2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
DUKE ENERGY CONVENTION CENTER
3/07/2023 | 9:40 AM - 10:40 AM | Collaboration between Deaf Mentor Family Services and MN Hands & Voices = Successfully Supported Families | DECC 201/202
Collaboration between Deaf Mentor Family Services and MN Hands & Voices = Successfully Supported Families
Families benefit from connecting with adults who are deaf or hard of hearing. To help ensure the families have adequate connections with DHH adults, Parent Guides from the MN Hands & Voices program provide families with options of connecting with a DHH guide through the MN Hands & Voices program and/or with a deaf mentor through the Deaf Mentor Family Services Program based on the family’s requests. This presentation will allow you to identify key differences between the two programs in conjunction with the similarities of the two programs. Participants will be able to collect ways our programs collaborate to serve families. In addition, the presentation will list processes of how we do referrals to the respective programs, how we collect data, and how we report the data to our respective grant sources.
- Identify 4 key guidelines of each program.
- Examine 3 similarities between programs.
- List 2 ways the programs collaborate.
Presentation:
3420032_15584BrendaHommerding.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
3420032_15584BrendaHommerding.docx
Presenters/Authors
Brenda Hommerding
(), MN Hands & Voices/LSS, Brenda.Hommerding@lssmn.org;
Brenda Hommerding lives in Rice, Minnesota with her husband, Lynn. They are parents of adult twin girls. The girls along with Brenda cover the whole spectrum of high frequency sensorineural hearing difference from mild to profound. Brenda comes from an extensive line of family history with hearing differences including her maternal grandparents who were deaf and attended a deaf school in Minnesota. Brenda and Lynn have also been blessed with two grandsons, both who are deaf.
Brenda currently serves in the West Central Region of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing Advisory Board. Brenda is the West Central Region representative board member of the Minnesota Commission of the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing and serves on the Community and Legislative Alliance Committee. Brenda is currently working with the Minnesota Commission serving Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing individuals to evaluate the statewide system of dissemination materials for families with children Grades 5 through 8. Brenda served as a member and then the co-chair of Minnesota’s Department of Human Services, Deaf and Hard of Hearing Advisory Board (Central Division) for 10 years.
In 2017 Brenda received the Miss Congeniality Award at National Hand & Voices. Her passion to collaborate with community stakeholders has been instrumental in connecting families with their parent guides and deaf/hard of hearing guides.
Brenda has been involved with Minnesota Hands & Voices for many years starting out as the Central Minnesota Parent Guide in 2006 then transitioned into the Lead Outstate Parent Guide and now has been the Guide By Your Side Manager since 2017.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with Minnesota Hands & Voices
Minnesota Department of Health
Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota. .
Nature: Employed by non-profit to complete work for state contract. .
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Heidy Nazario
(), Minnesota Hands & Voices, Heidy.Nazario@lssmn.org;
Heidy Nazario lives in Minneapolis, MN with her husband, daughter and 2 dogs. She is profoundly and bilaterally deaf, and her hearing difference is genetic--many family members on her dad's side are DHH (deaf or hard of hearing). She serves as the DHH Guide Program Coordinator for Minnesota Hands & Voices. Heidy has been supporting DHH families--including Spanish-speaking families-- since 2016.
Heidy has a bachelor's degree in Preschool and Elementary Education and an associate degree in Tourism. She has experience teaching in Puerto Rico and Minnesota, and has had the opportunity to present about the DHH Guide Program in various platforms including schools, Hands & Voices chapters, and other organizations.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with MNHV, MDH, LSS.
Nature: Employed by non-profit to complete work for state contract.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Emily Smith-Lundberg
(), Deaf Mentor Family Services, emily.smith-lundberg@lssmn.org;
Emily Smith-Lundberg serves as the Director of Deaf Mentor Family Services at Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota. Prior to becoming director, Emily was a Deaf Mentor in the same services for nine years.
Emily also has been a camp director for the last two decades and is currently running Camp UBU - You Be You, a youth camp for campers who are Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing in the Midwest.
Emily has a bachelor's degree in Deaf Studies and a master's degree in Sign Language Education, both from Gallaudet University in Washington, DC.
In 2018, Emily received the Commission of Deaf, DeafBlind, & Hard of Hearing Minnesotans Achievement Award, and in 2019, Emily received the Minnesota Association of Deaf Citizens Robert Stokes Achievement Award.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with Lutheran Social Services of Minnesota
Deaf Mentor Family Services
Minnesota Department of Human Services
Deaf & Hard of Hearing Services (Minnesota).
Nature: Employed by non-profit to complete work for state contract. .
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.