KEEP Task Force   The KEEP Task Force has the following objectives:        1. To provide consultation and input to the KEEP Early Childhood Consultation and Referral Program (a participant in the Department of Community Healthy Early Childhood Expulsion Prevention Program).        2. To facilitate networking and resource sharing for people working with early childhood programs, services, and childcare.        3.  To provide educational opportunities to increase the early childhood community’s ability to understand and work with young children and their families experiencing difficulties that interfere with healthy development (click here to download the latest KEEP training flyers) In addition, the KEEP Task Force serves as the Ingham Great Start Collaborative Social-Emotional Health Advisory Committee to help implement strategies and objectives identified in the GSC 3-year strategic plan, the Ingham Early Childhood Action Agenda. The KEEP Task Force usually meets on the first Thursday of each month in the MSU Extension Conference Room at 5303 S Cedar in Lansing from 9-11am.  For additional information contact  Dr. Barry Kaufman at CEI-CMH KEEP Program Phone: 517 887-5259,  Email: kaufman@ceicmh.org

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KEEP TASK FORCE 

AGENDA Thursday, June 5, 2008 9-11am

FNET/MSU EXTENSION OFFICE, Ingham County Human Services Bldg. 5303 S. Cedar, Lansing (Enter Door #2)

1. Introduction and Program announcements

2. KEEP Program updates and announcements

3.  Discuss adjustments to the objectives, additions or deletions,

    and strategies to begin to implement objectives over the next three years,

    including service gaps and identification of resources. Further plan and development

    of the three areas identified in the last meeting (Please see chart summary).

4. Discuss who else to invite to the table, identify people interested

    participating in a subgroup to meet for two meetings over next three months,

    prioritize subgroup focus.

UPCOMING CALENDER OF EVENTS:

Community Consultation Team -TBA for the Fall

KEEP TASK FORCE  - NEXT MEETING: KEEP TASK FORCE MEETING -   July 10, 2008,

FNET/MSU EXTENSION OFFICE, Ingham County
 Human Services Bldg. 5303 S. Cedar, Lansing (Enter Door #2).

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Notes Thursday, May 1, 2008 9-11am

FNET/MSU EXTENSION OFFICE, Ingham County Human Services Bldg.
5303 S. Cedar, Lansing (Enter Door #2)

The Keep Task Force/Social Emotional Health Work Group convened its meeting at 9:00 a.m.  The meeting was chaired by Barry Kaufman and well attended.  Participants initially introduced themselves and provided announcements and updates.

The KEEP Staff announced that KEEP, Early Childhood Mental Health Consultant, Kathy Vogel had resigned to take another position.  The program would be positing 2 half-time positions on May 9, 2008.  Sheila Henderson will continue to provide consultations and we hope to bring a new staff member on as soon as possible.

Jamie Yeomans, discussed Birth to Five Parent Coalition, play groups and
other initiatives. She also shared material and information on young
children’s brain development she received from a recent conference.

 The group continued to review other social emotional objectives not discussed in the
last meeting.  A discussion then focused on identification three important program initiatives to develop a draft proposal for funding to our 0-5 Coalition.

 The group identified the following three areas to recommend for initial review for possible funding. 

GREAT START COLLABORATIVE
KEEP TASK FORCE
 SOCIAL EMOTIONAL HEALTH WORK GROUP 

Proposed Considerations for CRCF & CAUW Request for Proposals

 
The KEEP Task Force/Social Emotional Work Group met 5/01/08 to discuss funding initiative recommendations.   A total of nineteen participants representing 11 programs including: Head Start, KEEP Program-CMH, Parent Young Child Program-CMH, Parent Infant Program CMH, Teen Parent Network Program Willow Plaza, Children’s Special Health Services, Ingham Intermediate School District, Early On, Great Start staff member, Eaton County Early Childhood Connections – Eaton Great Start, Office for Young Children, Lutheran Social Services Mental Health and the Great Start Parent Coalition, identified three primary areas for consideration.

The group first noted the importance of including across all proposals and programs an emphasis on building supportive emotional connections between children, parents, and service providers.  The promotion of social emotional bonds is an essential building block across health parent-child development.

Three component areas were identified for consideration.  Due to lack of time for discussion, consensus building, and more detailed planning, the suggestions are in preliminary form.

1.          Develop and implement a cross professional development training program that could target front-line professionals in expanding knowledge and skill for integration best practice knowledge into strategies for engaging and impacting families in supporting healthy development (in the social emotional development area.  This proposal might be implemented in two forms.  First a consensus would be developed across community stake-holders as to the most significant subject areas to focus on.

          Focus areas include:

·       The relationship of healthy attachment parenting to holistic development of young children and the identification of strategies and practices those promote healthy parenting.

·       The impact on healthy and compromised brain development on children’s healthy developmental trajectories and the identification of interventions and practices by front-line professionals to educate families, other professionals, community members, and policy makers on the essential contributions and promotion of healthy brain functioning.

·       Identify the impact of sensory processing disorders in increasing accurate screening, assessment, and intervention in education, mental health, and health care practices. 

Year 1:     4 3.5 hour training program (Possible more  1-2 more trainings     if costs are less than projected.     250 staff trained

Speaker Stipend if needed  4X $500. $2000.

          Copy materials, supplies   4X $500           $2000.

$4000.00

2.          Support the expansion and functioning of the KEEP Community Consultation Team in a process of identification of existing community resources and service capacity to address multi-disciplinary social emotional, developmental, educational, and behavioral needs of children in the community.  By determining the existing community service resource capacity, a second process of identification of service gaps and needs could be identified and prioritized.  High priority targeted areas could then be focused on.  An example would be identification of underserved and under healthcare covered families in the community in need of developmental screening and assessment.  This would include families with children age three who age out of Early On Services and support and unable to be included in school district programming to address identified needs.                Staff support- 12 hrs x 9 months  $240.00x 9= $2160.00

3.      A designated fund could be reserved to address the service provision needs of children and their families.  The money could be utilized to contract with existing resources to provide screening, assessment, and possible treatment resources.  An example might be a 4 year old child in need of assessment to rule out an auditory processing disorder who has not qualified for school district assistance.  The family could be referred to a previously established collaborating program.
          In this program, a service consultant would be funded to provide linkage between the family and the referral agency as well as linkage to programs providing follow-up services.
          The funding would be utilized to provide OT, Pt, Speech and Language as well as social emotional assessment not funded by other sources.
          $2000.00 per child for services   30 children =  $30,000-$50,000

The funding figures are rough estimated numbers needing more information
for more detailed estimates.

The third area was identified as a means to provide gap funding for assessment
and treatment services to a limited number of children not covered by other
sources of funding. 

This draft was developed and submitted to a meeting of the 0-5 Operations
Committee and a meeting between United Way, Capital Region Foundation and
0-5 staff Michelle Nicholson and Ken Sperber.  The funding representatives
affirmed the directions of the recommendations and requested more specific
planning and descriptions.

Next Task Force Meeting June 5, 2008, FNET/MSU EXTENSION OFFICE, Ingham County Human Services Bldg. 5303 S. Cedar, Lansing (Enter Door #2)

KEEP TASK FORCE 

AGENDA Thursday, May 1, 2008 9-11am

FNET/MSU EXTENSION OFFICE, Ingham County Human Services Bldg.
5303 S. Cedar, Lansing (Enter Door #2)

1. Introduction and Program announcements

2. KEEP Program updates and announcements

3. Jamie Yeomans, will discuss Birth to Five Parent Coalition, play groups and 

   other initiatives. She will also share material and information on young

   children’s brain development she received from a recent conference

4. Continue to distribution of Social Emotional Wheels and completion of brief

    Form and discuss their utilization

5. Continue to review other social emotional objectives not discussed in the

    last meeting

6. Discuss adjustments to the objectives, additions or deletions,

    and strategies to begin to implement objectives over the next three years,

    including service gaps and identification of resources.

7. Discuss who else to invite to the table, identify people interested

    participating in a subgroup to meet for two meetings over next three months,

    prioritize subgroup focus.

UPCOMING CALENDER OF EVENTS:

Community Consultation Team

April 24, 2008 -KEEP Early Childhood Community Consultation Team Meeting – Conference Room C,  Ingham County Human Services Building, enter Door # 3

KEEP TASK FORCE

NEXT MEETING: KEEP TASK FORCE MEETING -  (TBA)

KEEP TASK FORCE

Meeting NOTES Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Members present: Connie Hooper, Kathy Vogel, Rebecca Meszaros, Merilee Dodson, Jaime Yoemans, Beany Tomber, Fran Jozefowicz, Kathy Tithoff, Kelly Gebhard, Rebecca Kneeling, Cindy Grider, Rhonda Rucker, Marta Kermiet, Barry Kaufman, and Ken Sperber

The meeting began shortly after 9am with members introducing themselves and making brief program announcements.

Parenting Counts - Emotional Coaching
Beany Tomber form MSU WKAR described the Parenting Counting Counts - Emotional Coaching program and shared many of the materials.  The research by Dr. John Gottman shows that children who can understand and cope with emotions do better in school, form stronger relationships, have fewer behavioral problems and generally lead happier, healthier and less stressful lives. The Talarius produced materials outlines Gottman’s Emotion Coaching approach in “5 Steps of Emotion Coaching”

§         Step 1 - Emotional Awareness

§         Step 2 - Recognizing Emotions As An Opportunity For Intimacy And Teaching

§         Step 3 - Listening Empathetically And Validating The Child's Feelings

§         Step 4 - Labeling Emotions

§         Step 5 - Setting Limits While Helping the Child Problem-Solve

WKAR has scheduled a free Train-the-Trainer two-hour workshop on Emotional Coaching on 4/25/08 at Willow Plaza Teen Network Center, 306 W Willow Lansing beginning at 10:30am.  Pre-registration is required, four KEEP Task Force participants signed up for the workshop with Beany at the meeting.  This is still room for a few more participants, email Beany@wkar.org to pre-register.

Beany showed a few video clips from the Parenting Counts series related to emotions.  These televisions spots also known as “Video Prompts” were originally produced to run on PBS television stations, but are now available on DVDs and VCR videotape formats.  These 60-second video spots are used as prompts in the Parenting Counts workshops to start conversations about real life parenting moments and how to bring best practices into daily parenting decisions.   They can be used in a variety of settings to prompt parent discussions of what to do in stressful situations.

The Parenting Counts “Video Prompts” can be viewed at the Talaris website:
http://www.talaris.org/parentingcounts.htm

More information about WKAR Ready to Learn is available at:
http://wkar.org/parents

Eaton County Great Start Collaborative - Strategic Plan 2008

Rhonda Rucker gave a brief overview of the Eaton County Great Start Collaborative (GSC) planning process, and shared copies of the Eaton County Great Start Collaborative - Strategic Plan 2008.  The Eaton GSC website is at http://www.eatongreatstart.org.  The Eaton GSC Strategic Plan is viewable through that website, or can be downloaded by clicking on this link for the PDF file: http://www.eatongreatstart.org/pdf/ECGS_StrategicPlan.pdf

The group discussed the Social Emotional goals and objectives in the Eaton GSC Plan, and ways to coordinate our efforts. In particular the group agreed that since Objectives #4 & #5 were very similar to the objectives in the Ingham GSC Plan, that we should try and work on these together.

            Objective #4: Compile a list of current social-emotional screening tools used by Eaton Great Start collaborative agencies, and a list of programs that could/should screen for social emotional needs.

            Objective #5: Identify available screening tools, and provide a training(s) for programs not currently screening for social-emotional needs.

Birth to Five, Ingham GSC
Objective A.3. Distribution Plan for MIAIMH Social-Emotion Wheels

At the 2/14/08 KEEP Task Force meeting the group began developing a distribution plan for the MIAIMH Social Emotional Health Wheels.  The group felt that the most useful way to distribute the S-E Wheels was as part of a home-visit, training, or individual consultation with an agency staff.

At the 2/14/08 meeting several groups offered to have their staff distribute them as part of a larger educational program. The distribution plan is to provide the S-E Wheels to agencies whose staff will use them as part of parent or provider visits, trainings, or consults. Ken brought quantities of the S-E wheels to this meeting to be given out as requested by the following groups at the previous meeting:

55     OYC parenting workshops at Neighborhood Network Centers
100   ECDC family day care home visits as a CACFP Sponsor + 15 for ECDC teachers
50     MSUE Better Kid Care trainings
90     KEEP trainings and consults
75     Head Start Mental Health Staff and Teaching Staff (home visits and consults)
60     Ingham Early Childhood Special Ed
50     Lutheran Social Services Foster Care

Each agency receiving the Social-Emotional Wheels for distribution was asked to complete a short survey.  The S-E Wheels Distribution Summary form is attached at the end of these Meeting Notes.

The group also brainstormed a list of other home-visit, training, or individual parent consultation programs, that may help participate in distribution of SE Wheels:

Ken shared that a new parent education workgroup was being formed to discuss ideas for non-traditional settings parenting education. The group discussed these and come up with some new variations (such as sponsorship by a retailer such as Meijers who would give out discount coupons for parents to attend in-store parent/child learning activities). 

At Marta’s suggestion Ken also review some of the Ingham GSC Year 2 goals.  In particular the concern was shared that in addition to improving screening and referrals, real work must be done on the issues around increasing access to treatment.  It was agreed by all, that assessing that a child’s needs without offering needed services doesn’t really address the problem.  There are several gaps on the service delivery side of the equation including: Medicaid and private insurance will not pay for many of the needed mental health and other services for children 3-5 years of age (PT,OT), a  backlog of assessment referrals to school districts, and lack of services during the summer. The idea was suggested that the KEEP Task Force can help the situation by trying to finding out more about these gaps, and better cataloging them.  We can then submit these identified gaps lists to current and potential new funders to try and get them addressed.  It was also suggested to invite some school district personnel to a future KEEP meeting to talk with us about the these problems and ways we can work together to address them.

The meeting adjourned at 11am. The NEXT MEETING of the KEEP TASK FORCE will be on
Thursday, May 1, 2008, from 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.  (MSU Extension Conference Room).

Birth to Five, Ingham Great Start Collaborative

Social-Emotional Wheel Distribution Summary

Name of Program __________________________
Person Receiving Wheels____________________  Number of Wheels Received ______   
Number and category of target recipients:   Parents_____      Child Care Providers _____

Early Childhood Prof. ____      Preschool staff _____

Date received __________

1. How will the Wheels be used?  

______________________________________________________

2. Who will be the target audience? 

______________________________________________________

3.  What the desired outcomes would be for their use? (Please list 1,2,3)

______________________________________________________

4.Describe how will the Wheels be useful in helping to impact the social emotional health of consumers you work with? (Please list 1, 2, 3,)

______________________________________________________

KEEP Task Force 

KEEP Task Force Meeting Notes Feb 14, 2008

Present: Sheila Henderson, Barb Monroe, Merilee Dodson, Ken Sperber, Laura Spees, Ronda Rucker, Cindy Grider, Mindy Evans, Jesslyn Onwere, Barry Kaufman, Laura Anderson, Connie Hooper, Theresa Patnoude, Stephanie Peters, Mike O’Connor, Sharon Morgan, Angelita Navarro, Marta Kermiet

Introductions and KEEP Updates

Barry Kaufman chaired the meeting, and began by giving a brief overview of the KEEP Project and the statewide Child Care Expulsion Prevention Projects.  Members introduced themselves and gave brief agency updates and announcements. 

Barry shared a status update on the KEEP program which is now actively working in 4 Counties (Ingham, Eaton, Clinton, and Shiawassee).  KEEP is still accepting referrals from parents and child care providers.     The current KEEP child care provider training series is going well and filled to the maximum of 50 participants. KEEP is especially trying to recruit day care aides and relative providers to training and consultations.
 

Special Presentation: Hope Network

Mike O’Connor from Hope Network presented information and materials about their services.  Since 1983 the Hope Network has been providing specialized neuro-rehabilitation services as well as general rehabilitation services to people who face difficult challenges.   Hope Network Rehabilitation Services has programs to help recovery from brain injury, spinal cord injury, stroke, or physical injury or illness.  From one-time evaluations to intensive rehabilitation programs, Hope Network’s services are flexible in size and content to meet the individual needs of each person served. 

Hope Network has facilities in six cities in Michigan: Grand Rapids, East Lansing, Big Rapids, Mt. Pleasant, Muskegon and Jackson.  Services and programs available at the East Lansing location include Post-Acute Transitional Living, Residential Services, Outpatient Services, Children’s Rehabilitation Services, Physician Services, Home and Community Based Services, Return to Work Services and Enrichment Programs. There is a lot more information and the Hope Network programs and services at their website: http://www.hopenetworkrehab.org

Mike was particularly interested in discussing how young children birth to five are served by their range of services.  Particular areas of importance were the opportunity to obtain sensory processing, O.T., PT, speech and language as well as large and small motor assessments for young children to complement current services or to support the need for additional services or strategies.

The services at Hope Network are covered by many health insurance companies.  Mike explained that not all coverages are the same (“a Blue is not a Blue”).  Different plans offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield or PHP may, or may not, include these services.  This led to a long and interesting discussion about benefits, coverages, and gaps in health insurance regarding mental health and rehab services.  Mike shared that since all services at Hope Network are “physician scripted”, and a specific diagnosis for young children is difficult, that doctors or psychologists could choose to write a “provisional diagnosis” or “differential diagnosis” to obtain diagnostic testing and treatment plans from providers like Hope Network.  Mike cautioned that although this might work for some insurance carriers, a “differential diagnosis” is not acceptable under all plans.

The group discussed the number of children with sensory and behavioral problems who are not diagnosed and may not be eligible for insurance paid services.  Mike suggested that the families or agency staff can still call the Hope Network Admissions office 332-1616 ext 210 because their staff could still try and help or refer to other agencies.  Although Early On could cover the costs of diagnostic testing and services for children birth to three years of age, there is a definite gap in programs and coverage for children ages 3-5.

     {In a follow-up response to a question about auditory processing evaluation / or screening  --  Mike wrote back a multi-part answer - from Hope Network SLP and psychologist -
     Age 3  --- our SLP (speech language pathologist - Saralynn Rubsam MS-CCC-SLP) has several checklists for processing disorders with the earliest checklist/testing for preschool.  Formalized testing is also standardized to assess language processing issues as early as 3 yrs.  Also have information/experience with therapeutic listening programs as a treatment for auditory processing issues
     Age 4-5 -- our psychologist (Brooke Van Buren Hay, Phd) - screens starting at about age 4-5 -- likes them to have some out of the home time-preschool, day care etc (exposure to more than one environment)
     Age 7 - True central auditory processing disorders (CAPD) are diagnosed by an audiologist at age 7 via hearing evaluation, word filtering, and SCAN test.  SLP's and other therapists can be helpful in determining a child at risk for CAPD and/or other processing disorders much earlier.}

Ingham Birth to Five, Great Start Collaborative

Ken Sperber reviewed the Strategic Planning efforts that the Ingham Birth to Five, Great Start Collaborative has undertaken in the last year.  This community process involved parents, and agency staff in developing a Children’s Action Agenda.  The KEEP Task Force has agreed to oversee the implementation of the Social Emotional Goals and Objectives in the Action Plan.  Ken reviewed the Year One goals, objectives, and activities in the plan (see attached). 

Ken has agreed to post the Minutes and Agendas for the KEEP Task force on the Birth to Five website www.cacvoices.org/birthtofive (Objective #1).  Barry Kaufman is now finishing up an article on Social Emotional Development; and Theresa offered to write an article on the need for outdoor play (Objective #2) to add to the Monthly Focus articles.  At the meeting the group began developing a distribution plan for the MIAIMH Social Emotional Health Wheels (Objective#3).  The group felt that the most useful way to distribute the S-E Wheels was as part of a home-visit, training, or individual consultation with an agency staff.

At the meeting several groups offered to have their staff distribute them as part of a larger educational program. The distribution plan is to provide the S-E Wheels to agencies whose staff will use them as part of parent or provider visits, trainings, or consults. The following are the quantities of S-E Wheels that the agencies committed to help distribute:

55   OYC parenting workshops at Neighborhood Network Centers
85   ECDC family day care home visits as a CACFP Sponsor
50   MSUE Better Kid Care trainings
90   KEEP trainings and consults
75   Head Start Mental Health Staff and Teaching Staff (home visits and consults)
60   Ingham Early Childhood Special Ed
50   Lutheran Social Services Foster Care

(After the meeting Ken followed up to clarify the number of Preschool S-E Wheels, and the number of Infant/Toddler S-E Wheels the agencies could use, and to request that members think about other agencies that could also be part of the distribution plan).  Ken offered to bring the S-E wheels to the next meeting.

Next KEEP Meeting Dates

After some discussion and comparison of calendars, the next KEEP meeting dates were agreed upon.   The KEEP Task Force will meet on March 25, 2008 and on May 1, 2008.  Both meetings will be in the Ingham Human Services Building, 5303 S Cedar St Lansing, in the MSU Extension Conference Room, from 9-11am.  Call Barry Kaufman at 887-5259 if you need directions or have any questions about the meeting or the Agenda.

Agenda Items for the next KEEP Task Force meeting on meeting March 25, 2008:

1. Introduction and Program announcements
2. Distribution of Social Emotional Wheels and completion of brief form
3. Brainstorm list of other home visitor and parent education programs for S-E Wheel distribution
4. Continue to review other social emotional objectives not discussed in the last meeting
5. Continue to discuss adjustments to the objectives, additions or deletions, and strategies to begin to implement objectives over the next three years.
6. Possible speaker currently being arranged

KEEP TASK FORCE

AGENDA Thursday, February 14, 2008  9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

I.       WELCOME, BRIEF INTRODUCTIONS                                                      

II.        UP-DATES AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

III.       KEEP PROGRAM STATUS AND UPDATE

            -CLINTON, EATON, AND INGHAM COUNTIES

            - SHIAWASSEE COUNTY

IV.            REPRESENTATIVE FROM HOPE NETWORK LANSING REHABILITATION SERVICES – “AVAILABILITY OF SENSORY PROCESS EVALUATION AND CONSULTATION AS WELL AS OTHER SERVICES FOR CHILDREN 0-5” (SOME SERVICES NOW COVERED BY THIRD PARTY PROVIDERS)

V.        NEW EXCITING OPPORTUNITY  “KEEP TASK FORCE COLLABORATION WITH GREAT START/ COMMUNITY EFFORTS TO STRENGTHEN SOCIAL EMOTIONAL HEALTH OF YOUNG CHILDREN”

VI.            DISCUSSION: KEEP TASK FORCE LINKAGE AND PARTICIPATION

NEXT MEETING:   KEEP TASK FORCE MEETING - Thursday, April 3, 2008, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.  (Room TBA) Call Barry Kaufman, 887-5259 with questions. 

KEEP TASK FORCE

AGENDA Thursday, December 6, 2007  9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

UPCOMING CALENDER OF EVENTS:

              November 29, 2007, (Note this is the 5th Thurs. due to Thanksgiving Holiday) 11:00 am to 1:00 pm.  KEEP Early Childhood Community Consultation Team Meeting – Conference Room C, Ingham County Human Services Building, enter Door # 3.  Discussion of early therapeutic environments in preschool, daycare, and child care setting.

              No team meeting in December

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