Integrating Home Visiting Systems within Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems

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• #2: 12:00 Pacific / 1:00 Mountain / 2:00 Central / 3:00 Eastern (1 minute)Production Notes:Note when questions are asked so that questions can be sent to the correct presenter for response.Welcome everyone to the integrating home vising systems within early childhood comprehensive systems webinar.
• #3: I am Susan Stewart a distance learning consultant for the MIECHV TACC at Zero to Three.This webinar is hosted by the Maternal Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Technical Assistance Coordinating Center (TACC). TACC is funded by HRSA and operates from ZERO TO THREE and in partnership with Chapin Hall, AMCHP and WRMA. TACC is funded to provide many levels of technical assistancesupport to MIECHV grantees, including webinars like this one. Support from TACC can be accessed through your HRSA Regional Project Officers.
• #4: As a result of our time together today you will learn about….How the ECCS and MIECHV grants complement one another in building statewide early childhood systems of care.How outcomes for children and families can be strengthened with implementation plans of both systems are connected.Specific ways that states have endeavored to integrate the two systems.
• #5: 12:01 Pacific / 1:01 Mountain / 2:01 Central / 3:01 Eastern (1 minute)Before I introduce our presenters and we receive a welcome from our funder, we need to put a few ducks in a row.
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• #9: Finally, you should have received the PowerPoint slides for today’s webinar via email if you registered for today’s webinar by this morning. If you registered a bit later you will receive the PowerPoint slides a bit later via email. We will also send out copies of the PowerPoint slides after the webinar to all webinar registrants and they will be posted to our website. Throughout the webinar contact information for the presenters and helpful links you may want to explore will be shared. All of these details are in the PowerPoint slides.
• #10: 12:02 Pacific / 1:02 Mountain / 2:02 Central / 3:02 Eastern (3 minutes)And now I’d like to introduce you to our speakers. First we will hear from Debora Hansen and Dianna Frick who are representing the work being done in Montana. Debora Hansen has a Bachelors in Special Education and Elementary Education and a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Instruction.  She worked in the early childhood profession since 1987 as a child care director.   In May 2011, she started working for the state in the Early Childhood Services Bureau. She is the ECCS Coordinator and also the Best Beginnings Advisory Council Coordinator. Dianna Frick first became interested in the field of public health as a Peace Corps Volunteer in West Africa.  After Peace Corps she earned her Master of Public Health from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  In 2004, she moved to Montana as a Public Health Prevention Specialist with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.  Since 2007, she has been the Lead Maternal and Child Health Epidemiologist at the Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services.  Currently, she is also coordinating the Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Infrastructure Development Project.Our next speaker is from Maine. Sheryl Peavey is the Child Wellness Liaison for the Office of Health Equity at the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. She currently directs the state’s Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems project (ECCS), the state’s Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting projects and administers its evidence based home visiting program, Maine Families. Ms. Peavey manages several federal grants; including the State Advisory Council funding for the Maine Children’s Growth Council, the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems grant, and Project LAUNCH (Community Caring Collaborative). She also coordinates the state partnership with the Maine Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Councils. Ms. Peavey’s career has been diverse but always focused on the well-being of children and their families. She has worked with national corporations, government and military agencies, and local coalitions to implement family-friendly business practices and quality child care benefits. Her work history includes high-quality, employer-sponsored child care partnerships, child and family research projects, policy development/analysis, community facilitation, and program evaluation. She is an elected member of her local town’s budget committee and volunteers time for her children’s afterschool and recreation programs.Finally, Eric Bellamy and Rosemary Wilson will speak to the collaborations that are happening in South Carolina.Eric Bellamy has worked with Children’s Trust of South Carolina for two years, after several years of human services, youth development, and health education experience. With a passion for children and adolescent health services, he has worked on such initiatives as adolescent pregnancy prevention, Hurricane Katrina/Rita Relief projects, and infrastructure building for children’s mental health and substance abuse services. He serves as the Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood (MIEC) Home Visiting Coordinator and oversees all operations of the project’s initiatives. A native of Bridgeport, CT, Eric holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Health Promotion from Coastal Carolina University.Rosemary Wilson is currently the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Grant Coordinator, working for the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Women and Children’s Services division of the SC Department of Health and Environmental Control. (DHEC) Prior to starting this job in 2006, she held positions in the agency including Part C District System Manager, Community Outreach Coordination, Care Coordination Manager for Children with Special Health Care Needs, and as a Social Worker for Children’s Rehabilitative Services and Home Health. Rosemary has also worked as a hospital Social Worker in Washington state and Georgia. Her early career included working in a psychiatric hospital with children and adolescents and in an alternative school setting with the same population. Rosemary has a BS in Mental Health from Georgia State University and earned her MSW from the University of Georgia.At this time I’d like to turn the floor over to
• #11: 12:05 Pacific / 1:05 Mountain / 2:05 Central / 3:05 Eastern (15 minutes)Production Notes: Give Dena Mouse/Keyboard ControlDena Green who is the Senior Public Health Analyst, for the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Program, in the Program Planning and Coordination Branch of the Division of Home Visiting and Early Childhood Systems which resides in the Maternal and Child Health Bureau of the Health Resources and Services Administration. Dena will set the stage for our presenters, emphasizing the importance of the collaboration and coordination between Home Visiting and Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems.
• #21: Thank you, Dena for providing foundational information about The Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Program. If any of you have questions about the ECCS you can contact Dena via email or telephone. The contact information for all of the presenters will also be listed on a slide at the end of the webinar.
• #22: 12:20 Pacific / 1:20 Mountain / 2:20 Central / 3:20 Eastern (15 minutes)Production Notes: Give Dianna Mouse/Keyboard ControlI’d like to turn the presentation over to Debbie Hansen and Dianna Frick who will describe the collaboration between the ECCS and MIECHV in Montana. Debora will begin sharing about their work. Production Notes: Remove Dena’s Mouse/Keyboard Control
• #23: How ECCS and Best Beginnings are related
• #26: Principles are shared between ECCS, Head Start Collaboration Office, and Best Beginnings/MIECHV ID.Refer to Best Beginnings table.
• #28: Community in a broader sense.
• #29: Roles: fiscal agents – who controls the money: governance structure – coordinator’s role, who supervises the coordinator, how does that work when they are responsive to the council; how does the state BBAC relate to local councils; can they impose requirements; how do the local councils ask for BBAC to work on issues
• #31: Stevenson and SonsDiscussion with FB
• #33: The system should change to support the interventions and meet the needs.
• #34: Thank you, Dianna and Debbie for sharing about the important front end work that must be done to ensure that the changes you make will be sustained over time.
• #35: 12:35 Pacific / 1:35 Mountain / 2:35 Central / 3:35 Eastern (15 minutes)Production Notes: Give Sheryl Mouse/Keyboard ControlI will now turn the floor over to Sheryl Peavey who will speak to the work being done in Maine to integrate home visiting and ECCS. Sheryl, you have the floor.Production Notes: Remove Dianna’s Mouse/Keyboard Control
• #38: Began as a pilot, using national and homegrown modelsTask Force to Study Parents as Children’s First Teachers began in 1997 (which became the Task Force on Early Childhood….)Expanded with the tobacco settlement funds and included evaluation component
• #41: Professional Development Registry for Early Care and Education (MRTQ)Home Visiting Track (Family Education and Support Professional)Provides electronic record of training participation and post-secondary education documentationAligned with MF Standards of Practice
• #46: Thank you, Sheryl. You highlighted how the home visiting component added value to the other programs and the importance of having a mindset of looking for opportunities for intersection. These are fundamental to successful integration of systems.
• #47: 12:50 Pacific / 1:50 Mountain / 2:50 Central / 3:50 Eastern (25 minutes)Production Notes: Give Rosemary Mouse/Keyboard ControlOur final presenters for today are Eric Bellamy and Rosemary Wilson. They will describe their South Carolinian collaboration. Rosemary, take it away.Production Notes: Remove Sheryl’s Mouse/Keyboard Control
• #49: ECCS grant started as planning grants. Does not mean that there were not already planning efforts and strategies implemented to improve EC. There were, and they were making progress, but typically it was within the silo of their EC domain. SC planning organized around a Leadership Planning Team, and 4 groups shaped by the ECCS key components. Like many states, SC combined the Parenting and Family Support components because of there strong overlap in services and mission,
• #50: What kind of group is helpful while looking at building a better system?
• #51: The SC ECCS Leadership team is a great connecting point – like the center of the ECCS flower – for thinking, planning, learning, sharing around the aspects of our early childhood system.
• #53: Representatives come from these areas – core as well as open to others to come and go – depending on the structure of each meeting. Children’s Trust (MIECHV) has been a long standing member and hosted the planning group for Parenting and Familiy Support for over two years. These planning meetings started our discussions around forming a cross sector early childhood professional development system.
• #58: Many ideas are crafted for multiple years of discussion and experimentation. With the MIECHV grant came the funding that could support the infrastructure building. Will turn this over to Eric
• #70: 1:15 Pacific / 2:15 Mountain / 3:15 Central / 4:15 Eastern (10 minutes)Many thanks to all of our presenters. Your experiences are illuminating and help put wheels on the integration of home visiting systems with early childhood comprehensive systems.Throughout the webinar questions have been posted to chat and the Question and Answer box. We have a little time to address some of those questions and perhaps some new questions you’d like to post now. If we are unable to get to some of the questions, we will follow up with you…or you may follow-up with any of the presenters. Contact information for each of the presenters will be on the final slide.
• #71: 1:25 Pacific / 2:25 Mountain / 3:25 Central / 4:25 Eastern (5 minutes)Before we end, we’d like to leave you with some examples of concrete steps state leaders can take to facilitate the integration of these systems…on behalf and in support of our children and their families.As our colleagues Eric and Rosemary, from South Carolina, demonstrated that it is important to be intentional about building and cultivating personal relationships with collaborators and prospective collaborators. Our colleague Sheryl, from Maine, emphasized the need to find and show how the home visiting program actually contributes to the whole system of early care and education in several concrete ways. And our colleagues from Montana suggest that a critical step is to seek out leadership in related arenas and garner their understanding and commitment to the integration of home visiting systems with early childhood comprehensive systems.
• #72: Take a moment to scan these goals and note to yourself how each of them have been met by the webinar. You may also want to jot down where you need to follow-up to enhance your learning from today.
• #73: Our presenters who have generously given of their time to share their stories with us are also making themselves available to us as we continue to work on integrating these systems. We’d like to thank each of you Dianna, Debora, Sheryl, Rosemary and Eric for sharing your experiences with us, and Dena for representing HRSA and sharing background on this topic. As a reminder, participants will be sent a copy of the PowerPoint slides in the near future via email.
• #74: For an archived copy of this webinar please visit the MIECHV TACC website. The archived copies of this webinar will be available as soon as all materials have been processed to meet 508 compliance quality assurance standards.Thanks for attending and have a great day!