The Child Service Coordination program began in October 1990 to enhance services to children with special needs and their families. The purpose was to expand the pool of potential service providers to include other agencies that serve young children, such as Area Mental Health programs, Developmental Evaluation Center, Sickle Cell programs, Head Start, and other public and private agencies. The goals of the Child Service Coordination program are to collaborate and cooperate with families to assure identification of and access to prevention, specialized and support services for themselves, and their children. The local Health Departments were named as the local lead agencies for this program.

CSC Families will have:

1. Improved access to services pursuant to Federal Child Find Initiatives
2. Opportunity for individual members and the family unit to reach maximum potential.
3. Opportunity to identify their concerns and develop or enhance self reliance skills

The CSC philosophy:

1. Is family centered and family driven
2. Responds to varying concerns of children and their families
3. Recognizes that concerns of children and families change over time
4. Recognizes that families are the constant in lives of their children
5. Recognizes that families have expertise regarding their children

This program serves children at risk of or with a diagnosis of:

1. Developmental delay or disability
2. Chronic illness
3. Social/emotional disorder

At risk children can be served until the age of three and children with a known diagnosis can be served until age 5. There are no financial eligibility criteria for the Child Service Coordination program. In fiscal year 2004-2005 sixty- two initial visits were made with 876 subsequent visits and and average caseload of 90.

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