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Partnerships for Inclusion
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Goals

• Increase public awareness of inclusion promote
  positive attitudes
• Increase professional competence of workforce
• Increase number quality of inclusive
  opportunities for young children

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Key Components

• Research-based approach
• On-site services
• Focus on local control capacity building
• Parents as catalysts for change

• Blended funding
• Regional approach
• Program systems level focus
• Multiple services methods

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Funders

• Division of Child Development
• Early Intervention Branch
• Public Schools of North Carolina

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Regional Approach
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Examples of Client Groups

• Early intervention
• Public schools
• Child care
• Head Start
• Child care resource referral agencies
• Specialized disability programs
• Community colleges
• Interagency coordinating councils

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Core Services

• Community forums
• Consultation to local interagency groups
• On-Site consultation to programs
• Consultation to regional state policy makers

• Staff development training
• Training resources for trainers consultants
• Materials information clearinghouse

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Children with Special Needs in NC Child Care
ProgramsComparison of surveys conducted in
2003-2004 2005-2006

• Conducted surveys of 9000 child care programs
• Children enrolled with special needs increased
  from 10,515 to 13,320

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What are challengesto inclusion?

• fear, ignorance, myths
• lack of community awareness about rights needs
  of young children with disabilities
• separation of agencies lack of coordination

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What else?

• lack of high quality child care programs
  especially for infants toddlers
• lack of other resources (training,
  transportation, technical assistance)
• lack of demand

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Current Issues

• quantity vs. quality
• balancing funders needs with project mission
• questions about child outcomes
• motivating agencies to extend beyond traditional
  roles

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Partnerships for Inclusion www.fpg.unc.edu/pfi