Provides adolescents who are in the custody of their local Department of Social Services with short and long term residential placement. Focuses on individual clinical goals, their behavior, and healing from past trauma.

* Provides residential treatment to children with behavioral and emotional challenges and their families by combining a highly structured therapeutic group living experience with family centered treatment.

Foster parent must be at least 21 yrs, pass background check, receive ongoing training and support. Foster parent receives daily stipend; clothing allowance; and medical, dental, and orthodontic coverage for children in their home. Can be matched with children ranging from birth through age 21 yrs, including pregnant teens.

Provides long-term care for youth with a primary psychiatric diagnosis including mood, thought, conduct, and personality disorders.

217 Delaware Ave community residence is actually 2 programs in one building. The one level is for adolescents who require trauma informed treatment and permanency planning while residing in a safe setting. The goal is to maintain as many community connections as possible, i.e. school, family, spiritual life, etc. The residents stay for the necessary time to reach their goals, so this is can be either short term or long term depending on the situation. Each resident has an individual plan and individual goals. The other level and program is a semi independent living program designed to assist youth in care to receive the benefits of care while practicing to be on their own. These 18-21 year old youth are supported in finishing school, trade school, finding employment, budgeting, and food shopping, maintaining their environment, and developing social skills. This co-ed group home with ten total beds is located in the City of Albany. 217 Delaware Ave also offers emergency admissions for children of all ages. These admissions are on a more short term basis. They stay at the Delaware Ave location while a more long term plan can be developed.

Provides intermediate to long-term behavioral care for youth who are chronic trauma survivors.

St. Mary's Behavioral Health Services offers information on adult and children's psychiatric evaluations. The St. Mary's Children's Mental Health Clinic provides outpatient mental health services for seriously emotionally disturbed children up to 18 years of age and their families who reside in Fulton, Montgomery and Hamilton counties. Limited evening and and Saturday appointments may be available upon request. St. Mary's Emergency Services provides 24-hour-contact with mental health services including emergency telephone counseling. Other services include in-person evaluations, intervention and assessment.

Provides therapeutic services in a home-like atmosphere for adolescent boys ages 12 to 18 years while they attend Watertown City School District and their parents are provided an advocate.

Provides an institutional level of care for children who have had negative life experiences and have been identified as hard to place.

Provides residential treatment for youth ages 12 to 21 years.

Provides intermediate to long-term behavioral care for youth who are chronic trauma survivors.

Provides safe and secure on campus 24-hr care for up to 48 children who cannot reside in the community. The program is designed to provide services and supervision where professional staff helps children feel safe, stabilize their behavior and deal with stress and trauma.

Provides holistic, strength-based mental health services in collaboration with youth and families to support the goal of safe reunification in the community. Together, youth and family members establish, learn, and practice skills and engage in therapeutic processes to heal from traumatic experiences and regain hope.

* Provides a short term (1-21 day) individualized family-centered, community-based, trauma sensitive, safe, and therapeutic living environment, to children with serious emotional disturbances.

Children who live in residence attend special education school at the Community Rehabilitation Center.

Mission: Hillside provides community-based services, education, and residential treatment to positively impact lives, in partnership with youth and families who have experienced trauma.Vision: Youth and families overcoming challenges to heal and thrive in their communities.Values:CaringHillside builds a culture of trust and support by focusing on the wellness and resiliency of our staff, and the youth and families we serve.InclusionHillside believes all people should be accepted for who they are, have a voice, and be listened to and valued while striving for equity, trust and belonging.ExcellenceHillside utilizes high-quality, evidence-based/informed practices, seeks input from employees, and strives for continuous improvement in order to achieve the best possible results and outcomes.Philosophy of Service: Hillside is family-driven, youth-guided, trauma-informed, and culturally competent.

Provides a program designed to offer a stable and safe living environment for hard-to-place girls. Provides intensive long term care to emotionally and behaviorally challenged girls and their families by combining a highly structured, therapeutic, group living experience with individualized dialectical behavior treatment practices. Assists in developing socially appropriate levels of functioning in decision making, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, mindfulness, independent living skills, and improved family and peer relationships.

Provides adolescents who are in the custody of their local Department of Social Services with short and long term residential placement. Focuses on individual clinical goals, their behavior, and healing from past trauma.

Provides an institutional level of care for children who have had negative life experiences and have been identified as hard to place.

Provides a community residence for children who are experiencing mental health and/or behavioral issues. Focuses on improving self-esteem, self-management of behavior, and skill development.

Institutionalized residential treatment for socially and emotionally handicapped boys ages 12-17 and high-school age girls. On-campus school, recreation and work-experience program. Professional social workers and psychologists provide regular treatment through individual counseling and therapeutic groups.Current capacity is 189 beds: 68 "critical care" beds in the boys' hard-to-place program 24 "critical care" beds in the girls' hard-to-place program 12 beds for sex offenders 27 beds for youth dually diagnosed with intellectual disability and emotional disturbance 24 beds in intermediate care-for boys who have been successful in Critical Care or the offender treatment program and for whom the focus can be changed to transitioning out of residential care 18 (9 boys, 9 girls) beds in intensive residential substance abuse program 16 (boys) "Raise the Age" program for older boys who would formerly have been treated as adults

* Provides a comprehensive educational and residential facility for those being diagnosed with severe behavioral and developmental disabilities and/or with co-occurring psychiatric disorders.

* Offers residential and support services for adolescents experiencing difficulties at home and/or in their communities. Residential treatment at Berkshire Farm Center, Canaan, NY For boys and girls who are delinquent or in need of supervision* Offers counseling, information and referral for families of youths in a residential program through the Community Services Division.

* Offers educational day program for students with complex or multiple disabilities that cannot be served in any other settings, includes Preschool and School Age, autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, major physical, neurological, sensory, health and complex behavior disorders.* Provides comprehensive therapeutic services including Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, Speech Therapy, Behavior Therapy, and Music Therapy.* Provides Nursing, Social Work, Vision services, Health Homes Program, and Transition Program.* Offers residential services.* Volunteer opportunities.

* Provides residential treatment to children with behavioral and emotional challenges and their families by combining a highly structured therapeutic group living experience with family centered treatment.