Program areas at Hawthorne Foundation Incorporated
School program - Hawthorne Foundation Inc. (hfi) provides education, early intervention, school age and preschool programs for children with autism and severe developmental disabilities, using methodology of applied behavior analysis. For the period july 1, 2023 to june 30, 2024, hfi provided 42,354 care days for school age students and 14,078 care days for preschool students. Services provided included education and related services like speech, occupational therapy, physical therapy and counseling to students referred by school districts in the lower hudson valley and the city of new york.
Self-direction services - hfi provides fiscal intermediary services to individuals and their families and/or advocates to manage self-direction budgets and staff. Self-direction services gives individuals with disabilities the flexibility to choose the mix of supports and services that are right for them and take more control over the funding used to purchase their services. For the period july 1, 2023 to june 30, 2024, hfi served 214 individuals and billed 1,980 units in fi fees.
Day and residential habilitation programs - hfi provide services to adults with autism and severe developmental disabilities in life long care and services. For the period july 1, 2023 to june 30, 2024, hfi provided 9,673 units of residential services and 14,435 units of day habilitation services. Day habilitation services revenues were $3,144,711 and incurred $2,880,568 in expenses and residential services revenues were $4,524,078 and $4,017,903 in expenses.
Agency respite services - Hawthorne Foundation Inc. Provides respite services to individuals and their families and/or advocates. Respite services provides temporary relief from the demands of care giving to people who are responsible for the primary care and support of a person with a developmental disability, which can help reduce overall family stress. For the period july 01, 2023 to june 30, 2024, hfi billed 7,268 units.family support services (fss) - the fss grant supports the parent education, mobile crisis, and saturday spectacular programs. The parent education program is dedicated to helping families manage their children's challenging behaviors in positive, safe and healthy ways. The mobile crisis program provides a trained behavior analyst on call available 24/7 to provide immediate coordinated assistance to families of individuals with acute behavioral needs. The frequency of home visits for each family is determined by family needs and availability of funding support. The saturday spectacular respite and recreation (ssrr) program provides families with developmentally disabled children that are unable to find respite and recreation activities for their children. Supplemental security income (ssi) - funds received as monthly payments to individuals with a disability who have income and resources below specific financial limits. Supplemental nutrition assistance program (snap) - supplemental funds received to provide food assistance for individuals with disabilities.