About
Community, not clinic.
A children’s mental health and family support nonprofit in Rockland County. Licensed clinicians, skills coaches and parent advocates who work in homes, schools and neighborhoods, in the language your family speaks.
Our story
Why Rising Child exists.
Rising Child Center, Inc. was founded in 2025 with one job: bring New York State’s children’s mental health framework into the places children actually live. Homes. Classrooms. The park down the block.
Too many families here were driving across town to a clinic for problems that happen at the kitchen table, in the classroom or on the way to the bus. So the care was built to travel instead: licensed clinicians, skills coaches and parent advocates who work where a child’s day actually happens, in the language the family speaks at home.
A new building in Suffern is under construction for the things that do need a home: childcare, early intervention and a family hub. The new center is under construction.
Our approach
Four things we hold to.
Community, not clinic
Care where your child lives, learns and plays. Clinics have their place; a kitchen table is where most of a child’s life happens.
The family is part of the team
Plans are written with parents, not for them. Parents who have been through it support parents who are in it.
Your language
Care in the language your family thinks in: Yiddish, English, Spanish and more.
No wrong door
A parent, a teacher, a pediatrician, a care manager. Whoever calls first, the child gets seen.
Leadership and team
The people responsible.
By design, no photos. Many families and staff in our community prefer it that way.
- President and Chief Executive Officer
- Name to be updated
- Founders
- Names to be updated
- Clinical director
- Name to be updated
The team, by role
- Licensed clinicians (LCSW, LMHC, LMFT)
- Master’s-level practitioners
- Skills coaches
- Family Peer Advocates
- Youth Peer Advocates
- Licensed behavior analyst
- On-call licensed social worker
Join our team
Do the work where it matters.
We’re hiring licensed clinicians, CPST practitioners, PSR skills coaches, Family and Youth Peer Advocates, and more. Part time and full time, with flexible hours.
Oversight and licensing
Who checks our work.
Plain sentences, naming the regulator. For referrers, partners and anyone who wants to look us up.
- Entity
- Rising Child Center, Inc., a New York not-for-profit corporation, incorporated 2025.
- Children’s mental health services
- Designated by the New York State Office of Mental Health to provide Children and Family Treatment and Support Services (CFTSS).
- Clinical staff
- New York State Education Department professional services waiver #1683, valid October 8, 2025 to October 31, 2028. It lets us employ LMSWs, LCSWs, LMHCs, LMFTs, LCATs, licensed behavior analysts, psychologists and psychoanalysts.
- Childcare
- New York State OCFS day care center license for the new building: application under way.
- Early intervention
- Rising Child will be an approved New York State early intervention provider in its own right, for evaluation, speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, physical therapy and special instruction. Approval is under way.
- Partners
- New York State Office of Mental Health · Rockland County · Medicaid managed care plans.
Come see us, or let us come to you.
Call and we’ll talk through what your family needs. When the building opens, we’d love to show you around.