Westchester Institute for Human Development

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Sep 25, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$16,682,693

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

WIHD operates several innovative community service programs through contracts with the Westchester County Department of social Services. These include a Children's Advocacy Center providing forensic pediatric, counseling and victim support services for children who have been physically and/ or sexually abused; an in-home assessment and prevention program for families whose children are at risk of placement in foster care, including families where one or both parents has a developmental disability; a comprehensive family assessment program to ensure that foster families have the appropriate resources and training needed to support the children placed in their care, health and educational care coordination for children in foster care and after care services for up to two years to reunited birth and adoptive families. Other community programs include a lower Hudson Valley Special Education Parent Center, an Early Childhood Direction Center, service coordination for families participating in the early intervention system, a Regional Autism Center, an Applied Behavioral Analysis program and an adaptive equipment and evaluation program. These are designed to provide information, referral and training services to families and professionals to ensure that families of children with special needs receive appropriate early intervention, preschool and school-age services as well as access to necessary assistive technologies designed to support developmental and educational goals.

Filer

EIN

20-0738248