WONDERLAND CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES

Our primary goal is to change the developmental trajectory for children in our programs, helping them reach a higher level of functioning than they would without intensive intervention while also significantly lessening the stress on their families and caregivers. Wonderland’s staff individualizes treatment goals based on each child and family’s needs and offers tools and strategies to assist caregivers in working with their child on a day-to-day basis.

Wonderland provides services to children with developmental, physical, or emotional delays, disabilities, and medical conditions. In our work, we serve the whole family, providing caregivers the tools to work with their children and help them thrive.

Since our founding in 1969, Wonderland has provided a broad range of early support services to children from birth to age three who may be experiencing any number of developmental delays, from speech and/or motor delays and feeding issues to autism and other functional challenges. Hope RISING Clinic for prenatal substance exposure provides evaluation, diagnosis, evidence-based interventions, and family support for children with prenatal substance exposure up to age 13, all through a trauma-informed and neurobehavioral lens. Services include:
• Occupational therapy
• Sensory processing support
• Mental/behavioral health
• Speech and language therapy
• Feeding support
• Social skills support and groups
• Family support
• Caregiver counseling and support groups
• Psychoeducation
• Educational advocacy
• Linkages to community resources

Early identification, diagnosis, and treatment helps these children build social and communication skills, regulate emotions, identify sensory processing differences, address attachment issues, and heal from trauma.

Our providers welcome the family as part of the treatment team, sharing knowledge and strategies that deepen their understanding of the impacts of PSE as well as what they can do to minimize the impact, foster success for their child, and incorporate self-care into their lives. The entire family gains understanding of the child’s differences and needs, and stress is reduced as they learn new ways to reframe behavior and expectations.

Building on over 50 years of early support for infants and toddlers’ program experience, as well as our partnership with leading experts and practitioners in the PSE field, Wonderland will expand regional efforts as an innovator in prenatal substance exposure while expanding both breadth and depth of our early support program, to ensure exemplary services are available to all families seeking support from Wonderland.

-We partner with world-leading experts and researchers to continually improve our practices and advance the state of the field.
-Our practitioners deliver best-in-field interventions and services for all children, with specialization in PSE, the largest under-identified and diagnosed cause of developmental disability.
-Ours is an entrepreneurial, disciplined, and courageous organization with the business acumen this challenge demands.
-Wonderland staff working with families through early support and Hope RISING Clinic know how to assess, evaluate, and support children and families living with disabilities and differences, including prenatal substance exposure, which happens across every social, economic, and ethnic demographic. Our team is committed to continuous growth and improvement to better serve all children.

Wonderland reaches hundreds of families every month through Early Support for Infants and Toddlers and Hope RISING Clinic for Prenatal Substance Exposure. Over the last five decades, we have worked to meet the evolving needs of our community. In 2019, we opened Hope RISING Clinic for prenatal substance exposure. Since opening our doors, we have served hundreds of families, with more joining our waitlist each month. In 2021, Wonderland served approximately 676 children and over 1,000 caregivers through all available programs and services. We hope to expand services to reach all children and families in our region impacted by prenatal substance exposure.