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title: Model Services
description: Model Services are specialized clinical services delivered with the intention to enhance the well-being and status of recipients. This includes direct problem-solving services to assist individuals with developmental and other disabilities and their families.
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# [Model Services](https://uscucedd.org/projects/model-services)

 Written by [Admin](https://uscucedd.org/projects/author/admin) | Oct 25, 2022 6:08:39 AM

#### Current Projects

 

**Model Services**

**Primary Care for Individuals with Special Needs** (including complex medical conditions and/or developmental disabilities) is provided by CHLA Pediatricians in partnership with AltaMed in our General Pediatrics clinic: 323-669-2113

Special programs provided for all, including individuals with developmental disabilities, include:

- - - The Patient Centered Medical Home Program which embeds nurse case management in the primary care setting
          - Bodyworks which provides dietary and physical activity counseling and weight management
          - The Lactation Clinic which provides breastfeeding support to all, including mothers and infants with developmental disabilities
          - The Parent Navigator Program, which employs individuals with lived experience to help families navigate and get connected to the DD service system
          - Hablamos Juntos, which provides family-based support for children with speech delay
          - [First Connections: Early Identification of and Referrals to Early Intervention Services for Autism and other Developmental Delays](https://uscucedd.org/first-connections)<https://uscucedd.org/stein-tikun-olam-infant-family-mental-health-initiative>

**Mental and Behavioral Health Care:** specialty mental health care inclusive of individuals with developmental disabilities is provided through the USC UCEDD and the Mental and Behavioral Health Program at CHLA.

[Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) | Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (chla.org)](https://www.chla.org/developmental-disabilities-ucedd)

 

**The Spina Bifida Program at CHLA**

Provides multi-disciplinary care to individuals with Spina Bifida.

Home of the innovative Movin’on Up Transition Program

[https://www.chla.org/spina-bifida-program](https://www.chla.org/spina-bifida-program)

 

**The Newborn Follow-up Program at CHLA**

Provides multi-disciplinary developmental monitoring for infants at risk for developmental delay, such as premature infants or with infants with other birth complications

[https://www.chla.org/newborn-follow-program](https://www.chla.org/newborn-follow-program)

 

 

 

 

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