CROSS SYSTEM TRAINING WORK PLAN

King County Early Childhood Table of Ten

Notes from 4/28 Table of Ten meeting – entered by Kelly Warner-King

WORKGROUP MEMBERS

NAME / AGENCY / EMAIL
Diane Dorsey
Kimberly Mays
Jen Gears
Jonelle Burris
Sandy Carlson
Tracey Kaplan
Mara Calhoun
Jane Witmer
Wendy Harris / Attorney General’s Office
Office of Public Defense – Parent Rep /

Who else needs to be included?

Dana Dildine, Parents for Parents

Defense attorney

Kerri from Within Reach?

CA Social Worker/Supervisor?

Kelly Warner-King, CITA

PURPOSE: Train community to support and encourage parent and caretaker participation in EI evaluation and services

CROSS SYSTEM TRAINING FOR PROFESSIONALS – what will we do?

Develop educational and engagement curriculum
  • Informed by parent and caregiver experiences
  • Address biases and attitudes
  • Multi-disciplinary presenters
  • Agree on common language/vocabulary that is accessible to parents/caregivers
  • Examples
  • Parent vs birth parent
  • Caregiver vs caretaker
  • Words to help attorneys
  • Convincing parents that “we need you”
  • Communication vs speech
  • Training topics
  • EI vs EL
  • Language
  • Why we’re doing this
  • How to get people involved
  • What is it
  • Collaboration – how do we do it to support young children
  • What can I change – 15% solution
  • Create materials
Deliver training to court, child welfare and EI audiences
  • Outreach to different groups to schedule training
  • How to publicize? Judge Halpert – will she get word out?
  • Like Reasonable Efforts Training?
  • Create video – CITA can record @ UW Law School
  • Provide training - do training several times
  • Who will be trained - Ask each sector to send at least 5 people
  • Judges – 3 Full Time, plus others (Family Treatment Court?)
  • AAGs – 28 attorneys
  • Defense Attorneys – 40 parent attorneys
  • CASA – 6-8 Program Managers, 5 FT attorneys, 100s of CASA volunteers
  • Children’s Administration Social Workers – CPS and CFWS – 200+
  • What about new social workers?
  • Parent Allies – 15
  • CHET - 7
  • EI Providers
  • Interns?
  • When and Where?
  • Not Friday morning – but Friday afternoon?
  • Room availability – need to check

START DATE: By June 30th For first court training

By July 31st for law school training - recorded

OUTCOMES – how will we know it works – or not?

Outcome - What do we expect to change? / What data/information will tell us if that happens?
Early intervention/early learning needs of child discussed in monthly SW meeting with supervisors. Added to check list – where are we with CHET and EI recommendations and services? / CA data?
Judge will ask questions about status of CHET and EI assessments and recommended services / Court tally maintained by judicial officer?
Lawyers (and others?) will have positive language to encourage parent and caregiver participation / Pre and post knowledge survey?
Training attendees actually change how they work – implement their 15% solutions after the training. / Follow up on 15% solutions?
Everyone knows who to contact if there are problems or questions about CHET and EI. / Pre and post knowledge survey?

ACTION PLAN

ACTION / WHO INVOLVED / DATE TO BE ACCOMPLISHED
Plan pilot training / Mara, Kelly, EI, Parent panel, CHERISH, judge
ACTION / WHO INVOLVED/RESPONSIBLE / DATE TO BE ACCOMPLISHED
Record video and make available to different audiences / Mara, Kelly, EI, parent panel, CHERISH, key stakeholders
Follow up trainings with video
  • CASAs
  • Lawyers
  • SWs
  • EI providers
/ Key stakeholders
CITA provide CLE credits / Kelly
ACTION / WHO INVOLVED/RESPONSIBLE / DATE TO BE ACCOMPLISHED
Create clear steps that people in each role can take – spelled out in a one page document. / ?
EI willing to provide on-going training
Add CHET and EI information to Dependency 101 training / Parent Allies
Jill Murphy

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Created April 28, 2017