CUCS is thrilled to announce the opening of its newest 60-unit extended stay residence in the Crotona Park East section of the Bronx. Tenants began moving in last month and now the residence is fully occupied.

CUCS is the owner, developer, property manager and service provider for the site which is funded by the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH). CUCS will be helping adults who need intensive assistance to eventually access less service-intensive forms of housing including supportive housing, scattered site apartment programs and fully independent living.

The word is getting out about CUCS' Wellness Self Management (WSM) program in the NYS Correctional System. Reporters from Gannett News recently attended WSM classes at Fishkill Correctional Facility where they met some of the inmates with mental illnesses that are currently participating in and benefiting from the program. Features ran in the Journal News, the Binghamton Press & Sun Bulletin and the Poughkeepsie Journal.

CUCS' 350 Lafayette Street Transitional Living Community (TLC) was recently the subject of a news feature on WABC, Channel 7 New York. Program Director Linda Ricciardi and 350 TLC graduate Michelle Ponist were interviewed and discussed everything from the history of 350 TLC to the program's remarkable success in moving homeless women with mental illness into affordable, permanent housing, usually in four to six months.