1. Office of Innovative Projects
Child Find Webinar
May 6th, 2010
Victoria Meeder,
Public Awareness Supervisor
and
Christy Callahan, Director

2. Child Find Webinar Topics for 5/6
1. Referral Data
2. Child Find Guidance Document
3. Timeline for Initials document created by
CEN (Center for Educational Networking)
4. New Outreach Tools for Early Childhood
Special Education (3 to 5)
5. Twitter - Benefits & Use of Social Media
6. How can Project Find support Child Find
Coordinators?

3. Referral Data
1-800-Early On and 1-800-252-0052
Baseline Data (Mid Year 10/8 - 3/09)
Birth to 3 = 2539 (Early On)
3 to 26 = 581(Project Find)
Top 3 Referral Sources
• Physicians 42.2%
• Hospitals 23.5%
• Educators 27%
Current FFY (Mid Year Data 10/9 - 3/10)
Birth to 3 = 2968 (Early On)
3 to 26 = 614 (Project Find)
Top 3 Referral Sources
• Physicians 39.3%
• Hospitals 22.7%
• Educators 28.9%

4. Child Find Guidance
Sharon LaPointe, LaPointe & Butler to develop the Child
Find Guidance document.
Timeline for Initials - CEN
Center for Educational Networking - Special
Education Guidance documents.
-Timeline for Initials
http://www.cenmi.org

5. Project Find Statewide Outreach Efforts
Statewide
Display Board
at Conferences
Bus
Campaign Watch Me
Grow Calendar

6. Project Find Offers
Materials for Outreach
Students
Parents of Parents of High school
advancing from
children youth drop out
grade to grade
Pre-K -5th 6th – 9th grade prevention
with a
Grade suspected
disability

7. Child Find in Michigan

8. New Outreach Tools for ECSE
Copy text:
Sometimes the signals are small
one: Some trouble in school,
speech problems, learning that just
seems too hard. Understanding a
developmental or learning delay is
the first step to getting help for
your child. Project Find provides
information and assessments to
make sure that your child is ready
to learn and succeed. This help is
free. So don't worry but don't wait.
Call us or visit
ProjectFindMichigan.org for more
information.

9. Outreach Tools for ECSE
Copy text:
Sometimes the signals are small
one: Some trouble in school,
speech problems, learning that just
seems too hard. Understanding a
developmental or learning delay is
the first step to getting help for
your child. Project Find provides
information and assessments to
make sure that your child is ready
to learn and succeed. This help is
free. So don't worry but don't wait.
Call us or visit
ProjectFindMichigan.org for more
information.

10. How can we support LEA's?
Child Find Outreach Tool to build
awareness amongst school district
personnel.

11. What is All the Buzz About?
Social networking has
changed the way people
communicate. Globally,
people can connect in an
instance.
Social networking sites
such as Facebook,
MySpace, Twitter, Blogger,
YouTube, & LinkedIn allow
users to create on-line
communities.
More recently, businesses are using social media to create "buzz" and build
awareness about their organizations and/or products.

12. Follow Our Twitter "Tweets"
http://twitter.com/ChildFindMich

13. SlideShare Channel

14. ProjectFindMichigan.org

15. 1-800-252-0052
ProjectFindMichigan.org
1-800-EARLY ON
1800EarlyOn.org
1-866-334-KIDS
eotta.ccresa.org