Mental Health Care in Erie, PA
Stairways Behavioral Health
What Does Stairways Behavioral Health Offer?
Stairways Behavioral Health is a mental health facility at 2185 West 8th Street, Erie, Pennsylvania, offering residential care. It accepts Medicaid and private insurance. Therapy approaches include CBT and DBT.
2185 West 8th Street
Erie, PA 16505
SAMHSA lists this facility's programs separately: Residential Trt Facility for Adults; Long Term Structured Residence.
Listed in SAMHSA's FindTreatment.gov, checked October 2026. A listing is not an endorsement. Call to confirm services, openings and costs before you go.
Types of Care at Stairways Behavioral Health
- Residential/24-hour residential
Payment, Insurance and Help Paying
- County or local government funds
- Medicaid
- Private health insurance
- State mental health agency (or equivalent) funds
Therapy and Treatment Approaches
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Group therapy
- Individual psychotherapy
- Activity therapy
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
Who the Program Serves
- Persons 18 and older with serious mental illness (SMI)
- Ages: Young Adults
- Ages: Adults
- Ages: Seniors
Medications Used
- Aripiprazole
- Brexpiprazole
- Cariprazine
- Lurasidone
- Olanzapine
- Quetiapine
- Risperidone
- Ziprasidone
- Nicotine replacement
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
- Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
- Clozapine
- Paliperidone
Assessment, Recovery Support and Other Services
- Screening for tobacco use
- Mentoring/peer support
- Suicide prevention services
- Psychosocial rehabilitation services
Before you commit, confirm openings, costs and the program's state license. How to find a therapist you can afford lists the questions to ask when you call, and mental health care in Pennsylvania lists the state's crisis lines and license lookups.