Programs & Initiatives
How Our Programs Work Together
Families often arrive with questions, concerns, or a sense that something isn’t right, without knowing what to do next.
This is where an integrated system of care makes a difference.
Partnership for Child Health does not ask families to sort themselves into the right service. Our programs are designed to work together as part of one coordinated system of care.
Partnership For Child Health Programs & Initiatives
Integrated Healthcare Coordination
Partnership for Child Health coordinates emotional and mental health support within the broader system of care, helping families navigate concerns, access services, and stay connected as needs evolve.
Juvenile Justice & Diversion
These programs serve youth who are already involved with, or at risk of entering, the juvenile justice system. Partnership for Child Health brings together support services to help prevent deeper system involvement and support more stable outcomes.
Snyder Family Cleft & Craniofacial Center
Some children require specialized, long-term medical care that spans multiple providers and stages of development. Partnership for Child Health coordinates care across providers and connects families to other support when needed, helping them navigate care over time.
Community & Prevention Initiatives
Health outcomes are shaped long before a child enters a clinic or courtroom. Community-based prevention strengthens systems upstream and reduces the likelihood of crisis.
Integrated Healthcare & Care Coordination
Supporting Emotional and Mental Health as Part of Whole-Child Care
Emotional and mental health are foundational to a child’s long-term well-being. When support is delayed or disconnected, challenges can ripple across school, healthcare, and family life.
These needs often show up as changes in behavior or mood, difficulty at school, increased stress at home, or concerns raised by a pediatrician or teacher.
Integrated Healthcare & Care Coordination
Partnership for Child Health coordinates emotional and mental health support within the broader system of care, helping families navigate concerns, access services, and stay connected as needs evolve.
Early identification, guidance, and follow-through make a difference.
Therapeutic and Behavioral Health Services
Through partnerships with New Perspectives Therapeutic Services, Step-By-Step 4 Help, and Prosocial Behavioral Health, Building a Resilient Jacksonville System of Care (BRJ-SOC) provides counseling, family therapy, behavioral health assessments, ABA services, parent training, and individualized behavioral support.
Pediatric Behavioral Health Hub
The Pediatric Behavioral Health Hub connects pediatric primary care with emotional and mental health support across the community. It facilitates screening, consultation, referrals, and care coordination so concerns identified early can be addressed before challenges escalate.
Pediatric Behavioral Health Hub
Partnership for Child Health serves as a statewide pediatric Behavioral Health Hub, helping primary care practices integrate mental and behavioral health into everyday pediatric care.
The hub connects pediatricians, behavioral health specialists, care coordinators, and families so children and youth can receive timely, coordinated support close to home and within the medical settings they already trust.
As part of Florida’s Statewide Network for Access and Quality through the Department of Health, the Behavioral Health Hub supports children and young adults from birth through age 21.
What the Behavioral Health Hub Provides
The hub functions as a pediatric mental health access team, supporting enrolled pediatric practices through:
- Behavioral health integration training and practice transformation
- Consultation with child psychiatrists and developmental-behavioral pediatricians
- Care coordination and referral support for families
- Evidence-based workflow and quality improvement strategies
- Provider education and technical assistance
Participating providers receive customized support designed to strengthen behavioral health screening, coordination, referral pathways, and integrated care delivery within pediatric practices.
Support for Families and Youth
Families referred through participating providers receive help navigating behavioral health services and community resources. Dedicated care coordinators assist with referrals, communication between providers, and ongoing coordination of care to help ensure children receive appropriate support as early as possible.
Statewide Collaboration and Engagement
In addition to direct provider support, the Behavioral Health Hub participates in statewide pediatric behavioral health collaboratives, quality improvement initiatives, and data reporting efforts focused on improving access, equity, and outcomes across Florida.
Pediatric practices can participate through full Behavioral Health Integration Practice Transformation enrollment or by accessing consultation and support services individually.
Co-designing Rich Environments for All to Thrive Everyday (CREATE)
CREATE steps in when coordination itself has become the barrier. It aligns services and supports families across medical care, school-based supports, community services, and justice-related systems.
Co-designing Rich Environments for All to Thrive Everyday (CREATE)
The CREATE System of Care is a SAMHSA-funded initiative serving children and youth with complex medical and behavioral health needs across Jacksonville and Northeast Florida.
CREATE brings together clinical care, family support, community resources, and systems coordination to help children and families navigate complex healthcare and behavioral health challenges while strengthening long-term wellbeing.
Who CREATE Serves
CREATE focuses on children and youth experiencing significant medical, developmental, behavioral health, or transition-related challenges, including:
- Children and youth with special healthcare needs
- Youth transitioning from pediatric to adult healthcare systems
- Youth experiencing serious emotional disturbance, trauma, or barriers to behavioral health services
Families are considered an essential part of care planning and support, recognizing the significant stress and mental health impacts complex care needs can place on caregivers and siblings.
Core Services and Care Coordination
CREATE uses SAMHSA’s high-fidelity wraparound model to provide individualized, family-centered support through interdisciplinary care teams that may include:
- Licensed clinical social workers and mental health therapists
- Behavioral health coordinators
- Parent support advocates
- Child psychiatry and trauma-focused service providers
Families may receive coordinated services including wraparound care planning, behavioral health treatment, community action team support, family advocacy, and ongoing care coordination tailored to each child’s strengths and needs.
Training, Evaluation, and Systems Improvement
CREATE also supports workforce development and systems improvement through training in trauma-informed, evidence-based, and child-rights-based practices for providers, agencies, and families.
Program evaluation and continuous quality improvement are conducted in partnership with the University of Florida and include outcome measurement, equity indicators, and policy analysis aimed at reducing structural barriers affecting children and families.
Preventing Deeper System Involvement
Juvenile Justice & Diversion Programs
Children and youth involved in the juvenile justice system often face overlapping challenges including trauma, behavioral health needs, substance use, family instability, educational barriers, and exposure to violence.
Partnership for Child Health works alongside courts, schools, behavioral health providers, community organizations, and public agencies to help identify needs early, connect youth and families to appropriate support, and reduce deeper involvement in the justice system.
JUVENILE JUSTICE & DIVERSION PROGRAMS
Intervention That Focuses On Prevention & Opportunity
Through diversion, coordinated care, behavioral health intervention, family support, restorative practices, and community-based services, these programs help youth build safer, healthier pathways forward.
Duval County Diversion System of Care (DSOC)
A pathway that keeps youth out of formal court.
Duval County Diversion System of Care (DSOC)
Established in 2020
The Duval County Diversion System of Care (DSOC) was developed in partnership with the 4th Judicial Circuit State Attorney’s Office and Kids Hope Alliance to provide early intervention and supportive services for justice-involved youth in Duval County.
Redesigned through recommendations from the Juvenile Justice Advisory Committee (JJAC) and broader community assessment efforts, DSOC uses a coordinated, trauma-informed, and evidence-based approach to identify eligible youth early and connect them and their families to individualized services before challenges escalate further.
The program focuses on addressing the underlying factors contributing to delinquent behavior while promoting accountability, family stability, behavioral health support, and positive youth development.
Diversion Services & Supports
- Individualized diversion and intervention services
- Behavioral health counseling and therapeutic support
- Family engagement and stabilization services
- Accountability-based activities focused on personal growth and responsibility
- Care coordination and referrals to community-based treatment and support services
- Equitable and culturally responsive programming for youth and families
Goals
- Reduce juvenile justice involvement and recidivism
- Increase access to early intervention and treatment services
- Strengthen protective factors for youth and families
- Address behavioral health, substance use, and other risk factors associated with delinquency
- Promote more equitable outcomes within the juvenile justice system
Programs Within DSOC
- Restorative Justice in partnership with the Center for Children’s Rights (CCR)
- Juvenile Diversion Alternative Program (JDAP)
- Functional Family Therapy (FFT) in partnership with BAYS Kids
Criminal Justice Reinvestment Grant (CJRG) Program
Early assessment before cases escalate.
Community Juvenile Response Grant (CJRG) Program
Established 2014
The Criminal Justice Reinvestment Grant (CJRG) Care Coordination Project supports justice-involved youth with significant social, emotional, behavioral, and educational needs through early intervention, wraparound services, and coordinated care.
Through comprehensive screening and assessment, the program identifies youth experiencing trauma, mental health challenges, substance use concerns, educational barriers, or other factors that may increase risk for continued justice involvement.
Youth and families are connected to individualized services and evidence-based interventions designed to improve stability, wellbeing, and long-term outcomes.
CJRG Services & Supports
- Behavioral health, trauma, educational, and risk assessments
- Care coordination and case management
- Mental health and substance use referrals
- Educational advocacy and school-based support
- Wraparound and diversion services tailored to each youth’s level of need
Goals
- Reduce recidivism and future justice involvement
- Increase access to diversion and early intervention services
- Address trauma, behavioral health, and educational needs
- Strengthen family and community support systems
- Improve long-term outcomes for youth and families
Preventing Long-Term Anger and Aggression in Youth (PLAAY)
A program preventing aggression in youth.
Preventing Long-Term Anger and Aggression in Youth (PLAAY)
Who It Serves
Youth ages 10-17
What This Program Does
PLAAY is a culturally responsive mentoring and prevention program based on Dr. Howard Stevenson’s Racial Stress and Trauma Framework. Designed primarily for Black and Brown youth ages 10–17, PLAAY uses structured recreational and social activities to create opportunities for participants to practice emotional regulation and conflict resolution skills in real-time.
Responding & Intervening through Strength & Empowerment (RISE)
Supporting families impacted by trauma.
Responding & Intervening through Strength & Empowerment (RISE)
Established 2017
Project RISE is a trauma-informed, culturally responsive initiative focused on supporting children, youth, families, and communities impacted by violence and trauma.
Using restorative justice practices and prevention-based strategies, Project RISE promotes healing, resilience, connection, and long-term community wellness.
A major component of the initiative is gang prevention and intervention in collaboration with the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office Operation Safe Passage initiative. Through coordinated outreach, intervention, case management, and community-based support, youth identified as vulnerable to violence or gang involvement receive services designed to strengthen protective factors, improve family and school engagement, and reduce future risk.
Project RISE Programs & Services
- Hope and Healing Circles
- PLAAY (Preventing Long-Term Aggression and Anger in Youth)
- Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI)
- Resilience Navigation & Connection Circles
- State of the Young People Collective
Goals
- Increase resilience in youth exposed to violence and trauma
- Strengthen family and community support systems
- Reduce the impact of violence, delinquency, and victimization
- Promote healing, prevention, and long-term community wellness
Helping Our Youth Pursue Excellence (HOPE) Court
Ongoing individualized support within the justice.
Helping Offenders with Personalized Engagement (HOPE) Court
Established 2017
Ongoing, individualized support within the justice system.
HOPE Court is a specialized diversion and rehabilitation program serving youth ages 11–17 who are involved in the juvenile justice system and experiencing mental health challenges, substance use disorders, trauma, or other complex needs.
Using a multidisciplinary team approach, HOPE Court provides intensive wraparound support focused on behavioral health, education, family functioning, accountability, and life skills development. Participation is voluntary and designed to help youth avoid deeper justice-system involvement while building a foundation for long-term success.
HOPE Court Services & Supports
- Individualized treatment planning
- * Court appearances and team staffing to monitor progress and accountability
- * Mental health and substance use treatment, including therapy and medication management
- * Intensive case management and care coordination
- * Educational advocacy and school intervention support
- * Employment readiness and life skills development
- * Parent training and family support services
Goals
- Reduce future juvenile justice involvement
- Support positive behavioral and emotional growth
- Increase access to behavioral health treatment
- Strengthen family and community supports
- Build long-term life and coping skills for youth success
Youth who successfully complete at least 80% of their individualized case plan requirements and remain free from re-offending may be recommended for graduation from the HOPE Court program.
Jacksonville Journey Forward – HOPE Court
Jacksonville Journey Forward is a specialized component of the Duval County Diversion System of Care serving youth ages 11–17 who require additional behavioral health, family, or community-based support.
The program serves youth who may not qualify for traditional HOPE Court, including youth involved in both delinquency and dependency systems, youth referred for school safety concerns, and youth needing more intensive intervention than traditional diversion programs provide.
Using a system-of-care approach, Jacksonville Journey Forward connects youth and families to individualized services including therapy, Functional Family Therapy (FFT), educational advocacy, and wraparound support tailored to their strengths and needs.
Youth Advocacy
Advancing youth advocacy, leadership development, and systems change.
Youth Advocacy
Center for Children's Rights (CCR) is a key BRJ-SOC partner dedicated to advancing youth advocacy, leadership development, and systems change. CCR works to ensure that young people are not only represented in decisions that affect their lives but are empowered to authentically participate in shaping policies, programs, and services that impact their communities.
Through the State of the Young People (SOYP) Consortium, CCR creates meaningful opportunities for youth voice and leadership by engaging young people as active partners in advocacy efforts. The SOYP Consortium provides a platform for youth to identify community challenges, share lived experiences, develop leadership skills, and collaborate with stakeholders to influence systems-level change. This approach promotes youth-adult partnerships and ensures that policies and initiatives reflect the perspectives and priorities of those most directly affected.
Snyder Family Cleft and Craniofacial Center
Coordinated Care for Complex Medical Needs
Some children require specialized, long-term medical care that spans multiple providers and stages of development. Coordination helps ensure care is consistent and family-centered, while also supporting a child’s emotional, developmental, and social needs.
The Snyder Family Cleft and Craniofacial Center coordinates care across providers and connects families to counseling, developmental, and social support when needed, helping them navigate care over time.
Snyder Family Cleft and Craniofacial Center
The Snyder Family Cleft & Craniofacial Center provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary care for children and families affected by cleft, craniofacial, and related conditions throughout Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. Our mission is to deliver coordinated, evidence-based care that supports children from infancy through adulthood while helping families navigate every aspect of treatment.
Conditions We Treat
While many families know us for our expertise in cleft lip and palate, we care for children with a broad range of craniofacial conditions, including:
- Cleft lip and cleft palate
- Craniosynostosis and craniosynostosis syndromes
- Pierre Robin Sequence
- Microtia and ear anomalies
- Treacher Collins syndrome
- Craniofacial microsomia
- Facial asymmetry
- Velopharyngeal dysfunction
- Genetic craniofacial syndromes
- Complex congenital craniofacial differences
Nationally Recognized Team Care
The Snyder Family Cleft & Craniofacial Center is the only team in Northeast Florida recommended by the American Cleft Palate–Craniofacial Association (ACPA). This distinction means our program follows nationally recognized standards for multidisciplinary cleft and craniofacial care, including:
- Appropriate involvement of specialized healthcare professionals
- Recommended timing of evaluations and treatments
- Coordinated, family-centered care plans
- Ongoing monitoring of speech, hearing, growth, development, and psychosocial well-being
These standards help ensure that every child receives the right care at the right time based on their individual needs.
Specialized Programs
22q Northeast Florida Program
The Snyder Family Cleft & Craniofacial Center is home to the only dedicated 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome program in Northeast Florida. Our multidisciplinary 22q clinic brings together:
- Cleft and craniofacial specialists
- Genetics physicians and genetic counselors
- Pediatric endocrinology
- Pediatric cardiology
This coordinated approach allows families to receive comprehensive evaluations and treatment recommendations from multiple specialists during a single visit.
CREATE Partnership
We partner with the CREATE Program to help ensure the success of treatment plans for families facing social, economic, or transportation barriers. Through this collaboration, we work to address challenges that may affect a child’s ability to access care and achieve the best possible outcomes.
Our Multidisciplinary Team
Our team brings together specialists from multiple disciplines to create a coordinated treatment plan tailored to each child.
Team members include:
- Plastic Surgeons
- Craniofacial Surgeons
- Neurosurgeons
- Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons
- Pediatricians
- Orthodontists
- Dentists
- Speech-Language Pathologists
- Otolaryngologists (ENT Specialists)
- Audiologists
- Geneticists and Genetic Counselors
- Nurse Coordinators
- Social Workers
- Psychologists
Family and Community Engagement
The Snyder Family Cleft & Craniofacial Center believes that exceptional care extends beyond the clinic walls. Each year, we host community events that bring together patients, families, providers, and supporters. These events provide opportunities for education, peer support, advocacy, and celebration of the remarkable children and families we serve.
Program Leadership
The Snyder Family Cleft & Craniofacial Center is led by:
- John Sarandria, MD, MS – Medical Director
- Sarah Fernandez, MD – Surgical Director
- Meagan O’Connor – Program Manager
Together with our multidisciplinary team, we are committed to providing compassionate, coordinated, and nationally recognized care that helps every child reach their fullest potential.
Strengthening Systems Before Crisis
Community & Prevention Initiatives
Children and families often face challenges that affect both physical and behavioral health at the same time. When care is disconnected, important needs can go unidentified and untreated.
Partnership for Child Health helps strengthen integrated healthcare systems that connect medical care, behavioral health services, family support, and community resources—so children receive more coordinated, timely, and effective care.
Partnership for Child Health Training Center
The Partnership for Child Health Training Center equips professionals, organizations, and community members with practical skills and knowledge that improve health outcomes and strengthen communities .
Partnership for Child Health Training Center
Building Stronger Communities Through Education and Empowerment
The Partnership for Child Health Training Center equips professionals, organizations, and community members with practical skills and knowledge that improve health outcomes and strengthen communities across Northeast Florida and beyond.
Through virtual, online, hybrid, and in-person learning opportunities, the Training Center supports workforce development, public health advancement, trauma-informed practices, leadership development, and community resilience.
Programs are designed for healthcare professionals, educators, behavioral health providers, nonprofit organizations, community leaders, and others working to support children, youth, and families.
Training Opportunities Include
- Community Health Worker (CHW) Training
- Trauma-Informed Care Training
- Mental Health Awareness and Education
- Youth and Family Resilience Programs
- Public Health and Community Engagement Workshops
- Leadership and Professional Development
- Customized Organizational Training and Workforce Development
Why the PCH Training Center
Expert-Led Instruction
Training is led by experienced public health professionals, educators, clinicians, and community leaders who bring practical experience and culturally responsive approaches to every learning environment.
Flexible Learning Options
Programs are available through virtual, hybrid, self-paced, and on-site formats designed to meet the needs of busy professionals and organizations.
Practical, Interactive Learning
Participants engage in real-world scenarios, discussions, and hands-on learning experiences that strengthen skills, confidence, and application in community settings.
Community-Focused Approach
Every training is grounded in improving community wellbeing, expanding access to knowledge, and strengthening the people and organizations serving children and families.
Customized Training for Organizations
The Training Center partners with healthcare systems, schools, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, government agencies, and businesses to provide customized workforce training aligned with organizational goals and community needs.
By strengthening the capacity of professionals and community leaders, the PCH Training Center helps communities become healthier, more informed, and more resilient.
Building a Resilient Jacksonville System of Care
A comprehensive, community-based initiative integrating prevention, intervention, treatment, workforce development, and more to strengthen resilience and improve long-term outcomes.
Building a Resilient Jacksonville System of Care
Building a Resilient Jacksonville System of Care (BRJ-SOC) is a comprehensive, community-based initiative serving Jacksonville’s Health Zone 1, which includes the zip codes 32202, 32204, 32206, 32208, 32209, and 32254. Health Zone 1 has consistently been identified as an underserved area characterized by limited access to resources, economic opportunity, healthcare services, and supportive community infrastructure, while also experiencing elevated rates of poverty, trauma, and community violence.
Through direct community engagement and strategic partnerships, BRJ-SOC addresses the Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) that impact the well-being of children, youth, and families. Our approach integrates prevention, intervention, treatment, workforce development, and community capacity-building initiatives designed to strengthen resilience and improve long-term outcomes.
Project One Health Springfield
Project One Health focuses on reducing screen time, strengthening community connection, and creating meaningful outdoor experiences that support physical, mental, environmental, and social wellbeing.
Project One Health Springfield
Project One Health Springfield is a community-driven initiative that reconnects youth and families in Jacksonville’s urban core with nature, wellness, and one another.
Led by Partnership for Child Health, the program focuses on reducing screen time, strengthening community connection, and creating meaningful outdoor experiences that support physical, mental, environmental, and social wellbeing.
Part of the broader One Health movement, the initiative recognizes the close connection between human health, environmental health, and community wellbeing.
Nature, Wellness, and Youth Leadership
Project One Health Springfield combines nature-based learning, youth leadership, wellness, and ecological stewardship into a neighborhood-centered model shaped with direct input from local youth and families.
Programs activate parks, trails, gardens, and neighborhood green spaces as living classrooms where young people can learn, lead, create, and build stronger connections to their community.
Activities may include:
- Nature exploration and outdoor learning
- Youth ecological stewardship and workforce development
- Gardening and food systems education
- Trail and neighborhood beautification projects
- Environmental conservation and biodiversity education
- Community advocacy and wellness initiatives
- Cultural wellness and community connection events
Youth Ecological Stewardship Program
A key component of Project One Health Springfield is the Youth Ecological Stewardship Program, which combines workforce development, environmental education, leadership development, and community engagement.
Participants explore topics including environmental conservation, walkability, urban infrastructure, public spaces, community advocacy, and neighborhood wellness while developing practical skills, confidence, teamwork, and leadership experience.
Building Healthier Communities
By investing in youth leadership, environmental stewardship, and community wellness, Project One Health Springfield helps cultivate healthier neighborhoods, stronger social connections, and the next generation of community and environmental leaders.
Open Table
Supporting individuals and families experiencing the negative effects of trauma and adverse social determinants of health.
Open Table
The Open Table model is a community-driven, relationship-based approach that mobilizes the social, relational, and professional capital of local volunteers to support individuals and families experiencing the negative effects of trauma and adverse social determinants of health.
Youth and Family Hubs (YFH)
Providing trauma-informed services and supports for youth and families, such as behavioral health support, mentoring, tutoring, workforce readiness life-skills development, and family engagement activities.
Youth and Family Hubs (YFH)
Youth and Family Hubs are community-based access points that provide trauma-informed services and supports for youth and families. Services include behavioral health support, mentoring, tutoring, workforce readiness, life-skills development, and family engagement activities.
Trauma-Informed Training and Community Education
In partnership with The 32209 Experience, Hope and Healing Jax, Voices Institute, and Community Convener Shirley Moon, BRJ-SOC provides Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI) and other trauma-informed educational opportunities. Contact us to learn more.
ReCAST CARE (Resilience in Communities After Stress and Trauma: Cultivating Action, Resilience and Empowerment)
A community-based initiative dedicated to strengthening resilience, promoting healing, and supporting the well-being of children, youth, and families affected by stress and trauma.
ReCAST CARE (Resilience in Communities After Stress and Trauma: Cultivating Action, Resilience and Empowerment)
ReCAST CARE is a community-based initiative dedicated to strengthening resilience, promoting healing, and supporting the well-being of children, youth, and families affected by stress and trauma. Through education, outreach, and supportive services, we work alongside community members to increase awareness of trauma and its impact, reduce stigma surrounding mental and behavioral health challenges, and foster understanding, compassion, and connection.
Funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), ReCAST CARE serves residents in Jacksonville's Health Zone 4, including zip codes 32205, 32210, 32212, 32215, 32221, 32222, and 32244.
Through this initiative, eligible youth and families can access a variety of free services and supports, including:
- Trauma-Informed Congregational Training for faith communities
- Individual and family trauma-focused therapy
- Healing circles and peer support opportunities
- Youth and family resilience-building activities
- Community education and awareness programs
- Referrals to additional supportive resources and services
Our goal is to help individuals, families, and communities heal, thrive, and build lasting resilience by creating safe, supportive environments where everyone has the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Finding the Right Next Step
Our programs are designed to work together as part of a connected system of care.
Families do not need to self-diagnose or navigate this system alone.
Whether you are seeking support, learning how our system works, or exploring partnership opportunities,
there is a clear path forward
BRINGING SERVICES INTO ALIGNMENT
One System. Many Pathways To Support.
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