WellLife Network, Inc.

We help people achieve greater independence and reach their life goals. We will work with you and your family to determine your unique needs and help you to navigate through the services and wide range of supports that you will need in order to achieve them.

Our highest priority is providing programs and services that promote personal growth, self-respect and dignity and which value all individuals with developmental disabilities as contributing members of their communities.

Individualized Plans

WellLife Network provides a variety of options so that you, your guardian and family can determine which programs and services best suit your needs, assist you in meeting personal goals, and allow you to live as independently as possible in the community of your choice.

Our options offer the ability to:

• Live at home with your family
• Reside with others in a home of your choice
• Develop social, personal, life and job skills

As an integral part of our programs, WellLife Network welcomes and encourages the involvement of families and caregives—through information sharing, goal setting and ongoing communication.

Our services include:

Residential

The WellLife Network’s group homes and supported apartments, throughout New York City and Long Island, are home to more than 280 adults with developmental and other disabilities. We serve people with varying levels of independence, including those who are medically fragile, aging and/or use wheelchairs. Our knowledgeable, friendly staff supports our residents in leading a lifestyle of dignity and maximum independence in a secure, friendly and nurturing environment.

Day Habilitation

Day Habilitation programs are offered to individuals who live in residential settings, as well as by themselves or with family. These programs include purposeful and meaningful activities and are designed to foster the acquisition of skills, appropriate behavior, greater independence and personal choice.

Advocacy & Family Supports

WellLife Network provides advocacy and support to individuals and their families through our Family Support and Entitlements and Eligibility Services. Individuals and their families may need help in discovering certain resources that allows the individuals we serve the opportunity to fulfill their life goals. With assistance from our Family Support and Services Team, each person’s particular needs, individual strengths and aspirations all help to determine exactly what support services are needed.

WellLife Network programs are licensed by the New York State Office for People with Developmental Disabilities (OPWDD).

Having a place to call home is one of the most basic human needs. For many, having not only a home but a supportive and nurturing living environment is essential for coping with life’s challenges and achieving a fulfilling life.

WellLife Network’s state-of-the-art and innovative housing programs and support services, located throughout New York City and Long Island, offer supportive environments to more than 1,200 individuals and families with mental illness, developmental disabilities/intellectual disabilities, those who are seniors and formerly homeless individuals. Our residential offerings include, houses, apartments, and mixed use dwellings.

WellLife Network’s housing promotes living with dignity. Building upon the strengths and preferences of each individual we encourage and support wellness, self-determination and recovery.

There are two major areas in the Residential and Housing Services Division:

Behavioral Health Housing
Developmental Disabilities Residential Services

Navigating the health care and social service systems can be challenging for clients with complex chronic conditions. A significant percentage of Medicaid dollars are spent paying for inpatient care for this segment of the Medicaid population. Appropriately accessing and managing services for these clients in the community, through improved care coordination and service integration between providers, is critical to managing health care costs and improving health outcomes for this population.

The WellLife Network is a large scale partner with insurance companies, bringing our clinical expertise, service delivery network and care management capacity necessary to achieve the triple aim of improved care, better outcomes and reduced costs. It is a service delivery system that:

Provides a broad array of supportive and rehabilitative services to aid consumers in reaching their health goals
Expedites access to an integrated network of healthcare and social service supports
Utilizes client engagement and motivation within a whole health orientation to maximize effective disease management strategies
Systematically identifies and addresses risk
Focuses on innovation and collaboration to deliver the best services

WellLife Network offers care management health solutions through three offerings:

Care Coordination
Assertive Community Treatment (ACT)
Home & Community Based Services

Thousands of individuals coping from addiction to alcohol and other forms of substance abuse and their family members have been helped since the WellLife Network (formerly PSCH-Pederson Krag) opened on Long Island in 1957.

The WellLife Network understands addiction as a progressive and pervasive disease that can affect every aspect of a person’s life. We provide person-centered treatment services to support individuals and/or their significant others on their path to recovery and wellness. We use clinical and medication supported modalities offered at a reasonable cost. At WellLife Network, we believe recovery is attainable, sustainable and maintainable.

Our Approach

The Addiction & Recovery Services (ARS) Department is dedicated to the prevention, education and treatment of substance use disorders. Our primary focus is arresting the symptoms of the disease of addiction/substance use disorder through treatment of all those affected by it, as well as the development of community awareness through education. Our outreach programs and services are developed in response to the changing needs of the community and are offered in three community-based locations: Wyandanch, Smithtown and Huntington. The programs are licensed by the New York State Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS).

Chemical Dependency Prevention

Chemical Dependency Prevention is a community-based education and prevention program using evidenced-based practices that may be provided through classroom education, workshops, group discussions and other events, including Naloxone training.

It's difficult to be diagnosed with a serious emotional disturbance. It is even more difficult when it is your child who has been diagnosed with this disease. When a child is living with a serious mental illness, the whole family may be affected. Parents sometimes feel shame, anger and very often despair.

Serious mental illness is not the result of bad parenting and is very often biological in nature. Keeping open lines of communication amongst all family members is vital for a healthy family unit. WellLife Network has helped thousands of families regain their sense of unity for more than four decades.

How We Help Families and Children

The goal of WellLife Network Family and Children’s Community-Based Programs is to assist children and youth with serious social, emotional and/or behavioral challenges in developing coping skills, become more resistant to crisis and gain greater independence through a continuum of services. These services include: care coordination, crisis intervention, skill building, family education and support and respite care. These services have the goal of helping children and adolescents cope with life’s challenges and assist their families in supporting them.

The WellLife Network provides training/workshop opportunities to support the development of community connection, inter-agency and internal collaboration, basic and advanced assessment and intervention skills. These workshops are custom designed for community stakeholders, clinical/non-clinical staff, educators, families, students, and other concerned citizens.

IMPROVING COMMUNITY AWARENESS

Courses that Make a Difference

Our current course offerings focus on key issues facing our communities:

Suicide Prevention/Community Awareness
Mental Health First Aid
Childhood Sexual Trauma
Parenting
Grief Counseling
Hoarding
Conflict Resolution
Resilience
Adolescents at Risk

WellLife Network’s LiveWell+ is a Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic. LiveWell+ provides comprehensive, holistic outpatient services for substance use disorders and behavioral health issues.
These services are targeted for residents of Suffolk County Long Island.

WellLife Network’s LiveWell+ provides quality care patient-centered treatment to adolescents and children with serious emotional disorders, adults, and veterans and their families. Compassionate staff will consider each participant's needs, strengths, culture, and other aspects of life in the community to provide recovery-oriented care.

Participants will receive same-day access and the highest quality of care available, incorporating proven, effective treatment for substance use and mental health disorders. CCBHC offers services that emphasize recovery, wellness, trauma-informed care, and physical-behavioral health integration.

WellLife Network is a unique behavioral healthcare setting certified through New York State Office of Mental Health as an Article 31 clinic. We are a multidisciplinary, multicultural organization whose mission is to provide person-centered care to adults with mental health challenges and numerous healthcare needs.

Clinicians at WellLife Network are licensed to ensure the highest quality of behavioral health care, knowledge of evidence-based practices, and diagnostic training.