This program plans and provides respite for families with seriously emotionally disturbed children. Services include planned and crisis respite, recreation, and special events. The respite program helps to prevent residential placement and psychiatric hospitalization, and helps youngsters and families to develop social skills. Crossroads is a mobile outreach and treatment program for youth, aged 17 to 21 years, who have serious emotional disturbance and who have aged out of children s service systems. The program helps adolescents make the transition to the adult world, and promotes success in work and education.
Crossroads helps to prevent psychiatric hospitalization and failure in programs.
This agency offers advocacy, case management, and support at no charge to individuals needing help with the many systems they must negotiate. The Department of Community Mental Health was honored in 1998 by Human Development Services of Westchester, in gratitude for continued support and dedication to the agency s programs. Careers, an agency working with people who have developmental disabilities or mental illness, recognized DCMH for its outstanding program support, its financial support, and its commitment to helping people with disabilities. New York State Industries for the Disabled honored Westchester County and DCMH as its 1998 Local Government Customer of the Year. Myra Alfreds, Program Director, Community Support Services for Children and Families, was invited to apply for the Children and Families Fellowship of the Annie E. Casey Foundation of Baltimore.