St. Louis City & North County EIT Application is Available

The application for the St. Louis City and North County EIT Teams is available by clicking the following link:
Click here to access the application

The application is available online and we will be accepting applications starting today, March 26, through Friday April 16.

PLEASE NOTE: You do not need to mail in the application. Once you complete the process online by clicking "done", we will have it electronically. We will not accept them by mail.

Thank you!

First Steps Program on STLMoms/Fox2 News

Watch the video of Rachel Morgan, Child Find Coordinator, on the STL Moms segment of FOX2 News this morning with Margie Ellisor-

 

Tune in to STLMoms on Tuesday March 9

Happy Monday Afternoon, Everyone!
We would recommend that you tune in to Fox 2 news tomorrow morning in the 8-830am slot to see a short segment devoted to child find for FS. Rachel Morgan, Child Find Coordinator, will be live in studio with Margie Ellisor during the Stl Moms segment to talk about the FS program!

Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Conference
St. John’s Mercy Medical Center
St. Louis, Missouri
Friday, April 23, 2010
$85.00 full day plus free lunch & 0.6 ASHA CEUs

Featured Speakers:
Michael Karnell, PhD, CCC-SLP
Speech-Language Pathologist, University of Iowa

Ross Long, DMD, MS, PhD, FACD
Orthodontist, Lancaster Cleft Palate Clinic

Topics:
1) Evaluation of Velopharyngeal Dysfunction
2) Specific Speech Therapy Techniques for
Individuals with Cleft Palate & VPD
3) Collaborative Care Between the Team &
Community Speech-Language Pathologists
Plus other related topics

To receive a brochure (when available) or register,
contact Dana Kiley at http://us.mc657.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=Dana.Kiley@mercy.net
or 314-251-6581

Testing Protocols

Just as a reminder, all testing protocols, including DAYC, are part of the child's official EI record and should be filed at the SPOE office. Please make sure that you are sending them in on a regular basis either by mail or in person to the SPOE Office, or giving them to the Family Service Coordinator(s). We know that many providers will "batch" them and hand deliver them to a Family Service Coordinator during an IFSP meeting or other home visit- this is fine. Also, please make sure that you are writing the child's name and DOB , along with your name and SPOE Region (St. Louis City, St. Louis County, or St. Charles County) on the front of every protocol. Below is the DESE guidance statement that relates to this process. Thank you!

Subject: Testing ProtocolsSource: Amanda Wogan, Supervisor, Compliance
Intended Audiences: SPOEs, DMH Service Coordinators, Providers, SICC
Date: 07/27/06
It has come to our attention that testing protocols do not generally accompany written reports submitted by providers who perform evaluations/assessment for First Steps.
Testing protocols are a part of the early intervention educational record under FERPA and must be maintained by the First Steps system. When providers complete an evaluation or assessment they must forward both the report and the protocol or a copy of the protocol used to generate that report to the SPOE.

DAYC Training for St. Louis City and North County Providers ONLY

This message is going out in mass to the provider base to inform you that we are planning a DAYC training for providers in North County and St. Louis City only at this time. There will be other opportunities for future DAYC trainings, but our priority at this time is St. Louis City and North County. The training will be from 1-4pm on Tuesday March 30th and the location is yet to be determined. Please RSVP to Katie Motil at the SPOE office at kmotil@awsusa.com by no later than Friday, March 19. This is the basic DAYC training provided by Marcy Morrison, Area Director. If you have already attended a previous DAYC training, then there is no need to attend this one.

Thank you-
St. Louis Area SPOE-AWS

St. Louis Area SPOE Announces Zones for EIT

As part of our plan for transitioning to Early Intervention Teams (EIT) in the St. Louis Area, we have carefully examined our regions to develop zones that are clear, understandable, and represent natural geographic boundaries. The following is a list of geographic zones within which teams will be formed:

St. Charles County Zone
North County Zone
St. Louis City Zone
Central Corridor Zone
South County Zone
West County Zone

Our contract with DESE states that we are responsible for making sure that at least 25% of all new referrals are being referred to an EIT by June 30, 2011. Based on referral numbers and our goal to implement EIT in areas that could help address provider shortage issues, the North County and St. Louis City zones will be the first portions of the region to start taking referrals for EIT. Shortly, we will make an application available only for those providers interested in being considered for a team in these 2 zones (North St. Louis County and St. Louis City). When we are prepared to move forward with other zones, we will make announcements for those applications at that time.