Child Development Institute

Goal I: Implement community based, comprehensive promotion and prevention programs for underserved and at-risk infants and children living in the San Fernando Valley.

Goal II: Deliver comprehensive, high quality early intervention services to vulnerable and underserved infants, young children and their families.

Goal III: Expand interdisciplinary training for child/family service providers. The foundation of all CDI programs includes a workforce development strategy to train the next generation of professionals, across disciplines to support a coordinated “whole child" approach.

Goal IV: Ensure organizational growth and sustainability. In order for CDI to maintain the quality of services it has diligently worked to establish, we must continue to train our staff and graduate students, who will become the service-providers of tomorrow.

Goal V: Advocate for family empowerment, improved access and service quality in early intervention.

Goal I: CDI will increase outreach and support to underserved and high risk populations – such as homeless families, foster care youth. CDI will replicate the Early Learning Center's model to deliver an integrated promotion, prevention and intervention program in the Reseda area.

Goal II: CDI will expand outreach and services to new populations in the San Fernando Valley through partnerships with Providence Tarzana Medical Center.

Goal III: We will develop a systematic outreach plan for obtaining new training contracts and maintaining current relationships. This includes populations working with vulnerable and underserved young children.

Goal IV: CDI will develop a fundraising strategy for the Reseda's Early Learning Center and a Branding/Outreach Marketing plan.

Goal V: CDI will identify environmental conditions in the community that threaten child well-being. CDI will inform the public and legislators about the importance issues in early child development.

Child Development Institute (CDI) was founded in 1995 to address the lack of holistic development and intervention services for young children in the San Fernando Valley. Where intervention services were available, they were provided in isolation, with little attention to a child's overall support system or relationships. Since then, CDI has become one of the principal providers of early childhood development and intervention services in the San Fernando Valley.

CDI is capable of achieving the above goals because we have the leadership, the appropriate staff, as well as the experience necessary. Our evidenced-based programs and services continue to provide over 48,000 annual treatment hours to young children and their families through a dedicated staff that strongly believes in the mission. Additionally, our partnerships with health and human service organizations and our robust reputation in the community paves the way for CDI's team members to accomplish set goals.

Years of productive collaboration with community partners, along with consistently positive family feedback, gives us the confidence that we have models that need replicating. CDI is now poised to deepen our work in Canoga Park and expand services in the San Fernando Valley.

Our growth plan encompasses three components:
1) Sustaining and growing current, programs at the Canoga Park Early Learning Center,

2) Replicating the CDI ELC Canoga Park model with an Early Learning Center in Reseda. CDI and its partners are coming together to replicate the success of the Early Learning Center (ELC) Canoga Park in another high-need area of the SF Valley.

3) Co-locating at Providence Tarzana to provide critical intervention supports for families in the NICU and PICU. CDI offers a range of services for 0-8 children and their families. Mental Health, Developmental & Social-Emotional Support, Speech, Occupational, Physical and Feeding Therapies, Sensory Integration, Child & Family Counseling.