Families First, Inc.

Families First, Inc

196 Water Street
Elizabethtown, NY 12932
Phone: (518) 873-9544
Fax: (518) 873-9570
Program Contact: Jennifer Deyo
Email: jdeyo@familiesfirstessex.org

Counties Served:  Essex

Family Support Services

Provides a Family Peer Advocate to meet with parents in their homes to coach and support parents to become more knowledgeable about their child's issues, become a better advocate for their child, and discover what parenting techniques work best with their child. This Family Peer Advocate is a credentialed professional who has lived experience to better understand the parents needs and feelings.

Health Home Care Management

Provides a care manager to work with the child and family to oversee the entire range of a child's health needs. The care manager will partner with the family to develop a plan of care and coordinate with all other providers to ensure that a child remains healthy.

Home and Community Based Services

Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) are designed to offer support and services to children in non-institutionalized settings that enable them to remain at home and in the community. HCBS provides a family-driven, youth guided, culturally and linguistically appropriate system of care which accounts for the strengths, preferences, and needs, as well as the desired outcome of the individual. Services are individualized to meet the health, developmental and/or behavioral health needs of each youth.

HCBS are intended to be provided to a child and family in their home and/or the community. The array of services is intended to assist children in being successful at home, in school, and in their other natural environments to help maintain them in their community and avoid higher levels of care and out of home placements.

Children and Family Treatment and Support Services

Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS) are intended to better meet children's needs, expand access to clinical treatment services, and provide a greater array of approaches for rehabilitative interventions. This includes Youth Peer Support and Training. Any child who is Medicaid eligible and is identified as having a health or behavioral health need can access services with greater flexibility and choice.