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Seattle Children's Home Pediatric Assessment Center
Core Function: Clinical Services, Technical Assistance and Outreach Training
Seattle Children’s Home is a community-based non-profit child mental health center. The primary purpose of the Pediatric Assessment Center (PAC) is to improve quality of life for children and adolescents who have experienced repeated failures of the mental health and/or developmental disabilities health care systems. CTU (Clinical Training Unit) faculty provide consultation through the PAC.
Most of the clients served by PAC receive intensive mental health services and maybe involved in the social welfare and juvenile justice systems. Children and adolescents come to PAC with a variety of concerns about their physical, mental and intellectual development (i.e. language, memory and reasoning skills), and for many of these clients the assessments completed by PAC are the first accurate developmental assessments they have received.
The goals of PAC include developing better coordination among systems of care, new standards of care, and improved clinician training. These goals aim to improve the services infrastructure within the mental health and developmental disabilities systems to meet of needs of children and adolescents.
PAC provides comprehensive physical and mental health assessment and treatment planning services, and has been successful in identifying accurate diagnosis and etiologies and providing appropriate recommendations for intervention. PAC is unique in that it links the mental health and physical health care systems by co-locating neurodevelopmental pediatric assessment services within a children's mental health facility. In the future, PAC clinicians plan to expand services so that more children can receive needed assessments and treatment. LEND trainees participate in the clinical activities.
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