Celebrating Over 25 Years
of Service
Founded in 1980, Child Health Services is dedicated to providing comprehensive medical care, social support services and nutrition consultation to more than 2,000 infants, children and adolescents from low-income families in the Greater Manchester area.
The primary goal of Child Health
Services is that all children served will be functioning to their full
capacity-physically and psychosocially-and that their families will be
able to find and use support services effectively. Using a
trans-disciplinary approach, our model relies on quality medical care that
is delivered within a social support system to promote parent strengths.
With a staff of pediatricians, nurse practitioners, nurses
, social workers and nutritionists,
Child Health Services provides a "medical home" to a population of
children that may not otherwise have access to our health care system.
At our main site we serve approximately 1,200 children from 600 families. Our Teen Health Clinic has enrolled more than 1,100 adolescents since opening in 1998. The Special Medical Programs at Child Health Services serve approximately 1000 children each year.
The mission of our Teen Health Clinic is to serve the unique needs of adolescents. Using the same comprehensive model as Child Health Services, the Teen Health Clinic enables hundreds of children in Manchester to access services and the larger health care system.
Our Special Medical Programs, Child Development Clinic, Neuromotor Clinic, Community Based Care Coordination, and the Nutrition, Feeding and Swallowing Network, are collaborative programs between Child Health Services and the State of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Community Based Care Services, Special Medical Services.