Early intervention services include multiple strategies that encompass:

• Facilitation of parent-child interactions
• Emotional support and training for family members
• Direct therapies to the child
• Coordination of service
• Partnering with community agencies to best serve  families and their children
• Problem-solving to define  issues
• Find solutions and facilitation to accessing  comprehensive community services.

Early Intervention Programming provides services for children, ages birth to three years old, who are experiencing developmental delays.

Children First Center believes that parents are the first and best teacher for their child. It is an agency goal to support parents in that role.

Therapies, family supports, and other services are provided in the child’s/family’s natural setting, taking into consideration the family’s/child’s daily routine and activities, and including the parents and family in the home visit.

First Steps

First Steps is the statewide system providing early intervention services for children from birth to three years old with developmental delays or disabilities.

The goal of the First Steps System is to provide an immediate, family centered, comprehensive and coordinated, neighborhood-based system of services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.  A System Point of Entry as part of the local First Steps office is one way of accomplishing this goal.

For more information on First Steps/SPOE, call 866.725.2398 or email referral@neccfs.org