Michigan

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Michigan

• Partnering with Parents to Help Measure Outcomes
• for Young Children and Families

Chandra Jones Vanessa Winborne MICC
Parent Michigan Part C Coordinator
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History of Parent Support

• Parent support activities
• Leadership Development
• Leadership Communication
• Parent Leadership on the ICC

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Broaden Support

• CIMP Self Assessment
• Focused Groups
• Parent support was fragmented throughout the
  state
• Parents wanted more support to navigate the
  system
• ICC Parent Leaders Support

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Parent Involvement Committee Charge

1. Develop a process to support family involvement
   on the MICC, i.e. accessibility to information,
   provide input to MICC documents, support for
   family members on subcommittees by mentoring and
   providing feedback when needed, develop a process
   to ensure support for families when sharing
   personal stories and experiences.
2. The committee will ensure family perspectives are
   an integral component of the Early On system,
   including policy, procedures and practices.
3. Family members have unique needs for full
   involvement and may require different kinds of
   support to participate in a meaningful way. This
   committee will support family members in being
   prepared to participate as equal partners with
   their professional counterparts. This support
   may include leadership mentoring, information,
   and opportunities for ongoing learning.
4. Develop and maintain a policy for reimbursement
   for MICC family members that is consistent with
   Federal and State policy.

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Parent Involvement Committee Work Plan

• The committee will be kept informed of
  information, activities and trainings developed
  by the grantees.
• A family member will on the review team for the
  RFP for the data collection project.
• The committee will have input on questions for
  the family survey.
• The committee will review data related to the
  five family outcomes and suggest additional
  activities.
• The committee will review the Reference Bulletin
  to be written by the Department of Education for
  improving family outcomes related to the family
  survey.

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Family Input to the Child Outcome Data Collection
Process

• Decision to use three data sources to measure
  child outcomes.
• -assessment tool
• -observation
• -family input

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Rating Guidelines and Decision Tree

• ECO Center tool adopted by the Michigan
  Comprehensive System for Personnel Development
  contractor to use with the Child Outcome Summary
  Form (COSF).
• Conversation starters also shared with providers
  to help facilitate the ratings for the COSF.

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Support to facilitate family Involvement

• Financial Support document
• Contractor and Liaison to provide support to
  family SICC members
• Conference Call Meetings
• Expectation of system contractors to work with
  family members
• Parent Partners in sister agencies

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Oakland County, Michigan

• Parents work as contractual consultants, handling
  the initial referral. For consistency the same
  parent consultant does a follow up with the
  family assisting with and sharing info regarding
  family rights, desired services, programs and
  activities in their communities.)
• Parent consultants serve as mentors for families
  in Early On
• Parent consultants partner with Coordinator to do
  trainings for families and professionals
  regarding parent involvement, service
  coordination, etc.

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• Thank you!