Families Forward - Program
The House of the Good Shepherd
26515 State Route 3
Watertown, NY
Provides an intensive, home-based program designed to reduce out-of-home placement for the most at-risk youth and families. Services include counseling, respite services, mentoring, community supervision, recreation, school and community advocacy, psychiatric and psychological services, and linkage to other community support and programs.
Family Action - Program
Community Action Partnership for Madison County
3 East Main Street
Morrisville, NY
Partners with families to increase the safety and permanency of their children to eliminate out of home placement. Case manager provides weekly home visits for a period of up to eighteen months with focus on: Housing stability Employment support Emotional and physical well-being Works with family members to provide skill building in areas including: Parenting Budgeting Communication Decision making Problem solving
Kids Oneida/ACT - Program
ICAN
310 Main Street
Utica, NY
Provides the Regular Intensive KO/ACT Program which offers wraparound services to keep families together in situations where children with a mental health diagnosis are at imminent risk of out of home placement. Services are team based and include: Comprehensive strength based treatment plan Behavior Management Mentoring Psychiatric consultations Intensive supervision Special therapy Offers the Step Down Program for families that may not be in such imminent risk of out of home …
Preventive Services - Program
Oneida County Department of Social Services
800 Park Avenue
Utica, NY
Provides families with supportive and rehabilitative services that address a threefold need: averting a family separation that could result in a foster care placement; enabling a child to return to the family from placement earlier than otherwise anticipated; and reducing the possibility of a child returning to placement who had previously been discharged from care. Coordinating referrals made to outside agencies for services such as counseling, parent-aides, and parenting classes.
FACTS - Program
Brain Injury Association of New York State
5 Pine West Plaza, Suite 402
Albany, NY
Provides a linkage of families and individuals who have a brain injury, which includes: Family Advocacy: Support and counseling, connecting family with funding resources, housing, transportation, and service providers Educational Advocacy: Support and counseling for educational needs after a brain injury, helping family with IEP process, and attendance at CSE meetings Outreach: Connection with service providers, hospitals, schools, etc. to increase awareness of BIANYS, traumatic and acquired …
Kids Herkimer - Program
ICAN
301 North Washington Street
Herkimer, NY
Provides five programs: The Family Reunification Program: focuses on shortening the length of stay of out-of-home placement for identified “at-risk” youth in Herkimer County. Return Home Early Program: Herkimer County children in residential placement care are assessed for their readiness and appropriateness to return home prior to their court-ordered expiration date. Intensive Preventive Program: designed to work with the highest intensity DSS families that have at least one child …
1-800-RUNAWAY - Program
National Runaway Safeline
3141B N Lincoln Avenue
Chicago, IL
Provides comprehensive phone and internet-based crisis intervention for youth and their families that includes: Conference calls to emergency shelters, transitional living programs, and parents Mediates discussions between the youth and adult Runaway education and prevention materials Provides online chat services and crisis email Provides a one-way bus transportation home or to a responsible relative via Greyhound Bus Lines through the Home Free Program.
The Third Option - Program
10475 Cosby Manor Road
Utica, NY
Teaches communication skills that benefit marriages and all relationships.
Advocacy and Case Management Services - Program
Empowering People's Independence
6493 Ridings Road
Suite 115
Syracuse, NY
Offers support, information, referral, and education for developmental disabilities, traumatic brain injury, and epilepsy. Case management Residential Homes Self-Directed Services, including Fiscal Intermediary and Brokerage services Family reimbursement Respite Health Homes Family support services, including parent support groups Structured day and evening programs Support groups, counseling Community habilitation. Day Habilitation Camp EAGR - Residential summer camp for children with epilepsy
