Meeting Materials

2008 Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Grantees Meeting
March 12-13, 2008

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General Meeting Materials

• Meeting Agenda (PDF, 4pp, 207k)
• Find session materials posted on the Project Thrive Web site.

Additional Materials

• State Early Childhood Policy Profiles, National Center for Children in Poverty (Web site)
• A Framework for Evaluating Systems Initiatives, Julia Coffman, The Build Initiative (PDF, 36pp, 3.2MB)
• Tool for Using the Framework for Evaluating Systems Initiatives to Select Priorities, Plan, and Move Forward (PDF, 11pp, 86k)

2008 Early Childhood Comprehensive Systems Partners Meeting
March 13-14, 2008

General Meeting Materials

• Meeting Agenda (PDF, 6pp, 202k)
• Pre-Meeting State Worksheet (PDF, 4pp, 27k)
• State Team Reporting Form Used During the State Team Breakout Sessions (PDF, 5pp, 45k)
• Project Thrive Early Childhood Comprehensive System Checklist for the Early Childhood Systems Working Group Core System Elements (PDF, 2pp, 375k)
• Parent Leadership Development Draft Checklist Items (PDF, 1pp, 61k)
• State Prework and State Team Reports

Thursday, March 13 Materials

• 2:00–2:30pm
  Plenary Session: Building Better Systems for Vulnerable Children and Families
  Presenter:
  Janice Cooper, National Center for Children in Poverty
• 2:30–3:20pm
  Plenary Panel Session: Building Partnerships to Build Better Systems: An Example of How It Is Being Done (PPT, 3.5MB, 37 slides)
  Presenters:
  Lorrie Grevstad, Washington State ECCS Coordinator
  Joan Sharp, Washington State CBCAP Coordinator
  Tory Clarke Henderson, Child Development Specialist, Washington State Department of Health
• 5:30–5:55pm
  Plenary Session: Bringing It Home: Strengthening Families, Centers, and Programs at the State and Community Levels (PPT, 6.8MB, 30 slides)
  Presenter: 
  Judy Langford, Center for the Study of Social Policy

Friday, March 14 Materials

• 8:00–9:00am
  Plenary Panel Session: Building Bridges Between Services and Systems in Early Childhood Mental Health
  Presenters: 
  Roxane Kaufman, National Technical Assistance Center for Children’s Mental Health (PPT, 1.5MB, 24 slides)
  Therese Ahlers, Director, Wisconsin Alliance for Infant Mental Health (PPT, 83k, 19 slides)
  Sheri Falvay, Mental Health Services to Children and Families, Department of Community Health, Michigan (PPT, 10.7MB, 35 slides)
• 9:00–9:25am
  Plenary Session: Focusing on Prevention to Build Better Systems and Strengthen Families
  Presentation 1: The New Jersey Department of Children and Families (PPT, 2.13MB, 39 slides)
  Presentation 2: The Role of the Not-for-Profit Community (PPT, 157kb, 12 slides)
  Presenter:
  Darrell Armstrong, Director, Division of Prevention and Community Partnerships, New Jersey
• 9:50–11:00am
  Workshop Sessions
• 1. Identifying and Addressing the Developmental Needs of Children Involved with the Child Protection System Through Collaboration Between the Child Protection and Early Intervention Systems
  Presenters: 
  Anita Scarborough, Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, University of North Carolina (PPT, 275k, 38 slides)
  Kate Roper, Massachusetts (PPT, 275k, 21 slides)
  Wendy Grove, Ohio (PPT, 69k, 6 slides)
• 2. Collaborative Efforts Between ECCS and CBCAP Grantees
  Presenters:
  Loretta Fuddy, Keiko Nitta, Lynn Niitani, Hawaii (PPT, 763k, 33 slides)
  Lynne Brehm and Jenny Skala, Nebraska (PPT, 1.9MB, 22 slides)
• 3. Child Care Health Consultants: An Integral Part of Your Family Support System (PPT, 70k, 14 slides)
  Presenters: 
  Patricia Fahey, Healthy Child Care Consultant Network Support Center
  Marilyn Krajicek, NRC
  Sandra Cianciolo, The National Training Institute for Child Care Health Consultants
  Jeanne Anderson, American Academy of Pediatrics
• 4. Implementing Strengthening Families
  Presenters: 
  Joanne Kelly and Kathy Goetz Wolf, Illinois (Web site)
  Jackie Counts, Kansas (PPT, 2.2MB, 22 slides)
• 5. Implementing Developmental and Mental Health Screening: Lessons from the ABCD Projects (PPT, 553k, 59 slides)
  Presenters:
  Jennifer May, NASHP
  Penny Knapp, California
  Glenace Edwall, Minnesota
• 6. Family Systems Model of Care: The Work of SAMHSA’s Women, Children, and Family Treatment Initiative
  Presenters: 
  Nancy Hamilton, Operation PAR, Inc., Pinellas Park, Florida (PPT, 7.9MB, 24 slides)
  Francine Feinberg, Meta House, Inc., Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PPT, 4.9MB, 20 slides)
  Nancy Gottlieb, Alcohol and Mental Health Services, Santa Barbara, California (PPT, 1.3MB, 13 slides)
  Kath Schilling, Project WAVE on Cape Cod, Massachusetts (PPT, 246k, 13 slides)
• 7. Transforming State Mental Health Systems for Young Children
  Presenters: 
  Al Zachik, Maryland (PPT, 114k, 16 slides)
  Marla Himmeger, Ohio (PPT, 2.4MB, 30 slides)
• 8. Spending Smarter: Finance Strategies for Promoting Social and Emotional Health and School Readiness
  Presenter:
  Deborah Perry, Women's and Children's Health Policy Center, Johns Hopkins University (PPT, 2.4MB, 34 slides)
• 12:30–2:10pm
  Lunch
  Speaker:
  Charlie Biss, Director of Children’s Mental Health Services, Vermont State Department of Mental Health (PPT, 5.2MB, 42 slides)

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