The Haven Therapeutic Community is a residential treatment facility for women with substance abuse/addiction problems, and is one of several licensed clinical programs operated by the
Addiction Research and Treatment Services (ARTS) Program in the Dept. of Psychiatry. The Haven offers comprehensive addiction treatment to adult women, including psychiatric care. Pregnant women and women actively parenting young children who live with them at The Mother’s House receive a parenting curriculum designed specifically to meet their needs as well as ancillary infant mental health services. Fellows are responsible for conducting process groups for pregnant and parenting women, implementing a curriculum for parent-infant interaction, providing both parent support and parent-infant psychotherapy, and completing developmental assessment of infants. More information describing the services implemented and provided by the Harris Program at The Haven can be found in the
Bromberg et al. IMHJ paper, published in the May/June 2010 issue .
(Clinical Site Supervisors: Ms. Kelly Stainback-Tracy & Ms. Daniele Wolff)
1Project CLIMB/Healthy Steps is a collaborative effort between the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Child Health Clinic at The Children’s Hospital to facilitate the early identification and treatment of mental health and behavioral issues within a primary pediatric care setting and to increase access to mental health services in an underserved population. It is staffed by a transdisciplinary team, which includes a psychiatrist, psychologist, pediatricians, postdoctoral fellow, psychiatry fellows, psychology interns, pediatric residents, and staff from the Child Health Clinic. The team provides developmental interventions, diagnostic assessments, medication evaluations, staff consultation and training, psychosocial and behavioral group and individual interventions, and recommendations for treatment of infants, children and adolescents seen in a primary care setting. (Clinical Site Supervisor: Dr. Ayelet Talmi)2
As a replication site for the Fussy Baby National Network out of the Erikson Institute in Chicago, The Harris Program is a partner in developing the Fussy Baby Colorado program. Designed to help parents struggling with infant crying, the program’s components include a Warmline, a Home Visitation program, and program infusion into the Pediatric Primary Care Clinic in conjuction with Project CLIMB at The Children’s Hospital. Fellows primary responsibilities will include fielding warmline calls, conducting home visits, and implementing the fussy baby program protocol in the primary care setting. (Clinical Site Supervisor: Drs. Jennifer Paul & Maya Bunik)3
The ECIFT program is a collaboration between the Harris Program and the Community Based Psychiatry programs operated out of the University of Colorado Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry Department. ECIFT fellows provide in-home family therapy to children age 0-6 with mental health diagnoses, behavioral disorders, and who are at risk of abuse or neglect. The service is intended to improve the ability of the caregiver to manage the child's behavior and to sustain the child in his/her home setting. The ECIFT program is staffed by a multi-disciplinary team that includes psychiatrists, psychologists, clinical social workers, postdoctoral fellows, psychiatry fellows and residents, and staff from the Community Based Psychiatry team. The team provides developmental assessments, medication evaluations, dyadic and behavioral interventions, case management, staff consultations, and treatment recommendations for infants and children upon discharge. (Clinical Site Supervisors: Ms. Marisa Murgolo)4
The Young Child Clinic is an outpatient clinic at the
University of Colorado Hospital Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic. The Psychiatry Clinic is a multidisciplinary training clinic with psychiatry, social work, and psychology trainees that sees clients from birth through old age. The Young Child Clinic specializes in treating children through age 5 years and their families. Clients represent a range of socio-economic levels, ethnicities, cultures and family constellations. Some cases are referred due to their complex bio-psychosocial nature which requires comprehensive psychological and psychiatric evaluation and/or intervention. Fellows in this clinic will see ongoing therapy cases of young children using varied approaches including family therapy, individual therapies, parent coaching and/or psycho-education, and dyadic caregiver-child therapy.
(Clinical Site Supervisors: Drs. Karen Frankel & Debbie Carter)5The Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic is a multidisciplinary treatment team (pediatricians, otolaryngologists, specialists, plastic surgeons, nurses, occupational therapists, social work, speech therapist pediatric dentists, orthodontist, audiologist, genetic counselors,) which specializes in treating the medical, developmental and psychosocial needs of the child with cleft lip and/or palate and their family. The clinic is held 2-3 times per month and sees families for a comprehensive yearly workup. Families usually come to clinic soon after the birth of their baby when the anomaly is discovered, and many of the patients are very young children. The Harris Fellow in this site works as a member of the multidisciplinary team consulting to families and professionals about the psychosocial issues which may arise when for a family with a baby or child with a craniofacial anomaly. Fellows do onsite consultation, evaluations, and referrals for additional services. (Clinical Site Supervisor: Dr. Karen Frankel & Ms. Jamie Idelberg)6
KidStreet is a multidisciplinary program that provides care for children six weeks to four years of age who are dependent on medical technology and demonstrate some level of cognitive or developmental delay. The children receive nursing care, physical, occupational, and speech/language therapy throughout the day. In order to enhance child and family functioning, KidStreet additionally offers social work and infant mental health services. Other services provided include music therapy, consultation with vision therapists, and participation in the prescription pet program; an art therapy program is currently being established. KidStreet serves as a practicum site for nursing, therapy, special education students and medical residents. The program staff interface with primary and specialty providers to coordinate evaluation and care for children enrolled in the program. KidStreet is situated on the Clayton Early Education campus, which allows collaboration with other professionals in the pursuit of improved outcomes for our children and families. (Clinical Site Supervisor: Dr. Ayelet Talmi)7
Right Start for Infant Mental Health is a specialized program at the Mental Health Center of Denver (MHCD), the designated mental health authority for the City and County of Denver and the largest provider of community mental health services in the Rocky Mountain region, that provides clinical services to pregnant women and children ages birth to five and their families. Right Start serves a predominantly low-income, culturally diverse, underserved population experiencing a number of stressors including poverty, involvement with child protective services, parental mental illness/substance abuse and other family disruptions. Right Start offers comprehensive, family-focused interventions, case management, and psychiatric evaluation and medication monitoring. Fellows on the Right Start team will provide relationship-based infant/early childhood mental health services to families in our outpatient clinic. Services include: comprehensive relationship assessment (with training in the Crowell Play Procedure, and the Working Model of the Child Interview), Child-Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) and other interventions as appropriate. The two licensed psychologists on the Right Start team are graduates of the Irving Harris Fellowship. (Clinical Site Supervisor: Dr. Shannon Bekman)8