It has been a year since we entered the global Pandemic, this experience has greatly touched us all, some staff and EDAC families have endured significant hardships this past year and much loss. We share in your grief, pain, frustration and worry. As a small company with extensive experience in individualizing for families and children, with both expertise in the ESDM one to one model and telehealth modalities we were able to pivot and continue serving children without any pauses in service since March 2020. We are deeply appreciative of our amazing staff that has worked diligently in keeping themselves and the children safe during this very uncertain time. Their focus on the children has been inspiring and refreshing in this negative climate. Despite the challenges, our commitment to the work that we do strengthened this past year. We worked very hard to stay connected, to stay true to who we are as a company. In some ways 2020 allowed us to reflect and reposition ourselves as a small company devoted to the dissemination of the Group Early Start Denver Model and inclusion. Many of the children we are currently serving have not seen peers in almost a year, we are prepared to change this. As we recover in this Pandemic, we are returning to our specialty and our mission……GROUP based work. We will do this with continued and added protections for safety. In order to do this, we have secured a large clinic space in El Dorado Hills to meet the needs of our children and families.
In this space we are envisioning group ESDM sessions in the morning hours for our very young children with associated parent options (e.g., training, support, socializing). As soon as we are able to make these groups inclusive…we will add typically developing peers!
In the afternoons we are planning social skills groups for our “older” clients (e.g., kindergarten and first grade) centered around interests. Think “art class” with social skills strategies embedded. This is a new venture for our team and we are very excited about partnering with community based programs who have specialities in art, music, building, and robotics as well as further developing our skill sets in Pivotal Response Training and Social Skills methodologies. Again as soon as we are able to add typical peers, we will.