CLARITY CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER

Our primary goal is to transform the lives of children and families by helping them understand their illness and manage their condition. We innovate care levels to reduce the number of hospital admissions for children, so they may receive the right level of care at the right time.

With the support and cooperation of our community and funding partners, Clarity Child Guidance Center will continue expanding services by assessing community needs, providing access to care, hiring and retaining the best physicians and therapists, and improving community health literacy associated with mental illness.

Clarity has been in existence since 1886, giving us a solid foundation. We've grown dramatically over the years and have the largest group of child and adolescent mental health providers in the region, many of them bilingual. We are Joint Commission accredited as a behavioral health hospital.

Reducing mental health re-admissions is a challenge nationwide. With a lack of providers impeding access, lack of understanding due to the need for increased health literacy, and high cost of treatment due to lack of nonprofit providers, families, often wait to seek care for their kids until the illness has become a crisis. This leads to increased hospital admissions and re-admissions in order to truly stabilize the child and provide the entire family with coping and communication skills. Clarity addresses treatment barriers in innovative ways. We provide step-down levels of care and have also begun the First Step admission program. First Step provides a one-time initial consultation appointment with a licensed psychologist so parents can be referred to the next best step to help their child, which may be mental health, medical or other. Parents receive immediate feedback, learn the right type of care needed, and unnecessary mental health appointments are avoided and now available to other children who need them.