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DCY Tuesday Times
Issue 10: June 11, 2024 |
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Tuesday Times
This ongoing correspondence focuses on essential business-related information, providing important updates for our partners. These updates encompass practice and policy adjustments, data dashboard enhancements, funding prospects, program details, training initiatives, and various other pertinent topics.
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For Your Awareness
KinderConnect Replaces CCIDS Portal
Any information previously available by way of the CCIDS portal, is now available in the KinderConnect system located at KinderConnect Logon (ohiocctap.com). County agency users can still access the CCIDS Portal until Friday, July 5, 2024. After that date, the CCIDS provider portal will no longer have access to the system.
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Identification |
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Children Services
Home Visiting
Ohio Children's Trust Fund
Maternal and Infant Vitality Programming
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Early Education |
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Early Intervention
Publicly Funded Child Care
Early Childhood Education
Preschool Special Education
Licensing
Dolly Parton Imagination Library of Ohio
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Ohio Commission on Fatherhood
Ohio Family Children First Council
Healthy Beginnings at Home
Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation
Strong Families, Safe Communities
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Motherhood Conference Held in Cleveland
The Northeast Reintegration Center (NERC) in Cleveland hosted the 1st Annual Motherhood Conference, with support from the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections, Passages, DCY,
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and The Ohio Commission on Fatherhood. The conference served to celebrate mothers and the connections they have with their children. Kimberly Dent presented a workshop session on child support, and Tara Shook presented a workshop session on children services. DCY was excited to be included in this first- ever event, and looks forward to future partnership opportunities. (The above logo for the event was designed by a NERC inmate.)
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Ohio State Fair Tickets Available Until Tomorrow
This is a just a reminder that in our May 28 edition of Tuesday Times, we shared that Governor DeWine’s office is providing 10,000 Ohio State Fair tickets to resource caregivers and the youth in their home, adoptive families, youth in congregate care facilities and our young adults enrolled in Bridges and their children! Resource caregivers include any licensed foster parents or approved kinship caregivers.
There is still time. Families and agencies can complete this short online form: 2024 Ohio State Fair Ticket Request to request tickets to the fair. The online form will remain open until 11:59 p.m. on Wednesday, June 12, 2024, or until we run out of tickets. Please contact Karen McGormley if you have any questions at Karen.McGormley@childrenandyouth.ohio.gov.
Tickets will be mailed to agencies the week of June 17, 2024.
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Updates and Guidance Letters
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2022-2023 District-Level Special Education Data Reported to the Public
From the June 3, 2024, of EdConnection
Recently, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce released 2022-2023 special education indicator data for all districts and community schools to the public. The District-Level Special Education Indicator Data Reported to the Public displays districts’ and community schools’ performance on key indicators established by the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
IDEA requires each state to annually report to the public on the performance of each district and community school on a subset of the targets in the State Performance Plan/Annual Performance Report (SPP/APR). These required reports must include the state targets for each of the specified indicators, provide the district or community school’s performance compared to those targets, and indicate whether the district or community school met the targets. To meet this federal reporting requirement, the Department annually posts a spreadsheet on Ohio's Special Education Profiles webpage and provides a Special Education Profile Public Summary searchable by district or community school name.
Contact DEW with questions at OEC.profile@education.ohio.gov.
Preschool Classroom Age Composition, the Physical Literacy Environment, and Children's Emergent Literacy Skills
Early care and education providers know that well-designed and organized classroom environments encourage children’s learning and engagement. A recent news brief from The Ohio State University Crane Center For Early Childhood Research and Policy discusses the importance of creating a “physical literacy environment.” This includes displaying items with writing on them such as a variety of books, children’s magazines, posters, labeled items, and bulletin boards. It also includes providing children with appropriate writing tools and creating opportunities for them to write.
The news brief stressed it is important for programs where mixed-age children are in the same learning environment, such as in family child care programs and mixed-age classrooms in centers, to create a rich and varied physical literacy environment.
Click here to read the brief.
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Updates and Guidance Letters
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DCY Team Members Present at Ohio's 2024 Mental Health and Addiction Conference
The Ohio Association of County Behavioral Health Authorities Foundation, in partnership with the Ohio Departments of Mental Health and Addiction Services, Rehabilitation and Correction, and Health, hosted Ohio’s 2024 Mental Health and Addiction Conference: Building the Systems of Care on June 3-4, 2024, at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Columbus.
The conference highlighted Governor Mike DeWine’s investment in the mental health and well-being of Ohioans.
During a panel discussing innovative support for behavioral health programs, Director Wente highlighted Ohio START for improving outcomes for both parents and children affected by child maltreatment and substance use disorder.
Nicole Sillaman, Executive Director of the Ohio Children's Trust Fund, along with Lisa Golden with Triple P America, Inc., and Susan McDonald, Knox Parent Support Initiative Coordinator with Knox County Head Start (pictured above), presented on "Innovative Approaches to Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Children and Youth."
Nicole's group stressed that Ohio is not alone in its shortage of qualified mental health professionals relative to the existing and increasing needs for children and youth. For over 15 years, the Ohio Children’s Trust Fund, housed within the Ohio Department of Children and Youth, has been providing funding to train individuals, professionals, and community partners to become Triple P providers.
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DCY Project Manager of Partnering with Ohio Parents (POP), Melissa Palmer, along with Jolina Wesley, a SAFY (Specialized Alternatives for Families and Youth) Parent Partner in Knox County, and Nicole Hornbeck a SAFY POP Parent Partner in Franklin county presented on the Peer Support movement and the POP program. POP is an adaption of the Iowa Parent Partner Approach (IPPA) which is an evidence-based practice supporting parents involved with children's services with the goal of reunifying with their children. This partnering approach capitalizes on the experience, strength, hope, and inspiration of parents with direct lived experience navigating children's services to achieve reunification. POP Parent Partners support parents striving to make behavioral changes to achieve this same goal.
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Updates and Guidance Letters
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