Mission Statement
Connecting parents and their children with professionals who specialize in the assessment, treatment and support of children and adolescents struggling with learning, processing, neurodevelopmental and social-emotional difficulties.
Our Mission
At ChildNEXUS.com, our passion is ensuring that families have the information they need to make informed decisions when seeking mental health and educational services for their children. Our goal is to help connect families with qualified providers, and to help professionals better connect with each other in an attempt to facilitate integrative care.
We are committed to creating a digital platform for parents and professionals that is much more than a typical website. ChildNEXUS.com is a community of neuropsychological, behavioral, medical, and educational professionals dedicated to providing high quality care and educational support to children and adolescents. Our mission is to improve the lives of children and adolescents struggling with learning, processing and social-emotional challenges.
Our Pledge
We are cognizant of the issues that arise with finding providers online. Thus, it is our pledge to ensure that providers on the site possess the appropriate credentials necessary to provide the services they list. We have staff on hand to ensure that these standards are met through appropriate vetting.
We are committed to disseminating information based on scientific evidence and information from professionals with years of experience assessing, treating and supporting children and adolescents. It is our hope that this information will be helpful to parents searching for answers and guidance, and that parents will use the information found on ChildNEXUS.com in an effort to participate more effectively in their children’s growth and development, and in doing so, help their children reach their full potential.
About 13 percent of all public school students receive special education services. Data suggests that an additional 15% or more of students struggle due to unidentified and unaddressed learning and attention issues.
Over 20 percent of children have some type of diagnosable mental health problem in the first 18 years of their lives, and most of them never receive services. For example, the lifetime prevalence of having an anxiety disorder in childhood or adolescence is between 15 and 20 percent.
In children with psychological or neurodevelopmental disorders, there is an increased risk for having one or more additional disorders. For example, approximately 44-59% of children with ADHD have another psychiatric disorder (e.g., an anxiety disorder). The presence of two or more disorders is associated with more difficulties and a higher persistence of symptoms into adulthood.
