Office of Innovative Projects

Child Find WebinarMay 6th, 2010

Victoria Meeder, Public Awareness Supervisor

and Christy Callahan, Director

Child Find Webinar Topics for 5/6 1. Referral Data 2. Child Find Guidance Document3. Timeline for Initials document created by

CEN (Center for Educational Networking)4. New Outreach Tools for Early Childhood

Special Education (3 to 5) 5. Twitter - Benefits & Use of Social Media6. How can Project Find support Child Find

Coordinators?

Referral Data 1-800-Early On and 1-800-252-0052Baseline Data (Mid Year 10/8 - 3/09) Birth to 3 = 2539 (Early On) 3 to 26 = 581(Project Find) Top 3 Referral Sources

• Physicians 42.2% • Hospitals 23.5% • Educators 27%

Current FFY (Mid Year Data 10/9 - 3/10) Birth to 3 = 2968 (Early On) 3 to 26 = 614 (Project Find) Top 3 Referral Sources

• Physicians 39.3%• Hospitals 22.7%• Educators 28.9%

Child Find Guidance

Sharon LaPointe, LaPointe & Butler to develop the Child Find Guidance document.

Center for Educational Networking - Special Education Guidance documents. -Timeline for Initialshttp://www.cenmi.org

Timeline for Initials - CEN

Bus Campaign

Statewide Display Board

at Conferences

Watch Me Grow Calendar

Project Find Statewide Outreach Efforts

Project Find Offers Materials for Outreach

Students advancing from grade to grade

with a suspected disability

High school drop out

prevention

Parents of youth

6th – 9th grade

Parents of children

Pre-K -5th Grade

Child Find in Michigan

New Outreach Tools for ECSE

Copy text: Sometimes the signals are small one: Some trouble in school, speech problems, learning that just seems too hard. Understanding a developmental or learning delay is the first step to getting help for your child. Project Find provides information and assessments to make sure that your child is ready to learn and succeed. This help is free. So don't worry but don't wait.

Call us or visit ProjectFindMichigan.org for more information.

Outreach Tools for ECSE

Copy text: Sometimes the signals are small one: Some trouble in school, speech problems, learning that just seems too hard. Understanding a developmental or learning delay is the first step to getting help for your child. Project Find provides information and assessments to make sure that your child is ready to learn and succeed. This help is free. So don't worry but don't wait.

Call us or visit ProjectFindMichigan.org for more information.

How can we support LEA's?

Child Find Outreach Tool to build awareness amongst school district personnel.

What is All the Buzz About?

Social networking has changed the way people communicate. Globally, people can connect in an instance.

Social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Blogger, YouTube, & LinkedIn allow users to create on-line communities.

More recently, businesses are using social media to create "buzz" and build awareness about their organizations and/or products.

Follow Our Twitter "Tweets"

http://twitter.com/ChildFindMich

SlideShare Channel

ProjectFindMichigan.org

1-800-252-0052ProjectFindMichigan.org

1-800-EARLY ON 1800EarlyOn.org

1-866-334-KIDSeotta.ccresa.org