Youth Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) is an intensive, highly coordinated program that provides individualized services and skilled therapeutic interventions designed to address the significant needs of children ages 10-21 who are at risk of entering or returning home from high-end services, such as inpatient settings or residential services through the use of a multi-disciplinary team. Through Youth ACT, we provide families with a comprehensive team of professionals, including Family Peer Support Specialists, Licensed Mental Health Professionals, and Clinical Support Specialists, to deliver individualized services and skilled therapeutic interventions to support children in achieving their goals while remaining in their home, school, and community. Youth ACT accepts youth between the ages of 10-21 who have continuous high-service needs that are not being met in more traditional service settings and meet at least two of the following criteria: Inability to care for self, Difficulty with family life, Difficulty establishing and maintaining social relationships, Inability to maintain self-direction/self-control, Has a high use of psychiatric emergency or crisis services, Has two hospitalizations within one year or one hospitalization of 60 days or more within one year, Has a home and/or community environment that is unable to provide the necessary support for developmentally appropriate growth required to address mental health needs. To support youth and their families, we provide the following services as needed: Individual, group, and family counseling, Case management, Assessments, Skills development, Crisis intervention, Medication management, Family peer services, Vocational/educational service.

Child Parent Psychotherapy Preventive Program is provided by the Jewish Board on Staten Island to all families with children 0-5 years old that have experienced a trauma exposure with symptoms. Our program is evidence base and offers a repair to the child-parent relationship. Our services are completely free, we take walk-in referrals or ACS referrals.

New York City Teens Connection: The NYC Department of Health & Mental Hygiene is committed to helping create a world where all New Yorkers can safely express their sexuality and gender identity with dignity, possessing the knowledge, skills and resources to support healthy and fulfilling lives. New York City Teens Connection (NYCTC) is an adolescent sexual health program of the Bureau of Maternal, Infant and Reproductive Health (BMIRH) in the Division of Family and Child Health within the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH). NYCTC is an expansion of Bronx Teens Connection, scaling up this successful community-based model to reach more youth throughout NYC. By engaging youth, parents, community-based organizations, schools, clinics, and citywide agencies in a comprehensive effort to improve adolescent sexual health, NYCTC will help youth in NYC learn about their sexual and reproductive health, access the information and resources they need to make healthy decisions, and feel empowered to act on these decisions. Poor health outcomes rarely occur in isolation, and certain communities tend to face multiple health inequities. These unfair, unnecessary, and avoidable disparities are rooted in historical and contemporary injustices and discrimination ? including racism ? and require the investment of attention, resources, and deliberate corrective efforts to repair. NYCTC is part of a larger health department effort to advance just and fair outcomes for all New Yorkers, particularly those most marginalized, and prioritizes neighborhoods with histories of social disinvestment and persistently poor health outcomes.

Our focus is to help individuals heal, energize, and become aware of their inner strengths. We achieve this by providing a neutral safe space, listening to your concerns, and customizing a treatment. We're here to help you find the support and guidance you need in a safe and comfortable environment. Our experienced counselors specialize in a variety of areas, including anxiety, depression, relationships, and more. 

A federal initiative created by the National Center for Healthy Safe Children and funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Project LAUNCH has a mission “to promote the wellness of young children ages birth to 8 by addressing the physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and behavioral aspects of their development.” With a goal to prepare children for success in school, Project LAUNCH specifically aims to: Ensure children are ready to learn when entering school Improve coordination and collaboration amongst systems serving children Build infrastructure by increasing the availability of quality, evidence-based programming Increase children’s and their families’ access to top-notch prevention, wellness, and physical and behavioral health services Richmond University Medical Center is amongst a handful of grant recipients for Project LAUNCH, a highly competitive program with only 12 other grantees at any given time. What we learn throughout the five-year term of the grant will help communities influence state-, territorial-, and tribal-level systems changes and policy improvements.

The ECMH Network is thrilled to embark on a transformative journey, expanding its mental health services to cater to the perinatal (pregnant and 12-month postpartum) population.

Understanding the unique challenges and opportunities during this period, we are adding dedicated perinatal mental health practitioners to our clinical team, allowing us to reach more people in need of quality care.

Our highly trained ECMH Network clinic staff, including social workers, mental health counselors, and marriage and family therapists, are equipped with specialized therapeutic models, such as Interpersonal Psychotherapy and Perinatal Child-Parent Psychotherapy. These evidence-based therapies, which are offered both remotely and in person, address anxiety, depression, traumatic stress, and adverse life experiences that can impact not only pregnant people but also their babies.

We conduct comprehensive screenings to understand people’s individual needs and develop personalized treatment plans that address concerns such as anxiety, depression, stress, and trauma.

The SI Childrens Trauma Center utilizes a Trauma Informed Care model because we believe that all systems that interact with a child should make a serious commitment to understanding and responding to trauma by providing a safe environment where the child and caregiver can work through their trauma. With the aid of evidence based trauma models, we give our clients the tools to not only survive, but thrive. Our Licensed Mental Health Clinicians provide time-limited therapeutic interventions utilizing evidence-based treatment models such as Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools (CBITS) and Families Overcoming Under Stress (FOCUS).

TYSA is a behavioral health coalition aimed to promote emotional wellness and reduce substance use for Staten Island's youth. We do this by bringing community leaders and members together to plan and initiate strategies that support this mission. We welcome anybody who cares about mental health and addiction prevention in youth to join our community! Please contact us if you are interested in being a part of our planning process and/or supporting our awareness-raising efforts.

Staten Island Family and Youth Peer Support services provides support to parents and caregivers as well as children and youth from 0-24 years of age who are experiencing social, emotional, developmental, substance use or behavioral challenges. All services are free.

• Advocacy and assistance to navigate child-serving systems
• Information on mental health conditions, services and family rights
• Referrals to appropriate services and resources
• Skills development
• Emotional support
• Recreational activities