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We serves children ages 0-8 with behavioral health issues, to ensure they can develop and thrive—academically, socially, and emotionally.

Bowen Center illustrationWe are particularly focused on working with families who have experienced or are healing from trauma but we provide many types of therapy, including cognitive behavioral therapy, parent child therapy, parent management training, play therapy, and more. We also prescribe medications if it would be helpful and make sense for the child.

Our bicultural therapists utilize evidence-based, trauma-focused models of treatment that have been proven to empower children and families and make a difference in their lives.

Services include:

  • Parent/caregiver and child groups
  • Family/dyadic therapy (with both caregiver(s) and child), including child parent psychotherapy and infant parent psychotherapy
  • Individual therapy for children
  • father teaches son baseballIndividual child screenings
  • Guidance in increasing positive interactions and communication between parent & child
  • Assistance in developing social-emotional skills, building resiliency, improving self-esteem, and encouraging self-regulation
  • Referrals for other early childhood services
  • Case management
  • Peer Advocacy
  • Focused neuropsychology testing
  • We do not do ASD evaluations or provide treatment for ASD
  • We do not provide early intervention, OT, PT, or speech therapy

Hours of operation: Monday – Friday from 8:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, please email us at [email protected] or call us at (646) 340-1551.

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Emma Bowen Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Center’s LAUNCH Grant Initiative

What is the LAUNCH Grant?

SAMHSA’s program for providers of early childhood mental health services that promote the wellness of young children by addressing the social, emotional, cognitive, physical, and behavioral aspects of their development.

Our goals:

  • Disseminate effective and innovative early childhood mental health practices and services
  • Build the capacities of adult caregivers of young children to promote healthy social and emotional development
  • Prevent mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders

turntablist and pizza ratComponents of the grant:

  • Expanding our available clinical services
    • Individual child screenings
    • Parent/caregiver and child groups
    • Family/dyadic therapy (with both caregiver(s) and child), including child parent psychotherapy and infant parent psychotherapy and trauma-focused CBT
    • Play therapy for children
    • Medication management
    • Guidance in increasing positive interactions and communication between parent & child
    • Assistance in developing social-emotional skills, building resiliency, improving self-esteem, and encouraging self-regulation
    • Referrals for other early childhood services
    • Case management
    • Peer Advocacy
    • Focused neuropsychology testing
    • We do not do ASD evaluations or provide treatment for ASD
    • We do not provide early intervention, OT, PT, or speech therapy
  • boy and girl high fivingPartnering with stakeholders that interface with the early childhood population
    • Primary care providers
    • Children’s media organizations
    • Homeless shelters
    • Programs serving those affected by intimate partner violence
    • Providers of childcare
    • Early childhood education providers
    • School-based after-school programs
    • Children’s mental health centers and family services
    • Obstetrics and gynecology providers
    • Early childhood focused nonprofits, policy-focused orgs, or social impact organizations

Partner with us!

Join our Young Child Wellness Council (YCWC)
aims to improve communication and collaboration across child and family-serving systems to support Healthy LAUNCH implementation includes partnering liaisons, local families, and caregiver family members

NYC transportationTrainings/Consultation

  • We can provided educational trainings for your site or program on infant and early childhood related issues such as child development, trauma, attachment and strategies for behavioral intervention
  • We can provided educational trainings for your site or program on infant and early childhood related issues with a focus on intersectionality, including particular trainings on various forms of identity such as SES, race, disability status, legal status, gender, sexuality and other identities and how to best serve families experiencing oppression
  • We can train your site on how to screen babies and young children for mental health issues and what do with positive screenings
  • We can provide consultation and training for staff on how to work with families affected by trauma or other infant/early childhood wellness related issues
  • Family facing work
  • We can provide groups for parents or children at your site
  • We can provide screenings for families at your site

Working together on activities

  • We can partner as trainers
  • We can share resources
  • child playing with rubix cubeWe can cross-refer our clients to one another to ensure all needs are met
  • We can partner to improve coordination and collaboration across child and family-serving systems and programs, whether this means creating aligned processes for data gathering and sharing, co-designing workflows, or improving systems in the context of frequently changing policies and laws that affect our families
  • Collaborate in any other way that will serve the needs of families in our community!

Contact Us

Emma L. Bowen Center
1727 Amsterdam Ave,
New York NY 10031
[email protected]
212-694-9200