Playing Well Together

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Playing Well Together

• Idaho Infant Toddler Program and the
• Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Grant

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If You Hang Out EnoughYou Might Start Looking
the Same
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No, Really. . ..
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Common Goals

• ECCS Planning phase goal
• To develop a comprehensive strategic plan that
  will recognize and support the existing system of
  care and learning, and integrate health, social
  and educational programs and financing mechanisms
  into a system that reflects and supports
  community efforts and interests.

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• Goal 1 Facilitate the activities of the Early
  Care and Learning Cross Systems Task Force which
  will establish an ongoing communication network
  between state agencies, policymakers, families,
  stakeholders and communities. . .

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Yikes!

• Sounded a lot like the mission of ICC

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• Goal 2 Develop multi-agency state partnerships
  among critical stakeholders

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Hmmm. . .

• This goals sounded familiar too!

• Identify existing interagency agreements/formal
  partnerships
• Formalize state and regional partnerships
• Review strategic plans of other org.
• Contact, meet, survey identified early care and
  learning coalitions/org
• Review stakeholders. . .

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• Goal 3 Compile resources and identify
  information on the current best practices in
  early childhood systems building

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• Goal 4 Provide a comprehensive statewide mapping
  of existing early care and learning programs and
  resources, as well as existing gaps

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• GOAL 5 Support partnerships to align current
  initiatives in the support of a comprehensive
  system of early childhood professional development

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Can You Say . . .

• CSPD

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• Goal 6 To develop a powerful message to increase
  public awareness of quality early care and
  learning programs as a critical par of the
  foundation to promote healthy families and
  communities

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That Too?

• ICC and Infant Toddler Program have public
  awareness responsibilities

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• Goal 7 Align policy and funding streams to
  develop and support integrated early care and
  learning system development
• Wow, we could use that, too!!!

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We Decided To Just Jump In
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The Early Childhood Coordinating Council EC3

• In 2006, the Interagency Coordinating Council and
  the Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Task
  Force consolidated their efforts under a single
  council with representation to meet the
  requirements of IDEA and the expanded role as
  advisory to the ECCS grant activities

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Staffing and Funding

• The ECCS grant project coordinator
• is supervised by the Part C Coordinator
• The ECCS Coordinator
• Executive Director of the EC3
• Staffs the Council and supports the Regional
  Early Childhood Committees
• Funding is braided

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It Is Really An Issue Of Time Management
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Efficiencies and Collaboration

• In the past 6 months the Head Start Collaboration
  Council has also merged
• Representation to meet Head Start Reauthorization
  early childhood council requirements
• Transition Process to realign support staff
  assignments
• Facilitates common goals and projects

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Whats In It For Me?
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Benefits To Part C

• Increased, dedicated staff and leadership for
  council and regional committees
• Broader base of stakeholders to facilitate
  inclusion and linkages to child care providers,
  legislature, early childhood expertise/professiona
  l organizations
• Increased visibility in early childhood community
  and advocacy efforts

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Benefits to Part C, continued

• Support for projects like compiling and
  distributing PA packets to physicians including
  information on
• Medical Home and e.i.
• Autism screening and identification
• Plagiocephaly remolding and torticollis
• Central directory (211 CareLine)
• Coordinated Fund Allocation to Initiatives that
  Serve Families of Young Children
• Updated, enhanced, and maintain Early Childhood
  Information Clearinghouse

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Benefits to ECCS

• Relatively stable administrative home
• (With lots of bureaucratic hoops!)
• Federal and State statutory authority for EC3
  sustainability
• In inside line to promote/facilitate change in
  child care, Medicaid, and behavioral health
  programs
• Collegial support

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Shared Future Plans

• Advance Medical Home
• Improve physician screening and referral
  practices
• Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health
• Promotion of inclusive practices
• Professional development
• Interagency agreement updates

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Shared Future Plans/Ongoing Work

• Early Learning Guidelines
• Improved quality of child care
• Increased access to CHIP/Medicaid
• Pre-school opportunities to minimize service gaps
  at age 3
• And more

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We Dont Just Play Well. . .

• We Are Family