Project Transition

Specialties

Community-​Based Treatment for Adults with Mental Illness

For over thirty-​two years, Project Transition has provided hope and healing to those with serious mental illness. Our residential programs promote sustainable recovery for adults 18 and older who come from diverse backgrounds. Each of our locations are situated in an open apartment setting which helps to promote the process of community re-​integration. We work with individuals diagnosed with various psychiatric and co-​occurring substance use disorders who have often felt failed by more traditional treatment interventions.

Project Transition holds a strong belief in the core tenants of Recovery. Our value of «hope and healing through community» guides everything we do. It is our belief that even in the presence of painful struggles and repeated setbacks, Recovery from mental illness is possible.

History

Established in 1982.

Project Transition began in 1982 as an effort to help one person with serious and mental illness (SMI) get his life back — more accurately, to find a way for life to have a more favorable meaning to him in the wake of many psychiatric hospitalizations. At the time, long-​term hospital care for persons with SMI was the norm. Often, discharged patients were still symptomatic and vulnerable to psychiatric and addictive relapse. They (and their family members) were demoralized. Additionally, many of these patients seemed unable — without significant support — to generate essential relationships, belonging, membership in social networks, and to participate in work, school, and play.

Meet the Business Owner

Loren C.

Business Owner

During his forty-​eight years as a psychiatrist, Dr. Loren Crabtree has worked with adolescents and adults in a variety of treatment settings. Throughout his career, Dr. Crabtree has given over 100 presentations at national, state, and local venues; audiences have included consumer, family, and professional groups. His talks have addressed contemporary recovery challenges of hope associated with patterns of family care giving, Borderline Personality Disorder, Bipolar Disorder, Co-​occurring Disorders, and others.

Dr. Crabtree was the recipient of the 2014 NAMI of Pennsylvania Exemplary Psychiatrist Award. He was also the recipient of the national Lilly Reintegration Award, which acknowledged his contributions in documenting and responding to health risks of people with serious mental illness. He was awarded the prestigious Robert Jones Award for service to the seriously mentally ill by the Philadelphia Psychiatric Society in 2010.