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 OUR MISSION
Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center provides comprehensive prevention, intervention and treatment service to children and youth with special health care needs and their families.
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 OUR VISION
A Center of Excellence that inspires and supports the optimal potential of our community’s children with special health care needs through care, education, research and collaboration.
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 OUR VALUES
The Center provides services responsive to the needs of vulnerable children which are coordinated, family-centered and offered within a culturally competent, community-based environment.
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OUR HISTORY
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| Established in 1983 when Broward County had one of the highest infant mortality rates in the country, Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center began with a staff of three in a small room in Broward General Hospital and has since grown to be the largest child healthcare provider in Broward County, serving
over 10,000 children with chronic illnesses and disabilities annually.
The Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center is not-for-profit nationally recognized Center of Excellence.
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THE MOSAIC
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| People, it has been said, are “. . . not a melting pot, but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.” This is certainly true of Broward County, which grows at a rate of approximately 10 percent each year. Serving such a large and diverse community is a challenge, particularly when nearly 13 percent of the community is living below federal poverty guidelines. Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center, Inc. has remained committed to the vision of bringing the best in health care and family services to children with special health care needs regardless of their families’ ability to pay, and in 2006, served more than 10,000 clients.
CDTC’s multi-cultural, multi-lingual, and multi-disciplinary staff continues to maintain the excellence of CDTC’s program, as well as to seek new opportunities for improving their ability to reach out, to educate and to connect with the community. The staff’s “yearning, hope and dream’ is to help families understand and cope with the special needs of their children, so that they may better provide for their children’s future.
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