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Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect
Clinical Services
For more information about our clinical programs, please visit the Kempe Center Website.
Kempe Child Protection Team
The Child Protection Team provides comprehensive medical evaluations in our weekly outpatient clinic and through inpatient and emergency department consultations at The Children's Hospital and individual trauma therapy for children with our team psychologist. Family and child evaluation for suspected maltreatment includes family support and education about the behavioral and emotional impact of child maltreatment. Best practice care and treatment is offered in the most sensitive and family centered manner. For more information, please also visit our Website at The Children's Hospital.
Infants in Foster and Kinship Care
The Kempe Infants in Foster and Kinship Care program provides innovative clinical services to extremely vulnerable abused and neglected babies in the city and county of Denver and has served 250 babies since its inception. Built on a citywide partnership developed with the Denver Department of Human Services, the City Attorney's office, and many community agencies in Denver that serve these infants, this program works to ensure that these infants receive the urgently needed developmental, medical, and mental health care which they would not otherwise receive. Additionally, the clinical program is part of a larger clinical trial that will test the effectiveness of the intervention.
Fostering Healthy Futures
The Kempe Fostering Healthy Futures (FHF) program assesses the academic, mental health, and social functioning of preadolescent youth in foster care and provides them with mentoring and therapeutic skills groups to improve their outcomes. The long-term goals are to reduce adolescent risk behaviors, such as delinquency, substance use, and sexual risk behaviors, and to improve academic achievement, mental health, and social functioning. FHF provides training to graduate students in social work and psychology.
Kempe Under Sixes
A new project called "Under Sixes" provides mental health services to children aged birth to five years old in the child welfare system in Denver. The uniqueness of this project is to combine child welfare assistance to keep children safe, while offering mental health services to the children to protect their emotional development. Training and consultation services are provided to caregivers and to professionals who work within or collaborate with the child welfare system. The Kempe mental health clinicians also work collaboratively with caseworkers, learning their system and consulting on emotional development issues.
Kempe Therapeutic Preschool
The Kempe Therapeutic Preschool is a highly specialized treatment program that helps severely emotionally disturbed children aged three to six years old who have been abused and neglected. The Preschool provides a full range of mental health services that help the children graduate to regular school settings. The Preschool is also an important site for training future clinical experts in treating young abused and neglected children; and it is closely linked with the Harris Training Program, a postdoctoral fellowship in infant mental health, consultation and psychiatric treatment at UCD.
Kempe Postpartum Depression Intervention Program
The Community Caring Program provides a unique intervention service with the development of a postpartum depression support group targeted toward new mothers and their infants. This support group is one of a kind in the Denver metropolitan area and, to our knowledge, in the state of Colorado. The intervention program is designed to provide an immediate support service to mothers suffering from postpartum depression and at risk for harming their infants either emotionally or physically.
START Program
Competency-based training and education is provided for future leaders in medicine, law, social work, and mental health in the effort to reduce child abuse. Fellowship positions are recruited nationally. We provide training workshops to child welfare caseworkers statewide, which are needed due to the high turnover rate of 33-50% per year in these positions. START (State and Regional Team on Crimes Against Children) provides multidisciplinary consultation services offering the expertise of the Kempe Center for the Prevention and Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect to professionals on extreme and complex child abuse and neglect cases, usually in litigation in civil or criminal courts. Direct clinical assistance and advocacy are provided in response to requests from professionals and the public, with information and assistance based on the research of court decisions, clinical studies and years of clinical and legal experience in child abuse and neglect.
Kempe Trauma Collaborative
The Kempe Center has established a new Denver-Kempe Trauma Collaborative to give abused children in Denver County access to the highest quality mental health treatment by providing evidence-based clinical services, training professionals, and collaborating with the National Child Traumatic Stress Network to bring expertise from all over the U.S. to Colorado families.
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