FEAT

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FEAT

• Family Early Advocacy and Treatment
• May 17th, 2006

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Workgroup Meeting Purpose

• To refine aim statements/goals for working groups
• To develop objectives and action steps for each
  goal

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Workgroup Meeting Agenda

• 730 - 750 Large Groupreview of
  workgroups
• 750 - 850 Developing workgroup plans
• 850-900 Wrap-up

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Lane County Workgroups

• Prenatal Screening and Testing
• Hospital Policy
• Communication Hospital Leadership
• Training and Education

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Developing a Plan

• Project Mission
• Project Time frame
• Aim statement
• What do we want to accomplish?
• In what time frame?
• How will we know we are making progress?
  (measurement)
• Objectives/Strategies/Action Steps
• What will we do to get there?
• Who will be responsible?

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Project Mission

• To create policy and procedures
• in Lane County that ensure the identification,
  referral and safe care
• of SEN and their families

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FEAT Timeframe

• June - October, 2006 Baseline data collected,
  including data relevant to Lane County Work Group
  priorities beginning action steps are completed
• November 06 June 07 Begin implementation of
  new policies, procedures, programs and strategies
• June 08 All Lane County post data needs to be
  collected and U of Os leadership in this project
  will be completed.

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Aim Statements What do we want to accomplish?

• Based on FEAT Mission
• What is expected to happen?
• In what time frame?
• What system area we are trying to improve?
• What setting/subpopulation are we focusing on?
• How will we know that a change is an improvement?
  (consider measurement)
• Goals and outcomes

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Sample Aim Statement

• Improve Lane County hospital drug-testing policy
  and procedures so that in 12 months
• Lane County Hospitals policies and procedures
  regarding who will be tested, how and for what
  will reflect best practices related to the
  testing of mothers and newborns
• 90 of Lane County hospitals and doctors, when
  surveyed, will report an accurate understanding
  of current hospital policies and procedures for
  testing mothers and newborns
• 100 of mothers and newborns in Lane County
  tested for illegal substances, as evidenced by
  hospital records, will have received an adequate
  level of testing
• Guidance
• Consider program for educating medical staff on
  testing levels
• Research best practices for screening and testing
  thresholds

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Evaluating Aim Statements

• Does the aim include recommended elements?
• What is expected to happen
• Timeframe for accomplishing the aim
• The system to be improved
• The setting or sub-population (pilot population)
• Specific goals
• Is the aim specific enough to be accomplished in
  the FEAT Projects timeframe?
• Are the stated goals a way of achieving the aim?
• Are the goals and pilot population consistent
  with FEATs focus and mission?
• Does the team match the aim?
• Is the aim measurable?

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Communication/Hospital Leadership

• Improve communication and collaboration between
  physicians, government and social service
  agencies, families and caregivers related to the
  ongoing care of SEN such that in 12 months
• 80 of all decisions regarding identified SEN
  hospital discharge plans are made by an
  established and ongoing hospital-based SEN Team
  made up of doctors, hospital social workers,
  Child Welfare staff and representatives of other
  relevant community agencies (EI etc.)
• 50 of all SEN are discharged with an
  accompanying Continuity of Care Notebook, that
  includes medical history and information and
  records for doctors, caregivers etc. and that is
  created by hospital staff and passed on to Child
  Welfare staff and/or SEN caregivers.
• the number of SEN in Lane County offered services
  while maintained in their biological families
  will increase by 10
• the number of Lane County prenatal providers who
  indicate awareness of resources for substance
  abusing mothers will be 90.

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Where to begin?

• Do something you know you can do
• Its usually harder than you think
• Some goals may sound a little too easy thats
  fine
• Seek a balance between ensuring success and
  working toward the ideal

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Objectives/Strategies/Actions Steps What will
we do to get there?

• Realistic, specific, quantifiable measurable
• Consider
• Knowledge about what is most likely to produce
  desired results (best practices, model programs)
• Stakeholders who need to be involved / considered
• Strategies action steps that make the most
  sense to stakeholders
• Activities that can be undertaken with available
  resources
• Approaches that address significant barriers to
  change
• Strategies that build upon system strengths
• Pilots, demonstrations or practice strategies
  implemented in targeted sites

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Work Plan Worksheet
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First Steps

• Concentrate on first cycle of change today
• What will you do between now and October?
• Make the goal/objectives attainable
• What do you want to accomplish before our June
  meeting?
• Who will take responsibility for which action
  steps?

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Important Dates

• FEAT Lane County Workgroup Meeting
• June 22nd, 730-900
• At next meeting

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FEAT Project

• Early Intervention Program
• University of Oregon
• 541-346-0807
• http//eip.uoregon.edu/projects/feat