Special Health Care Needs

Walden’s Special Health Care Needs (SHCN) program is designed to move medically fragile children out of skilled nursing facilities and hospitals into highly skilled and specifically trained certified foster families.  This program also cares for children with technology–dependent conditions such as apnea monitors, nebulizers, oxygen, feeding tubes and other adaptive equipment.  Other children in the program may include drug-exposed infants, juvenile diabetics, failure to thrive infants, premature infants, or children with other life threatening medical conditions.  This unique program includes intensive training and support for foster parents willing to care for a child with special heath care needs.