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Elmcrest’s Salt Springs Campus is home to some 75 young
boys and girls, who have been removed from their homes,
on an annual basis. These youth have experienced trauma in
their lives or have disabilities that prevent them from being
successful at home, at school and in their communities.
The coed campus, lined with 12 stately homes
affectionately referred to as “cottages” and separated by
program, houses anywhere from seven to ten youth per
cottage, who are under 24-hour supervision and receive
medical, psychological and psychiatric services. Youth
attend the on-campus school, run by Syracuse City School
District, use the modern Literacy Center, and participate in
activities that foster their physical and emotional growth
as well as learn values that help them develop positive
character traits.
Elmcrest provides residential services to 19 counties in
Central New York, and youth are referred by the Department
of Social Services in individual counties. Residents range in
age from 8-18 years old, and the average length of stay is
13.14 months.
Residential Programs