Staten Island Mental Health Society

Mental Health services are provided to Staten Island children and adolescents and their families at two clinic locations. The on-site Mental Health program provides school-based therapeutic services for elementary and intermediate school students who are in need of individual services to support their mainstream educational goals.

Diagnosis & treatment for developmental disabilities - the pouch center's programs and services assist persons who have developmental disabilities, learning delays, neurological impairments, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, cerebral palsy, autism, pervasive developmental disorder, Mental retardation, epilepsy, traumatic brain injury, and other developmental challenges.

Four full-service head start earlylearn centers serve more than 300 children (at any one time) between 3-5 years old each year. The program gives each child learning and playing experiences that prepare him or her for school, academically, emotionally, and socially. Children and families are also provided with a wide range of Health and social services.

The chemical dependence: the teen center provides outpatient alcohol/substance abuse treatment programs exclusively for teens and young adults, ages 12 to 21, including family members. The teen center program services include counseling, treatment, support, and training in social skills, in a non-judgmental environment. Clients re-acquire the life skills to learn, work, play and interact optimally without dependence on chemical substances, and gain the insight and ability to grow into responsible, productive adults. The early recognition program is available at the three Mental Health centers and provides emotional Health screening consisting of questions regarding your child's behavior at home and in school. Early identification and treatment of emotional/behavioral problems help children and teens succeed in school and develop positive social relationships at home and within the community. The integrated program provides an educational setting for pre-school children who have been identified with developmental delays with typically developing children. Related services are provided to specific students in accordance with their individual education plan(iep). The youth achieving independence, or safety.net program, was created to bridge the gap between adolescence and young adulthood. It provides assistance for individuals diagnosed with sed and spmi with services including vesid, careers, ged programs, jbfcs adult psychotherapy and medication management, nyc doe, supportive employment, job corps, family Health plus, section 8 and other housing subsidy programs, and many others. The co-locator program is a joint project with neighboring richmond university medical center (rumc) with simhs lending their expertise to provide Mental Health services to children and families of the borough at rumc's new pediatric site. The court involved youth initiative program is a grant to provide behavioral Health (Mental Health and/or substance abuse) services for youths who become involved in the courts within the justice system in all community boards of Staten Island. The program will identify youths with Mental and behavioral Health needs as close to the arrest or before and, when indicated, to offer treatment and connect/link the youth and their family to treatment, if not offered directly by this service. The delivery system reform incentive payment (dsrip) program promotes community-level collaboration and focuses on system reform. The dsrip goal is to achieve a 25 percent reduction in avoidable hospital use over five years. Staten Island Mental Health Society is participating as a safety net provider, in several of the dsrip projects focusing on system transformation, clinical improvement and population Health improvement. All dsrip funds are based on performance linked to achievement of project milestones. The Health homes at risk program - or for Staten Island sicares, is a delivery system reform incentive program (dsrip) initiative implemented by nys as part of the medicaid redesign to reduce avoidable emergency room visits. Simhs was engaged by cbc as one of six care management agencies (cma) to provide care management for this initiative. This program provides care services in the same vain as Health homes with certain exceptions; one is eligibility requirement of with one chronic condition, and the second is the longevity or care is 3 months. The Health homes program - cbc is the recognized Health home and simhs was engaged to provide the care management. The services are provided to clients that have 2 chronic medical conditions. The intensity of services is based on an assessment completed for each client. The assessment is used to determine a client's knowledge and inclination to assess medical services. A client can remain in the program and assessments are required periodically. The developmental disabilities clinic services program supports the provision of article 16 services of the pouch center to 137 eligible individuals who are uninsured or underinsured, as well as to their caregivers. This will be done by providing eligible individuals outpatient clinic services meeting the aforementioned criteria and who are developmentally disabled in nyc. Individuals will be screened to determine eligibility but may be self-referred, referred by parent, guardian or other caregiver or by a service provider/agency. Eligible individuals must range from age 2 to adulthood and at least 75% must reside in Staten Island. If eligible, individuals will receive ongoing therapy and medication management services as recommended by the evaluating clinician or as requested by the client/referral source. Ongoing services include individual, group and family psychotherapy, medication management, speech, physical and occupational therapies. The early childhood Mental Health servicies program provides treatment to all children age five and under with Mental Health conditions. Children can be referrals from upk, earlylearn sites or the community at large. Each child will be assessed and engaged in treatment for social, emotional, Mental Health, trauma and behavioral challenges. Social workers will provide services at the currently licensed article 31 clinics during hours of clinic operation to support treatment for upk and community referrals. The child traumatic stress center - to develop the Staten Island children's trauma center (sictc), an initiative that will expand and enhance simhs's continuum of evidence based trauma support and treatment for Staten Island's children and youth who have been and continue to be affected by an array of compounding traumatic events. Sictc is a multi-pronged initiative that will support children and youth who have experienced trauma, ages 5-21 years old, and their caregivers (both families and cross-sector providers) across the systems of care. Over the five year program, sictc will provide trauma psychoeducation and youth within 10 school-based clinic and day treatment settings. Simhs will screen youth ages 5-21 years old for trauma over the lifetime of the grant, and children and youth identified as being adversely affected by trauma will be referred to sictc's trauma treatment services that will be tailored to their needs and experiences. Simhs will offer youth ages 10-15 school-based group treatment one-on-one clinic- or school-based services youth with more acute needs and/or those outside of the target age range. Finally, simhs will provide non-clinical community based providers with trauma 101 psychoeducation and 40 additional community based clinicians and trauma screening tools, thereby infusing the entire Staten Island system of care with a trauma informed lens. Sictc will improve the process for identifying children and youth adversely affected by trauma, increase access to trauma treatment and support and improve outcomes for Staten Island's children, youth, and families affected by trauma, and enhance the Staten Island child and youth services system through trauma-focused trainings and education. Gun violence: the Society provides a full range of evidence-based Mental Health and related services to children and their families impacted by the epidemic of gun violence and actively participates in the cure violence coalition of providers assembled to address the issues around gun violence. The program engages coalition members in training and education around stigma of Mental Health treatment and understanding the cycle of trauma for children, adolescents and family systems.