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
• behavioral health, cost reduction, emergency department utilization, healthcare integration, Medicaid redesign, nursing care, social determinants of health, supportive housing
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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...