Program areas at St David's Center
Mental health: a continuum of mental health services for children, prenatal through adolescence, and their families, including those impacted by trauma and early adversity, engaging them virtually and in-person at home, in the community, and in center-based treatment programs. Services include assessment, immediate short-term support, psychotherapy, skills development, day treatment, and case management.
Pediatric therapy: occupational, speech/language, and feeding therapies improve developmental outcomes for children 18 months to 12 years.
Autism treatment: preschool and school-age day treatment services improve social communication, emotional regulation, and interpersonal interaction for children diagnosed with asd, utilizing a developmental, relationship-, play-based approach. Our minneapolis location offers a culturally specific preschool day treatment program for east african children diagnosed with autism.
Disability services: in-home support and group-based therapeutic recreation for individuals with special needs ages two through adulthood, emphasizing community involvement, friendship-building, and healthy and independent living.
Early childhood education: inclusive early childhood education and childcare for children of all abilities ages 16 months to 5 years.
Parent-child home visiting: using a parent-child attachment lens, services include emotional support, developmental guidance, and concrete resources to stabilize families of children prenatal through age 5 and support the strong developmental, school readiness, and health outcomes.
Parent, provider, and system capacity-building: early childhood mental health consultation, clinical case consultation, training, and advocacy efforts that build capacity in parents, childcare providers and other professionals, and within child-focused systems across our community.
All other program activities.