- Residental Options:
- Case Management
- Group Day Coordinated Day Treatment Training and Vocational Programs
- Family Support - After School Program
- Other Serivces
- Recreation and Social Activities
- Respite Care
- Transportation
- Medical
- Nursing
- Pharmacy
- Pysical and Occupational Therapy
- Speech Language Pathology/Audiology
- Psychology
- Dental
- Diet and Nutritional Care
- Psychiatry
- Social Work
Intermediate Care Facilities (ICF's) are supervised Community-based residences for individuals who are disabled with mental retardation/development disabilities.
ICF's were developed during the closing of Willowbrook in the eatrly 1970's. Officials at the New York State Office ofMental Retardation and consumer advocates believed that small community-based group homes were cost-effective and humane alternative to institutionalization.
Community Action for Human Services, Inc. currently operates one ICF in Bronx County for adults with mental retardation/developmental disabilities ages eighteen and older.
Lodovick Avenue Residence
Pelham Gardens, Northeast Bronx - 23 Residents
Nested on a tree-lined street of one family homes with manicured lawns is our Lodovick Avenue Residence. A former nursing home. The annoucement to convert facility into an ICF in the fall of 1980 was rejected by the community. Residents were unfamiliar with the the plight of developmentally disabled adults, many of whom lifed in the state institutions. Neighbors learned, however that our goal was to work in collaboration with adults with mental retardation in conjuction with thier families and the community. Today, many adulsts who live at the Lodovcik Avenue Residence have successfully integrated into the community. They attend neighborhood garage sales, worship at the Church of the Holy Rosary and contribute to the economy by patronizing local stores. |
When we purchased a vacant lot on East 170th Street for the location of Net-Rox services, we were not discouraged by the surrounding decay. Our site faced a vacant lot and sat in the shadow of abandoned buildings. Nevertheless, we saw our property and the improvished neighrborhood as an opportunity to build a loving home for metally retarded adults in need of coordinated residental and program services. On September 1, 1991, Net-Rox Services opened its doors to fourteen Bronx residents. The success of Net-Rox services has helped attract other developers to the community. The vacant lot that faces us currently being transformed into single family homes.
Individualized Residental Alternative, IRA's are one residental option under the NYS OMRDD/Home and Community Based Waiver Services (HCBW), which emphasize a "person-centered" consumer driven approach to service development and delivery.
Community Action for Human Services, Inc. currently operates four (4) scatter IDA apartment units, serving ten (10) consumers. In addition, we operate a five (5) bed IRA, a single family house located in the Bronx, CB #11. This project opened its doors in April 1999. During the next three years, we plan to open antiher five (5) person IRA under the guide of the NYS Initiative.
Community based residental opportunites for homeless individuals with mental illlness and historiues of chemical abuse. Community Action for Human Services, Inc. provides permanent housing, enriched clinical and support services to forty (40) indivduals at Cortone Park West-Paige apartments. JHB Housing, an additional forty-five (45) units opened in a well-appointed, landscaped apartment complex including 24 hour front-desk security, congregate dining, patio, basketball court, laundry room, ADL kitchen, and lounges on each floor.
Crotona Park West - Paige Apartments
Crotona, sotuh Bronx - 40 Residents.
JHB Housing - Boston Road Apartments
Crotona, South Bronx - 45 Residents.
Community Action for Human Services, Inc.currently provides case management services under the HCBW. The number of case management opportunities increased with the establishment of our day habilitation services and the opening of additional IRAS in 1999-2002
Group Day Habilitation or Group Day Hab as it is referred to in the field, represents one of the day service options for persons enrolled in the NYS-OMRDD - Home and Community Based Weiver.
Day Habilitation Services provides adults with mental retardation development disabilities the opportuniy to increase their individuality, indepenence and productivity while increasing their inclusion in their community.
Transportation to and from the day service will be available to those consumers who do not travel independently.
Community Action for Human Services, Inc was awarded a contract from NYS-OMRDD to establish a twnety (20) person group day habilitation service and opened its door July, 1999 at 4377 Bronx Boulvard 2nd Floor, Bronx NY. On April 19 2001, NYS/OMRDD awarded CAHS, inc eight (8) opportunities to expand its Group Day Habilitation program at the same location.
The CAHS, Inc. "Discoveries" Afterschool Recreation Program servers children six to twelve (6-12) Years of age, residing in the Bronx one hundered eighty (180) days (school calendar) per year. The program operates Monday through Friday from 2:30 PM to 6:30 PM.
This population has mental retardation/developmental disabilities, four (4) of whom are non-ambulatory. Transportation services are provided daily.
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