Childrens Center

Children’s Center offers specialized outpatient mental health counseling and psychiatric services for children and adolescents. We believe that successful treatment occurs through the strength of the therapeutic alliance with the child and family. Our treatment approach concerns itself with solutions; it is both positive and non-judgmental. Our approach is collaborative in nature and focuses on family strengths. Our therapists work toward achieving positive outcomes identified by the family by building on those strengths.

Children’s Center also provides a school-based mental health program for children and youth identified as having behavioral or emotional problems that impact their ability to function successfully in school. Mental health services are available on-site at selected schools in the Evergreen and Vancouver school districts.

Children’s Center’s Child Sexual Abuse Recovery Program offers specialized treatment to child victims of sexual abuse and non-offending family members to lessen the effects of the emotional and psychological trauma the child has experienced. There is hope for children who have experienced sexual abuse. With the right kind of help, children can recover completely and live normal and happy lives.

Specialized treatment and training program for preschool and school-aged children/youth affected by methamphetamine. 
The explosive crisis in methamphetamine addiction and production is directly impacting children. It is producing an ever-increasing number of children needing specialized health, mental health, and educational services. Children’s Center has seen a dramatic increase in referrals for children exposed to methamphetamine. Many of these children have symptoms of severe mood dysregulation. A child’s inability to regulate his mood often exhibits extreme irritability, hyperactivity, low tolerance of frustration and the inability to sleesuch as home and school, are also characteristic of children exposed to methamphetamine.