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Head Start State-based T/TA Office for ArizonaA member of the National Head Start Training and Technical Assistance Network
Services to Expectant Families
AHSA/STG Training DayFebruary 24, 2010
Alecia Jackson, M.EdGrantee Performance Support Specialist
Region IX Head Start Training and Technical Consulting Assistance Support
Tina Sykes, M.EdInfant/Toddler Specialist
Head Start State-Based T/TA Office for Arizona
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Objectives
Participants will discuss Head Start Performance Standards related to serving expectant families
Participants will explore eligibility and enrollment of expectant families
Participants will understand how strong management systems and community partnerships serve as the foundation for services to expectant families
Participants will review strategies for partnering with teen parents, parents with disabilities, parents experiencing miscarriage or still birth
Participants will review examples of pre-natal curricula
Participants will examine ways EHS programs can begin to plan for comprehensive services to expectant families
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Agenda
Welcome Objectives Why does EHS serve expectant families? Eligibility and Enrollment of Expectant Families What do the Performance Standards state? Family Partnership Agreement Community Assessment and Community Partnerships Special Deliveries Review of curricula and resources Ongoing Monitoring and Tracking Back Home Plans Questions and Wrap-up
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Why does EHS serve Expectant Families?
A healthy pregnancy has a direct influence on the health and development of a newborn child
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Why does EHS serve Expectant Families?
The pre-natal period ofgrowth and developmenthas a lasting impact onthe child’s potential forhealthy growth anddevelopment after birth
~Attachment for Information Memorandum ACFY-IM-HS-0204 Services to Pregnant Women Participating in Early HeadStart
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Why does EHS serve Expectant Families?
Early, continuous support and services provideopportunities for:
– Healthy pregnancies and positive child birth outcomes
– Supportive postpartum care for parents and child– Fully involving fathers in the lives of their very
young children– Nurturing and responsive care during infancy
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Eligibility and Enrollment of Expectant Families
Not all pregnant women in thecommunity are suitable candidates
for the EHS program
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Enrollment
• Pregnant women count as one enrollment slot• According to 45CFR 1306, pregnant women
are not enrolled in Head Start Program Options
• Once the child is born, the child is enrolled in one of the EHS program options
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Income Eligibility
• A pregnant woman is counted as 2 family members
• One for the pregnant mom and one for the unborn child who will be enrolled in one of the program options after birth.
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Income Eligibility
• Unmarried Pregnant Teen Mom• Her own income determines eligibility regardless of her
parents’ income
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Time to enroll…
Meet Anahi, Layla, Jasmine and Rebecca…
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What do the Performance Standards state?
1304.40 (c) (1)-(3):EHS programs must provide expectant familiespre-natal education on:
FETAL DEVELOPMENT, including risks from smoking and alcohol
LABOR AND DELIVERYPOSTPARTUM RECOVERY, including information on maternal
depressionBENEFITS OF BREASTFEEDING
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What do the Performance Standards state?
EHS programs must assist expectant families inaccessing:
Comprehensive prenatal health carePostpartum health careThis care includes:
• Early and continuing risk assessments• Health promotion and treatment• Mental health intervention and follow-up
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Individualized Approach
• The HS Performance Standards specify the supports and services that EHS programs must offer pregnant women
• Each program must determine how these supports and services will be accomplished
• These supports and services are outlined within Family Partnerships
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Family Partnerships
Family Partnerships begin with DevelopingRelationships
“Since you found out you were pregnant, what kinds of things have you been thinking about?”
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Family Partnerships
The development of an approach to services for pregnant women is best defined
in the broadest terms as the goals and process for learning.
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Developing Family Partnership Agreement Outcomes
Performance Standard [45 CFR 1304.40 (a)(2)] describes a process for developing a Family Partnership Agreement that can provide a framework for developing services for pregnant women.
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Developing Family Partnership Agreement Outcomes
This approach would include: • identifying the goals for participating families• creating the strategies through which they will
achieve these goals• determining EHS staff and parent responsibilities• developing a timeline to carry out the plan
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Community Assessment
The planning process for serving expectant families begins with the
Community Assessment
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Community Assessment
Community Assessments identify:
• Needs of the expectant families in the community
• Services expectant families require
• Resources available to meet identified needs
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Community Partnerships
Let’s meet our panel of Community Partners• Arizona Postpartum Wellness Coalition• Maricopa County WIC• Banner Pre-natal Education Coordinator
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Special Deliveries
• Teen parents and Multigenerational families• Expectant parents with disabilities or cognitive
delays• Parents experiencing miscarriage or still birth
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Teen Parents in Arizona
• In 2007, 14,713 females age 15 to 19 became pregnant in Arizona.
• 12,792 of these pregnancies resulted in live births (86.9%), 1,837 pregnancies were aborted (12.5%) and 84 pregnancies resulted in fetal deaths (.6%).
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Teen Parents
• Babies born to teens are more likely to be pre-term and of low birth weight.
• Babies born to teens are at a greater risk of serious long term illness, of developmental delays and of dying in the first year of life.
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Partnering with Teen Parents in EHS
What are some effective strategies
you can use to engage pregnant and
parenting teens?
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Partnering with Teen Parents in EHS
Strategies• Persistence• Creativity• Let the teen teach you• Listen, listen and listen some more• Use your co-workers• Try and try again
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Partnering with Multigenerational Families
• According to the UnitedStates Census Bureau,Multigenerational family households are definedas households that consistof "three or moregenerations of parentsand their families.”
• These types of living situations span all races and ethnicities.
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Partnering with Multigenerational Families
What are some effective strategies
you can use to partner with
multigenerational families?
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Partnering with Multigenerational Families
Strategies• Understanding of the role each family member plays
within the family• Develop professional relationships with all members of
the family
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Partnering with expectant parents with disabilities
• physical, visual and auditory disabilities• intellectual disabilities• diverse medical conditions
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Partnering with expectant parents with disabilities
What are some effective strategies
for working with expectant parents with disabilities?
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Partnering with expectant parents with disabilities
Strategies: • Knowledge of the disability• Knowledge of challenges the expectant parent might
face• Communication with family members • Communication with health care providers• Knowledge of adaptive equipment that may assist the
expectant parent• Understanding that a disabled woman who is pregnant
is quite similar to a non disabled pregnant woman
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Partnering with parents experiencing miscarriage and stillbirth
Miscarriage • term used for a
pregnancy that ends on it's own, within the first 20 weeks of gestation
• most common type of pregnancy loss, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG)
Stillbirth• term used for the
delivery of a baby who has died, and is greater than 20 weeks gestation
• cannot be predicted, nor can we predict whom it will affect
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Partnering with parents experiencing miscarriage and still birth
What are some effective strategies for partnering with
parents experiencing miscarriage and still
birth?
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Partnering with parents experiencing miscarriage and still birth
Strategies• Give parents time• Acknowledge their grief and loss• Communicate with family members• Communicate with health care providers• Provide resources in a timely manner• Acknowledge your own feelings
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Review of Curricula
Head Start Performance Standards do NOT require the use of a specific curriculum for
pregnant women
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Ongoing Monitoring and Tracking
Head Start Program Performance Standard 1304.20 (b)(2) requires programs to follow up with each family to determine whether the kind, quality, and timeliness of services received through referrals meet family expectations and circumstances
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Ongoing Monitoring and Tracking
Record KeepingReportingSelf Assessment and
Monitoring
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Back Home Plans
Some questions to consider:• How are you currently serving expectant
families?• Have you established strong community
partnerships?• Are the required Performance Standards
being met?• How is the management system supporting
work with expectant families?
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Final Thought…
Whether pregnancy is meticulously planned or happens by surprise, one thing is certain
-- life will never be the same.
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Questions?