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IPAC Agendas and Minutes
Agendas
Minutes (password required)
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
Wilson Reading System
Intervention Workshop
August 8 - 10 , 2007
This
three-day workshop offered by Anita Jekkals trained 28 teachers from
six school districts and 7 parents in multisensory structured language
principles and techniques of the Wilson Reading System (WRS).
Anita Jekkals,
Wilson Reading Trainer, provided hands-on and practical training for
implementing the WRS Intervention Model.
Topics covered include: reading research, principles for language
structure, Wilson Assessment for Decoding and Encoding (WADE),
program implementation, progress monitoring and more.
Co-sponsored by Southeast Ohio
Reading Project (SORP) this program was the second this year aimed
at increasing regional resoucres in evidenced-based program for
children struggling to read. This program was jointly funded with the generous support of
the
Athens County Family and Children First Council, Appalachia Reads,
Logan-Hocking School District and Ohio University College of
Osteopathic Medicine.
Staying On Track!
Staying on Track! participants and training staff, November 2005
Athens area child care providers recently completed Staying on Track! , a 12-hour training series to promote early childhood screening for developmental and social-emotional risk factors in children from birth through five years of age. This innovative program strengthens provider expertise to identify children at risk, to communicate such concerns to families in a culturally sensitive manner, and to facilitate access to indicted services
The training was developed by members of the Integrating Professionals for Appalachian Children, (IPAC) and funded by the Athens County Department of Job and Family Services for their in-home child care providers. Providers from two area child care centers also attended the trainings. The providers are now able to assist parents who are interested in having their children routinely screened for developmental and socio-emotional risk factors. Providers can also link families with agencies such as Tri-County Mental Health and Counseling, Help me Grow, Head Start, OUCOM Community Service Programs and other area agencies.
Staying on Track!
is an innovative program that blends training and service to help identify children with developmental concerns. Home-based childcare providers are trained to use two developmental screening tools to monitor children in their care. Further training is provided to childcare providers and parents regarding communication and how to access services. Follow-up interview and referrals are offered to parents who whose children are identified as being at risk. Participation in the training program, in the developmental screening program and clinical interview is entirely voluntary for both the childcare providers and the parents.
Early identification of children at risk for developmental delays is essential for optimizing general and socio-emotional development (Squires, 2003). When professional intervention is not readily accessible to families, the capacity of front providers to identify and refer children at risk is essential to promoting a healthy community (Gale and Deprez, in Stamm, 2003). Home day care providers are front-line providers. Through the innovative coordination of multiple agencies, our project was designed
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• to increase the number of children who are screened for developmental delays by training home-based day care providers how to screen children,
• to train home-based day care providers how to communicate developmental concerns to families
• to offer and provide identified families with further evaluation, and
• to facilitate access to indicated services.
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For more information on “Staying on Track!” contact Sue Meeks, RN,C, OUCOM Community Service Programs, at meeks@exchange.oucom.ohiou.edu or Jane Hamel-Lambert, PhD, Chair, IPAC at
hamel-lj@ohio.edu
IPAC
Prevent Child Abuse Community Outreach Program
IPAC’s Prevent Child Abuse Event was held at Wal-Mart on
4/15/05 with the theme of Parenting is Stressful. WalMart generously
donated carnations that were given to parents and 7 items for
the raffle. Other raffle donations: ARHI donated two Wal-Mart
gift cards, WellWorks donated an annual membership and Head
Start donated a socket set and book. Head Start also contributed
a generous assortment of household items that were given to
folks along with all the informational brochures we had gathered
from TCMH&CS, OU-Community services, HMG, SCC, and Head
Start. We had 21 of 55 families request more information regarding
services available in the community . One specifically asked
about speech therapy, 9 asked about Head Start, 8 inquired about
HMG, 10 were interested in well child information and 13 were
interested in information on child discipline and behavior issues.
One family was enrolled in HMG. Our partners intend to contact
families to follow-up on their requests.
A
special thanks to Sue Meeks, Sherry Shamblin, Dave Hunter, Carrie
Johnson, Chris Delamatre, and John Borchard who all helped staff
the exhibit … and to Dave Hunter’s intern, for creating
the display and to Larry Hamel-Lambert for the photography.
Finally, thanks to everyone for supporting the idea and contributing
materials for the display.
The collaborative partners of IPAC were quite successful!
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