilities through 2gethertech, Inc. This technology provides an ...

Preferred Family Healthcare ("pfh") specializes in the prevention and treatment of substance use disorders including outpatient treatment, creative arts, virtual counseling services, and residential treatment. Pfh also provides programming that is targeted to specific needs, such as gender-specific women's services, trauma and co-occurring services, alumni programming, supportive housing, relapse prevention, and drug court services. The agency has played a significant role in the development of comprehensive substance abuse treatment and recovery (cstar) programming in Missouri. Since opening up the first adolescent program in 1991, the agency has grown to become the largest provider of adolescent and adult substance abuse treatment in Missouri. The agency's commitment to developing and expanding services to meet the needs of its consumers resulted in adding new services to address co-occurring issues; incorporating medication assisted treatment; providing services to assist those experiencing trauma issues; integration of employment, education and child welfare services as part of the ...