About the Pratten One Complex Care Program

Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) offers specialized assessment and treatment services to children and youth from birth to 18 years of age with complex medical fragility and/or technology dependence.

Our team is made up of:

  • nurses
  • childcare workers
  • a paediatrician
  • a child life specialist
  • a physiotherapist
  • an occupational therapist
  • a speech-language pathologist
  • a dietician
  • a social worker

Services in the Pratten One Complex Care Program

Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) offers two types of intensive services admissions:

  • day treatment
  • overnight admissions

Your child may receive treatment over the course of a day and go home afterwards, or he or she will stay at Child and Parent Resource Institute (CPRI) and receive treatment over a longer period of time.

A typical admission is one week per month. During this time, we will monitor and assess your child. We will provide medical treatment such as:

  • oxygen therapy
  • oral/tube feeding
  • seizure monitoring/management

We will also help your child reach developmental goals such as improving their fine/gross motor and communication skills.

While in the program, your child won’t go to school, but they will participate in our Child Life Program, which focuses on the developmental and psychosocial needs of your child.

You and your family play an important role in your child’s treatment. Before your child is admitted, you help set short term goals and make action plans. While your child is in the program, you and community team members meet with our team on an ongoing basis to review assessment results, your child’s progress and plans for transition and discharge to community resources.

Where treatment is held

Our unit is on the first floor of the Pratten Building at CPRI in London, Ontario.

Eligibility

CPRI delivers services in the Pratten One Complex Care Program. Generally, children or youth being referred to a CPRI program or service should visit a doctor and have accessed support in the community before considering a referral to CPRI.

Once your child’s or youth’s referral has been accepted, an appointment for a clinical consult is set up so our team can meet you and your child. This consult determines whether your child or youth is eligible for the program. The children we help may have:

  • cerebral palsy
  • genetic syndromes
  • feeding difficulties
  • neurological disorders
  • associated developmental delays

How to access the Pratten One Complex Care Program

The Child and Parent Resource Institute provides services in the Pratten One Complex Care Program.

You can submit an inpatient referral form for this service if you are:

  • a doctor
  • the child or youth’s parent
  • an employee at the child or youth’s school
  • an employee of a social service agency (like a single point access agency)
  • the child or youth in need of service

All referral forms must be signed by the child or youth’s doctor.

Learn more about the referral process and access referral forms.