Institute for Child & Family Health

Institute for Child and Family Health, Inc. provides health, behavioral health, educational, and prevention services in Miami-Dade County. It offers health and wellness programs, including pediatric medical care, school nursing, and early prevention programs for at-risk infants and toddlers, as well as prevention/support services for high-risk pregnant women and at-risk new mothers. The company also provides child and family counseling services, such as outpatient program, clinical on-site program, targeted case management, mobile disease management, parenting skills training, school tutoring program, behavioral health specialty networks, independent living skills, LILEPIS, elementary school program, psychiatric services consultation, and preschool rearing enrichment services. In addition, it offers literacy and educational development services, including ALL-ABOARD tutoring/mentoring programs, educational mobile units, family literacy programs, family resource centers, story hours, and after school programs; and violence prevention programs, such as gang unit exit strategies, youth gang resource centers, CJC gang prevention/intervention, redirection programs, after release programs, family empowerment programs, family and child empowerment programs, department of juvenile justice comprehensive assessments, family associates programs, and emancipation programs. Further, the company provides substance abuse prevention services, such as individual and group counseling sessions; and professional training services, including in-service training and infant mental health training, as well as a clinical internship in a child, adolescent, and family psychology. Institute for Child and Family Health, Inc. was formerly known as The Childrens Psychiatric Center, Inc. and changed its name in 2007. The company was founded in 1945 and is based in Miami, Florida with an additional office in Hialeah, Florida.