About Daystar Kids

MISSION
To joyfully celebrate children with special health care needs and enrich their lives by promoting each child’s individual health care, developmental, and psychosocial goals in an encouraging atmosphere of their peers; and to strengthen and support their families.

VISION
Daystar Kids pioneering work to support children coping with complex health care needs and developmental challenges is an innovative best practices model for replication; effectively bridging the gap from inpatient care until children successfully transition into school-based services.

OUR VALUES
Founded in 1988 by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Rochester to address a critical gap in services to support families living at home with infants and young children with special health care needs, Today, Daystar Kids

is the vanguard for delivering family-centered, coordinated, pediatric subacute care. Daystar Kids inclusive, encouraging learning environment and nurturing, social atmosphere recognizes each child’s individuality beyond the limits of their medical diagnosis and its innovative program has won accolades from New York State Office of Children and Family Services as a Best Practices Program & Environment. Daystar is an independent, charitable 501 (c) 3 organization.

Daystar Kids is New York State’s first-and-only Pediatric Complex Care and Learning Center for children up to age six who are braving serious, and often life-threatening health care complexities and developmental challenges.