2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
DUKE ENERGY CONVENTION CENTER
3/07/2023 | 9:40 AM - 10:10 AM | Color and Collaboration: An Approach to Sharing Resources with Families | DECC 233
Color and Collaboration: An Approach to Sharing Resources with Families
Statewide coordination of services and supports for children who are deaf and hard of hearing and their families is critical to successful outcomes and families feeling supported. Maine's HRSA grant Director and Quality Improvement Specialist will share resources developed to ensure families receive consistent messaging throughout their journey from screening, diagnosis, early intervention and Kindergarten Readiness. Resources will be shared that Maine's team have developed in an effort to offer families clarity of message and consistent, collaborative support.
- Participants will be able to identify three ways that having a statewide system of information sharing benefits families
- Participants will be able to identify three ways their state can collaborate with other providers to create unified resource sharing
- Participants will identify ways to incorporate branding supports consistency of messaging for families.
Presentation:
3420032_15681Karen Hopkins.pdf
Handouts:
Handout is not Available
Transcripts:
3420032_15681Karen Hopkins.docx
Presenters/Authors
Karen Hopkins
(), The Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing/Governor Baxter School for the Deaf, karen.hopkins@mecdhh.org;
Karen Hopkins is the Executive Director of The Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing/Governor Baxter School for the Deaf and the principal investigator of Maine's HRSA grant. She brings over 30 years of experience as a collaborative teacher of the deaf, special educator, early interventionist and educational administrator to her work with Deaf and hard of hearing children. Her work with families, coupled with her own personal experience as a Deaf adult and parent of a daughter who is hard of hearing have inspired her to create systems that empower families. Karen oversees early intervention and statewide educational programming for children who are Deaf or hard of hearing birth to age 22 throughout the state of Maine. She is active in many organizations and boards in Maine, the Hands & Voices HQ Board of Directors and is involved with international FCEI programming including the Deaf Leadership International Alliance. Karen is the Board President of Hands & Voices Headquarters. Karen's current research as she finalizes her doctoral journey is focused on perspectives of family empowerment in early intervention systems for Deaf and hard of hearing children.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
• Receives Salary for Employment,Management position from HRSA Maine Educational Center for the Deaf.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
Financial relationship with Maine Educational Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
Nature: HRSA Grant recipient, employment.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
Darlene Freeman
(), Maine Hands & Voices, darlsfree13@gmail.com;
Darlene Freeman is on the board and the treasurer of the Maine Hands & Voices chapter and a Parent Guide with Maine Hands & Voices. She is also the Quality Improvement Specialist for Maine's HRSA Grant. She is the parent of her 28-year-old daughter, Deaven, who is deaf. Darlene enjoys working with families to help them understand the newborn hearing screening process into early intervention and beyond to encourage them to become strong advocates for their children who are deaf or hard of hearing.
ASHA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.
AAA DISCLOSURE:
Financial -
No relevant financial relationship exists.
Nonfinancial -
No relevant nonfinancial relationship exists.