New program aims to help children with mental illness or developmental disabilities

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Household Residences and Important Enterprises, or FREE, is internet hosting two open homes about its new Success Youngsters’s Outpatient Program. This system supplies providers for individuals who are ages 6 to 21 with severe psychological sickness or developmental disabilities.

The open homes are slated for Jan. 25 at FREE’s location at 191 Bethpage-Candy Hole Street in Previous Bethpage, and Feb. 8 at its location at 405 Locust Avenue in Oakdale. Each open homes might be held from 3-7 p.m.

This system supplies providers for kids and youth with autism, down syndrome, main depressive dysfunction, generalized nervousness dysfunction and ADHD. Companies embrace each outpatient and in-home packages, group habilitation, household assist, disaster respite, self-advocacy, employment and a cell disaster unit.

Among the many new providers is in-house counseling. With this service, counselors can meet the kid and household in an setting that’s comfy and acquainted.  This service is accessible in each counties and most  Medicaid and Medicaid managed care plans are accepted.

To tell folks about this system, the group is reaching out to households, childcare suppliers, faculty social staff, psychologists, steering counselors, hospital social staff and discharge planners.