Mental Health Services

Providing mental health support is key to fulfilling The Children’s Aid Society’s mission to address the physical and emotional well-being of children and families.

Trained teams of professionals, based in our community centers and community schools, help children and families cope with:

• The difficulties of living in economically disadvantaged communities
• Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Serious emotional disturbance (SED)
• Abuse

Bilingual service providers also ensure that children and their families have the support they need to address acculturation and separation issues common among new immigrant youth.

Children’s Aid is licensed by the State of New York to provide health and mental services under Articles 28 and 31. Our Article 31 Licensed Clinics have provided counseling to youth at three elementary school sites in Central Harlem for more than 15 years.

Mental health services have been part of our community school model since it was launched in 1992 at the Salomé Ureña Middle Academies Campus (I.S. 218) in Washington Heights.

All Children’s Aid Society mental health clinics provide children and family members with confidential individual and family counseling, group therapy, emergency assessments, referrals and crisis intervention.