Family Cost Participation Task Group Updates
Updated:
01/12/2012
*To keep the public up-to-date, WV Birth to Three will post all information/updates here regarding the activities of the Family Cost Participation Task Group. All questions may be forwarded to Pam Roush, WV Birth to Three Director at pamroush@wvdhhr.org.
Introduction:
The Family Cost Participation (FCP) Task Group is assisting DHHR, as Lead Agency, to look at options around family cost participation, including family fees and use of private insurance. The group is examining how other states have approached family cost participation and eventually will be making recommendations as to what might work for WV.
The FCP Task Group is also taking a look at our current eligibility criteria compared to research on developmental delay and the demographics of West Virginia's children, to assure that we are indeed targeting those children who are most likely to have developmental delays without the benefit of early intervention services.
Please remember that under IDEA, any such changes on policies around family cost participation and eligibility criteria require a period for public comment and hearings, followed by submission to the U.S. Department of Education for approval before being implemented. So it will take several months before anything new could be in effect
Task Group Updates:
[Excerpt from
Communications to the Field
sent May 1, 2008]
The Family Cost Participation Task
Group is assisting the Lead Agency to look at options around family cost
participation, including family fees and use of private insurance.
The group is examining how other states have approached family cost participation and eventually will be making recommendations as to what might work for WV. Please remember that under IDEA, any such changes around family cost participation require public comment and hearings, and approval of the policy by the U.S. Department of Education. So it will take several months before anything new could be in effect. We do, however, want to show that we are accessing any funding source that is possible and recommended under Part C of IDEA.
The FCP group is also taking a look at our current eligibility criteria compared to research on developmental delay and the demographics of West Virginia's children, to assure that we are indeed targeting those children who are most likely to have developmental delays without the benefit of early intervention services.
Please know that we are interested in all comments and we consider them as we continue to work together to provide quality services to children and families.
Family Cost Participation Task Group Report
[January 2008]
Abstract |
Full report
Family Cost Participation Task Group Report
- 2nd report
[July 2008]
Full report
Growing Together with Proposed Policy
Changes
Resource Documents
Developmental Screening in Primary Care: The Effectiveness of Current Practice
and Recommendations for Improvement [December 2007] - The Commonwealth Fund
Overview: Developmental delays and conditions are common in early
childhood, and are predictive of later learning and behavioral difficulties.
Early treatment improves outcomes. For this report, a literature review was
conducted to determine the effectiveness of current efforts by primary care
providers to detect developmental delays in early childhood. Although data are
limited, there appears to be significant under-detection of developmental delays
in early childhood. While the prevalence of developmental delays is at least 10
percent, early intervention programs aimed at addressing these concerns serve
only 2.3 percent of children under age 3. Use of validated developmental
screening tools is supported by American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines, but
these instruments are neither widely nor systematically used in pediatric
practice. The report makes several recommendations to strengthen developmental
surveillance and screening, and thereby improve outcomes for young children and
families.
Family Cost Participation
Implementation Issues [January 4, 2008] - NECTAC
Ability to Pay
State Summary Table [January 31, 2008] - NECTAC
Topical Finance
Information - NECTAC
Web-based Resource List for Eligibility Discussion - WV Birth to Three