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The State of New Hampshires Family Involvement
with the Child Outcomes Process
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Cornerstone Project October 2004-September 2006

• GSEG Grant

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Cornerstone Project staff

• Director, Coordinator, Finance Administrator,
  Administrative Assistant,TA contractors, Data
  Consultants, Evaluation Team, Subcommittees
• Representation from the following agencies
• Family Organizations
• PIC (NH PTI)
• NH Family Voices
• NH Connections
• NAMI NH
• Granite State Federation of Families for
  Childrens Mental Health
• ECO, NECTAC, WestEd
• Part B 619 Part C

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Cornerstone Subcommittees

• Family Outcomes
• Long distance participants
• Infant Toddler Outcomes
• Preschool Outcomes
• Data
• TA resources NECTAC ECO

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June 2006 OH MY!

• Child Outcome Data system limitations
• NHs plan of action

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October 2006 ECO Center Saves the day!

• Kathleen Hebbeler and Lynn Kahn journey to NH to
  assist FCESS directors and management team from
  the family outcomes subcommittee in creating a
  plan for NHs COSF and data collection process.

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Pilot programs begin

• South Central
• South Eastern
• Western

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March 2007

• ECO project staff train programs not
  participating in the pilot
• Entire state begins collecting child outcomes.

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NHs guidelines in CO collection

• Outcomes to be measured
• Children have positive social relationships
• Children acquire and use knowledge and skills
• Children take appropriate action to meet their
  needs
• Data collected at entry and exit

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Guidelines continued

• Child outcomes are collected on the model form
  developed by ECO project. Providers/families are
  given a choice of using COSF with or without the
  numbers listed on the 7 point scale
• Assessment tools used are the HELP and IDA

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Guidelines continued

• Information from evaluations, on-going
  assessment, IFSP development activities are used
  along with family and ESS input on the three
  outcomes.
• Optional for families to fully participate
• Policy and procedure document created for ESS
  providers.
• Suggestion to create a brochure that will assist
  in explaining the process with families.

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Families create Child Outcomes Brochure

• BDS asks management staff of the family outcomes
  subcommittee to draft brochure that providers
  could use in explaining the child outcomes process

• Draft reviewed by all stakeholders and ECO staff
• Brochure is now used statewide

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Entry level data

• Entry level data is collected within 6 weeks of
  eligibility determination for
• Children who are at least 6 months of age
• Expected to be in the program for at least 6
  months
• For children who are less than 6 months of age
  entry level data will be collected when the child
  becomes 6 months of age.

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Exit data

• For children exiting at age 3 yrs, exit data is
  collected within 90 days of the childs third
  birthday.
• For children exiting prior to their 3rd birthday
  service coordinators are responsible for ensuring
  exit data is collected prior to the childs
  departure from ESS.

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Initial challenges

• Data collection system
• Excel spreadsheet
• Entry and exit collection what about progress?
• NHSEIS

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Success

• Child Outcomes data collection possible through
  NHs NHSEIS.

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