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.