Multidisciplinary Teams
Community Connections Network
Oregon's Community Connections Network (CCN) is a statewide system of community-based multidisciplinary teams that provide coordinated care for children with special health needs. This care addresses the whole child and is provided by health, education, and social service providers working together with the family, as close to home as possible for children from birth to age twenty-one.
CCN Clinics provide monthly multidisciplinary team clinics to evaluate the child, assess available services and linkage to those services, and provide recommendations resulting from staffings with parents and professionals. In the clinic a child could be seen by a physician, physical therapist, speech/language pathologist, social worker, nurse, mental health professionals or others as needed working in conjunction with the family and providers who work directly with the individual child. Regular and systematic follow-up will take place in order to gauge progress and effectiveness of the recommendations. The focus of the Community Connections clinic is to find ways to maximize a child's potential at home, at school, and as part of the community.
To refer a child directly to a CCN clinic you can get a referral packet. Once the referral packet has been completed you can submit it to the CCN coordinator in your community. If you need assistance in filling out this referral packet, contact your local coordinator. Once the referral packet is returned to the clinic coordinator, they will call you to schedule an appointment.
Who should be referred?
- Children for whom there are unresolved medical issues and a team evaluation would be beneficial.
- Children who have unaddressed developmental needs.
- Children who need coordination of community resources.
In our clinics, we currently serve children with:
- ADD/ADHD
- Arthritis
- Asthma
- Autism
- Conduct disorders
- Cerebral palsy
- Cleft lip and palate
- Developmental delay
- Down Syndrome
- Epilepsy and other seizure disorders
- Genetic disorders
- Learning disabiliy
- Mental retardation
- Muscular dystrophy
- Orthopedic impairment
- Rare metabolic disorders
- Speech and language delays
- Spina bifida
- Traumatic brain injury
- Visual handicaps
