03/09/2022
Hardcore Support Services, Inc. Announces
Founding of South-Central Penn Self Injury Clinic
Kralltown— 2/15/22 — Today Hardcore Support Services, Inc. announced the founding of the South-Central PA Self Injury Clinic. The center’s launch will provide immediate support to behavioral analysts, who can utilize the center’s resources to address self-injurious behavior in children. The primary focus will be learning best practices, for those professionals who are responsible for behavioral treatment of children who engage in suicidal, non-suicidal and stereotypical self-injury. “The clinic will start out as a network of experts who provide extra assistance to clinicians working with kids with self-injurious behaviors,” said Rob Rolle, Clinical Director at Hardcore Support Services, Inc. “Think of it as a sort of SWAT team for difficult to treat behaviors.”
History of the clinic - Hardcore Support Services is a Florida non-profit corporation that started out providing waiver services to persons with developmental disabilities over 15 years ago. Since that time, it has evolved to a role of providing funding for legal protections of people with disabilities requiring assistance with some aspects of their lives, but not requiring full guardianship. Today’s announcement is following the filing of paperwork with the Commonwealth Department of State to do business in Pennsylvania, as well as establishing itself as a 501c3 organization in the Commonwealth.
Mr. Rolle is optimistic with the expansion into Pennsylvania. “This project will be a new direction and larger scale undertaking. Our mission is more focused, a niche, for helping some of the most underserved kids. We have a sub-set of children who need specialty care that is focused on functional behavior interventions to provide sustainable skills. We need to provide resources so they can find success with managing their self-injury and find work that is fulfilling.” When asked, Rob shared that the success of the project relies on building strong partnerships and professional development of clinicians.
As for long term goals and projected growth of the center, “I hope to one day have an art school surrounding the clinic, a drama club for kids in York County and provide vocational education to help the students replace their desire to engage in self-injury with meaningful and successful employment.” For now, the initial project phase will include building online resources, fund raising, networking, and on location consulting for cases of self-injury. Once the final phase of the business is implemented, the clinic practice will be employee owned, and the school and clinic expect to employ up to 35 full time professional, paraprofessional and support staff.
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