Peoria-Area Community Impact Guide 2023-2024

PEDIATRIC RESOURCE CENTER

1800 N. Knoxville Avenue, Suite B Peoria, IL 61603 Phone: (309) 624-9595 Website : PediatricResourceCenterorg Facebook : @PediatricResourceCenter Instagram : @PediatricResourceCenter YouTube : @gouicedu/PRCYouTube KEY STAFF Stephanie Johnson, Executive Director Channing Petrak, MD, Medical Director Claudia Plumer, DNP, APN, CPNP-AC/PC, SANE-A/P, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Carrie Watt, DNP, APRN, CPNP-AC, SANE-P, Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Amanda Thomison, Case Coordinator Taryn Dunlap, Case Coordinator Tori Odhiambo, Research Associate Carole Siefken, Office Administrator Danielle Keime, Office Manager

By accepting the privilege and responsibility of guaranteeing optimal child health and welfare, the Pediatric Resource Center (PRC) has been established as a child-centered, community-based, multidisciplinary effort to provide comprehensive prevention, education, research, evaluation and treatment in the areas of sexual abuse, physical abuse and neglect of children.

BOARD MEMBERS Debbie Bart Justin Bolkema Brian Card Jill Dodaro Jennifer Flexer Jenna Grimm Talbert Houle Danielle Jepson Jason Killion Emily Norris Frank Perino William Reimers

VISION Health Safety Advocacy WHAT WE DO

child abuse pediatrician and two advanced practice nurses who are also national board certified pediatric/adolescent sexual assault nurse examiners We offer child-centered medical social services to children and their families Education to community groups and child-protection professionals is available regarding child maltreatment and its prevention

Rene Rosiak Chris Rothan Seth Uphoff Alicia VanRheeden Kim Walker Rebekah Williams Cory Winstead Kelli Evans, Ex-Officio Susan Grebner, Ex-Officio Dr. Kay Saving MD, Ex-Officio

The Pediatric Resource Center is the only program in the region providing complete head-to-toe examinations in a child friendly manner by specially-trained and certified medical staff to victims of child maltreatment We serve children from birth to age 18 Since opening our doors in 1993, we have evaluated more than 9,000 children from 62 counties and eight states Our staff uses education, distraction and calming techniques to normalize the specialized medical evaluation for our young patients In addition to our Peoria office, we provide services to children at OSF HealthCare Children’s Hospital of Illinois and at UnityPoint Health Methodist DID YOU KNOW? We offer specialized medical care to victims of child physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect by a board-certified

HOW TO HELP Visit go.uic.edu/PRCGiving to donate, purchase an item from the PRC Wish List on Amazon ( go.uic.edu/PRCWishList ), or call Stephanie Johnson, PRC Executive Director, at (309) 624-9595 to learn more about donation opportunities and volunteering.

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