Our Mission
The Child HELP Partnership at St. John's University was founded
in 2001 with the mission of protecting children from interpersonal
violence and its emotional impact. We use best practices in
mental health and education to empower children, caregivers, and
individuals serving them.
We are dedicated to:
(1)
Healing children after trauma by providing evidence-based
therapies free-of-charge,
(2)
Empowering the multicultural communities by adapting these
services for them,
(3)
Enhancing Learning of professionals across the country by
training them
in these evidence-informed
approaches, and
(4)
Preventing abuse and injury by offering evidence-informed
prevention programs.
Program evaluation is integrated into the Child HELP Partnership
to ensure that the quality of our services is constantly improving.
It also provides knowledge about "best practices" that is
disseminated to local and national audiences.
Our Holistic Approach
We work to
HELP children by carrying out the following four
initiatives:
- Healing children after trauma using
leading-edge, evidence-based therapies
- Empowering multicultural communities through
adaptation of services
- Learning Center for professionals
- Public health programs and evidence-informed
prevention programs for the public
Our partnerships
are with children with trauma histories and their families, the
community as a whole, colleagues in the mental health field, and
caregivers, parents, and others who interact with children
regularly. All of our services are adapted to be language
accessible and culturally sensitive.
We aim
tocreatively and sensitively integrate scientific findings and real
world practice. What we learn is disseminated throughout
Queens, New York State, and beyond.
Our background
The Child HELP
Partnership is a unique multi-disciplinary clinical-research
program based in the Department of Psychology at St. John’s
University. We are dedicated to the underserved children and
families in the surrounding multicultural communities. Our work is
reflective of the Vincentian mission of St. John’s University which
is focused on serving the underserved experiencing hardship in the
community. Consequently, the support we get from the University
covers our overhead and means all dollars raised go directly to
serving children and families who have experienced severe trauma
Treatments and services are service are offered to the community
through the PARTNERS Clinic.
Like St. Vincent
de Paul, who saw the hardship in his community and devoted his life
to its elimination, our mission is to bring relief to children,
families and communities who have been through emotional stress and
trauma.
“PARTNERS
felt like a second home to my family... ¡Gracias por existir
PARTNERS! Quedémonos socios para combatir el silencio del
abuso de nuestras comunidades.(‘Thank you for existing PARTNERS!
Let’s remain partners to combat the silence of abuse in our
communities together’.)”—Mother of PARTNERS Clinic client
Contact Us
Child HELP Partnership
St. John's University Center for Psychological Services, Seton
Complex
152-11 Union Turnpike
Flushing, NY 11367
Tel: (718) 990-2367
Fax: (718) 990-1586
www.stjohns.edu/childhelppartnership
Para más
información, por favor contacte la Coordinadora del Programa de
PARTNERS al Tel: (718) 990-5479 (Español) o al correopartners.espanol@stjohns.edu