The Riskin Children's Center
Your children are your most precious possession...
But they don't come with an instruction manual. If they fall and hurt themselves, you know what to do. Where do you turn when you don't know what to do...
- When your three-year-old is having nightmares?...
- When your six-year-old, who was fully toilet-trained, begins having "accidents"?...
- When your sweet 10-year-old becomes a moody teenager?...
- When your child is at odds with the world?...
- When your child's behavior disrupts the entire family?
The list is endless and the challenges facing parents are equally endless. Sometimes the child is fine but the family situation is too hard to manage: a parent becomes ill, the parents decide to divorce or a family member dies.
Where Do You Turn?
The Samuel F. and Sylvia S Riskin Children's Center's professional staff is ready to help.
The Riskin Children's Center provides a high-quality, easily accessible center for evaluation and treatment of children facing challenges that impede their development into fully-functional adults. These challenges can include psychological, educational, neurological, environmental and social problems. The Riskin Children's Center integrates services under one roof, comprehensively addressing the child as a whole.
Our highly trained staff can provide an array of responses to all of the issues you face with your children.
Play Therapy - A powerful theraputic tool for young children, enabling them to master their current life stress through directed play with a trained worker.
Filial Therapy - A unique program in which the parent is taught to become the play therapist for his/her child.
Family Therapy - The Riskin Children's Center works with JFS staff to help the family use its own strengths to handle a crisis or ongoing difficulties in coping.
Psychiatric Consultation & Medication follow up - The Riskin Children's Center's staff works closely with its medical director and other outstanding child psychiatrists to develop the best treatment plans for your child. Face-to-face consultations are available to assess the need for medication and develop a diagnosis in cases where there are questions.
Art Therapy - Using the medium of art to facilitate expressing difficult feelings.
Music Therapy -- Using the medium of music to assist children in developing social and interactive skills.
Social Skills Groups - Group programs to help children whose neurological and learning difficulties make social interactions doubly challenging.
Parenting Classes - Ongoing groups enabling parents to explore and discuss a variety of child rearing techniques, including "1-2-3-Magic!", "Active Listening" and "Love and Logic" and the unique offering of the Parenting Journey. Parents can then find a model that works best with their family style.
Parent Resource Center - Library and resource information for parents of children with special needs. Affiliated with SPAN - Statewide Parent Advocacy Network.
Services are entirely confidential. Fees are on a sliding scale, based on the family's ability to pay. Most insurance plans are accepted. Services are provided by highly trained professionals who are experienced in working with children and their families. The Riksin Children's Center turns no one away because of inability to pay.
The Riskin Children's Center is non-sectarian and is open to all children who are in need of its help.
Parenting Tip from Anne Marie M. Ramos, Coordinator of Children's Services:
"Research indicates that child compliance increases when a request is phrased with an implied choice even if there is none. For example, "Please pick up the coat," has a better chance of compliance than, "Pick up the coat, now." The reason for this is that the word "please" implies a choice."
The Samuel F. and Sylvia S. Riskin Children's Center
199 Scoles Ave.
Clifton, NJ 07012
973-777-7638 • 973-777-9311 Fax