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Provide leadership for school improvement, student learning and living. Serves all children in need of speech-language, school social work, special education nursing, audiology and hearing, physical and occupational therapy. Leadership provided through services to its districts by working in school-community planning, professional development, curriculum instruction assessment, school management, and school technology.

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Special Education
Educational Testing
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Provides services for infants and children who have been exposed to drugs before birth. DEC is dedicated to protecting Iowa's children through a multi-disciplinary collaboration of services. Early identification and intervention for children exposed to drugs is the emphasis, so they can live a healthier life.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Provides service coordination, nutrition services, and health assessments for children 0-3 years old enrolled in Early ACCESS (Early intervention for infants and toddlers).
The Early ACCESS program for children birth to age 3 provides evaluations to identify children with special needs. Children ages birth to 3 years old with special needs are connected to early intervention services. In addition, Early Childhood Special Education services are available for children ages 3 to 5 who are identified as needing special education services.

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Early Identification Programs
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Pediatric Developmental Assessment

Parent Resource Coordinators offer peer-to-peer support and assistance to families that have children with disabilities/special needs connect with community resources and navigate medical and school systems. Project is supported statewide at various clinics and medical facilities.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Pediatric Developmental Assessment

Works with primary care providers who identify social/emotional or developmental concerns, family stressors, or caregiver depression during well child medical exams. If a condition is identified, the family is referred to a support specialist who provides care coordination. Specialists may provide referrals for developmental screening, mental health or behavioral health services, or other needs, and will monitor the family's progress.

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Mental Health Evaluation
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Provides service coordination, nutrition services, and health assessments for children 0-3 years old enrolled in Early ACCESS (Early intervention for infants and toddlers).
The School District Office provides the administration of the public school services for all students in the school district. Services include: Child-find services which assess pre-school children to identify any developmental concerns as well as the child's readiness for kindergarten; Early intervention services for pre-school children (beginning at 3 years old) with identified developmental delays providing special preschool services, therapies, or other needed supports for the child; Creating, with the parents, an Individual Education Plan (IEP) for children with special education needs and ensuring that the services required by the plan are provided for the student; and Student counseling services, including counseling and guidance for all students in the district in the areas of personal, social academic, and career concerns. The school district also provides a Homeless Liaison, who coordinates the necessary services and support for any student in the district who is homeless (this includes providing transportation to and from school as well as other support that may be needed by the student).

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Homeless School Transition Programs
School Districts
Student Counseling Services
Early Identification Programs

Works with families to get them enrolled in the 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative. 1st Five program builds partnerships between physician practices and public service providers to enhance high-quality well-child care. 1st Five promotes the use of developmental tools that support healthy mental development for young children during the first five years. By using a tool for all children that includes social-emotional development and family risk factors, providers are able to identify children at risk for developmental concerns that, if left untreated, would play out later in life.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Mental Health Evaluation
The Early ACCESS program for children birth to age 3 provides evaluations to identify children with special needs. Children ages birth to 3 years old with special needs are connected to early intervention services. In addition, Early Childhood Special Education services are available for children ages 3 to 5 who are identified as needing special education services.

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Early Identification Programs
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Pediatric Developmental Assessment

Preschool and Head Start program.

Service coordination and home visitation program.

Developmental testing, speech and language pathologist, occupational and physical therapists, and vision and hearing consultants.

Parent support groups.

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Early Childhood Education
Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Special Education
Parent Support Groups
Community Circle of Care (CCC) is a regional System of Care program providing care coordination for community-based services and supports to non-Medicaid children and youth with serious behavioral or mental health needs in northeast Iowa. CCC serves children and youth up to 21 years old. The CCC program provides wraparound services to ensure that youth and families are connected to: assessment and diagnosis, care coordination, and social supports.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Wraparound Facilitation/Community Support

Provides screenings, speech and developmental therapies, and evaluations for children from birth to 3 years with developmental delays or disabilities.

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Pediatric Developmental Screening
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Community Circle of Care (CCC) is a regional System of Care program providing care coordination for community-based services and supports to non-Medicaid children and youth with serious behavioral or mental health needs in northeast Iowa. CCC serves children and youth up to 21 years old. The CCC program provides wraparound services to ensure that youth and families are connected to: assessment and diagnosis, care coordination, and social supports.

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Wraparound Facilitation/Community Support
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Assists families with children, birth to three years, with disabilities or special needs to access community services. Families are linked with developmental evaluations through the schools, Nebraska Health and Human Services programs, health resources, parent-to-parent support, and other supports and services as identified by the families' priorities.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Provides supports and services for families to help their children meet developmental milestones.

Works with primary care providers who identify social/emotional or developmental concerns, family stressors, or caregiver depression during well child medical exams. If a condition is identified, the family is referred to a support specialist who provides care coordination. Specialists may provide referrals for developmental screening, mental health or behavioral health services, or other needs and will monitor the family's progress.

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Mental Health Evaluation
Early intervention for children ages birth to three who are experiencing any developmental delay or have high medical needs.

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Works with primary care providers who identify social/emotional or developmental concerns, family stressors or caregiver depression during well child medical exams. If a condition is identified, the family is referred to a support specialist who provide care coordination. Specialists may provide referrals for developmental screening, mental health or behavioral health services, or other needs and will monitor the family's progress.

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Mental Health Evaluation
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Collects information to identify and refer children with health problems to the High-Risk Infant Follow-up that will ensure the healthy development of infants born with a high-risk medical condition.

Provides quality services to children with and without special needs and their families so that they have equal opportunity to live, learn, and play in their community.

Offers the following services:

- Autism Resource Center
- Developmental Play Group/Toddler Class
- Developmental and Speech Evaluations
- Developmental Therapy
- Speech Therapy
- Occupational Therapy
- Child Development Center
- Preschool

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Extended Child Care
Autism Therapy
Pediatric Developmental Screening
Child Care Centers
Speech Therapy
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Clinics are community outreach programs which provide early intervention services using applied behavior analysis (ABA), which is a research-supported treatment for autism spectrum disorders. The clinics offer one-on-one services for toddlers with autism and a caregiver-training program.

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Autism Therapy
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Through a central contact person, Services Coordination helps families of children with special needs (below age three):

- Find services to meet developmental educational, financial, health care, child care, respite care, and other needs

- Link with needed services

- Work with multiple providers to make sure services are provided as needed

- Become coordinators of services for their own children in the future

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Provides service coordination, nutrition services, and health assessments for children 0-3 years old enrolled in Early ACCESS (Early intervention for infants and toddlers).

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Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays

Provides education assistance to area schools in areas of early intervention, special education, career awareness, math and science coalition, computer instruction/training, curriculum development, and nursing services.

Early Intervention Program serves infants and toddlers (birth-3 years) with disabilities. Services include screening, testing, referral, services, coordination of services, and implementation of Individual Family Service Plan (IFSP).

Offers autism support and training for parents, caregivers, teachers, therapists, grandparents, or anyone that is affected by autism.

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Pediatric Developmental Assessment
Disease/Disability Information
Early Intervention for Children With Disabilities/Delays
Special Education