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Director: Wayne M. Gurnick, M.S. L.C.S.W.
Town: Smithtown Phone: 631-920-8302
Smithtown
Yaphank
The Home & Community-Based Services (HCBS) Waiver Program
is designed to help Seriously Emotionally Disturbed (SED)
Suffolk County residents, 5 to 18 years of age. The goal is
to maintain these youngsters at home by offering an array
of community-based services sufficient to prevent intermediate
psychiatric admission or placement in a residential treatment
facility, or to provide services which would enable a child
already in such a placement to be discharged sooner. The New
York State Office of Mental Health permits the Pederson-Krag
Center's program to serve up to 40 children and their families
at one time.
The Pederson-Krag Center is designated to provide the Individualized
Care Coordination (ICC) required by each child/family. In
addition to ICC services, the program also offers:
- Respite Care
- Family Support Services
- Crisis Response Services
- Intensive In-Home Services
- Skill Building Services
Although only Pederson-Krag is approved to provide the ICC
service, it is only one of several approved providers of the
five services listed above.
The individualized care model emphasizes the following major
values:
- The service plan is designed specifically to address the
unique needs and strengths of each child and family.
- Services are provided within the least restrictive, most
normative environment and enable the child to live as normal
a life as possible.
- There is a true partnership with families, including
family involvement during all phases of service planning
and delivery.
- Planning for services is strength-based and recognizes
that even the youngster with the most challenging problems
and families that are the most stressed have strengths,
assets and coping skills.
- The planning and services are culturally competent, and
no youngster should be rejected or found ineligible for
services based solely on the severity of their presenting
problems.
In most cases it may be appropriate for a child receiving
HCBS Waiver Program services to continue in treatment with
his/her therapist and psychiatrist.
The target population for OMH's HCBS Waiver Program is children
and adolescents:
- With Serious Emotional Disturbance
- Between the ages of 5 and 18 years
- Who demonstrate complex health and mental health needs
- Who require a level of care of intermediate inpatient
or RTF
- Who are at imminent risk of admission to intermediate
psychiatric hospitalization or RTF, or have a need for continued
hospitalization
- Whose service and support needs cannot be met by just
one agency
- Who are capable of being cared for in the home and/or
community if services are provided
- Who are capable of being cared for at less cost in the
community than at a hospital
The child or adolescent must meet the criteria for a primary
DSM-IV psychiatric diagnosis. He/she must have experienced
functional limitations due to emotional disturbances over
the past 12 months and meet criteria for ratings of 50 or
less on the Children's Global Assessment Scale (CGAS). These
are children who require individualized, intensive treatment
and rehabilitation services, and usually exhibit a range of
mental health diagnoses and characteristics.
The children and adolescents enrolled in the program are
those who have the potential of functioning in their own homes
and communities without the restrictiveness of a campus or
facility environment. The families are able and willing to
accept the responsibilities of their children being served
within their homes.
The unique needs of each child and family determine what
support services become part of the service plan, and the
level of intensity and frequency with which they are provided.
It is at this point that the family selects among the approved
providers for each service of their plan.
Referrals must include a complete Referral Form, signed Request
to Screen Form and signed releases. Please feel free to photocopy
as many releases as needed for additional information. This
information may be directly sent to Pederson-Krag, HCBS Waiver
program. Attach psychiatric evaluations, psychological testing
reports and treatment history, as well as any other pertinent
data, and submit to:
Pederson-Krag Center North
11 Route 111, Smithtown, NY 11787
Tel: 631.920.8300 Fax: 631.920.8460
Pederson-Krag Center - Yaphank
81 Old Dock Road, Yaphank, NY 11980
Tel: 631.205.1783 Fax: 631.205.1567
Updated 4/13/04
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