Mill Neck Services Inc

Programs: Interpreting program - professional sign language interpreting service offering a variety of services that include american sign language, tactile interpreting and certified deaf interpreting. These services are provided to diverse groups of people who are deaf, hard of hearing, late deafened, deaf-blind and hearing. Independent contractors are scheduled based on availability and matched to assignment based on information obtained by office staff. Mill neck specializes in providing services for education, medical situations, legal matters, mental health and more. Mill neck provides interpretation for national and regional events.

day habilitation - provides a safe, respectful and stimulating environment where participants can learn skills they can use to become active members of their community. Mill neck operates center based day habilitation where people begin their day at the center and engage in volunteerism, class activities, and other experiences on and off site with support staff. Goals are derived from each person's individual service plan (isp) and service plan. Mill neck also operates several day habilitation without walls programs that stress activities made up entirely of community based experiences. Without walls program begins at a person's home where staff meet them and continue active participation in community in line with activities derived from isp and habilitation plan.

vocational training - deaf individuals are often barred from obtaining competitive employment. Mill neck provides job development services for deaf clientele assisting with resume preparation, career exploration, job search and interview skills. Mill neck provides employment consultants to assist during interview process. Upon hire, mill neck's staff assists new employees to become integrated into a new company, assisting them to learn job responsibilities, and corporate culture. This program is very time limited-usually extends for first month of employment, although mill neck remains only a phone call away to employers and deaf employees.

community habilitation - mill neck provides services to children and adults with developmental disabilities who live with their families, based out of their own houses. Community habilitation trainers are paired with people to work on individualized tailor made programs in both home and community settings. Community habilitation is a way to give people the ability to participate in more well-rounded life experience. Program operates on individualized schedule. Service coordination - medicaid service coordination is a medicaid funded program that provides ongoing support to people with developmental disabilities and their families. Medicaid service coordinators assist people with obtaining available services in the community as well as services under the home and community based (hcbs) medicaid waiver. Mill neck's medicaid service coordination program assists adults and children of all ages in the new york metropolitan region. It provides assistance finding a day program, employment support, residential placement, financial support, recreational activities, medical providers, etc. Medicaid service coordinators also provide advocacy to protect the rights of people with developmental disabilities. Medicaid service coordinators meet with the people on their caseload as needed, but at least three times per year with one meeting held at the person's home so assistance can be provided for environmental needs. Individual support services ('iss') provide a housing subsidy to assist individuals with developmental disabilities who wish to live independently in the community with housing cost. Historically 155 assisted adults pay housing cost, and on limited basis, such things as food, transportation and clothing. In 2010, iss was redesigned to consist of housing subsidy calculated based on individual's income and housing and community renewal (hcr) payment standards. Respite is a time limited service for people with developmental disabilities, providing care givers and family members who are responsible for primary care and support of individuals. Available for all age levels throughout the year. Support employment - intensive and extended. Often, people with developmental disabilities have not been able to obtain competitive employment. They need multiple vocational rehabilitation services over an extended period of time. The program provides ongoing support to assist people to work in a variety of integrated work settings. This service combines active paid employment with intensive job coaching to enable the consumer to maintain part or full time work. During intensive phase, a person's job coach guides the new employee through crucial learning phase of new job while ensuring to employer that work will be satisfactorily performed. Once a supported employment participant is stable on the job, the job coach begins to fade from site. The participant is then transitioned to extended phase of employment services.