Area Resources~ Services in and Around Bradford County
Dr. Dan L. Edmunds Ed.D,D.D., B.C.S.A.,DAPA
Existential Psychotherapist, Autism/Child Development Specialist, Adjunct Professor of Existential Psychology, social activist, author in Northeast Pennsylvania.
Born in Tampa, Florida, Dr. Dan L. Edmunds is a noted psychotherapist and traumatologist, existential psychoanalyst, social activist, Professor of Existential Psychology and Director of the Critical Psychology Certificate and Alternative Mental Health Services programs at European-American University. Dr. Edmunds for the past 12 years has been dedicated to drug free relational approaches to help those undergoing extreme states of mind (schizophrenia and psychoses, bipolar) as well as aiding autistic and developmentally different persons. Dr. Edmunds has worked with other 80 autistic and developmentally different clients and developed the Autism Acceptance Coalition to promote autonomy, understanding, and dignity of autistic and developmentally different persons. He encourages dignified and respectful ways to help autistic and developmentall different persons. Dr. Edmunds recently published an e- book to BEING AUTISTIC: AN APPROACH TOWARDS UNDERSTANDING AND ACCEPTANCE which explores autism as a way of being rather than an 'entity' and detail the interactions with over 80 developmentally different clients. Dr. Edmunds has developed relational approaches for autistic and developmentally different persons and had often amzong breakthroughs with these persons all while keeping a focus on the need for acceptance, respect, and dignity. Dr. Edmunds currently resides in Dunmore in Northeastern Pennsylvania and has his private practices in Tunkhannock, Pennsylvania in the Endless Mountains region and Kingston, Pennsylvania.
For more Dr. Dan Edmunds Quick Facts, CLICK HERE
For more articles written by Dr. Edmunds, please click his photo above.
Dr. Edmunds is the founder of the International Center for Humane Psychiatry, an emancipatory movement for human rights in the mental health system. Dr. Edmunds is a Diplomate with the American Psychotherapy Association.
Dr. Edmunds' work has focused on relational approaches for autistic and developmentally different persons and those undergoing extreme states of mind and he has often conducted radio and television interviews in this regard.
Click the photo above to check out Dr. Edmunds YouTube Channel.
To purchase a copy of Dr. Edmunds book, Being Autistic An Approach Towards Understanding and Acceptance, or any of his other books, click on the book above.
NOTE: Dr. Edmunds sees our son twice a year at the YAP office in Towanda Pa. His care and kindness goes above and beyond our expectations, and we would never trust our son's care to anyone else. We recommend Dr. Edmunds to everyone we speak to about Autism.
Blue Roof Bakery
With so many of our kiddos being Gluten Free, we know the struggle of how hard it is to provide them with healthy, TASTY GF options. In a small town in Orwell Township, a local teen is doing just that....
Meet Jessie Rishel. She is 16 and has started her own gluten free bakery.
For more on her story on WNEP tv, CLICK HERE .
To read the article about Jessie in the Daily Review CLICK HERE
You can contact Jessie by phone at: (570) 744-6007
You can also purchase some of her goodies at Russel Sprouts Farm in Rome Pa.
Youth Advocate Programs Inc.
Youth Advocate Programs, Inc. (YAP) is one of the largest non-profit Youth and Family Support agencies working with high-risk youth and their families in the United States.
Our mission is to engage human service systems so that they rely less on institutional care and to invest more in supporting families and neighborhoods. We currently work with child welfare, juvenile justice, behavioral health, disability and education systems to develop and offer community-based alternatives for the highest risk children, young people, young adults and families. Our staff seeks to capitalize on the strength and resources of families and communities, including identifying and engaging the informal natural helpers that are found in every community to support the highest risk youth and families.
To contact our local YAP in Towanda Pa. please call (570) 268-5777
For more info about YAP or to find YAP in your state, CLICK HERE
You can also find YAP on facebook. CLICK HERE
We use YAP for our son's TSS, BSC, and MT services. They are very helpful and kind, and provide him with everything he needs to be successful in life.
Jurnack's, Naturally!
Jurnack's, Natually is a complete natural foods store and more!
Jurnack's, Naturally is located in Wysox, PA, on Route 6. You can find us right next to the Wysox Dandy Mini-Mart.
Hours of operation:
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Mon - Fri: 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
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Sat: 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM
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Closed Sunday
You can reach us during these hours at 570-265-9641
Business email is jurnacks@hotmail.com
For a "Virtual Visit" to the store, CLICK HERE
Or you can find them on Facebook by CLICKING HERE
(this is where we shop for all of our son's herbal meds. They are always very kind and helpful.)