Abbott House

Programs: Schedule o - services for people with developmental disabilities (spdd)services for people with developmental disabilities (spdd)abbott house provides multiple services for adults with developmental disabilities including residential living, medicaid service coordination, self-advocacy skills, and community integration. Our program focuses on providing safe and encouraging environments, opportunities, and the support needed to live fulfilling and independent lives. Abbott house believes each of the developmentally disabled adults we serve has their own unique talents, abilities, goals and dreams. We are their partners to help them make choices, enhance daily and independent living skills, establish community connections through employment, volunteer work, and participate in recreational activities that will help them achieve these personal objectives. Many of the adults in our program have been with abbott house for most of their lives, and as their parents continue to age, our care provides peace of mind that their adult children are safe and well taken care of. Abbott house provides services to over 100 intellectually or disabled adults throughout westchester, rockland and the bronx. We offer 15 residential programs where the adults live semi-independently in small groups with 24-hour guidance from specially trained staff. They have a place to call home and receive the support they need 24/7. Abbott house has 1 intermediate care facility (icf) to meet the needs of developmentally disabled adults who are medically frail and are in need of on-site clinical services. For those developmentally disabled adults able to remain at home with their family, we offer 2 community-based day habilitation programs which also include supportive employment services, pathways to employment, prevocational training services, medicaid service coordination (msc), special olympics participation, a self-advocacy program, a kiwanis club, and we participate in various other community activities. 2017 outcomes:-103 individuals had a safe and supervised home to live and grow in-93 individuals received medicaid service coordination-39 individuals participated in abbott house's day habilitation program-26 individuals volunteered in their community

schedule o - regular & treatment family foster care programsfoster care and treatment family foster carethe abbott house family foster care (ffc) and treatment family foster care (tffc) programs provide children who have experienced trauma from neglect, physical or emotional abuse, or abandonment with a safe, nurturing, temporary home to begin to heal and build resiliency. Combined with the trauma of being removed from their home, these children often have long-lasting therapeutic needs. Abbott house's families are licensed foster parents who have been uniquely trained to help children begin to heal, build resiliency and a path towards a better future. The primary goal of these programs is to safely reunite the children with their families whenever possible. Through support services provided to birth parents including parenting skill training, substance abuse counseling and other services, abbott house is able to successfully reunite many families over time. When reunification is not possible, we strive to find a family member who is willing and able to provide a permanent home through kinship placement, or a loving family to adopt. Whether the child is placed in a foster, kinship, or adoptive family, abbott house is there to partner with the family and provide the services and resources required to meet the unique needs of every child. These services and resources include case management, medical and mental health care, educational support, behavioral support, strength and life skills, and social integration and community engagement. Abbott house recognizes that providing strong therapeutic foster care is the best way to prevent residential placement and/or psychiatric hospitalization for children. 2017 outcomes:-522 children and teenagers had a safe and comfortable bed to sleep in -37 children were successfully adopted-186 new children were welcomed into abbott house's foster care program-78 children were successfully reunited with their biological families-days of care: ffc 59,435 and tfc - 36,648

schedule o - bridges to health (b2h)bridges to health (b2h)through our family foster care and therapeutic family foster care programs we are able to quickly identify children who have one or more mental health disorders, such as post-traumatic stress, and at least one chronic medical condition or developmental disability. These children with serious emotional, developmental and medical challenges need additional support. The bridges to health (b2h) program is a new york state initiative of the office of children and family services that enables abbott house to provide health care management and supportive services to children in foster care, continuing when they are reunited with their birth parents or when they are adopted by kinship or another family. B2h services are designed to address the unique issues the child and the family are experiencing to promote permanent home and to maximize their ability to function in their home, community and school up until the age the child turns 21 and they leave care. The guiding principle of b2h is partnering with the child and the family to identify ongoing and new support needs unique to their concerns and goals. Abbott house offers a wide spectrum of supportive and specialized services tailored to meet every child's needs. These include in-home crisis intervention, day habilitation, pre-vocational training, supported employment, training for caregivers in crisis avoidance and management, planned and emergency respite care, special needs advocacy and the purchase of adaptive equipment. Abbott house is the only social service agency that provides these services to both new york city and the lower hudson valley region. 2017 outcomes:-362 children and teenagers received b2h services (103 in lower hudsonvalley and 259 in nyc)

in addition to the programs above, abbott house performs other residential programs.