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History and Background
The JFK Child Development
Center and B.F. Stolinsky Lab building at 7th and Birch on
the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center (UCHSC) campus was
dedicated in 1968. Programmatic support for JFK originally came from
the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Colorado legislature through
the CU School of Medicine, and the National Institute for Child Health
& Human Development (NICHD) for the Mental Retardation and
Developmental Disabilities Research Center (MRDDRC). In 1972, core
support from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities (ADD)
was added. The underlying rationale for
the federal support for these centers was the need for community-based
as opposed to institution based diagnostic treatment centers for
children with mental retardation and related disabilities. In 1968,
twenty such centers were founded nationally. The training philosophy
was based upon the assumption that the children and families to be
assisted would benefit from professionals who received their training
in an interdisciplinary clinical context. In addition to its core programmatic support, JFK Partners has had funding for many different projects. Over the years a number of these projects originally located at the JFK Center at 8th and Birch have moved to other community locations. Beginning in 1993, JFK Partners expanded to include a number of clinical, training, demonstration, and research projects from within the University of Colorado Health Services Center and the state agency collaboration known as RMRTI. In 1998, the name JFK Partners: Promoting Families, Health and Development was adopted as the official name of this interdepartmental center of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
JFK Partners University of Colorado Denver 13121 E. 17th Ave, C234 Aurora, CO 80045
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Over
its 30 year history JFK Partners has contributed to the training of
hundreds of professionals who now make their homes in Colorado, and
also around the nation and the world. Those trained represent a number
of disciplines which contribute to the diagnosis and treatment of
persons with developmental disabilities and special health care needs and their families not only in Denver and
Colorado, but nationally and internationally. In 1966, under the
leadership of Dr. John Conger, Dr. C. Henry Kempe, and Dr. Donough
O’Brien, a multidisciplinary clinic was founded within the
Department of Pediatrics at the University of Colorado (CU) School of
Medicine. When federal funding became available to assist in building
interdisciplinary clinical training and research centers in
developmental disabilities, CU successfully applied for that funding
with support from Colorado’s Governor and legislature, the Colorado
ARC, and the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation.
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