rehabWestchester Jewish Community Services
Yonkers, NY
Mental health care
Westchester Jewish Community Services
WJCS KICS MLK School Program
Westchester Jewish Community Services provides mental health care in Yonkers, NY, with outpatient services. People seeking care can access cognitive behavioral therapy and dialectical behavior therapy. Payment options include private health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and self-payment.
135 Locust Hill Avenue, Yonkers, NY, 10701
Services & treatment options
Treatment
Type of Care
- Mental health treatment
- Substance use treatment
- Treatment for co-occurring substance use plus either serious mental health illness in adults/serious emotional disturbance in children
Care setting
- Outpatient
Pharmacotherapies
- Antipsychotics used in treatment of SMI
- Aripiprazole
- Asenapine
- Cariprazine
- Clozapine
- Fluphenazine
- Haloperidol
- IIoperidone
- Lurasidone
- Nicotine replacement
- Non-nicotine smoking/tobacco cessation
- Olanzapine
- Olanzapine/Fluoxetine combination
- Paliperidone
- Perphenazine
- Quetiapine
- Risperidone
- Thioridazine
- Ziprasidone
Treatment Approaches
- Abnormal involuntary movement scale
- Activity therapy
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Couples/family therapy
- Dialectical behavior therapy
- Group therapy
- Individual psychotherapy
Emergency Mental Health Services
- Crisis intervention team
- Psychiatric emergency mobile/off-site services
Assessment/Pre-treatment
- Screening for tobacco use
Who we help
Special Programs/Groups Offered
- Children/adolescents with serious emotional disturbance (SED)
- Clients who have experienced trauma
- Clients with co-occurring mental and substance use disorders
- Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer/questioning (LGBTQ)
- Members of military families
- Persons with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
Age Groups Accepted
- Children/Adolescents
Payment & insurance
Payment and insurance
- Cash or self-payment
- County or local government funds
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Other State funds
- Private health insurance
- State education agency funds
- State welfare or child and family services funds
- State-financed health insurance plan other than Medicaid
Payment Assistance Available
- Payment assistance (check with facility for details)
- Sliding fee scale (fee is based on income and other factors)
Support services
Recovery Support Services
- Mentoring/peer support
Education and Counseling Services
- Smoking/vaping/tobacco cessation counseling
Language Services
- Sign language services for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Spanish
Ancillary Services
- Case management service
- Court-ordered outpatient treatment
- Education services
- Family psychoeducation
- Suicide prevention services
About the center
Facility Type
- Outpatient mental health facility
Facility operation
- Private non-profit organization
Facility Smoking Policy
- Smoking not permitted
Facility Vaping Policy
- Vaping not permitted