About Family Service Coordination ToolKit
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More on Family Service Coordination (Part C of IDEA)
As part of the mission of the Early Childhood Personnel Center (ECPC) (ecpcta.org), the national TA center supported a group of service coordination professionals, including service coordinators, state administrators and state professional development providers, to work together to envision the types of support that might be available to service coordinators across the United States. A result of that work is the position statement developed by The Division for Early Childhood (DEC) and the Infant Toddler Coordinator Association (ITCA) (2020). (dec-sped.org/position-statements) or (ideainfanttoddler.org/position-statements.php)
This position statement acknowledges the importance of early intervention (EI) family service coordination and recognizes the expertise and needs of the professionals who provide this service. Because of the complex nature of service coordination and the essential role of service coordinators in the EI process (Bruder et al., 2005; Childress, Nichols, & Schnurr, 2019; West, Duggan, Gruss, & Minkovitz, 2018), it is the position of the DEC and ITCA that service coordinators must have the knowledge, skills, administrative support, professional development, and resources they need to provide the highest quality services to children and families.
Within the position statement, the guidance document, Knowledge and Skills for Service Coordinators (KSSC; see Appendix A; Workgroup on Recommended KSSC, 2020) was created. This guidance is designed to support state and local programs to ensure consistency in the hiring and training of service coordinators in early intervention.
About Family Service Coordination ToolKit
The KITS project has extensive experience and is designed to provide training, technical assistance, and resources for early intervention and early childhood special education program staff through collaborative activities on a comprehensive statewide basis. Additionally, parents and staff of agencies collaborating with early intervention and preschool programs are afforded the opportunity to be involved in all activities associated with the project. The comprehensive system is realized through four identified system components of collaboration / linkages, information services, training, and technical assistance.
KITS is a program of the University of Kansas Life Span Institute at Parsons and is supported through a grant from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment-Infant Toddler Services to provide training and technical assistance to IDEA Part C Programs.
The KCCTO-KITS Infant-Toddler Specialist Network is a program of the Kansas Child Care Training Opportunities, Inc. and the University of Kansas Life Span Institute at Parsons and is supported through a grant from the Kansas Department for Children and Families’ Child Care and Early Education Services. However, information or opinions expressed herein do not necessarily reflect the position or policy of these agencies and no official endorsement should be inferred.
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The Course Content and Funding
The contents of this Course were enhanced and revised in partnership with the Early Childhood Personnel Center, a project of the A. J. Pappanikou Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at UCONN Health.
The Center is funded through cooperative agreement number H325B120004 from the Office of Special Education Programs, U.S. Department of Education.
The modules were originally developed under the Research and Training Center on Service Coordination at the A. J. Pappanikou Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at UCONN Health and adapted by the Kansas Inservice Training Systems (KITS) at the University of Kansas.
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