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 In 1969, Judge Elizabeth Bass Golding of the Nassau County Family Court, founded Hope For Youth to create a group home program for adolescent boys. Judge Golding envisioned a community based alternative for emotionally disturbed Nassau County youth placed in residential treatment centers, but capable of living in the community with appropriate supports. Hope For Youth opened its first boys group home in Bellmore in 1970 and subsequently received local, state and national recognition for demonstrating the viability of the group home model for youth.
Today, Hope For Youth operates an array of services for children, youth and families, which span a continuum of care from out-patient clinical and preventive services to foster care, diagnostic and emergency services and other residential programs including our original therapeutic group home program. We serve children as young as six months of age through age twenty one and families from across the Long Island region.
With seven residential facilities, over fifty foster homes, and 130 staff, Hope For Youth has grown into one of Long Island’s preeminent providers of children and family services. We have contractual relationships and accept referrals from the:
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•Nassau County Department of Social Services
•Suffolk County Department of Social Services
•Suffolk County Department of Probation
•Nassau County Department of Probation
•New York City Administration for Children’s Services
•Suffolk County Division of Community Mental Hygiene
•Nassau County Children’s Mental Health Respite Program
•Suffolk County Children’s Mental Health Respite Program
•New York State Office of Children and Family Services
Hope For Youth residential and foster care programs are licensed by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services. Hope For Youth out-patent clinical services are licensed by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services. |
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2009 AGENCY SERVICE STATISTICS
For the year ending December 31, 2009, Hope For Youth provided services to 653 children, youth and families. This represents all contacts across all programs. Some of those children were in residential placement with HFY twenty four hours per day in one of our group homes or foster homes for the entire year, others might have been in one of our diagnostic beds for a short term assessment and yet others we worked with on an out-patient basis. The following sections provide service utilization details by program for the 2009 year.
Diagnostic & Emergency Services
The three Diagnostic and Emergency Service residential facilities served a total of 362 children and youth ranging in age from eleven months to 18 years. Individual program statistics were as
follows:
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Non-Secure Detention: 160 youth between 11 and 17 years, 104 male, 56 female. Total care days provided were 1959, for an average length of stay of 12 days.
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Family Ties Sibling Diagnostic and Emergency Program: 89 children between 11 months and 15 years, 48 male, 41 female. Total care days provided were 3050, for an average length of stay of 34 days.
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Diagnostic & Emergency Group Home: 118 youth between 11 and 19 years old, 79 male and 39 female. Total care days provided were 3368, for an average length of stay of 28 days.
Therapeutic Group Home Program
The four HFY Therapeutic Group Homes served a total of 50 male youth in long term residential care, ranging in age from 12 to 20. Total care days provided were 9660, for an average length of stay of 193 days (6.5 months).
Foster Care
In 2009, HFY maintained a network of 55 certified foster homes that served a total of 81 children and youth ranging in age from new born infants to 20 years old, 41 males and 40 females. Total care days provided were 14,697, for an average length of stay of 169 days (5 months). Placement by level of foster care as follows:
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Therapeutic Foster Care: 55
children
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Regular Foster Care: 21
children
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Emergency Foster Care: 2
children
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Infant Care: 3 children
Out Patient and Preventive Services
Hope For Youth operates out patient substance abuse treatment programs and child protective preventive service programs. These four separate programs had the following utilization levels in 2009:
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The Out-patient Chemical Dependency for Youth (OCDY) substance abuse clinical program, served 67 clients who had a total of 2132 visits, representing a mix of psychiatric reviews, individual, group and family therapy.
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The Multi-Dimensional Family Therapy Program (MDFT) is a New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services Adolescent Pilot Project which is demonstrating the viability of the MDFT model in preventing the entry of substance abusing adolescents into the juvenile justice system. The program began operation in March of 2008 with one therapist and added a second funded therapist in May of 2008. Case loads are held to a maximum of eight clients and their families. In 2009, the MDFT program served 29 clients, who had a total of 609 clinical contacts and 237 case management contacts.
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The Suffolk County Intensive Case Management Program provides intensive, in-home services to families involved with Child Protective Services who are at imminent risk of having their children removed and placed into foster care. Because of the intensive level of services provided, each master level social worker has a maximum case load of four clients. In 2009, the Suffolk ICM program served 37 clients. The Suffolk program is funded for 4 MSW level ICM staff and 1 MSW level supervisor.
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The Nassau County Intensive Case Management Program is funded by the New York State Office of Children and Family Services to replicate our highly successful Suffolk County ICM program. Like the Suffolk program our Nassau ICM program provides intensive, in-home services to families involved with Child Protective Services who are at imminent risk of having their children removed and placed into foster care. Because of the intensive level of services provided, each master level social worker has a maximum case load of four clients. In 2009, the Nassau ICM program served 27 clients. The Nassau program is funded for 2 MSW level ICM staff and 1 MSW level supervisor who also carries a small caseload.
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