Brooklyn Children's Center

Brooklyn Children's Center
1819 Bergen Street
Brooklyn, NY 11233
Phone: (718) 221-4500
Fax: (718) 221-4581
E-Mail: Brooklyn Children's Center

The Brooklyn Children's Center (BCC) mission is to promote an environment for the development of healthy children and adolescents.

To achieve its' mission, BCC provides the following services:

• Inpatient Hospital
• Youth in need of continuing inpatient psychiatric care are treated by a multi-disciplinary clinical team. Services include full educational and therapeutic recreation programs as well as pediatric health care.
• Day Treatment
• The Day Treatment Program is jointly sponsored with the New York City Department of Education District 75 (P368K) and provides a fully integrated clinical and educational program.
• Family Services
• BCC's liaison with the Brooklyn community: Parent Advocate services; family support group; ‘Common Sense Parenting©' classes; encouraging the use of positive reinforcement to resolve problem behavior in children.
• Community Residence
• The CR provides a normative community-based residential program for girls, ages 13 through 17. Offering youth the opportunities to connect with their extended families, caregivers and communities; supporting older youth with connections to ease their transition to adulthood.
• Intensive Case Management
• ICMs work in partnership with the child and their family in a strength-based model to obtain all necessary services to enable the child to remain in his/her home and community. Wraparound funds and home health aides are available as well as 24 hours, 7 days a week crisis intervention.
• Adolescent Sexual Behavior Management Program
• In collaboration with the state's Office of Children & Family Services and the city's Department of Probation, the program assesses and treats youth adjudicated as Juvenile Delinquents in Family Court because of sex offenses.

All services offered by BCC are available to children and adolescents 17 years and younger; whose residence is the borough of Brooklyn. BCC provides services regardless of race, color, creed, disability, sex or national origin.