Support Programs

The Child Protection Team promotes the safety and well-being of Florida’s children by providing medically led multidisciplinary assessment services for children suspected of being abused or neglected.

Early Steps is Florida’s early intervention system that offers services to infants and toddlers (birth to thirty-six months) with significant delays or a condition likely to result in a developmental delay. Early Intervention is provided to support families and caregivers in developing competence and confidence to help their child learn and develop.

The UF Multidisciplinary Diagnostic and Training Program (MDTP) is a one of five regional Florida Diagnostic and Learning Resources (FDLRS) specialized university centers in Florida that is funded through the Florida Department of Education, Bureau of Exceptional Educational and Student Services (BEESS) to serve school-aged children and youth with complex learning, behavioral, medical and socio-emotional problems who are struggling in school. Consultation and evaluation services are provided to children, their families, teachers, and schools to identify barriers to academic engagement and learning and improve student outcomes.

Project Streetlight is a support program for adolescents and young adults living with cancer, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell disease, and other chronic and critical illnesses.

Whether you are a primary care and/or subspecialty patient within our pediatric programs, we are committed to helping you through this important transition. We work closely with our patients and families to decide the best age for them to move to an adult doctor and help prepare them for this important move.

UF Health’s Youth Gender Program is for transgender and gender-nonconforming, or TGNC, youth, and their families. Education for patients and their families about gender identity development and gender nonconformity are available as well as services for social and medical transitioning.

The University of Florida is offering a new weight management program geared towards the families of overweight children in Alachua County. The program, Fun & Fit Families, is a family-based lifestyle intervention that allows children and parents to work together to make healthy dietary and physical activity changes in their lives.

A Medical-Legal Partnership is a partnership in which medical providers and lawyers work together to identify health-harming legal needs that create hardships for children and families.