General funding for aged-out foster youth to find gainful employment. It involves a complete wrap-around service, including housing, counseling, mentors, employment readiness, transportation and emergency relief.

Engages young adults to work through challenges they face living with a disability, mental health or substance abuse disorder with peers who have struggled with similar experiences.

Provides a variety of services to children and families so that children can remain in their homes. Seeks to reduce the risk of psychiatric out-of-home placement for youth by increasing the functional level of each youth and his or her family and by augmenting the community's ability to care for children with serious emotional disturbance through utilization of individualized care principles.

Engages young adults to work through challenges they face living with a disability, mental health or substance abuse disorder with peers who have struggled with similar experiences.

Provides intensive case management to youth engaged in probation services.

Focuses on the goals of the family to address complex emotional and behavioral needs of the youth, and partners with the family and facilitates the intensive process with the collaborative team, including natural supports and community providers, while honoring family voice. The team builds the family-specific strengths to get needs met, learn new skills, and develop skills and supports to manage crisis.

Utilizes a wrap-around model of service delivery designed to assist with linking families to formal and informal supports and services in the community. Cases are assigned to workers who meet with families on a regular basis and work closely with schools regarding children who are experiencing difficulty with behavior or who have emotional difficulties. A family plan is developed with the entire family in a team approach.

Provides supportive case management services to adults and children that are severely and persistently mentally ill. The goal of the program is to assist mentally ill individuals in accessing services needed to enhance their quality of life while allowing them to be part of the community at the most productive level possible for that individual. This program utilizes a wrap-around model of service delivery designed specifically for children and adults to assist with linking individuals and families to formal and informal supports and services in the community. Case management can help in the area of living arrangements, physical health needs, mental health needs, economic needs, vocational/educational needs, social functioning, family functioning, self-care needs, self-direction, and substance abuse.

Provides a variety of services to children and families so that children can remain in their homes. Seeks to reduce the risk of psychiatric out-of-home placement for youth by increasing the functional level of each youth and his or her family and by augmenting the community's ability to care for children with serious emotional disturbance through utilization of individualized care principles.

Provides the following services: - Short-term Residential Services - Therapeutic Foster Care - Diagnostic Residential Services - Non-Secure Detention Services - Intensive Support Unit - Developmental Abilities Services Transitional Unit - Home and Community Based Services Waiver Program - Medicaid Service Coordination - Customized Community Services - Bridges to Health

Now merged with Family Support Services NDYFS. A community based program that links families to mental health services. An outreach worker will meet families at their location of choice in the community or in their home, listen to their concerns about their children & help them get connected to services in the community. Concerns parents may have about their children include: depression, mood swings, bullying or being bullied, withdrawal or hyperactivity or aggression.

An intensive program that provides a variety of services to a child and family so that the child may remain in his or her home. Each family works with an Individual Care Coordinator (ICC) to develop a service plan based on the family's unique strengths and needs. Assists in linking the family to services, monitoring those services, and advocating for the child and family as necessary. Some of the family's needs may be met through community services such as school, recreational programs, or baby-sitting. Also available through HCBS, the family can access the following services from their choice of providers: - Respite care provides parents or guardians with a needed break. Respite can include planned activities both in and out of the home. Emergency overnight respite is also available. - Family support services are designed to help support the family as a unit. Families have access to support groups and one on-one parent mentors. This also includes more concrete services, such as budgeting, advocacy training, parent education, development of communication skills, and community awareness. - Crisis response service provides centralized on-call coverage 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to assist the family through crisis situations. Crisis response services are also provided to families from other community agencies and are aimed at stabilizing occurrences of crises. - Intensive in-home services are available to families when crisis response services are not adequate to meet the need for crisis resolution. Counselors come into the home and provide intensive interventions aimed at stabilizing crisis. - Skill-building services are activities designed to assist the child in developing the skills needed to function more successfully in the community, home, and school. Vocation and social skills are examples of the areas that are addressed. The length of service depends on the need of the family. On average, a family is involved in the service for 9 months.

Provides wraparound services to children who are seriously emotionally disturbed and at risk of out of home placement.

Provide intensive community-based services to meet the needs of families with at least one child whose behavior disturbance places him or her at risk of placement in a residential treatment center. Services include: Intensive Family Casework, Individual and Family Therapy, Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment, Intensive Probation Supervision, Parent and Youth Support Groups, Recreational Alternatives, Sexual Behavior Group, Respite care, Parent Educators and Wrap-around Services

Provide intensive community-based services to meet the needs of families with at least one child whose behavior disturbance places him or her at risk of placement in a residential treatment center. Services include: Intensive Family Casework, Individual and Family Therapy, Psychiatric Assessment and Treatment, Intensive Probation Supervision, Parent and Youth Support Groups, Recreational Alternatives, Sexual Behavior Group, Respite care, Parent Educators and Wrap-around Services

A multidisciplinary team, including youth and family peers, dedicated to providing the clinical intervention and support necessary for youth with serious emotional disturbances to remain in their communities, living healthy lives and fully participating in school activities and community and family life. Services are provided to youth and their families.

Works to improve the lives of families raising at-risk youth faced with social, emotional, mental and/or behavioral challenges. Services are provided in partnership with the youth, their parents and/or caregivers, referral sources, and other sources of community support to prevent out-of-home placement of children. Program services include individual, family, and group therapies; skill building (for parents and youth); in-home community behavioral services; outpatient diagnostic assessments; and Rise and Shine, an after school educational enrichment program. All services are family centered and provide ongoing support towards family preservation.

Family centered process that employs the wraparound facilitation model to help preserve the family unit through the coordination of services including respite, skill building, crisis intervention, family intervention, and transportation.

Provides a variety of services to children and families so that children can remain in their homes. Seeks to reduce the risk of psychiatric out-of-home placement for youth by increasing the functional level of each youth and his or her family and by augmenting the community's ability to care for children with serious emotional disturbance through utilization of individualized care principles.

Utilizes a wrap-around model of service delivery designed to assist with linking families to formal and informal supports and services in the community. Cases are assigned to workers who meet with families on a regular basis and work closely with schools regarding children who are experiencing difficulty with behavior or who have emotional difficulties. A family plan is developed with the entire family in a team approach.

Provides supportive case management services to adults and children that are severely and persistently mentally ill. The goal of the program is to assist mentally ill individuals in accessing services needed to enhance their quality of life while allowing them to be part of the community at the most productive level possible for that individual. This program utilizes a wrap-around model of service delivery designed specifically for children and adults to assist with linking individuals and families to formal and informal supports and services in the community. Case management can help in the area of living arrangements, physical health needs, mental health needs, economic needs, vocational/educational needs, social functioning, family functioning, self-care needs, self-direction, and substance abuse.

Works with individuals referred by the Steuben County Department of Social Services (DSS). Services provided may be either preventative or transitional and are meant to provide short-term services in order for the child to remain at home and be successful. The program also helps youth who have been in placement with transition back with their families and communities, as well as to their home schools. For those transition cases, services can begin while the youth is still in placement, in order to help prepare parents for their child’s return to the home.

Provides a variety of services to children and families so that children can remain in their homes. Seeks to reduce the risk of psychiatric out-of-home placement for youth by increasing the functional level of each youth and his or her family and by augmenting the community's ability to care for children with serious emotional disturbance through utilization of individualized care principles.

* 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 before their court-ordered expiration date.
• Intensive Preventive Program: designed to work with the highest intensity DSS families with at least one child at risk of placement outside the home due to PINS/JD issues or neglect/abuse in the home.
• Service Provision for Individual Needs (SPIN): referrals are made for single "a la carte" services to complement other preventive services already working with the family.
• Detention Diversion Program (DDP): developed in response to the need for decreased use of non-secure detention days in Herkimer County; DDP coordinator advocates for those youth at risk for court-ordered detention and possibly long-term out-of-home placement.