Service Coordination in the Early Head Start Environment

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Service Coordination in the Early Head Start
Environment

• Anna Green
• Jeri Ross Hayes

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Early Head Start

• Program Development
• Performance Standards
• Program Options
• Community Partnerships
• 10 Inclusion Requirement

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Bright Start

• Program History
• Services
• Standards and Requirements

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EHS and Bright Start Partnership

• Early Head Start
• Co-Serve Families
• Merge Services
• Reinforce each agencies goals
• Support Services

• Bright Start
• Shared Vision
• Communicate
• Parent Encouragement and Motivation
• Parent Involvement

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Benefits of service delivery in the Home and
Classroom Environments

• Home Environment
• Natural Environment
• Joint Visits
• Reinforce Special Instruction
• Ongoing family support

• Classroom
• Environment
• Natural Environment
• Schedule and Routines
• Social Interactions with Peers
• Partnerships

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Partnership Collaboration

• Parent Permission
• Agency Referrals
• Service Coordination
• Regular Communication
• Transitions to and from programs

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Maintaining a Partnership

• Role Awareness
• Communication
• Sharing Information/Updates
• Participate in Agency Meetings
• Flexibility with each other

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Benefits of Special Instruction in the Classroom

• Promoting the childs learning and development
• Peer Interaction
• Parental Support and Education
• Consistency of Services
• Enhances School Readiness

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Challenges

• Personalities
• Miscommunication
• Reluctance to share information/Responsibilities
• Lack of awareness if agency standards/limitations

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• We make a living by what we get, we make a life
  by what we give.
• Sir Winston Churchill