Children's Specialty Clinic San Luis Valley

Fuel our 2026 Ramp Up!  Children’s Specialty Clinic of San Luis Valley (CSCSLV) is serving children with complex behavioral and sensory needs related to developmental disabilities including autism, in-utero illicit substance exposure, cognitive delay, trauma or combination of these, regardless of race, insurance, socioeconomic status or educational background. CSCSLV is creating a novel, multidisciplinary, therapy clinic to improve the health, education and community disparities that  San Luis Valley children with moderate to severe behavior disabilities, and their families, are experiencing as a result of their disability. CSCSLV is creating a work space for local and non-local experts in pediatric healthcare, partnering with community, education and parent-led groups, and developing new, better, ways to promote functional skill development in children with behavioral and sensory disabilities.  Our volunteer board and executive director are dedicated to integrating user centered design, trauma-informed and evidence based practices to revolutionize the way these complex children are supported. CSCSLV recognizes the need for integrated and closely coordinated services for this population and seeks to create a model of healthcare that is value-based and replicable.  

Direct impacts we seek for 2026:

• Add currently unavailable pediatric specialty therapy services for children in the San Luis Valley.

• Increase capacity of pediatric specialty therapy services for children in the San Luis Valley.

• Create 5-8 clinically professional jobs in Rio Grande County of the San Luis Valley.

• Create 10-14 clinically technical jobs in Rio Grande County of the San Luis Valley.

• Create 3-5 clinical support jobs in Rio Grande County of the San Luis Valley.

• Support the “grow our own” push in the San Luis Valley by creating a site for observation, training, and employment of youth in the San Luis Valley.
  
  

Indirect impacts we seek for 2026:

• Be a place of support to families in crisis due to having behaviorally complex children in a resource starved area.

• Be a place of education for individuals from our community to observe and work in fields of PT, OT, SLP, ABA, mental health, and diagnostic evaluation of children with complex behavioral needs and take that knowledge into other areas of our community as teachers, daycare providers, after school care program providers, coaches, and parents.  

• Support our regional BOCES with the flood of children with needs in schools by changing the trajectory of those individuals before they get to school in a more school ready, BOCES supportable position.  

• Bring awareness to the beauty of neurodiversity, destigmatizing diagnoses such as ADHD, ODD, OCD, Autism, cognitive delay and learning disabilities and promoting reintegration of children and their families into our community.