* Helps families with children who are returning from or are at imminent risk of placement in out-of-home care by offering a short-term intervention to these families meant to achieve stabilization.

Children and Family Treatment and Supportive Services that support youth and their families to live their best life.The services that are offered are the following:- Psychosocial Rehabilitation (PSR)- Community Psychiatric Supports and Treatment (CPST)- Therapy Services with Licensed Practitioner (OLP)- Family Peer Support Services (FPSS)- Planned Respite Services

Provides referrals to help children with serious emotional disturbances by supporting families connect, and link with community resources, to prevent out-of-home placements by providing case management support to families.

* Committed to providing the most effective, efficient, and accessible services for families whose children are at risk of placement out of home. The Preventive Services are intended to:prevent foster care placementshasten the return home of children already in placementdivert youth from entering the Family Court systemprevent and reduce incidents of child maltreatmentstrengthen family life.* Coordinates and contracts with various community agencies to provide specialized services to families in order to prevent the need for foster care placement, and to decrease incidences of indicated Child Protective cases

* Investigates allegations of child abuse and neglect received by NYS Central Registry of Abuse and Maltreatment. Services may include: Foster care placement for abused or neglected children. Preventive Services for families in crisis to avoid foster care placement. Casework/referral services. Family preservation & support programs. JD & PINS programs. Foster parent recruitment. Foster parent training and certification. Certification of adoptive families for children in foster care. Adult Protective services works with individuals 18 years and older, with physical and/or mental impairments, and no support system to help meet basic needs. On call caseworker for after hours emergencies.

Provides services to prevent out of home placement for children whose families are referred by Nassau County DSS.. Outreach services include assessment of family concerns, intensive counseling, clinical services including individual and family therapy, referral to other necessary agencies, advocacy, parent education/groups, social/educational activities for the whole family.

Provides services which can help prevent families who have had or are at risk of having their children placed in foster care. Families receive support for stress related issues, such as case management, daycare services, homemaker services, parenting aides, transportation, recreational services, and more.

Provides services which can help prevent families who have had or are at risk of having their children placed in foster care. Families receive support for stress related issues, such as case management, daycare services, homemaker services, parenting aides, transportation, recreational services, and more.

A Family Assessment Response helps ensure that children are safe, while at the same time setting aside the issue of fault and negative labels for parent and caretakers.

Offers Concrete services (i.e.: day care, homemaking, budgeting, advocacy, etc.), casework counseling, and referral services are provided to eligible families in order to avert placements of children outside their homes, enhance family functioning and/or expedite reunification of children in care with their biological families. Eligible families include those at some risk of foster care and pregnant and/or parenting adolescents. Referrals to preventive services can be made by calling 516-227-7789. Also offered is PINS Diversion Program - Services are provided through contract agencies, to families in crisis whose children might be experiencing truancy, gang involvement, running away from home, and substance abuse issues or other unmanageable behaviors in order to prevent/avert the filing of a Pins Petition and placement out of the home. PINS Information and Intake can be reached at 516-227-8404. Call for detailed information regarding services and programs offered.

An engaging, alternative approach to providing protection for children by focusing on engaging families in informal and formal support services to meet needs and increase the family's ability to care for their children. Program addresses situations in which families are reported to child protection services for issues such as educational neglect, where the child's safety is not at risk. Provides strength-based in-home services tailored to the family's needs to address the identified problem. Supports the role of families in determining what services will benefit their children. Families work with FAR for approximately 30-90 days.

Aims to prevent and/or reduce the length of stay of youth in psychiatric and residential care. Assists families in identifying and strengthening the protective factors known to be associated with resiliency in their children. Helps to identify and decrease those factors that impede resiliency. Increases a family's skills in order to reduce acute service utilization. Increase a family's ability to access appropriate community resources.

Offers preventive services to avoid child placement in foster care, future child abuse, and the need for child protective services intervention. Provides services for families to achieve reunification when their children have been removed to foster care or other out of home placement. Also included are home-finding and adoption services.

The Intensive in Home Family Preservation Program is designed to provide immediate crisis intervention and stabilization to families with child (ren) at imminent risk of placement into foster care. Features include:â¢Response to referral within 24 hoursâ¢24-hour-a-day availability â¢Maximum caseload of two â four families per counselorâ¢Services located in the natural environmentâ¢Services responsive to client values and lifestylesâ¢Appointments scheduled at the convenience of clientsâ¢Intensive servicesâ¢Skills-based interventionsâ¢Provision of concrete services for meeting basic needs

Provides in-home instructional services to families who children are at risk for foster care placement or as part of family reunification planning. Focus is on parenting skills, home and money management, conflict resolution, behavior management and negotiating the social service system.

A Family Assessment Response helps ensure that children are safe, while at the same time setting aside the issue of fault and negative labels for parent and caretakers.

Astor works with families who are at risk of having a child with an out-of-home placement. The program helps the family through supportive and advocacy services, create a structured family plan, and link to other needed services.

Designed to keep families together through active and early intervention. Operates two Preventive Services Programs: The Family Treatment and Rehabilitation Program and Special Medical Program. These programs are intended to serve families with either a child with special medical needs, a child and/or parent with a developmental disability, or a child in need of early or future permanency planning due to a parent’s substance abuse, mental illness or terminal illness.

A Family Assessment Response helps ensure that children are safe, while at the same time setting aside the issue of fault and negative labels for parent and caretakers.

Preventive services are supportive and rehabilitative services provided to children and their families to avert disruption of a family which could result in an out of home placement for the child, to enable a child who has been placed in foster care to be reunited with his or her family at an earlier time than would otherwise be possible, or to reduce the likelihood that a child discharged from foster care will return to such care.

Intensive case management program for substance abusing families who are at risk for recurrent child abuse and/or foster care placement. Each intensive case manager works with 8-10 families at a time for 6-9 months and provides 24 hour accessibility, frequent home visits, comprehensive assessments, development of a service plan for all family members and linkages of service needs with appropriate service delivery.

Provides supervision as well as services to youth adjudicated by Family Court and their families.

Offers long-term psychological support for at-risk children and their parents who have mental health and parenting issues. Provides dyadic therapy (working with the child and the parent) in cases involving child maltreatment, foster care, and issues involving the criminal justice system. Also do outreach to foster care agencies, family court and other related agencies.

The Intensive in Home Family Preservation Program is designed to provide immediate crisis intervention and stabilization to families with child (ren) at imminent risk of placement into foster care. Features include:â¢Response to referral within 24 hoursâ¢24-hour-a-day availability â¢Maximum caseload of two â four families per counselorâ¢Services located in the natural environmentâ¢Services responsive to client values and lifestylesâ¢Appointments scheduled at the convenience of clientsâ¢Intensive servicesâ¢Skills-based interventionsâ¢Provision of concrete services for meeting basic needs