Healthy Families

Introduction

CMCS provides a wide range of mental health and wellness services for children, youth, adults, and families, using a trauma-informed, holistic, and family-centered approach. The McCloskey Cares Mental Health Clinic offers counseling, medication management, and telehealth services to individuals aged 0-24 and adults in need. Our Clinical Foster Care program supports foster care youth with counseling, behavioral assessments, and medical and dental care coordination to ensure they receive high-quality, individualized support. The Health Home Care Management program coordinates care across New York City and Westchester County, addressing medical, behavioral, and educational needs while addressing social determinants of health like housing and substance abuse.

Our services extend to adults with developmental disabilities through 24/7 case management and psychiatric and medical monitoring, utilizing evidence-based practices to support individualized outcomes. The Community-Based Services Program provides personalized, in-home support to children and their caregivers, helping them develop new skills and improve overall functioning. We also operate a Child & Adult Care Food Program to ensure that all children receive nutritious meals at no cost, meeting their dietary needs and promoting their well-being. Across all programs, CMCS remains dedicated to enhancing the health and quality of life for the communities we serve.

Child & Adult Care Food Program

ECED implements a nutrition program that meets the nutritional requirements and feeding needs of each child. This includes children who require special dietary assistance. Students receive breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily and at no cost.

Preventive Services

Our Preventative Services are a series of proactive early intervention programs to aid with keeping families together and address potential risk to children. The focus is to establish independence and help families acquire appropriate skills, which promote safety for their children and empower families to be self-sufficient. Additionally, we work to strengthen families as they cope with the day-to-day pressures as well as life tragedies that can challenge parental capacity to appropriately care for and protect children. Most of the families we serve consist of single parents who are suffering from the effects of poverty, working families who struggle with raising their children, families who feel displaced and are culturally alienated in a new homeland and families who struggle with their mental health and/or substance abuse. CMCS Preventative Services have helped many families to achieve more stable and functional lives and homes, able to secure the wellbeing of their children and find positive relationships with the community as a whole.

CMCS operates two prevention programs. Our Family Treatment and Rehabilitation Program works with some of the most vulnerable children and families in the city as they are suffering from significant mental health illness, struggle with substance abuse and in most instances, multiple family members are challenged with both.

Special Medical and Developmental preventive services are intended for families with either a child with special medical needs, a child and/or parent with a developmental disability, or a child in need of early permanency planning due to a parent’s illness. The goal of these services is to support families in accessing services, treatment and supports to meet their children’s and/or their own medical needs. The services are designed to mitigate the impact of a parent’s chronic or terminal illness and provide a bridge to more long-term services for families with children with special medical needs, developmental disabilities, or both. Additionally, the program assists a terminally ill parent to identify a future permanency resource and helps them plan and prepare for the transfer of custody of their children. CMCS is one of four providers selected to work with this extremely vulnerable population.

Expectant Mothers Program

Prenatal Program

The Early Head Start Prenatal program offers supportive services as early in life as possible. The prenatal period of growth and development has a lasting impact on the child’s potential for healthy growth and development after birth. Early Head Start programs provide services to expectant families through the child’s first three years of life and assist expecting families to access comprehensive prenatal, postpartum care, and social service needs.

Fatherhood Group

Fathers and male figures within the ECED community are empowered with the tools and knowledge necessary to pursue fulfilling career opportunities that contribute to their personal and professional growth. It extends beyond the father-child dynamic to encompass partnerships and familial relationships, where effective communication and conflict resolution serve as cornerstones for building enduring bonds and navigating the complexities of family life.

Child & Adult Care Food Program

ECED implements a nutrition program that meets the nutritional requirements and feeding needs of each child. This includes children who require special dietary assistance. Students receive breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily and at no cost.