Mandated Preventive Services

Back to School: A Parent’s Perspective

September 21, 2020

Family Resources to Stabilize a Child’s Environment

Each year, Green Chimneys serves approximately 40 families with the expectation of preventing foster care placements for their children. Mandated Preventive Services include case counseling and coordination, substance abuse treatment and mental health referrals, entitlement and housing assistance, and other services that families may need in order to create a healthy and stable environment for their children. Services are contracted through the Putnam County Department of Social Services.

Available services:

Case management

Case planning

Casework contacts

Daycare services

Homemaker services

Home management services

Clinical services

Parenting/parent aide services

Transportation services

Emergency shelter

Preventive housing services

Intensive home-based family preservation services

Crisis hotline

Recreational services

Brook Lyn the Sheep

Found abandoned in a box with her brother in Brooklyn, NY, this sheep was rescued as a newborn. After she was stabilized by a wildlife rehabilitator, she was driven up to Green Chimneys Farm where the children hand fed her with bottles of warm milk. The responsibility of becoming a caretaker for a little animal like Brook Lyn gives students a chance to recognize their own ability to make a contribution. Many of the children have been “taken care” of all of their lives by caring parents, concerned teachers and mental health staff, but stepping up and holding a bottle for this little orphan lamb transforms them from service receivers to service providers.