Services: Training, Education and Research

This program offers several on-line courses for continuing professional development both to the general profession and within JBFCS.

Services: Jewish Connections

Assists organizations to develop and sustain bikur cholim groups, which visit the sick or home bound, through on-site training and consultation, written materials, and an annual conference.

Services: Training, Education and Research

CTPI strengthens the agency's clinical practice and service programs for victims of traumatic stress by providing a systematic approach to trauma-focused program development that promotes effective clinical and community intervention. CTPI also develops clinical innovation work groups, collaborative networks, new learning approaches, community interventions, advocacy and prevention forums, and evaluation and research opportunities. Develops models for use by other mental health/social service agencies interested in creating a trauma focus within their organization.

Services: Crisis Hotlines

Provides counseling to families, adults, and youth involved with cult and missionary groups, information about cult or missionary practices and beliefs, guidance in identifying a course of action for parents and other family, and advice on how to separate from a cult. Provides ongoing family support groups for family members of people involved in cults. Offers workshops and preventive education programs to synagogues, churches, youth groups, parent groups, senior groups, and schools.

Services: Jewish Connections

A volunteer program that recruits and trains volunteer companions for people near the end of life who have limited family support.

Services: Child Development and Learning

Specialists in child and family development and early childhood education provide ongoing, on-site consultation at private and public preschool programs throughout New York City. Consultants observe in classrooms and meet with directors, teachers and parents as needed. Early Childhood Consultation Services also offers the Elaine Kramer Child Development Workshops for educators, and on-site consultation workshops and staff development days for community schools.

Services: Jewish Connections

Helps parents and children handle the stresses of single parent family life and find strength and community through support groups, workshops, projects and social activities.

Services: Training, Education and Research

The Institute provides training, education and professional growth opportunities for milieu staff throughout JBFCS, as well as other mental health and human service agencies. The training is aimed at enhancing the quality of child care, both within the agency and throughout the mental health community, and professionalizing the category of milieu counselor.

Services: Training, Education and Research

Offers a range of model infant and early childhood services; advanced training which integrates practices from across the professions; consultation; and on-site consultation and training for diverse programs which serve babies and children, reaching at-risk children and their families, especially those living in poverty, across all relevant systems.

Relationships for Growth & Learning (RfGL) -- formerly Early Childhood Group Therapy Program (ECGT)

Community-based screenings and intervention services for children in diverse preschools, including daycare, Head Start and UPK, to provide a safety net for young, vulnerable and diagnosable children ages 2 through 9. Work with families, teachers and schools to improve their responsiveness to children's needs. Coursework, seminars and reflective supervision anchor RfGL's transdisciplinary certificate training program. [more information...]

Infant-Parent Study Center

Post-graduate, transdisciplinary certificate program for PhDs, MSWs, MDs, educators, nurses, OT, PT, SL/P arts therapists and professionals to advance their clinical and leadership skills in working with infants, young children and their families. [more information...]

Judicial Consultation Project (JCP)

Provides training and consultation to enable Family Court judges, lawyers and child welfare personnel to make sound placement decisions through enhanced understanding of early child development and attachment principles. [more information...]

Training & Consultation Center (TCC)

On-site training, consultation, and technical assistance for programs that serve pregnant parents and young children through age six and their families.

Distance Learning Project

Through state-of-the-art videoconference technology, the Institute brings one- and two-year intensive training to professionals and programs in other parts of North America.

Institute Network

Provides continuing education and support to Institute candidates and graduates, as well as open meetings for the professional public.

Services: Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Services; Jewish Connections

Helps Jews who are in recovery from alcohol or other substance abuse and their loved ones draw strength and hope from Jewish spiritual resources and traditions. JACS provides weekend retreats, spiritual days, a speakers bureau, web site, teen program, and training for clergy and Jewish communal service professionals.

Services: Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Services; Jewish Connections

Helps Jewish teens who are either in recovery from alcohol or other substance abuse, or are concerned about the problem as it affects their friends and loved ones. Participating teens draw strength and hope from Jewish spiritual resources and traditions through activities such as weekend retreats, spiritual days, a speakers bureau, web site, and training for clergy and Jewish communal service professionals.

Services: Bereavement Services; Jewish Connections

Serves those who have lost spouses, parents, children or other loved ones through support groups that are co-led by an experienced social worker and rabbi.

Services: Jewish Connections

Educational workshops and lectures designed to help individuals cope more effectively with life-cycle issues. Programs address topics such as parenting, adolescence, being single or divorced, aging, and interpersonal and family relationships. Groups led by professionals are offered by request at pubic and private schools, yeshivas, synagogues, Y's, and community organizations.

Services: Jewish Connections

The Rita J. Kaplan Jewish Connections Programs provide a broad and integrated array of services to help communities address both normative life-cycle issues and traumatic events such as severe illness or incidents of violence.

Services: Child Development and Learning

Consultation services to parents and professionals on questions about learning and child development. While we are here to answer all questions about learning and developmental issues, we are also available to address specific concerns about children with autistic spectrum disorders, learning disabilities, and problems with attention and behavior. We are also available to present workshops and training for both lay and professional groups.

Services: Bereavement Services

Provides bereavement groups designed to help children and adolescents cope with the death of a parent or caretaker. These groups are held at JBFCS sites throughout the city. Individual and group counseling are also available for surviving caretakers. Specialized training course for mental health professionals is offered.

Services: Training, Education and Research

The Educational Institute is the educational and training arm of JBFCS, providing in-service training, advanced training programs, workshops, and continuing education seminars on mental health and human service topics, the Peter Blos Biennial Lecture, all-day professional conferences, training and consultation to other agencies, internships, and community outreach and education. The Educational Institute also includes the following programs: Advanced Training Program in Child, Family and Group Psychotherapy; Institute for Child-Care Professionalization and Training; Adult Milieu Training Program; Social Work Education and Licensing Support Services; Institute for Infants, Children and Families (IICF).

Services: Jewish Connections

Helps communities meet the spiritual needs of Jews living with illness and loss through an international network of Jewish healing centers and programs, developing Jewish healing resources and leadership. We also offer consultation, publications, on-line resources and conferences.

Services: Community Counseling Centers; Jewish Connections

Provides consumers and professionals with telephone information and referral service to mutual aid groups throughout New York City. Also provides consultation to mutual support groups and groups requesting training in running mutual support groups

Services: Jewish Connections

Addresses the spiritual, emotional, and psychological needs of Jews faced with illness and loss. Drawing on Jewish tradition, the center offers spiritual support groups and spiritual counseling for people who are seriously ill, their families, and bereaved individuals. It also provides training for health-care professionals and members of the clergy and offers consultation and referral.

Services: Jewish Connections

Provides rabbinic students with field work placements in projects of the Jewish Connections Division to enable them to develop skills in responding to the psychosocial needs of individuals, families, and groups.

Services: Jewish Connections

Helps Jews who are recently separated or divorced manage their new life circumstances, through support groups, workshops and social events. The program also offers a comprehensive program of support groups, resource sharing, and psycho-education for parents who are single by choice or due to divorce or death of a spouse.

Services: Volunteer

Over 2,000 men and women work as volunteers throughout agency programs providing adjunct support to therapeutic services. A Volunteer Services coordinator for each program provides training and supervision on an ongoing basis to volunteers.

BIG BROTHER/BIG SISTER

Ach/Achos — A Big Brother Big Sister program for the Orthodox community providing children from single-parent families with an adult role model, who engages the child in social, recreational, religious and communal events.

JBFCS In Treatment Program — Children in treatment at JBFCS from single-parent families are matched with adult volunteers who provide a role model, guidance and friendship while engaging the child in social and recreational activities.

Jewish Friends for Youth — Jewish children from single-parent families, not in treatment at JBFCS, are matched with Jewish adult volunteers who provide a positive role model, friendship and support while engaging the child in social and recreational activities.

DOULAS TO ACCOMPANY AND COMFORT

Doula volunteers provide friendship and support during this final stage of life to individuals who have few friends or family nearby. This is a Rita J. Kaplan Jewish Connections program.

GROUP AND FAMILY VOLUNTEER EVENTS

Recreational, arts and crafts and holiday events, as well as tutoring can be created for families and groups interested in volunteering at JBFCS residential programs. Religious institutions, community and teen school groups welcome.

MENTOR

Special Assignments — Volunteers are matched on an individual or group basis with emotionally troubled adults or youngsters living at JBFCS residences. Mentors can offer guidance, with careers and computer usage, teach life skills such as cooking, budgeting, wellness or yoga, or may tutor as part of our Study Buddy Program.

Therapeutic Nursery Aides — Volunteers assist special education teachers in a therapeutic nursery classroom serving children three to five years facing emotional and/or developmental difficulties.

Therapy Escorts — Volunteers help with the transportation needs of children to and from their therapy sessions after school while developing a positive relationship with a child in need of supportive services. Volunteers provide assistance to working parents who have no alternative means of getting their children to treatment at JBFCS programs.

Tutors — Volunteers provide educational support to children and teens with homework or special educational needs. Volunteer assignments are based on the child's learning needs and the volunteer's expertise or experience.

PASSOVER OUTREACH PROGRAM

Volunteer interviewers help inner-city, economically disadvantaged Jews, particularly older adults and Soviet émigrés, celebrate Passover by offering a financial stipend and responding to social service needs.

SANCTUARY STITCHERS

Sanctuary Stitchers knit or crochet 7" x 9" squares which are assembled into beautiful handmade blankets for children living at JBFCS residences. Groups can be formed in a variety of settings such as schools, religious institutions, offices and community groups. Volunteers enjoy stitching, while providing comfort to youngsters in need.

SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAMS

Camp Scholarship Program — JBFCS offers camp scholarships each year to children in treatment with the agency as an adjunct to their therapy. Volunteers help process applications, coordinate placement arrangements and assist with fundraising efforts.

Holiday Toy Program — Volunteers help solicit toy manufacturers for gifts for children in treatment at JBFCS. Toy drives at various community organizations and businesses are welcome. Volunteers are also needed to help sort gifts for JBFCS clients for distribution.

Kids2Kids — Young people are offered the opportunity to share the joy of their Bar/Bat Mitzvah, or other significant life celebrations, by donating to a children's scholarship program. JBFCS clients receive funds to participate in activities such as art, music, sports, vocational and computer training or other areas of shared interest between donor and client.

TEEN VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

High School Friends — High school student volunteers participate in a series of monthly community service projects over the course of an academic year in various JBFCS programs. Events can include hosting a holiday party, planting a garden or enjoying a field trip with JBFCS clients.

Teen Volunteer Opportunities — Teens 13-years-old and older can join our group of caring and committed young people to brighten the lives of children, adults and families. Opportunities include tutoring; recreational and arts and crafts activities; telephone outreach; administrative tasks.

TELEPHONE REASSURANCE

CheeRing — Volunteers make weekly, scheduled telephone calls to isolated New Yorkers in need of emotional support.

Telephone Language Companion Program/ Friendly Visitors to Soviet Jewish Émigrés — Recently resettled Soviet Jewish refugees improve their English by speaking with American volunteers two to three times per week for three months. Relationships can extend beyond the initial three-month commitment and may evolve into a Friendly Visitor assignment.

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT INTERNS

Volunteer placements are available to undergraduate students who require "hands-on" experience working in a mental health agency or with a particular group. Ongoing professional supervision is provided during the internship.

WESTCHESTER VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES

Mentors, special skills volunteers and weekend visitors are among the many volunteer assignments available at JBFCS residential treatment centers for emotionally disturbed youngsters between 10- and 19-years old. Volunteers can work on an individual or group basis.

YOUNG ADULT FRIENDS

JBFCS Friends — Young adults participate in and can choose from a calendar of monthly volunteer group projects to benefit a wide range of JBFCS clients. Educational workshops and social gatherings are also offered.

Services: Training, Education and Research

The Saul Z. Cohen Chair supports nationally recognized leaders in mental health as scholars-in-residence at JBFCS to help develop innovative clinical practice and social service programs. Since 1995, the Chair has addressed the subjects of trauma and racism and their implications for mental health treatment. The Chair was created through the generosity of The Saul Z. Cohen and Amy Cohen Family Foundation.

Services: Jewish Connections

Provides social work and rabbinic spiritual counseling to the NYC Jewish community facing serious, life threatening, or terminal illness and loss. Our staff provide information and referrals, individual and family counseling at home within all of NYC and at our Manhattan and Brooklyn offices, support and advocacy, training for professionals, community education programs, end-of-life resources for clergy and synagogue communities, and bereavement counseling and groups. Orthodox Jewish Community Unit: (718) 686-1795

Services: Community Counseling Centers

A Big Brother Big Sister program for the Orthodox community providing children from single-parent families and families under stress with an adult role model, who engages the child in social, recreational, and religious and communal events.

Services: Community Counseling Centers

Provides supportive services to expectant and post-partum Orthodox women who are isolated or overwhelmed in caring for themselves and their families. Trained volunteers work under the supervision of a mental health professional to connect these women to community resources including respite care, brief counseling and concrete services.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A 13-bed intermediate care facility (ICF) providing medical, educational, and therapeutic services in a warm, homelike environment that ensures the continued growth of its ambulatory, developmentally disabled young adult residents. The facility is Glatt kosher and follows Orthodox Jewish law.

Services: Community Counseling Centers

Services: Family Violence Programs

Sponsored by JBFCS and the Board of Jewish Education, this program offers education and training to rabbis, teachers, parents, and community professionals in recognizing the signs of abuse and neglect. Services include intervening on behalf of the children, trying to prevent other cases from occurring, and supporting distressed families. Consultation and clinical services available.

Services: Community Counseling Centers

Helps people struggling with a range of emotional and social problems. Services for adults and children include evaluation and assessment; crisis intervention; and short-term and ongoing individual, couple, family, and group therapy. Also provides treatment for people suffering with eating disorders. Professional staff fluent in Hebrew, Yiddish, French and Arabic.

Services: Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Services; Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs; Community Counseling Centers

A group milieu program for adolescents dually diagnosed with substance abuse, emotional, and behavioral problems. The program consists of therapeutic community milieu groups, alcohol and drug education, individual and family therapy. It meets after school four hours, four days a week. Break-Free provides weekly individual and family therapy for teens with academic problems, family conflict, truancy and other social or emotional disorders.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

A supervised community residence for 40 adults with serious psychiatric problems. This program provides a variety of counseling and case-management services on a 24-hour basis.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

Apartment programs for adults with mental illness and are able to live independently with limited supervision. The residents meet with a Residential Direct Care Worker twice per month and they also participate in a variety of programs.

Services: Homeless Services

An eviction prevention program and service for the homeless. Provides assistance with immediate needs for shelter, permanent housing, food, and clothing, as well as help with entitlements, job training, employment, and counseling services.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

A center of ongoing psychiatric rehabilitation for adults with mental illness and dual-diagnosed consumers in recovery. Serves clients 18-years old and over. Provides a wide variety of therapy and rehabilitation-focused, skill-building groups and activities. Addresses issues of family, relationships, housing, work, education and social life to help clients resume and improve their level of functioning in the community. Monthly support and psychoeducation groups provided to families and significant others. Staff knowledgeable in helping clients from the former Soviet Union navigate stresses of acculturation.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

Supportive Housing Programs for mentally ill adults with an Axis 1 diagnosis. Residents meet with their Residential Direct Care Worker at least three times per week. They participate in day treatment programs and attend school.

Services: Preventive Services

Clinical consultation and training in the areas of mental health, domestic violence and substance abuse is being provided by JBFCS staff at four ACS locations. Program is targeted primarily to ACS child protective staff and preventive service programs.

Services: Older Adult Services

Offers counseling services for older adults and their families. Counseling is offered on-site at the Kings Bay Y, Kings Bay Senior Center, and Shorefront Y Senior Center.

Services: Older Adult Services

Offers counseling services for older adults and their families. Counseling is offered on-site at the Kings Bay Y, Kings Bay Senior Center, and Shorefront Y Senior Center.

Services: Older Adult Services

Offers counseling services for older adults and their families. Counseling is offered on-site at the Kings Bay Y, Kings Bay Senior Center, and Shorefront Y Senior Center.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

Supported Housing Programs for adults with mental illness, an Axis 1 diagnosis and are able to live independently with limited supervision. Residents attend day treatment programs, club houses, school and work. This program is a collaboration between JBFCS and the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty.

Services: Family Violence Programs

Provides shelter, child care, and counseling services for women and children who have experienced domestic violence. Other services include psychiatric evaluation and consultation, art therapy, and medical consultation and education. After-school program for children in shelter and after-care services for families also provided.

Services: Children's Day Treatment Programs

Serves the needs of troubled boys and girls, ages 5 to 11, with severe emotional and behavioral problems. IHB helps families and children by providing individual, family and milieu therapy, as well as special education.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A home for eight young autistic boys in a glatt kosher and halachic environment.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A residence for six high-functioning young adult males in a Glatt Kosher and Halachic environment.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A six-bed, independent supportive residence for high-functioning developmentally disabled young women in a Glatt Kosher and Halachic environment.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A six-bed independent apartment for high functioning, developmentally disabled adults, who follow an active treatment program ensuring maximum growth for each resident. The facility is Glatt kosher and follows Orthodox Jewish law.

Services: Family Violence Programs

A family-violence prevention program that provides counseling for Jewish children and adults, makes referrals to legal services and rabbinic advisers, and provides information about concrete services. Groups available for men with difficulty appropriately expressing their anger as well as for women who are in or have been in abusive relationships. It also offers community education, including training and consultation for rabbis, teachers, mental health professionals, and communal leaders.

Services: Community Counseling Centers; Refugee Assistance Services

Helps people who are struggling with a range of emotional and social problems. Specialized services for adults and children include evaluation and assessment; crisis intervention as well as individual, couple, family, and group therapy. Also provides psychiatric and social services to Jewish emigres from the former Soviet Union and elsewhere, and counseling services for senior citizens and their families. Professional staff fluent in Russian, Hebrew, and Yiddish.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A 10-bed home for developmentally disabled adults who follow an active treatment program ensuring maximum growth for each individual. The facility is Glatt kosher and follows Orthodox Jewish law.

Services: Bereavement Services; Community Counseling Centers; Older Adult Services

Provides emotional support, information about financial, medical and practical services and legal advice to a grandparent or relative caregiver. Caregivers can also participate in educational forums and recreational events through our affiliation with the Brooklyn Grandparents' Coalition.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

This residential program serves formerly homeless adults with psychiatric disabilities who hope to turn their lives around and build for their future. The program is designated by the New York State Office of Mental Health as a Level II residence. Community Residence/Single-Room Occupancy, with a professional support staff available 24 hours a day. Units are for men and women over the age of 18 who are eligible under the terms of the New York/New York Agreement.

Services: Older Adult Services

Continuing Day Treatment Programs and Counseling Centers provide a range of wellness, recovery and psychiatric rehabilitation services to adults with mental illness. They serve older adults with mental illness and adult home residents, and meet the counseling needs of individuals and families in the surrounding community. Programs help clients remain psychiatrically stable, define and pursue their paths to recovery, and develop social skills to integrate more fully into the community; address issues of housing, education, work and relationships; and assess co-occurring substance use and medical disorders. Coney Island Day Treatment Program offers group meetings in Spanish. Services by their staff fluent in Russian are available at the Mermaid Manor Continuing Day Treatment Program and the Coney Island Counseling Center.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs

MAP provides individual, family, and group therapy for adolescents at risk of substance abuse, school problems, family conflict, and other stresses of teenage life. The program is licensed by New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse Services to provide substance-abuse prevention and early intervention services. MAP operates in Murrow, Dewey, and Madison High Schools providing consultation, information and referral, and conducts discussion groups to reduce stress and conflict experienced by students.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A 54-bed intermediate care facility (ICF) providing residential, medical, educational, and therapeutic care in a warm, homelike environment for profoundly mentally retarded clients, ages 9 to 55. Every apartment is individualized for the maximum growth of the clients. The facility is Glatt kosher and follows Orthodox Jewish law.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

Offers severely handicapped and retarded females full range of therapy and educational programs in a mainstream girls camp setting.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A 12-bed intermediate care facility (ICF) providing medical, educational, and therapeutic care in a warm, homelike environment for non-ambulatory, developmentally disabled children and young adults, who have major medical, as well as developmental, problems. The facility is Glatt kosher and follows Orthodox Jewish law.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A 12-bed intermediate care facility (ICF) providing residential, medical, educational, and therapeutic care in a warm, homelike environment that ensures the growth of its developmentally disabled residents, ages 18-36. The facility is Glatt kosher and follows Orthodox Jewish law.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

Provides Medicaid Service Coordination and/or in-home residential habilitation to developmentally disabled consumers living at home in the community. Supportive counseling for their families may be provided on an as-needed basis. Medicaid Service Coordinators develop individualized service plans with the consumers and their families to meet their particular needs and help them acquire independence in activities of daily living.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

Provides hourly and/or overnight respite services to consumers under the age of 21, so that their families/caregivers can have time to rest and care for their other children or household responsibilities. Counseling and/or support services for families are provided on an as-needed basis.

Services: Preventive Services

Preventive, community-based services offering counseling and advocacy to families with children at risk of abuse and neglect. Services include individual, group, and family therapy, as well as parenting group and workshops.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

Continuing Day Treatment Programs and Counseling Centers provide a range of wellness, recovery and psychiatric rehabilitation services to adults with mental illness. They serve older adults with mental illness and adult home residents, and meet the counseling needs of individuals and families in the surrounding community. Programs help clients remain psychiatrically stable, define and pursue their paths to recovery, and develop social skills to integrate more fully into the community; address issues of housing, education, work and relationships; and assess co-occurring substance use and medical disorders.

Services: Refugee Assistance Services

Services: Preventive Services

Provides advocacy and a wide-range of counseling services for families with children or adolescents who are at risk of out-of-home placement. Organizes after-school and summer programs, under DIAL (Drop In and Learn), for children and teens, which include individual and small group tutoring, socialization, and vocational guidance. Parent groups and psychiatric consultation are also offered.

Services: Community Counseling Centers; Refugee Assistance Services

Helps people who are struggling with a range of emotional and social problems. Specialized services for adults and children include evaluation and assessment; crisis intervention as well as individual, couple, family, and group therapy. Also provides psychiatric and social services to Jewish emigres from the former Soviet Union and elsewhere, and counseling services for senior citizens and their families. Professional staff fluent in Russian, Spanish and Cantonese.

Services: Child Development and Learning

Helps children with learning difficulties focus on understanding their unique strengths and challenges and how those characteristics interact with their family and school environments. Comprehensive assessments of children and adolescents address the complexity of the developmental learning process. Specialized attention given to academic skill development and achievement, neuro-psychological processing, patterns of cognitive function and issues of emotional style. Remediation and parental guidance is provided.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs; Refugee Assistance Services

RAP provides outreach, mental health consultation, and acculturation groups for Soviet refugee youth and their families in their schools and at community centers. Staff consists of bilingual refugees from the former Soviet Union who have completed graduate work in social work or psychology.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs

A range of supportive services and outreach programs for adolescents and their families. (see individual Brooklyn listings): Break-Free Adolescent Services; Midwood Adolescent Project (MAP); Project REACH; Russian Adolescent Project (RAP).

Programs specifically staffed by Orthodox Jewish professionals and serving the Orthodox Community: Substance Abuse Prevention Program (SAPP) - for at-risk girls; Orthodox Treatment Program for Teens - outpatient counseling program for teens with behavioral, emotional and substance abuse problems; Brooklyn Youth Council - brings together more than 70 organizations in the Orthodox community working with youth at-risk; Orthodox Jewish Girl's Project - educational and training program for Yeshiva educators, families and girls.

Services: Family Violence Programs

DV Coordination and Training (DVCAT) I - provides community awareness and professional training and consultation on DV; facilitates Bronx DV Action Network, a multi-agency task force; partners with public and community-based organizations and services for improved advocacy for and prevention.

DVCAT II - provides clinical and advocacy services to clients of partner substance abuse treatment programs.

DV Support and Outreach Services provides multicultural and multilingual non-residential services to Bronx victims of domestic violence including telephone hotline services, group, individual and parent-child supportive counseling and advocacy Spanish, Italian, French, Russian and Albanian are spoken.

Services: Children's Residential Treatment Programs

Provides housing and comprehensive services to 26 young adults, between the ages of 18 and 25 who have left foster care and are at risk of homelessness and need supportive services to achieve independent living.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

A community-based program for adults coping with mental illness, the CDT program offers continuing day treatment, milieu treatment, group, individual and family treatment. The program offers psychiatric and rehabilitation readiness services. Services include case management, medication treatment, crisis intervention, and educational and vocational readiness skill building.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

Helps consumers gain access to psychiatric, medical, social, educational and vocational rehabilitation services. Case managers work intensively with consumers to minimize hospitalizations, emergency room visits and institutional placements.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

A community-based program for adults coping with mental illness, IPRT offers focused intensive rehabilitation and treatment to help clients achieve defined goals in living arrangements, education, socialization and work.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

A residential program for adults with mental illness who need part-time, daily supervision. Clients participate in structured programs, such as the Bronx REAL Continuing Day Treatment Program, and counselors provide restorative services to help them live in the community.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

A community-based program for adults coping with mental illness and a history of substance abuse. The program supervisor facilitates mutual aid among clients to prevent relapses. The members offer support to each other to succeed in achieving rehabilitation goals.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

Services: Children's Residential Treatment Programs

Provides services in a therapeutic setting to eight adolescents ages 16 to 19 who have a wide range of psychiatric disabilities.

Services: Child Development and Learning

Helps children with learning difficulties focus on understanding their unique strengths and challenges and how those characteristics interact with their family and school environments. Comprehensive assessments of children and adolescents address the complexity of the developmental learning process. Specialized attention given to academic skill development and achievement, neuro-psychological processing, patterns of cognitive function and issues of emotional style; remediation and parental guidance provided.

Services: Preventive Services

Provides a range of preventive/clinical services to families with children at risk of abuse or neglect. To keep the family intact, the program offers individual, family, couple, and group treatment to family members as well as parent support groups.

Services: Family Violence Programs

Emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and their children. Services include crisis intervention; domestic violence advocacy; individual, group, and family therapy; legal and entitlements advocacy; child care; and help with independent living skills.

Services: Children's Residential Treatment Programs

Provides family, educational, and mental health programs for eight emotionally disturbed children between the ages of 8 and 15. The residence's less restrictive level of care enables it to provide a family-like environment, which enhances the children's level of functioning within the community.

Services: Children's Residential Treatment Programs

A 32-bed residential treatment facility (RTF) that provides a rich and intensive treatment experience and special education for severely emotionally disturbed children, ages 5 to 13.

Services: Children's Day Treatment Programs

A day-treatment program for severely emotionally disturbed children, ages 5 to 13, who are able to live at home or in a community residence, but require therapeutic and special educational services.

Services: Community Counseling Centers

Provides outpatient mental health and psychiatric services for people struggling with a wide range of emotional and social problems. Specialized services for adults and children include evaluation and assessment, crisis intervention, as well as ongoing individual, couple, family, and group and medication therapy as appropriate. Satellite license for P.S. 7, a local school, where ongoing services are provided; satellite program for seniors at the Riverdale Y. Multicultural staff fluent in Spanish and Orthodox Jewish staff observant of Jewish law are available.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs

A home-based crisis intervention program to prevent psychiatric hospitalization of children and adolescents. Covering the western region of the Bronx, FYI provides home visits and 24-hour availability. It is based on a 4-to 6-week short-term model. Referrals are mainly from psychiatric emergency rooms, but will accept referrals of children at risk of hospitalization from other sources.

Services: Older Adult Services

Offers counseling services for older adults and their families. Counseling is offered on-site at Riverdale Y. Any telephone or mail contact should be made to the Riverdale Office/The J.W. Beatman Counseling Center.

Services: Preventive Services

Provides a range of preventive clinical and case management services to 60 families in the Northeast Bronx. The goal is to strengthen individual and family functioning and prevent abuse, neglect or removal of children from the home. To keep the family intact, the program offers individual, family, couple, and group treatment to family members. Clinical work is supplemented by intensive advocacy, referrals and a mini-tutoring program.

Services: Community Counseling Centers

Provides help for people who are struggling with a wide range of emotional and social problems. Services for adults and children include evaluation and assessment, medical management, crisis intervention, time-effective and ongoing individual, couple, family, and group therapy, and loss and bereavement services for children and their caregivers. Staff fluent in Spanish are also available.

Services: Children's Day Treatment Programs

A day-treatment program for troubled adolescent boys, with emphasis on special education, individual, and family psychotherapy, and preparation for job training and placement.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

A 68-bed, extended-stay Community Residence/Single Room Occupancy (CR/SRO) that provides individual studio apartments for formerly homeless individuals with psychiatric disabilities. Tenant organization and on-site rehabilitative services support their reintegration into the community. The program is a collaboration between JBFCS and the Metropolitan New York Coordinating Council on Jewish Poverty.

Services: Community Counseling Centers

Provides help to people who are struggling with a range of emotional and social problems. Specialized services for adults and children include evaluation and assessment; crisis intervention and short-term and ongoing individual, couple, family, and group therapy.

Services: Child Development and Learning

The Child Development Center offers an outpatient clinic, a therapeutic nursery school, early intervention services, early childhood consultation to community based settings, and a special education itinerant teacher program for children ages 2-6 with a range of developmental, neurological and/or emotional and behavioral problems. Children in our services have specific language and learning challenges, pervasive developmental disorder, autistic spectrum disorder, as well as behavioral and emotional difficulties. Individual and group services for families and caregivers are also provided.

Early Childhood Consultation Program - Specialists in child development and family dynamics provide on-site early childhood consultation to the directors, staff and families at nursery schools, yeshivas, day schools, and day-care centers.

Early Childhood Group Therapy - ECGT is a community-based small group therapy service for preschool children at participating daycare and nursery programs where CDC has a satellite license from the State Office of Mental Health. (see Citywide Listing for The Martha K. Selig Educational Institute/Institute for Infants Children and Families)

Early Intervention - Services provided for children 18 months to 3 years of age and their families with an interdisciplinary team. Services include evaluation, special education instruction, related service therapies, parent-child work, and parent support work, all through individual and small group interventions. Delivery of these services can take place at our facility and in the home.

Outpatient Clinic - Services include evaluation and treatment planning for children, play therapy for children and treatment with families.

Special Education Itinerant Teaching and Related Service Provision - Services for children who are able to manage in their mainstream setting. A special educator or related service provider may go to that program to provide therapy or children may come to our facility to receive the service. Work also includes consultation with teachers, other service providers and family.

Therapeutic Nursery - Services provided for children 3 to 5 years of age, include evaluation and three center-based special education classrooms with a developmentally based interdisciplinary team approach. Small group and individualized services are provided to children, as well as their parents/family.

Services: AIDS Services; Community Counseling Centers

The GLBTQ Counseling Unit is part of the Manhattan West/Greenberg Office and provides gay-affirmative therapy in a safe, nurturing environment. Specially trained staff offer individual, group, couples and family therapy addressing issues relevant to the GLBTQ community such as identity formation, coming out, HIV/AIDS and the impact of homophobia, as well as general mental health problems. Psychiatrists are available to provide evaluations and medication.

Services: Child Development and Learning

Helps children with learning difficulties focus on understanding their unique strengths and challenges and how those characteristics interact with their family and school environments. Comprehensive assessments of children and adolescents address the complexity of the developmental learning process. Specialized attention given to academic skill development and achievement, neuropsychological processing, patterns of cognitive function and issues of emotional style; parental guidance provided.

Services: Community Counseling Centers; Refugee Assistance Services

Services: Community Counseling Centers

Provides help to people who are struggling with a range of emotional and social problems. Specialized services for adults and children include evaluation and assessment; crisis intervention and short-term and ongoing individual, couple, family, and group therapy.

Services: Community Counseling Centers

Provides help to people who are struggling with a range of emotional and social problems. Specialized services for older adults, pre-schoolers and their families include evaluation and assessment; crisis intervention and short-term and ongoing individual, couple, family and group therapy.

Services: Children's Residential Treatment Programs

An urban residential facility for 25 older adolescent males, ages 17 to 21. The facility provides an extensive independent living skills program and therapeutic and support services.

Supervised Independent Living Program An apartment in upper Manhattan for two young men in foster care who continue to receive Kaplan House services.

Treatment Cottage Model The fourth floor of Kaplan House is reserved for 11 adolescents, ages 17 to 21, who require more structure and monitoring and is under the auspices of the New York Office of Mental Health.

Services: Homeless Services

An eviction prevention program and service for the homeless. Provides assistance with immediate needs for shelter, permanent housing, food, and clothing, as well as help with entitlements, job training, employment, and counseling services.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs; Community Counseling Centers

A clinic and satellite clinics licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health help adolescents and young adults between the ages of 12 and 21 (at admission) with a wide range of emotional problems and diagnoses. Individual and group therapy for young people and individual, group or family treatment for adult family members of those in treatment. Psychotherapy services supplemented by psychiatric evaluations and medication treatment. Satellite clinics in eight Manhattan public high schools provide mental health services. Other programs include: teen violence prevention training in school settings, arts enrichment, summer program for selected teens, and pregnancy prevention counseling in two high school-based health clinics.

Services: Family Violence Programs

This Tier II domestic violence shelter serves women and their children who must leave emergency domestic violence shelters but who are not ready to relocate to permanent housing because of mental illness or trauma that interferes with their ability to live independently. Can accommodate 16 families. All families referred by Human Resources Administration.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services; Older Adult Services

A psychosocial club for seriously mentally ill older adults, ages 50 and over, who are living in the community (eastern Queens), but are socially isolated and at high risk of decompensation. CLUB PRIDE offers a variety of psychosocial activities, daily living activities and rehabilitation activities to promote community reintegration and stabilization. Professional staff includes a licensed art therapist, a recreational therapist and a social worker.

Services: Adult Mentally Ill Services

A residential apartment program for mentally ill adults who receive an intermediate level of supervision seven days a week. Clients (three to an apartment) are monitored and participate in structured day programs such as Transitional Services Incorporated, Freedom Village, Catholic Charities, New Horizons, and other community services.

Services: Child Development and Learning

Helps children with learning difficulties focus on understanding their unique strengths and challenges and how those characteristics interact with their family and school environments. Comprehensive assessments of children and adolescents address the complexity of the developmental learning process. Specialized attention given to academic skill development and achievement, neuropsychological processing, patterns of cognitive function and issues of emotional style. Remediation and parental guidance is also provided.

Services: Community Counseling Centers; Family Violence Programs; Older Adult Services

Operates the following mental health programs in Queens: Counseling Center, CLUB PRIDE, and The Learning Center.

Services: Community Counseling Centers

The counseling center provides help to people struggling with mental illness, emotional and/or social problems. Services for children and adults of all ages include evaluation and assessment; psychological testing, medication management, crisis intervention, and time-limited, time-effective, and ongoing individual, couple, family, and group therapy. Staff fluent in Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Korean, Mandarin Chinese, French, Italian, Spanish are available.

Services: Family Violence Programs

Provides shelter, day care, and counseling services for victims of domestic violence and their children. Housing is located in 16 scattered apartment sites. Services include crisis intervention, individual, group, and family therapy, and training in independent living skills. Kosher facilities are available.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs

Provides specially designed professional family-based homes for emotionally disturbed children who are ready to live in the community after hospitalization or residential treatment (or as an attempt to provide mental health services in the least restrictive out-of-home alternative for youngsters who cannot remain with family/guardian). Foster parents receive intensive training and supervision.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs

Offers care and support to emotionally disturbed children and adolescents (ages 5 - 18) who are heavy users of mental health services and at risk of needing institutional or hospital level of care. By helping the family access the services and supports they need, the program minimizes hospitalizations, emergency-room visits and residential placements, keeping the youngsters in their communities. Services are delivered on an outreach basis, primarily through home visitation, and the frequency of contact is catered to the family's needs. The intervention includes strengths-based assessment, care coordination and risk/crisis management.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs

Offers 24-hour respite care for up to two weeks for children and adolescents in need of temporary placement outside the home. Referrals may come from human services agencies, hospitals, schools and other programs.

Services: Children's Residential Treatment Programs

A short-term residential diagnostic center that provides assessment, treatment, and aftercare planning for adolescents, ages 11 to 15, from all boroughs, referred by the New York City Administration for Children's Services and Family Court.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs

Provides short-term, intensive crisis intervention to attempt to avoid hospitalization for children and adolescents, who are at imminent risk of psychiatric hospitalization. In addition to mental health issues, the child or family must have a crisis related to homelessness or have current or past issues with alcohol or substance abuse. The program provides three to five home visits each week, for six weeks, with 24-hour coverage.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs

Provides intensive case coordination, clinical services and in-home supportive services, to emotionally disturbed children/adolescents (ages 5 to 18) and their families, where this is a risk and/or history of psychiatric hospitalization or residential placement. This program is more intensive than the Blended Case Management program, as care coordination is supplemented with five additional in-home service approaches. The goal is to help families care for the special needs of these children and enable thethe children to remain at home with their family. Services are delivered on an outreach basis, primarily through home visitation.

Services: Community Counseling Centers

Provides help to people who are struggling with a range of emotional and social problems. Services for adults and children include evaluation and assessment; crisis intervention; and therapy for individuals, couples, families, and groups. Services can be provided in Russian, Spanish, Hebrew, Cantonese and Hungarian.

Services: Child Development and Learning; Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs

Designed for the parents of youngsters with emotional, behavioral, and learning difficulties -- and run by them as well -- the Center provides supportive services, peer advocacy and information and referral. It also organizes special events and recreational activities, reaches out to others in the community, recruits volunteers and offers a warm line.

Services: Children's Community-Based Treatment Programs; Children's Residential Treatment Programs

Provides a community-based residential rehabilitative program for eight seriously emotionally disturbed boys, ages 6 to 14. Children attend local schools and receive treatment services in the community. Referrals made through a special committee of the State Office of Mental Health.

Services: Preventive Services

Provides a range of services targeted to adolescents (up to 18 years) and their families, who are residents of Staten Island, through a network of preventive and PINS diversion programs. Programs are designed to offset the need for family court involvement and out-of-home placement of emotionally troubled and acting out adolescents while assisting families in reaching optimal functioning. Services include crisis intervention, assessment, individual, family and group treatment. The Juvenile Justice Initiative program uses Multisytemic Therapy (MST) and is designed to work with adolescents who have had involvement with the criminal justice system with the goal of preventing future arrests and preventing placement. MST is an evidence-based therapeutic model with a strong emphasis on achieving observable and measurable results within the context of highly prescribed service protocol.

Services: Children's Residential Treatment Programs

A 49-bed residential treatment facility (RTF) for severely emotionally disturbed male adolescents, 13 to 22. Licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health, the Center provides supervised living units and a program of therapeutic and educational services. The program provides a secure in-house acute-care unit as part of the continuum of care. A special education school is located on the campus.

Services: Children's Residential Treatment Programs

A residential treatment center (RTC) for 104 boys, ages 8 to 18, and girls, ages 13 to 18, who have a wide variety of emotional problems. Youngsters are provided with comprehensive treatment, special education, and supervised living. Family involvement is an important component of the treatment. Residents are referred by the Administration for Children's Services of New York City, New York State Office of Family and Children's, and other local County Committee of Special Education, and Departments of Social Services in New York State.

Services: Children's Day Treatment Programs

An alternative to residential placement for emotionally disturbed youngsters, ages 10 to 18, living in Westchester. While living at home, adolescents receive a full range of treatment services, including individual, family, and group therapy, individualized education curricula, remedial training, and vocational preparation. A special education school is on-site at the facility, which is on the grounds of the Hawthorne Cedar Knolls and Linden Hill schools.

Services: Children's Residential Treatment Programs

A residential treatment facility (RTF) licensed by the New York State Office of Mental Health for 23 boys and 35 girls, ages 13 to 18, with severe psychiatric conditions. The facility provides the following services in an open setting: intensive milieu therapy, individual, family, and group psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, special education and vocational training.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

A 24-hour supervised residence for 10 ambulatory adults with developmental disabilities who function within the severe to profound range of mental retardation. Services provided include medical and psychiatric care, skills training, case management, and occupational, physical and speech therapies.

Services: Developmental Disabilities

Residence for six ambulatory adults with developmental disabilities. Provides 24-hour supervision as well as skills training in areas of need and interest. Consumers access medical providers in the community and participate in community activities.