THE EARLY CHILDHOOD

COUNCIL

DEVELOPMENTAL SCREENING

Purpose of Developmental Screening

■ Our purpose is to ensure early identification of developmental delays/concerns in

young children.

■ Connecting at risk children to early intervention services

– Early Steps (birth-3)

– Child Find (3-5)

– Community Resources

■ Provide parental support through case management services

– Home visits

– Provide developmental activities

How do we do that?

■ Phone Screening/Triage

– Ages and Stage Questionnaire

– Parent Interview

– Outside diagnostic reports

■ Site-Based Screening

– 12 yearly site-based screenings throughout Hillsborough County

– Vision, Hearing, Height/Weight, Overall Development, Social Emotion, Speech, and Language

■ Case Management Follow-Up Services

– Follow-up support through phone calls and home visits.

Funding & Partnerships

■ Funded by the Children’s Board of Hillsborough County

■ Partnerships

– Hillsborough County Public Schools

– Prevent Blindness

– WIC

– Early Steps

– USF Speech Department

– PAT

– Help Me Grow/Crisis Center

– Gracepoint

INCLUSION SUPPORT SERVICES

Our Goal & Target Population

■ To build capacity in Hillsborough County’s early childcare community of inclusive

practices for children with special needs to experience high quality care.

■ Childcare providers serving children birth to 5 years of age and/or school age

children up to 8 years old in after school care with an IEP in Hillsborough County

■ Children in childcare in Hillsborough County.

Funders & Inclusion Warm Line

■ Children’s Board of Hillsborough County

■ The Early Learning Coalition of Hillsborough County

-Quality Counts for Kids (QCFK) Collaborative

■ Inclusion Warmline number for Hillsborough County with the Office of Early Learning

in Tallahassee

(813) 837-7877

Training

■ Community based and on-site

■ Various Topics

-Inclusion

-Social Emotional Development

-Screening with Ages and Stages Questionnaire 3/ SE

■ Quarterly Training Calendar

■ Develop trainings based on a provider/center needs

Technical Assistance

Observations

Teaching Pyramid Observation Tool/TPOT (Pre/Post)

Accommodation Strategies/Feedback

Team Meetings

Action Plan development

Linkage to community resources

Problem solving with team

Identify the child’s specific needs

Modify the physical environment

Modify curriculum for the child

Provide one-on-one training for the child’s teacher

INFANT MENTAL HEALTH

CS-QIC-Staff

What Is Infant Mental Health?

Importance of the First 1000 Days

• A pivotal time in a child’s development

• Physical / Social / Emotional

• First experiences of how the world works

• Optimal time for early intervention

• Auditory, visual, language areas and frontal lobe are most active in synapse development

• Most vulnerable time for child maltreatment

• Approximately 50% of children in the dependency system are birth – 5yrs.

• A time of the most opportunity and vulnerability of the developing brain

• Emotional experiences become embedded in the developing brain’s architecture

• Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) Study links the relationship between adverse early childhood experiences and physical & emotional health problems in adulthood

Partnerships Focused on….

Outreach & Awareness – Every Moment Matters

Developing and Supporting a Professional Workforce

Systems Building & Relationships

Sustainability

Setting the

Stage to

Support

Young children and families involved in child welfare

Flow of IMH Services and Supports in Hillsborough County from Screening / Triage through Level II and Level III IMH Intervention

Using the ASQ SE

Screening / Triage

Continue Monitoring

Champions for Children

-Parents As Teachers

-Baby Bungalow

School Readiness

Children’s Board FRCs

Crisis Center of Tampa Bay

-Help Me Grow

Children’s Home, Inc.

-SEEDs

Gracepoint

-Family Infant Wellness

Alpha House of Tampa

Refer to Level II IMH Services

(Coaching / Mentoring)

Early Steps (Medicaid Part C)

School Readiness

Healthy Start Coalition

-Healthy Families

Children’s Home, Inc.

-Kinship Care

-SEEDS

-Healthy Families

Positive Family Partners

Champions for Children

-Parents as Teachers

-Baby Bungalow

-ABC Program

-FRANC

Gracepoint

-Family Infant Wellness

Metropolitan Ministries

Success 4 Kids and Families

Alpha House of Tampa

Children’s Board FRCs

Early Childhood Council

-Inclusion Support Services

Refer to Level III IMH Services

(Clinical Intervention)

Private Practice

(Approved ASO Providers)

Alex Smith

Marilee Haymen

Alison Kimball

Ana Iosipan

Diane Koch

Selena Lemons

Megan Dahlin

Community Mental Health

Chrysalis Health

Gulf Coast Jewish Family and

Community Services

Gracepoint

Crisis Center of Tampa Bay

-Corbett Trauma Center

Northside Behavioral Health

Success 4 Kids and Families

Metropolitan Ministries

Children’s Home Society

History of Trauma, Severe

Behavioral / Mental

Illness / Substance Abuse,

Dependency

Involvement, etc.

Level III IMH Services by

Clinicians with Specialized

Training in Evidence-Based

Interventions

Meghan Dahlin (CPP) (TF-

CBT)

Alex Smith (PCIT) (ABA)

Marilee Haymen (PCIT)

(ABA)

Crisis Center of Tampa Bay

(CPP) (TF-CBT)

Positive Family Partners

(CPP) (COS)

USF Pediatric Clinic (PCIT)

Near Cutoff

Above Cutoff and / or Concerns Exist With Caregiver / Child Relationship

Front Line Developmental Screening:

ECC Developmental Screening Program, Children’s Board FRCs, School Readiness, Early Steps, Crisis Center Help Me Grow

Examples of Evidence Based Clinical Interventions: Child Parent Psychotherapy (CPP), Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT), Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA),

Circle of Security (COS), Parent Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT).

Judge

Community

Coordinator

Court Team-Case Manager

-GAL

-Attorneys

-Crisis Center

Therapist/CPP

Provider

-Other Community

Service Provider

Monthly Case

Reviews

Referral to Child-

focused Services

Child-Parent

Psychotherapy

Evidence-Based

Parent Education

ZTT National Office

Activities-Training and TA

-Resource materials

Decrease in Time to

Permanency

Reduction in Recurrence

of Maltreatment

Improved Child

Well-being

LOCAL ACTORS ACTIVITIES LONG-TERM OUTCOMES

TARGET GROUP: CHILDREN ENTERING OUT OF HOME CARE BEFORE AGE 3

Program Contacts

■ Developmental Screening

– Program Manager, Jennifer Broughton- 813-837-7706

– Schedule a screening- 837-7723

– ASQ Online- www.ecctampabay.org

■ Inclusion Support Services

– Shabel Santiago- 813-837-7877

■ Infant Mental Health

– Greg VanPelt-813-486-6405

– Lisa Maddox- 813-7774

– www.ecctampabay.org/infantmentalhealth