Welcome to the Children's Specialty Clinic of the San Luis valley!

The U.S. healthcare system is broken, prioritizing profits over people. Instead of experts and doctors helping to determine what’s right for a child, health insurance gets to dictate if a child gets the kind of speech-language therapy, occupational therapy, adaptive equipment, and home-health nursing support they need. As a result, healthcare ends up being reactive, not proactive.

The Children’s Specialty Clinic of the San Luis Valley (CSCSLV) believes when you prioritize patients over profits, quality over quantity, and community over chaos, children with disabilities and their families will see improvements to their healthcare access and outcomes.

CSCSLV is committed to using a value-based healthcare model, to develop family-centered, trauma-informed outcomes to help children with disabilities to be successful in their daily routines.

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Cooperating Services

The Solution: A Novel Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment

The Independent Explorers Program is a pioneering effort to provide transdisciplinary therapy services to children aged 0-5 with diagnoses such as autism spectrum disorder, in-utero substance exposure, intellectual disabilities, and more. Instead of letting health insurance dictate the quality and quantity of healthcare we should provide, we want to leave that decision to the experts in childhood development.

The Independent Explorers Program aims to raise $1,015,808 to reach its full potential. While CSCSLV plans to collaborate with Medicaid for healthcare costs, anticipated spending cuts may limit access for low-income families.

$100,000 raised of $900,000 needed.
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Our Story

The Children's Specialty Clinic of the San Luis Valley was created by Dr. Mikaila Pence, a pediatrician who lives in the San Luis Valley. While working in a local hospital system, she noticed the decreased access to high quality services such as medical-based therapies and pediatric specialists in the San Luis Valley. With the support and labor of her family, she bought and remodeled a space to create the clinic space we have today.

Initially, our goal was to provide rental space to individuals looking to work as independent therapists, doctors and specialists. As we've grown, our vision has evolved into building a one-stop shop for medical care for children with disabilities and their families.

Through grant funding from foundations such as the LOR Foundation, Denver Foundation, Community Foundation of the San Luis Valley and others, our board and volunteers have built the San Luis Valley's first Outdoor Safe Elopement Space and Life Skills therapy space.

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Mission

Children's Specialty Clinic of the San Luis Valley strives to be the nexus for children in the San Luis Valley with complex medical and behavioral needs, offering a space for specialty providers to care for children where they are - geographically as well as emotionally and financially.

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Vision

Children's Specialty Clinic of the San Luis Valley envisions a clinic where families are connected to a local community to care for their kids, fully integrated into society and realizing their potential.

Values

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Listen

Understand children's and families' needs and aspirations.

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Create

Forge opportunities for children and their families.

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Strengthen

Bolster children and family relationships; uplift our community by creating educational and employment opportunities.