The Department of Behavioral Health provided community groups with a list of Treatment Centers, OAS-Funded Recovery Houses and Privately Owned/Operated Recovery Houses at a community meeting on January 13, 2009. Properties in the 19124 zip code have been entered into our spreadsheet for our visitors to view.

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Please Note: The representative from the Office of Addiction Services admitted "this is not necessarily a comprehensive list" - just the ones they "know about." If you know locations of any others, please contact us.

The 'Category' column contains 3 different types of listings - Treatment Centers, which are regulated, OAS-Funded Recovery Houses, which receive funding from the Philadelphia Office of Addiction Services, and Privately Owned/Operated Recovery Houses.

While the former 2 categories have gone through city/state authorities for licenses and/or receive funding, privately owned recovery houses have absolutely no regulation (other than basic L&I building codes) and require no licensing from the city or the state (other than a Business Privelage License)

Residents who turned out for Frankford Civic Association's Jan. 8 meeting learned about a few new services that may be offered in their community.

Terry Devlin, director of government and community relations for CORA Services, spoke of a feature that may be added to the current CORA-owned site at 1000 Orthodox St. in Frankford.

The site, CORA Services Neumann Center, opened in 1980. It offers alternative training and education programs that are geared to students ages 16 to 18 who have dropped out of public, private or parochial high schools...

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Frankford Civic Association members and board members are still trying to prevent the Wedge Medical Treatment Center from opening on Frankford Avenue.

During their Nov. 6 meeting, they complained that City Council and the Office of Addiction Services, a division of the city’s Department of Behavioral Health & Mental Retardation Services, have not scheduled a town hall meeting, which civic group members say they were promised, to discuss the issue of Wedge and other treatment centers in Frankford, as well as so-called "recovery houses."

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The 15th Police District is the busiest district in Philadelphia.
So says Sgt. Dennis Rosenbaum, who told members of the Frankford Civic Association during their meeting last week that the district had reached 113,000 calls for the year so far.

"That number was just reached an hour ago," Rosenbaum said during the civic group’s Oct. 2 meeting. "The next district over is the 25th, and they are only at 93,000 calls so far this year."

Rosenbaum, who joined the 15th district last November, previously served in the police department’s strategic intervention and tactical enforcement special unit (SITE) with then-Commissioner Sylvester Johnson.

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