PROVIDENCE – Women & Infants Hospital has created a new, outpatient center for behavioral health services, focused on developmental stages of the family.
The Center for Children and Families, located at 50 Holden St., will provide integrated behavioral health care across disciplines of psychology, psychiatry and clinical social work.
The new center will be closely aligned with the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, which conducts research and studies infant development and behavior issues.
“For more than two decades, our mission has been to stimulate outstanding interdisciplinary research, education and clinical services on the biological and social factors that determine the developmental outcome of at-risk children,” said Barry M. Lester, director of the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk and of Women & Infants’ Center for Children and Families. “The Center for Children and Families is a natural offshoot, enabling us to further integrate our commitment to training, learning and clinical care.”
Behavioral health services at the new center include:
Services in Women & Infants’ Center for Children and Families include:
The center will also offered early childhood services focused on diagnostic evaluations and child and family therapy. In addition, it will also offer autism spectrum disorders services to children with a broad range of diagnoses.
