Children's Community Residences
St. Vincent's Services opened its first Children's Community Residence in Springfield Gardens early in 2008. These homes each care for eight children and provide comprehensive services aimed at meeting the emotional, behavioral and developmental needs of our children and their families. The homes are staffed with professional child care, social service and medical staff.
This new model is a beneficial temporary step between the institutional environment of a hospital and the young peoples' own homes, to which they will ultimately return.
The New York State Office of Mental Health is working with St. Vincent's to open three more Children's Community Residences in Eastern Queens, which will make St. Vincent's one of the major providers of this essential service. We expect to open two of the homes in 2009.
Study Shows SVS Youth Thrive as Young Adults
One of the first outside research studies ever done of any foster care program showed that SVS American Dream graduates out-performed both other children of foster care and a random sample of American youth. SVS President & CEO Msgr. Robert Harris said, "We were so thrilled to see the results of this study, which confirmed what we already know-SVS does a good job preparing our kids to be successful, mature, happy, and productive adults."
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