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Causes: Child Day Care, Children & Youth, Education, Preschools, Special Education
Mission: To serve children with disabilities and their typical peers through state-of-the-art educational, therapeutic, nursing and family support services in an integrated environment.
Programs: Early intervention integrated learning and therapy: challenged child and friends offers a tailored and integrated experience where children with a variety of developmental delays and disabilities learn and grow in a full inclusion program with children who have typical development. Ccaf begins serving children as young as six weeks of age up to six years. With a staff to student ratio that averages one-to-four, individualized programs occur for all students enrolled. Our "whole person" program utilizes the coordinated efforts of a professional team with diverse qualifications and experience. In our classroom program, children receive early education intervention with differentiated teaching. Additionally, speech, occupational and physical therapy services are offered in a variety of models that include direct treatment and collaboration with teaching staff. Students benefit from skilled nursing staff as well as family support services from a licensed social worker. For families who do not wish to participate in a center based classroom program, ccaf also offers outpatient speech, occupational and physical therapy services. Ccaf helps infants and young children of all ability levels and their families successfully adapt and grow into a richer, more fruitful, home, school and community life.