Cardinal Mccloskey School & Home For Children Inc

Programs: Family day care provides in-home day care services and a nutritional food program for 855 children each day and supports approximately 126 day care providers with training and supervision. The program seeks to strengthen family life and maintain children in a healthy, safe and educational environment with nutritious food and multiple creative techniques for development and success. We are one of the largest family child networks in nyc.

opwdd programs:1) services for individuals with developmental disabilities - these include 18 individual residential group homes for more than 94 adults with developmental disabilities. These 94 residents are provided with exceptional care and support, 24 hours a day, and are staffed by support professionals committed to providing opportunities for personal growth and development; an intermediate care facility that also serves 12 individuals with developmental disabilities with medical frailties; day services for 50 adults that focuses on vocational skill building and community integration and activities that improve socialization skills; and service coordination assisting 155 individuals and their families, helping them navigate and coordinate and monitor the service system for eligibility and benefits. 2) the opwdd family support services - opwdd family support services funds short term family assistance for families in westchester county that do not currently have medicaid. A service coordinator assists the families with completing subsidy applications, such as social security, medicaid, food stamps or other assistance. The service coordinator also works with the family in locating services for the individual in their family with a developmental disability. The services may include a day and/or residential program, recreation and respite services. The service coordination services are provided until the individual is eligible and enrolled to receive medicaid benefits and can then receive through our medicaid service coordination.

family foster care/treatment family foster care provides family-based care, case management services and access to needed treatments and support, and permanency planning services, including reunification, kin-gap and adoption to children removed from their homes due to abuse or neglect. Family foster care also supports certified foster parents with training and supervision. Treatment family foster care is designed for children with more serious emotional disturbances and other mental health and behavioral conditions that call for specially trained foster parents and a more intensive set of services. Approximately 376 children and their families were served in in our foster care programs and 31 children were adopted.