Clinical Services
The Kempe Healthcare Core coordinates clinical services, including the integration of health care principles and activities, across the spectrum of all Kempe programs.
We strive to bring a child and family health and wellbeing perspective to all work at the Center. We participate in the planning, administration, and implementation of a variety of health and behavioral health programs, including collaboration with the University Department of Psychiatry for behavioral health services. Our work involves outreach to community groups to address healthcare needs. We collaborate with colleagues on policy, legislative and advocacy issues relevant to healthcare services.
Our providers deliver a diverse array of health education needs spanning from medical education to community requests. Partnering with research experts and by cultivating clinician-researchers, we integrate research and evaluation into healthcare programs to ensure the best outcomes for our patient population. We are committed to delivering high quality care for all, promoting health equity and addressing healthcare disparities that are rooted in historical oppression and bias. We seek to demonstrate empathy, compassion and humble expertise with every child and family that we serve. These core principles are the basis for our commitment to heal the trauma of injustice and maltreatment.
Medical Services
Child Protection Team
The Child Protection Team (CPT) provides comprehensive medical evaluations in our weekly outpatient clinic and through inpatient and emergency department consultations at Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO). Children’s offers the only hospital based multidisciplinary child abuse program in Colorado and one of the oldest in the nation. We proudly meet the designation criteria of Children’s Hospital Association (CHA) as a Child Abuse Center of Excellence.
Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program
Children’s Hospital Colorado (CHCO) administers the only pediatric-focused Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) program in the state. This joint program through the Pediatric Emergency Department and the Child Protection Team at Children’s Hospital Colorado provides specialized care for victims of acute sexual assault. The SANE program serves 24/7 care for survivors of acute sexual assault at Children’s Hospital Colorado.
Clinics
Our healthcare team provides outpatient care in a variety of settings. We collaborate with other sub-specialty services to offer comprehensive care.
Educating, Training & Mentoring
CARE Network
Children who have experienced maltreatment deserve access to high quality medical evaluations and behavioral health screenings, but these services are limited. The Child Abuse Response and Education (CARE) Network was established in 2019 to increase quality and access to care around the state through training and ongoing support of providers and the creation of standardized processes. Please visit our website for more information.
Child Abuse Pediatrics Fellowship
The University of Colorado School of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Colorado, and the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect, all located on the Anschutz Medical Campus, offer a three-year post-residency fellowship in Child Abuse Pediatrics. The primary goal of our fellowship program is to train physicians who are board eligible or board certified in pediatrics to become academic and clinical leaders in the subspecialty field of Child Abuse Pediatrics. The fellowship provides in-depth and intensive training clinical care, education and research. Past trainees continue very active involvement in the field of child abuse pediatrics and have become nationally recognized for their work with abused children as academic faculty, clinicians, and educators.
KIDS Consultation
The Kempe Center’s KIDS program (Kempe Inter-Disciplinary Staffing) program provides independent, expert consultation services for highly complex cases involving concerns about child abuse and neglect or child health and well-being. Service navigation will be provided, the plan will be monitored weekly, and follow up KIDS consultations will be held when a case is not progressing as expected and the plans will be revised as needed. Reports generated from the KIDS Panel will be made available to assist the caseworker in permanency staffings and court appearances related to permanency efforts for the youth.
In addition, the program – KIDS PLUS (Permanency, Love, Unity, Stability) – will run through The Kempe Center in partnership with court appointed special advocates agencies and provide free service to Colorado counties. It will identify and develop appropriate Kin* supports for permanent placements and/or relationships and enhance connectedness to communities and cultures for youth whose cases are highly complex and who have remained in the child welfare system without achieving permanency.
*The term “Kin” in program refers to anyone with a “family like” relationship which may or may not be biologically related.
Case or Record Review
Case or record reviews are considered on a case by case basis. Please click the button below for more information.
Consultation
To set up a KIDS and KIDS PLUS consult, you can email us.
