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Woods Services fills NY's need for suitable facilities

Buildings line the street inside to Woods Services

Photo credit: Photo by Bucks County Courier Times | Buildings line the street inside to Woods Services campus in Langhorne, PA.

Pennsylvania-based Woods Services is 100 miles from Long Island but it is one of nearly 20 residential facilities where Nassau and Suffolk send their children, men and women with emotional problems or developmental disabilities - mainly because not enough suitable beds exist in New York State.

The counties' departments of social services have adults and children spread among about 20 facilities...

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