Children's Integrated Services

Children’s Integrated Services (or CIS) wraps families and caregivers of young children with support services in their natural environments to ensure healthy development in the earliest years of life. There are 5 services families can receive from pre-birth through 6 years old that are provided by our NEK Community Partners. 

 

CIS Services Available :

  • Early Intervention: A collaborative, coordinated system of services for families with children ages birth to three who are experiencing developmental delays or have diagnosed conditions that put them risk for developmental delays. Our services are family-centered and provide developmental education to support families in understanding their child’s needs and creating goals together. This support can include helping families access speech and language therapy, physical therapy, occupational therapy, or nutritional services. 
  • Family Support:   Working with families to self-identify strengths and needs, role modeling and mentoring aimed at successful development of life skills to achieve personal and parenting goals, and assisting with access to community supports and services.
  • Nursing Support: Prenatal & Postpartum support for women and families with children birth to age 6. Services focuses on healthy promotion, prevention, and well-being. Services can include nutritional and lactation support, child growth and development, safe and healthy environments, and assisting families to connect with high quality health care and support services within the community. 
  • Early Childhood Family Mental Health: Provides preventative services to families with children birth to age 6 to promote healthy social-emotional development. Services are also available to support early education programs in providing inclusive environments that promote healthy  social-emotional development for all children.
  • Specialized Child Care Services: Provides supports to children and families with identified specialized needs, as well as to early childhood professionals and programs who provide services to these children and families. This service is intended to increase access and to enhance children’s success in high-quality programming. 

Make a Referral

Curious about CIS?

Call Anna, our CIS Coordinator for the NEK

(802) 323-3350

Saint Johnsbury Parent Child Center
115 Lincoln Street
Saint Johnsbury, VT 05819

Mon- Fri | 8am-4pm

Newport Parent Child Center
371 Main Street
Newport, VT 05855

Mon – Fri | 8am – 4pm

To make a referral you can call or email Anna, our CIS Coordinator at 802-487-4423 | amaguire@nekcavt.org

or

complete and submit this referral form during business hours to amaguire@nekcavt.org or via fax at 802-748-2805.

What Participants Have to Say

"Our son has made incredible progress since starting services with CIS! He has always been very engaged with the providers and enjoyed his sessions very much. As a parent, I am appreciative of the guidance and tangible ways to help his development outside of his sessions. "

"As a father with 2 kids under 2 the service CIS provides has been pivotal to my families success! Thank you!"

"CIS services have really helped my son open up verbally and socially. The workers have a great relationship with him and he loves doing all the speech activities and puzzles."

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