Sarah A. Reed Children’s Center – Hamilton

Partial hospitalization for children, teens and their families is available at Sarah Reed Children's Center, a treatment program in Erie, Pennsylvania. It's a year-round program on the Hamilton campus, and an acute track works as a step-down from a psychiatric hospital stay.

Treatment and school run together there, and the aim is to steady a child without disrupting family life.

Who Qualifies in Erie

I found that you can receive care at Sarah Reed if your child is in grades 1 to 12. The center sees more than 1,700 people a year, and those clients come from 48 counties across Pennsylvania, Ohio and New York.

TSELC is a campus school program for that grade span. Students need an average or low-average intellectual range, and feelings or behavior that get in the way of school.

Optional therapy can happen on-site in that program (a guardian has to consent), though the outpatient clinic itself isn't on this campus.

I also noted that the Student Assistance Program helps school staff spot and support students dealing with mental health or with drugs and alcohol. Medication care comes from a board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist or a certified nurse practitioner, and you can do those visits on-site or by telehealth.

The center also runs a 24-hour residential program, with 76 licensed beds in five living units on a six-acre campus.