LIFELINE CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT
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Mission Statement
The mission of Lifeline Center for Child Development is to empower children to develop and use their behavioral tools so that they may reach their full potential in academic, social and family arenas during childhood, and go on to live their full potential in adulthood.
About This Cause
Lifeline Center for Child Development is a private not-for-profit organization, in Queens, NY. Lifeline was founded by a school psychologist, Ethel Wyner, in 1959, as a therapeutic milieu for children with mental illness. At the time, therapeutic milieu was a progressive, compassionate alternative to the medical interventions, which were typically used to treat children with behavioral and emotional limitations. Ethel Wyner led the agency, and acted as Executive Director, for over forty years, until her retirement in 1999. Lifeline’s first program remains it primary program today. Lifeline operates a children’s psychiatric day treatment, licensed by the NYS Office of Mental Health, treating children from age 4 – 19, with diagnoses of serious mental illness, and educational classification of emotional disturbance. All of these children are students in the NYC public school system, and recipients of NYS Medicaid Insurance. The program is administered in the same spirit of progressive and compassionate treatment on which it was founded. Today, the psychiatric day treatment program includes psychiatric services, cognitive behavioral therapy, crisis intervention services, family support services, yoga & mindfulness. The program is provided in an integrated delivery with each child’s education. In 2018, Lifeline Center sadly closed its pre-school program, which was an expanded piece of the existing program, due to financial limitations. As Lifeline looks to the future, it seeks an ambitious service expansion across its 3-acre campus. In the Fall of 2020, Lifeline began a Health Homes Serving Children Care Management Program, to serve the needs of children with psychiatric and physical illness within the community. In 2021, Lifeline aims to launch a family mental health clinic, and in-home therapeutic services for children.