2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
DUKE ENERGY CONVENTION CENTER
3/05/2023 | 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM | When the Going Gets Tough… Think Sustainability | DECC 203/204
When the Going Gets Tough… Think Sustainability
The EHDI System has done an excellent job of setting strong goals in 1-3-6, ensuring family and DHH involvement, and working towards diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Goals, however, can only truly be achieved with strong sustainability efforts over time. Leaders often find themselves putting out daily fires and juggling demanding tasks without taking the time and opportunity to lead efforts that will be sustained despite obstacles that we all face. Projects and programs often face an untimely end, due to inability of leaders to ensure that sustainability measures are put in place.
Sustainability can be achieved, even through unexpected systemic impacts (i.e., COVID), changes in funding, changes in personnel and organizational relationships. Systems improvement can be achieved when organizations and stakeholders focus on sustainability efforts. Incorporating viable practices into an organization/agency can be transformational for short- and long-term success. Stakeholders across the board—parent leaders, EHDI coordinators, D/HH Leaders, and others—will be ready to respond more quickly, more efficiently, and more successfully to the ongoing challenges posed in the complexity of systems building when capacity and sustainability efforts are incorporated into daily practices.
This interactive session will provide key strategies and practical insights to ensure sustainability over time, focusing on the positive impacts of 1) mentoring/coaching 2) avoiding burnout 3) preparing for inevitable transitions in personnel (succession planning).
- Explore and practice the applications of utilizing Mentoring/Coaching techniques to build the next generation of leaders.
- Discover the markers of burnout and how to avoid this in your personal and organizational health.
- Develop strategies and tools to set sustainability goals, including financial viability.
Presentation:
3420032_15481TerriPatterson.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
3420032_15481JanetDesGeorges.docx
Presenters/Authors
Janet DesGeorges
(), Hands & Voices, Headquarters, janet@handsandvoices.org;
Janet DesGeorges lives in Boulder, Colorado and is Executive Director of Hands & Voices Headquarters and the P.I. for the FL3 Center. Janet has presented to groups worldwide about the experiences of families as they journey through life with a child with deafness or hearing loss. Ms. DesGeorges received a program certificate from the MCH Public Health Leadership Institute in 2011 at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill.
As an EHDI Systems advocate, Janet believes in the principles and guiding philosophies of Hands & Voices towards a parent-driven, professionally-collaborative approach when supporting families in the early years. Her areas of interest include Leadership Development for parents who participate in systemic improvement; Deaf Education Reform and Improvement; Children’s Safety and Success(preventing child abuse and neglect); Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Systems; and Parent/Professional partnerships in Quality Improvement processes.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Terri Patterson
(), Hands & Voices, terri@handsandvoices.org;
Terri Patterson is the Director of Chapter Support for Hands & Voices, Coordinator of the H&V Leadership-to-Leadership (L2L) Program, and a member of the core management team for Hands & Voices Family Leadership in Language and Learning (FL3) Center. Her passion stems from her family, specifically her son who was born profoundly deaf in 1999. Through her personal experiences raising, supporting and advocating for her son, as well as navigating the systems that support children who are D/HH, she provides perspective, herself, as a hard of hearing adult. Her leadership skills continue to grow as she trains and provides technical assistance to over 50 Hands & Voices Chapters and efforts across North America through one-on-one training, leadership development, state and national conference presentations and national organizational engagement with NAD, NCDB, HRSA.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Sara Kennedy
(), Hands & Voices, Sara@handsandvoices.org;
Sara Kennedy entered the EHDI world after her third child was born at home and was later identified as deaf/hard of hearing. She began volunteering with Colorado Hands & Voices and Hands & Voices Headquarters in 2001, eventually serving as a parent guide, educational advocate, trainer, and Executive Director of the Colorado chapter from 2011–2022.
Since 2022, Sara has served as a Technical Assistance Advisor with the Hands & Voices FL3 Center, supporting EHDI programs and family-based organizations across the western states and U.S. territories. She is also a co-chair of the EHDI Parent to Parent Committee, a core member of the O.U.R. Children’s Safety Project, a program trainer, and longtime editor of The Hands & Voices Communicator.
Her work has focused on strengthening family engagement and parent leadership, educational advocacy, support for families of late-identified children, children’s safety, and building effective partnerships within EHDI systems. She has written and presented extensively on issues affecting DHH children, families, and the professionals who support them. An introvert by nature, Sara still prefers a good one-on-one conversation or book club—but has learned that she enjoys presenting and teaching once she gets through the first three minutes.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
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No relevant financial relationship exists.
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No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.