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New Jersey Approves Non-Profits’ New Partnership to Expand Population Health Care for Exceptional People with Developmental Disabilities and Behavioral Health Challenges

January 14, 2019

Woods Services and Legacy Treatment Services affiliate to transform clinical care in New Jersey and Pennsylvania

LANGHORNE, Pa. (Jan. 14, 2019) – New Jersey officials have given Legacy Treatment Services of Hainesport, N.J., the go-ahead to formally affiliate with Woods Services of Langhorne, Pa. The affiliation, effective Jan. 1, 2019, is another bold move in Woods Services’ strategic transformation plan to expand its comprehensive, coordinated approach to care for exceptional people with complex medical and behavioral healthcare needs due to a wide range of intellectual and developmental disabilities, genetic disorders, child welfare issues, and brain trauma.

Legacy Treatment is the fifth non-profit human services agency to affiliate with Woods Services and the third in New Jersey. “We are delighted that Legacy will be joining Woods, Archway Programs, Allies, Inc., Woods Community at Brian’s House, and Tabor Services as part of the Woods family,” said Kevin Sheetz, Board Chair of Woods Services. “Together, we are creating a dynamic population health management organization that draws on our combined expertise to provide the highest quality of compassionate and evidenced-based care,” he said.

The partnership between Woods Services and Legacy Treatment Services, first announced in June 2018, grew from a mutual dedication to achieving exceptional outcomes for the children and adults each organization serves. Woods had already embarked on a plan to significantly bolster its clinical programming and was looking for a leader in evidence-based treatment and clinical care to help lay the foundation for future programming. It found that leader in Legacy, which not only provided the blueprint, but the expertise and support Woods needed to help launch its “Clinical Transformation” in late 2018. The goal was to develop new clinical treatment models tailored to the specific populations of children with intellectual disabilities that Woods serves. “Our four new clinical models enable us to treat, in an integrated way, the primary issues that are keeping individuals from being successful and utilize a variety of strategies for improved outcomes,” said Tine Hansen-Turton, Woods’ President and CEO. Highlights of the program include a major investment in clinical and support staff, enhancing clinician-to-client ratios, and implementing evidence-based, outcome-driven interventions and treatment-based assessments.

Effective with the affiliation, Roy Leitstein, CEO of Legacy Treatment Services, takes on additional responsibilities as Woods first Chief of Population Health Strategy. “We know that this new affiliation will give both organizations access to exceptionally innovative and dynamic services to positively impact every individual we serve,” said Leitstein. The joining of Legacy Treatment Services to the Wood’s family brings together the industry leaders in services for individuals with developmental disabilities and behavioral healthcare. Gloria Miller, Legacy Treatment Services Board Chair said, “Legacy Treatment Services is excited to have found a partner with a shared sense of mission and organizational culture that believes in doing what is best for our consumers and staff. We are excited to collaborate with Woods services to further expand our continuum of services.”

Together, Woods and its five affiliates serve more than 18,000 people with developmental and behavioral challenges and employ approximately 6,000 dedicated people.

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About Woods Services

Woods Services is a nonprofit, multi-service population health management and advocacy organization that along with five affiliate organizations provides innovative, comprehensive and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health and case management services to more than 18,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, child welfare, behavioral and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs. Founded in 1913 by Philadelphia schoolteacher Mollie Woods with two simple goals – to advance quality of life and standard of care for individuals with disabilities – Woods Services continues its mission today by helping children and adults with disabilities or challenges to achieve their highest potential. For more information, visit woods.org.

About Legacy Treatment Services

Legacy Treatment Services, a 501c3 nonprofit, was created as a merger between The Drenk Center and The Children’s Home in addition to an affiliation with Community Treatment Solutions. Independently, each organization was an expert and preferred provider in the programs and services they delivered. Each agency was known for its innovation, responsiveness to the communities they served and willingness to do whatever it takes. Together, the newly formed Legacy Treatment Services became a vibrant agency utilizing cutting-edge technology and evidence-based practice in treatment and clinical care.

Non-Profits Partner to Expand Opportunities

July 3, 2018

Woods Services and Legacy Treatment Services team up to transform the continuum of care

for people with complex needs through a dynamic population health management organization

LANGHORNE, Pa. (July 2, 2018) – Woods Services of Langhorne, PA and Legacy Treatment Services of Hainesport, NJ have signed an agreement for Legacy to become an affiliate of Woods, while maintaining its own Board of Trustees, management and programs. The affiliation will not go into effect until it receives the approval of New Jersey funders and government agencies.

The two organizations have been working closely together on a variety of projects. As just one example, as part of Woods’ strategic transformation to becoming the premier provider of a population health continuum of care, Legacy has been consulting with Woods to help strengthen and enhance its behavioral health services for children with developmental disabilities, and helped Woods create a new clinical program.

When Legacy initiated the idea of affiliating with Woods, it very quickly became clear that there were many synergies between the organizations, but the most important is their mutual dedication to achieving exceptional outcomes for the children and adults they serve. The affiliation will strengthen their ability to provide a continuum of exceptional supports and services ranging from behavioral health to state-of-the-art treatment and support for people with developmental disabilities, especially those with medical complexities.

When the affiliation is approved, Legacy will become Woods’ fifth affiliate and its third in New Jersey. “We are delighted that Legacy will be joining Woods, Archway Programs, Allies, Inc., Woods Community at Brian’s House and Tabor Services as part of the Woods family,” commented Kevin Sheetz, Chair of the Woods Services Board of Trustees. “We know that our affiliation will give both organizations access to innovative and dynamic services with a positive impact on every individual we serve,” said Gloria Miller, Chair of the Legacy Treatment Services Board of Trustees.

Together these organizations will serve more than 5,000 people with developmental and behavioral challenges and employ more than 5,000 dedicated people.

“Woods, Legacy and our other affiliates are creating a dynamic population health management organization that relies on our combined expertise to provide the highest quality care continuum that meets the complex health, behavioral, social and educational needs of those we serve,” said Sheetz. “In that spirit, we welcome Legacy to the Woods family and are truly excited about all that we will offer together to those who look to us for the highest quality of care and compassion.”

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About Woods Services
Woods Services is a nonprofit, multi-service population health management and advocacy organization that along with four affiliate organizations provides innovative, comprehensive and integrated health, education, housing, workforce, behavioral health and case management services to more than 4,000 children and adults in the intellectual and developmental disability, child welfare, behavioral and brain trauma public health sectors who have complex and intensive medical and behavioral healthcare needs.

Founded in 1913 by Philadelphia schoolteacher Mollie Woods with two simple goals – to advance quality of life and standard of care for individuals with disabilities – Woods Services continues its mission today by helping children and adults with disabilities or challenges to achieve their highest potential. For more information, visit woods.org.

About Legacy Treatment Services
Legacy Treatment Services, a 501c3 nonprofit, was created as a merger between The Drenk Center and The Children’s Home in addition to an affiliation with Community Treatment Solutions. Independently, each organization was an expert and preferred provider in the programs and services they delivered. Each agency was known for its innovation, responsiveness to the communities they served and willingness to do whatever it takes.

Together, the newly formed Legacy Treatment Services (LTS) is a vibrant agency utilizing cutting-edge technology and evidence-based practice in treatment and clinical care. Legacy is committed and positioned to be responsive to meeting the increasingly complex needs of vulnerable children, youth and families and is dedicated to seeking new innovative solutions that provide needed services more efficiently while maintaining stable, sustainable growth.

LTS programs provide a complement of services for most needs. This continuum of care provides children, youth and families consistency in care management and aftercare. We are committed to a no eject/no reject philosophy as well as collaborations that facilitate the youth’s reintegration into their family and/or community. We are open to partnering with traditional as well as nontraditional partnerships which support our consumers in successful assimilation of the gains they made through LTS interventions.