What is Your Destination and How Will You Get There? Our Destination and Train Looked Like This… About YOUR Destination, Engine, Engineer and Railroad Cars… Where do you want to go? Who do you have relationships with and/or who do you want to develop relationships with to grow your committee or project? Who are the key Destination: A Comprehensive System of Care for infant & mental people in your state within early childhood and mental health agencies/programs that health serving children birth to 8 and their families/caregivers/providers should be included? Look at the composition of our Committee and think about who Engineer(s): Co-facilitators from two different early childhood agencies VA Your those representatives are in your state. Engine: Initially a very small work group and facilitator (from the Virginia Ideas Department of Mental Health in the Office of Child and Family Services) Railroad Cars: Strategically expanded initial work group to include a cross representation of state level early childhood and mental health provider agencies, parents and direct service providers. Hand-Out: Current ECMH VA Advisory Board list The Fuel that Got Us Started… Think About YOUR Fuel… What key people in your have access to funding or other resources that can help you get started? i.e. Part C Early intervention, 619 Coordinator, DSS person with access to Block grant funds, DOH etc. that you could add to your train. Could you begin by hiring a consultant to assist you? What would you want the consultant to do? funding to hire a Consultant State State Head Start Collaboration to do a By State Comparison of other states ECMH efforts Virginia’s Think About YOUR Train Tracks… “Tracks”… What could help you set a direction for your project? What activities could help you do this? Could you do any of the same activities we did? Brainstorming Session Initial with expanded Committee Action Plan based on ideas from brainstorming session and ideas selected for VA from State by State comparison Provider Survey ECMH Mental Health Work Groups Established within the larger Committee focused on key projects we wanted to move forward TA from National TA Providers to help us
What is Your Destination and How Will You Get There? VA Our Destination and Train Looked Like This… Destination: A Comprehensive System of Care for infant & mental health serving children birth to 8 and their families/caregivers/providers Engineer(s): Co-facilitators from two different early childhood agencies Engine: Initially a very small work group and facilitator (from the Virginia Department of Mental Health in the Office of Child and Family Services) Railroad Cars: Strategically expanded initial work group to include a cross representation of state level early childhood and mental health provider agencies, parents and direct service providers. Hand-Out: Current ECMH VA Advisory Board list Your Ideas About YOUR Destination, Engine, Engineer and Railroad Cars… Where do you want to go? Who do you have relationships with and/or who do you want to develop relationships with to grow your committee or project? Who are the key people in your state within early childhood and mental health agencies/programs that should be included? Look at the composition of our Committee and think about who those representatives are in your state. The Fuel that Got Us Started… State Head Start Collaboration funding to hire a Consultant to do a State By State Comparison of other states ECMH efforts Think About YOUR Fuel… What key people in your have access to funding or other resources that can help you get started? i.e. Part C Early intervention, 619 Coordinator, DSS person with access to Block grant funds, DOH etc. that you could add to your train. Could you begin by hiring a consultant to assist you? What would you want the consultant to do? Virginia’s “Tracks”… Initial Brainstorming Session with expanded Committee Action Plan based on ideas from brainstorming session and ideas selected for VA from State by State comparison ECMH Mental Health Provider Survey Established Work Groups within the larger Committee focused on key projects we wanted to move forward TA from National TA Providers to help us Think About YOUR Train Tracks… What could help you set a direction for your project? What activities could help you do this? Could you do any of the same activities we did?
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