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ERIC Number: ED477971
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2003-Mar-6
Pages: 233
Abstractor: N/A
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: N/A
EISSN: N/A
Interagency Planning and Support Project. Final Report.
Salisbury, Christine
This final report describes the activities and outcomes of a federally funded project designed to develop, implement, and evaluate a systemically oriented process model for improving the coordination of education and human services for young children with identified disabilities and their families at the local level. The project developed and used materials to teach participants the procedures necessary to develop a cross-agency, merged planning document (CSP) and conduct a family-centered, collaboratively oriented planning meeting. Development procedures used by the project included regular state-local meetings between state/regional administrators and representatives of the participating local agencies. These meetings illuminated policy barriers to systemic change and created venues within which solutions could be recommended. Software housing the district's Intranet database included the CSP and mechanisms for Internet access to the document. Training on access, security, entry, and editing functions through the Internet were conducted by the project with agency personnel. Finally, targeted technical assistance directed at specific implementation issues was used, in conjunction with staff training, to support adoption and utilization of the CSP document and planning process. Substantive changes occurred in agency policies and procedures, the nature of the planning documents and process, the knowledge/skills of providers, and the penetration of the changes throughout the community. In addition, co-location of personnel, blended funding to support children/families, and joint training sessions emerged and were used as mechanisms for improving communication and coordination across agencies. Appended are: Collaborative Support Plan and Related Materials; Products and Dissemination Samples; Evaluation Measures and Data Tables; and Policy Documents and Other Project Material. (Contains 27 references.) (Author/SG)
Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: Special Education Programs (ED/OSERS), Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Erikson Inst. for Advanced Study in Child Development, Chicago, IL.
Identifiers - Location: Illinois
Grant or Contract Numbers: N/A