
Behavioral Health Care Center
Northern Rivers Family Services
Albany, NY
Northern Rivers Family Services provides essential counseling, behavioral health care, social support services, education and healthcare for children between 5 and 18 years old as well as their families; with numerous locations across the Capital Region. The Behavioral Healthcare Center (BHC) is home to Northern Rivers’ crisis-response team, who are tasked with emergency response, as well as community outreach and in-home behavioral healthcare. The BHC uses a pod-based living concept for a variety of in-patient residential treatment programs. Each pod contains five (5) bedrooms located around a central relaxation and dining area, with private bathrooms and a decompression room also accessible from the central area. There are four pods that are home to a total of twenty (20) in-patient clients. The residence pods have access to a central courtyard. Additionally, there is a clinic to provide primary care medical services for the residents, staff workspaces and clinical offices, as well as a full service kitchen / cafeteria that serves the entire campus.







