Fast Facts
Mission
Mary Cariola Children's Center provides the highest-quality individualized services for children with developmental delays and especially for those with complex or multiple disabilities. The Center is dedicated to excellence in family-centered educational, residential, therapeutic and community support services and to developing program initiatives for emerging populations of children with special needs.
A Leader in Programming for Children With Disabilities
Mary Cariola is a private, nonprofit agency and is considered a leader in providing education, residential programs and other services for children with disabilities. The Center was the first in the nation to have a sensory room for children and opened the state’s first group home for children with significant behavior management needs.
Agency Information
- Budget: $24,444,953(2008–2009)
- Number of Staff: 598
- Full-time: 388
- Part-time: 210
Special Services Offered
- Orthopedic Consultation
- Psychological Consultation
- Medication Consultation
- Nursing
- Adapted Physical Education
- Speech Therapy
- OT/PT
- Music Therapy
- Social Work
- Behavior Therapy
- Prevocational Program (PALS)
- Dietary Consult
- Telemedicine
- Snoezelen Sensory Room
- Treatment Intensives
Day Program
- Number of Students Served: 613
- Number of Center-Based Classrooms: 59
- Preschool: 10
- School Age: 50
- Number of School Districts Referring Students: 44
- Number of Counties Served: 10
Community Service — Residential & Medicaid Service Coordination Programs
The Residential Program provides full-time care in a family setting to small groups of children with multiple disabilities and behavior management needs. The program's five residential facilities located throughout the county serve a total of 38 children, with six to nine children in each home.
Medicaid Service Coordination provides outreach to children in the community with disabilities and their families. Medicaid Service Coordinators work with these children and their families to identify and secure services from community resources to assist the child and their family.
Medicaid is the primary funding source for both programs through the Office of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities.
Number & Location of Residences
- Residence I: Browncroft Blvd. (Penfield) – opened in 1979
- Residence II: English Rd. (Greece) – opened in 1981
- Residence III: Kreag Rd. (Fairport) – opened in 1984
- Residence IV: Rush-Scottsville Rd. (Rush) – opened in 1991
- Residence V: Bailey Rd. (West Henrietta) – opened in 2005
Primary Funding Mechanism and Source(s)
| Program | Mechanism | Established By | Paid By |
| Residential | Per child/Per diem | OPWDD | NYS Medicaid |
| Medicaid Svc. Coordination | Per child/Per month | OPWDD | NYS Medicaid |
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