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We are excited to welcome Michele Parfitt from the DePaul School for Speech and Hearing in Pittsburgh and Denise Brown from the Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Harrisburg.  They will begin facilitating the new PLCs in their areas and will be observing our group.  Our agenda includes:  discussion of the roadmaps attached and finalizing our NEPA roadmap.  In addition, we will have an update on the research efforts at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.  Finally, we will have a discussion of presenting the NEPA Roadmap to hospitals and families through a collaboration with Early Intervention.

Wishing all of you the best in the holiday season!

Mary Ann

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Referred on the NBHS. What's Next?

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Learning Community Description and Basics

Six Learning Communities (LCs) will be created throughout Pennsylvania and supported by TIU 11 to increase the knowledge and engagement within the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention (EHDI) system .

Each LC shall be composed of six to 12 local EHDI stakeholders with a commitment to participate and to implement local changes to ensure that newborns and infants who are deaf and hard of hearing (D/HH) receive follow-up screening, care coordination, and enrollment in EI services. The members of the LCs shall be composed of:

* Pediatric health care professionals from local health care organizations;

* American Academy of Pediatrics Chapter Champions;

* Pediatric primary care clinicians;

* Practice or community based care coordinators from the local EI program;

* Family members of children who are D/HH; and,

* Service providers from other locally available services including the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC), Home Visiting, local Maternal and Child Health agencies, and State Title V Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN) programs.

A two-hour LC event will be held every other month for the Learning Community. The events shall focus on providing LCs with an opportunity to learn new information related to the EHDI system and to identify local barriers and solutions. Each LC event shall include a 30 minute update on local activities, a 60 minute statewide webinar on a specific topic, and a 30 minute discussion session to identify how the presentation topic impacts their local community, the potential barriers in their area, and strategies that will make their community more effective in meeting the needs of newborns and infants who are D/HH and their families.

Impact surveys will be sent to LC members. They will be designed to pull the following information:

* Number of participants that are aware of and follow the JCIH 1-3-6 recommended timeline guidelines;

* Number of D/HH patients that have a care coordination plan;

* Number of care coordination plans developed with the parent or family, caretakers;

* Number of care coordination plans that are shared across providers and partners;

* Number of health care professionals that have developed partnerships with state Title V CYSHCN programs regarding systems integration and family centered care coordination;

* Learning boost data from the previous LC event to ensure long-term transfer of knowledge and implementation of new skills learned through the LC event;

* Overall satisfaction of the LC events; and

* Suggestions on area(s) of improvement.

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Learning Boost Attachement November 2018

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Colorado Hands & Voices - A Roadmap for Families

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November 2018

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Our next meeting will be January 9, 2019 from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at the Scranton School.  Please RSVP to me by January 7.

We are excited to welcome Michele Parfitt from the DePaul School for Speech and Hearing in Pittsburgh and Denise Brown from the Office of Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Harrisburg.  They will begin facilitating the new PLCs in their areas and will be observing our group.  Our agenda includes:  discussion of the roadmaps attached and finalizing our NEPA roadmap.  In addition, we will have an update on the research efforts at the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine and Geisinger Medical Center in Danville.  Finally, we will have a discussion of presenting the NEPA Roadmap to hospitals and families through a collaboration with Early Intervention.

Wishing all of you the best in the holiday season!

Mary Ann

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Hi Everyone!

I hope you all enjoyed a wonderful holiday with family and friends!

Thank you so much for all of your hard work and meaningful discussion at our last PLC meeting.  I am excited by the potential surrounding our NEPA Roadmap for Families.

In preparation for our next meeting, I have attached two resources from Anne Gaspich.   I would ask you to read them over.  These materials will help guide our discussion and hopefully allow us to finalize our NEPA Roadmap for Families at the next meeting.  It's exciting to think that families in our region will have a resource specific to them, to guide them in their hearing journey.

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SSDHHC
537 Venard Road
Clarks Summit, Pa 18411
(570) 585-1000 V/VP
(866) 400-9080 (Toll Free)

5:00  Refreshments/Welcome/Introductions

5:30
Program DOH information

EI Information

6:30 to 7:00
Next Steps

Meeting dates and time

Group Goals

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We have created an online bulletin board specifically for your group: https://padlet.com/agaspich/1gh1i2nnbbmv

An award winning PA resource specifically designed with you in mind is www.paearlyhearing.org  Please  be prepared to share an item from the website that you view as particularly helpful at our next meeting.

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June, 2018 - Attendees
Mark Beall

Lisa Lopatofsky

Cindy Ward

Jennifer Joyce

Johnine Bickauskas

Michael Kondash
Jim Zeigler

Jill Knecht

Sarah Sitoski

Mary Ann Stefko