Keystone Human Services - Comprehensive community based mental retardation, mental health, autism and early intervention services

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Keystone Human Services is a family of nonprofit organizations working together to serve the community. Keystone is committed to creating an environment where all people can grow, make choices, and be valued and contributing members of society.

Vision

Our vision is that of creating an environment where all people, regardless of background and "ability", can grow, make choices, and be valued and contributing members of our community. In this vision, we see the welfare of all people being vested in the welfare of each individual.

About Us

Mission: Create opportunities for growth and meaningful life choices so that all people can be valued, contributing members of their community.
History: A Brief History: As Remembered by Dennis Felty. In the early part of the 20th Century, the American Eugenics Movement argued that all people who were mentally ill, mentally retarded or physically disabled were polluting the gene pool of the country.
Values: The following set of ideas and values guide our work at Keystone. In some form, though perhaps at times not fully articulated, these values have been present since our founding.
Strategy: Keystone Human Services will play a major role in creating the emerging human service delivery system and will compete successfully with both profit and non-profit human services organizations.
Corporate Info: Keystone Human Services is a family of nonprofit organizations working together to serve the community, working to help people help people.

Agencies

Our family of agencies shares a common vision to create an environment where all people, regardless of background and ability, can grow, make choices and be valued and contributing members of the community. Each agency responds to the diversity of the community, individual and family. They draw from a wide range of experience to offer a comprehensive array of services that can be tailored to each unique situation.

Keystone Service Systems, Inc.: Keystone Service Systems Inc. (KSS) is the largest subsidiary corporation within Keystone Human Services. In addition to the comprehensive services it delivers, KSS provides administrative, financial, and technical services to its sister corporations.
Impact Systems: Caring IMPACT professionals provide individualized supports tailored to the needs and desires of each individual through a variety of services. Help People Who Have Disabilities Exercise Choice and Participate in Their Communities.
Keystone Autism Services: Keystone Autism Services is an exciting synthesis of the extensive and diverse autism supports provided through various arenas of Keystone service.
Keystone Residence: Keystone Residence believes that all people have inherent value and the ability to be active and contributing members of society. Fundamental to this belief is a commitment to support people with developmental disabilities to gain meaningful life skills.
Keystone Residence of Lancaster County: A Vision of Excellence in Services. Keystone Residence of Lancaster (KRL) began providing services and supports to families and individuals within Lancaster County, Pennsylvania in 1984.
Keystone Human Services North Central: In 1984, Keystone Human Services North Central (KHSNC) began providing services and supports to the communities within Northumberland County. Since that time, supports have grown from providing services to eighteen people to supporting more than 200 people in counties across Pennsylvania.
Keystone Family Support Associates: Keystone Family Support Associates (KFSA) is an agency whose purpose is to support and strengthen families. KFSA has been providing a variety of community supports to children and adults with mental retardation and their families for over twenty years.
Keystone Partnership, Inc.: Keystone Partnership provides comprehensive development support for the work of the agencies of Keystone Human Services.
Keystone Community Mental Health: Our purpose is to help, support and empower people challenged by mental illness to develop the means to live with dignity and respect, in communities of their choice, with meaningful relationships and in valued social roles.
Keystone Children & Family Services: Keystone Children and Family Services provides care and support for children and families experiencing behavioral challenges, mental illness, physical disabilities, autism, mental retardation or living in poverty.
Capital Area Head Start: In 1988 we received the grant to operate Capital Area Head Start (CAHS), providing Head Start services to families in Dauphin, Cumberland and Perry counties in Pennsylvania.
Susquehanna Service Dogs: Susquehanna Service Dogs, a program of Keystone Children & Family Services, trains and provides service dogs and hearing dogs to assist children and adults with physical disabilities to become more independent.
Key Human Services, Inc.: Key Human Services, Inc. is a nonprofit agency that provides a variety of community based support programs for people with disabilities in the state of Connecticut.
Keystone Services of Maryland: Our purpose is to help, support and empower people challenged by mental illness to develop the means to live with dignity and respect, in communities of their choice, with meaningful relationships and in valued social roles.
Keystone Service Systems Southeast: Keystone Service Systems Southeast (KSE) is a nonprofit agency that specializes in services to people with Autism, and provides a comprehensive array of community based services and supports to people with autism.
Keystone Institute: Since its inception, Keystone has held a set of common values that have guided its work. The Keystone Institute leads the training and educational efforts on teaching and sharing the organization's core values and vision of how the lives of persons with disabilities can be.

Services

Keystone Human Services strives to support every aspect of life, whether it be in the home, at work, in the neighborhood or at school.

Education
Community
Self
Family

International

Keystone's International Practical Training Program uses educational and cultural exchanges and resulting professional relationships to build local community-based human services internationally. This program is an important part of Keystone's vision of a better, safer world.

Supporting Beslan

Keystone Human Services is uniquely positioned to support the Russian response to this brutal attack. To fortify the intense services required, our first objective is to support the professionals who are assisting the families and children affected by this terrorist act. By supporting the work of our Russian colleagues, we hope to help our Russian partners stem the immediate emotional trauma for the affected families.

Contribute
Official Press Release
Photo Gallery
Letter of Appeal
Beslan Needs
Beslan Journal
Related Links
References
Beslan FAQ

News & Events

Ways to Help

Keystone Partnership provides comprehensive development support for the work of the agencies of Keystone Human Services. The development program includes: annual giving, capital campaigns, one time contributions, bequests, endowments, special events, funding of special projects, in-kind contributions and volunteer support.

In-Kind Gifts
Monetary Gifts
Gifts of Time
Who to Contact
Keystone Store

Leadership

We believe that strength of character, compassion, integrity, and duty are some of the necessary traits of a good leader. The individuals that make up our leadership contingent personify these traits as well as others. Please select from among the names below to learn more about these fine people.

Dennis W. Felty: President, KHS
Charles J. Hooker III: Senior Vice President, KHS; Chief Executive Officer, KSS
Jennifer Allison: Director of Human Resources, KHS & KSS
Robert J. Baker: Vice President of Operations, KSS; President/CEO, Keystone Autism Services
B. Jeanine Buford: Chief Information Officer, KHS
Roger W. Burns, CPA: Senior Vice President of Finance, KHS; Chief Financial Officer, KSS
Madeleine DeHart: Corporate Secretary, KHS
Robyn S. Joppy: Corporate Compliance Officer, KHS & KSS
Janet K. Kelley, Ph.D.: VP of Quality & Clinical Services, KHS; Senior VP, Operations, KSS
Ann H. Moffitt, ACFRE: Vice President Community Relations, KHS; Executive Director, Keystone Partnership
Marcia J. Reynolds: Vice President, KHS; President and CEO, Impact Systems
Mark Ritter: President, Key Human Services, Inc.