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ROLE IN THE COMMUNITY
NEW JERSEY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICE
SPECIAL CHILD AND ADULT HEALTH SERVICES
CHILD EVALUATION CENTERS OF EXCELLENCE
Child
Evaluation Centers of Excellence are state of the art centers
for the evaluation of children with or at risk for developmental disorders
including behavioral disorders. Their staff have the expertise necessary
to provide medical and health focused evaluations for children from
birth through adolescence.
Children to be served by these Centers are children with congenital or acquired neurodevelopmental disorders including psychosocial disorders, organic central nervous systems disorders, sensory disorders and communication disorders. These Centers are especially suited to serve those children with complicated and interconnected health, social and psychosocial and learning problems, behavioral and environmental effects, and problems related to family stress and parental actions and inactions. As described by Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, M.D., these problems require a multidisciplinary approach above and beyond traditional nursing and physician care. (Report of the Surgeon General's Workshop on Children with Handicaps and Their Families - 1982).
The Child Evaluation Centers of Excellence are a resource for primary care physicians, high risk follow-up program, case managers, care coordinators, day training centers,, child study teams and other community providers requiring assistance in the diagnosis, assessment and/or management of these children.
C.H.A.T.T., located at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, is one of eleven centers in the statewide network.
C.H.A.T.T. services are funded in part by Special Child and Adult Health Services, New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Service.
