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Bridges to Health (B2H)

For children in foster care with the most complex mental health and medical needs, B2H offers hope for a brighter and more stable future.

NAC is one of a handful of agencies in New York City to offer a Bridges to Health (B2H) Program.  As a B2H site, NAC provides intensive support and social services for children in foster care who are medically fragile, have a developmental disability or are severely emotionally disturbed. B2H is a Medicaid Waiver program that is administered through the New York State Office of Children & Family Services (OCFS). 

B2H services are individualized, responsive and flexible.  B2H allows birth and foster families as well as other significant people in a child’s life to participate in service provision.  This wrap-around approach to supporting the child and the adults in his/her life is designed to permit B2H staff to follow the child on the path from foster care to permanency and beyond. 

B2H’s fourteen services can be tailored to meet each child and family's needs, and can be modified as the child grows and the family's needs change. Services continue until age 21, including after the child has been discharged from foster care, whether to reunification or adoption.  Parents choose services that best fit their child and family's needs, which include:

• Health Care Integration
• Family/Caretaker Support and Service
• Skill Building
• Day Habilitation
• Special Needs Community Advocacy and Support
• Prevocational Services
• Supported Employment
• Planned Respite
• Crisis avoidance, management and training
• Immediate Crisis Response Service
• Intensive In-home Supports
• Crisis Respite
• Adaptive and Assistive Equipment
• Accessibility Modifications

NAC's B2H services are citywide and service providers are available to travel anywhere in the five boroughs.

Contact us

To find out more about NAC's B2H Program, please contact the B2H Director at 212-994-7912 or via B2H@NacKidsCan.org.