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Jaime
Volunteer
It's really important for me to bring my kids (to volunteer) and show them how to appreciate and value other people and kids with special needs. So many people are so busy doing things for themselves and their own families... It's really nice and fulfilling to do something for someone else. It's a great feeling to come here (to ChildServe) and spend time with the kids.
Who We Serve
Children with special health care needs
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.
