ChildServe serves children with special health care needs. In creating a common understanding of the term special health care needs, we note the term health is more than a medical definition or the absence of disability. To ChildServe, health is a state of physical, social, cognitive, environmental, and spiritual well-being. This broader concept of health helps us understand the parameters of great life.
Children with special health care needs:
Age: birth through the child’s 21st birthday;
Chronic: an ongoing need that requires care and support of a type and duration that is beyond what a child requires generally;
Needs: specialty health care and related support services;
Health: a child’s state of well-being that includes five health dimensions: physical health, social health, cognitive health, emotional health, and spiritual health;
Disability: developmental and/or physical conditions that includes a continuum of need from a developmental delay requiring short term care to significant disability requiring continuing care and support;
Psychiatric: we are not equipped to serve children whose primary need is psychiatric care and treatment;
Inclusion: we include children without special health care needs in the Johnston and Ames childcare services which positively impacts the developmental environment for children with special health care needs.
ChildServe's primary service delivery area includes the 12 Iowa counties within a 50-mile radius of Ames and Des Moines. ChildServe also serves children from other Iowa counties as well as from outside Iowa. ChildServe makes all admission decisions on our care and staff capacity, financial arrangements, and relevant regulatory requirements.
