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Referring Young Children to Part C Early Intervention: Who Are They and How Many? (Workshop 54)
The 2003 revision of the Child Abuse and Prevention Treatment Act (CAPTA) included the requirement that states must develop procedures for referring all children under age three and involved in substantiated abuse and neglect to Part C early intervention services. Part C is a component of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
Agencies providing Part C services are required to provide comprehensive, coordinated, multidisciplinary, early intervention for infants and toddlers with disabilities or developmental delays and their families. This workshop presents information from state and national datasets and from findings from the Massachusetts Early Childhood Linkages Initiative (MECLI) project. The session provides information to help planners estimate potential increases in referrals for eligibility determination and Part C enrollment, as well as determine the resources communities will need to manage projected increases in referrals.
The session covers numbers of children currently served by both Part C and Child Protective Services (CPS) and projections for increases in children served by both systems as a consequence of expanded referrals to Part C by child welfare agencies as required by CAPTA. Attention also is directed to the following: the potential impacts on social service and Part C agencies of referrals for all children under age three with substantiated maltreatment; findings regarding the proportion of maltreated children who are eligible for Early Intervention (EI) and the numbers of families from CPS who actually enroll in Part C services; and how children referred to Part C from CPS compare to children from other referrals sources in regard to risk factors, services received, and the cost of those services.
The workshop concludes with findings indicating that young children with health and developmental problems have worse child welfare outcomes than peers who do not have these conditions.
Steven Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Department of Psychiatry
University of Colorado Health Sciences Center
4200 E. 9th Avenue
Campus Box C268-63
Denver, CO 80262
Michael W. Ames, M.S.W., M.B.A.
Family and Child Policy Center
Heller School
Brandeis University
MS 035
Room 333B
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
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