Ann Martin Center is a community based clinic. Our target population is children, adolescents and families. Approximately 85% of cases are made up of this population, and 15% are adults and couples. Many of the adults and couples seen are parents of children and teens whose issues are affecting parenting capacity and family stability.
The population we serve in our outpatient clinic present with a broad range of issues, diagnoses, and levels of functioning. The impact of problems upon the individual children can be moderate and acute to chronic and severe. Typically there are multiple factors that play a part in the referral of clients: major environmental disruption, including divorce and custody disputes, separation, death or chronic illness of a family member, neglect, abuse and/orabandonment resulting in out of home placement (fostercare or kinship care), a broad range of family conflicts, difficulties at school (academically, behaviorally and/orsocially), learning problems or disabilities, multiple emotional and/or relational difficulties including depression, anxiety, attachment or separation difficulties, developmental difficulties/disabilities (e.g. pervasive developmental disorders, autistic spectrum functioning, non- verbal learning disability,medical problems, etc.), trauma, abuse, poverty, family instability and high conflict, separation, divorce and blended family dynamics, direct and/or indirect exposure to violence, etc. We serve a highly diverse population in terms of multiple social factors like race, family composition, and economic status.
