About the Maternal Addiction Treatment Education and Research (MATER) Program
Jefferson's Maternal Addiction Treatment Education and Research (MATER) Program provides comprehensive treatment services for substance-abusing pregnant and parenting women and their children in outpatient and residential settings. Our Family Center offers intensive outpatient treatment services while My Sister's Place provides long-term residential treatment.
Services include individual, group and family therapy; obstetrical care; and parent-child services. Facilities include on-site methadone maintenance treatment and inpatient stabilization for opioid-addicted patients. Pregnant women should be referred to the Program as early in the pregnancy as possible. Infants who exhibit withdrawal are treated as inpatients in the Newborn Nursery Service.
The MATER Program is located at:
1233 Locust Street
2nd Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Director
Karol Kaltenbach, PhD
Please call 215-955-8577 for more information.