HDSW’s Living Room: Crisis Day Respite for the COVID-19 Crisis

• By: Kathy Pandekakes Kelly Darrow, LCSW Human Development Services of Westchester (HDSW)
• May 19th, 2020
• behavioral health, COVID-19, crisis, respite program, services, summer 2020 issue
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Crisis in every form, including behavioral health, social, economic and medical, accompanies a pandemic. So what happens to face-to-face crisis services for vulnerable populations when needs are greater, access is more difficult, and social distancing and health risks turn already-fragile worlds...

Housing as Healthcare

• By: Andrea Kocsis, LCSW Kathy Pandekakes Human Development Services of Westchester (HDSW)
• October 1st, 2017
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The design and operations of supportive housing programs in New York State has been positively impacted in numerous ways by the state’s Medicaid Redesign process over the last six years. The state’s Medicaid Redesign Team (MRT) recognized early on that housing is a major social determinant of...

Coordinated Behavioral Health Services, Inc. (CBHS) – One Group’s Pathway Toward Preparing for Managed Care

• By: Amy Anderson-Winchell, LCSW Occupations Inc. Andrea Kocsis, LCSW Human Development Services of Westchester (HDSW) Amy Kohn, DSW The Mental Health Association of Westchester Stephanie Madison, LMSW The Mental Health Association of Rockland Alan Trager, LCSW Westchester Jewish Community Services (WJCS)
• April 1st, 2014
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Coordinated Behavioral Health Services (CBHS), incorporated in 2012, is comprised of eight leading behavioral health and developmental disability nonprofit community-based agencies serving the Lower/Mid-Hudson River Region of New York State, and providing services in Westchester, Putnam, Rockland,...