Data System Features that Enhance General Supervision

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Data System Features that Enhance General
Supervision

• OSEP Early Childhood Meeting
• Jamie Thomas Kilpatrick, Director
• Early Childhood Programs
• Division of Special Education
• December 3, 2007

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General Supervision

• Service System Issues
• Administration
• Financing

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Service System Issues

• Families
• Relevant Data
• Best Practices

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Administration

• Families
• Relevant Data
• State Administrators
• Leadership Team

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System Financing

• Cost/Revenue/Time
• Estimated Prevalence
• Service Utilization
• Leading to
• Fund Expansion Activities

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Principles of General Supervision

• Focus on Families
• Statewide consistency so long as varying
  community conditions can be addressed
• Sound business practices
• Evaluation to guide decision making and
  continuing system development

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Data System Components

• Products/Outcomes
• Uniform Centralized Intake Instrument
• Develop linkages for partner agencies
• Project Edison involvement
• Track Child Find Activities
• Track credentials of caregivers

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Data System Components

• Provide distinctions between group child care
  services agency based interventions.
• Track criteria for numbers of typical children
  delayed children in group or classroom settings
• Enforce Contract Language-
• Re Services vs. Settings

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Data System Components

• Enforce rate structure for in-home and group
  settings
• Billing for Targeted Case Management
• Early Childhood Outcomes (0-5)
• Continuous Improvement Monitoring Process

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Data System Fiscal Functions

• Track and report all resources used for early
  intervention services
• Administer consistent contract terms with all
  Part C providers
• Receive and dispense all relevant State and
  Federal early intervention resources
• Provide timely reimbursement to providers of
  early intervention services

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Date System Fiscal Functions

• Meet financial demographic reporting needs of
  Federal, State and local funding sources
• Manage the level of resources to ensure fiscal
  accountability and responsibility
• Provide on-line access to information using
  appropriate safeguards to assure confidentiality
  and the rights of the child and family

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Data System Fiscal Functions

• Review certification of providers
• Provide financial projections on the cost of
  early intervention
• Processing of invoices

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KEY INDICATORS

• Child Find
• Number of children served compared with national
  rankings under the same conditions
• IFSP
• Compliance with 45 day timeline
• Service Coordination
• Service Coordinators serve no more than 40
  families

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KEY INDICATORS

• Early Childhood Outcome Indicators
• When children exit from services, their
  development approximates that of typical peers
• Fiscal responsibility
• Expenditures do not exceed resources

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