PMHCC, a not-for-profit organization, began as The Philadelphia Mental Health Care Corporation in 1987 for the City of Philadelphia in order to implement a major grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Program for Chronic Mental Illness.  One of nine national grants, the funding was to assist the Philadelphia Office of Mental Health realize its vision for a unified mental health system which provided affordable housing, effective case management, and a broad range of psychosocial and vocational programs for people with mental illness. The objective included consolidating funding in a managed behavioral healthcare model.

Over the years PMHCC’s activities and responsibilities have broadened so that PMHCC serves as a major human services systems management company in support of several City of Philadelphia departments, while maintaining its core commitment to public behavioral health programs.

Today, PMHCC makes a major contribution by serving as an umbrella organization for special programs and initiatives.  PMHCC provides critical administrative services to Philadelphia city offices and programs that provide behavioral health,  intellectual disability, substance use, housing, public health, human services and community action to citizens in Philadelphia and the surrounding counties.