2024 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 17-19, 2024 • Denver, CO
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Tools to leverage cross-sector systems that enhance language acquisition and kindergarten readiness for children who are DHH
This session will dive deeply into the emerging roles of state EHDI programs as participants in cross-sector systems that are collectively responsible for language acquisition and kindergarten readiness. The session will begin with a peer learning session, where participants will use visual tools to capture their current level of cross-sector systems participation in these efforts. Grounded in this context, the session facilitators will then provide a high-level systems thinking overview using the iceberg and other systems thinking core concepts. This portion of the session will provide a tool participants can use in their own work to help develop a shared understanding of the state’s current approaches to language acquisition and kindergarten readiness. Session facilitators will then turn to two tools that are intended to help cross-sector collaborators see the ‘big picture’ system they are working to enhance from multiple angles: 1) Whole System Maps allow collaborators to inventory programs, services and resources within the system they want to strengthen, and; 2) the 5 R’s is a method to see the system in which collaborators are working (either independently or as partners) by using a conversation guide to prompt for what success looks like (results), roles, resources to support change, and rules and relationships that must be understood or changed to improve outcomes. Finally, participants will be exposed to Appreciative Inquiry, which enhances systems change efforts by framing the challenge from the outset as a positive goal to be achieved and builds on existing systems strengths rather than focusing on gaps. Once all tools have been described (with examples), participants will select which of the method(s) they would like to apply to their own work. Small groups will be formed, and session facilitators will guide participants as they begin to apply the tools to their own contexts.
- Gain exposure to systems thinking, implementation science, and change management approaches.
- Increase ability to use whole systems maps, the 5 Rs and appreciative inquiry to build high-functioning cross-sector systems.
- Apply one or more new tools to a state's EHDI program context.
Presentation:
3478265_16492DorothyCilenti.pdf
Handouts:
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3478265_16492DorothyCilenti_2.docx
3478265_16492DorothyCilenti_x.docx
Transcripts:
3478265_16492DorothyCilenti.docx
Presenters/Authors
Dorothy Cilenti
(Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter), cilenti@email.unc.edu;
Dorothy Cilenti, DrPH, MSW, has worked in local and state public health agencies in North Carolina for more than 20 years. She is primarily interested in improving systems of care for vulnerable women and children. Dr. Cilenti is a clinical professor in the Department of Maternal and Child Health at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health where she directs the National Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Workforce Development Center, a cooperative agreement with the Health Resources Services Administration, Maternal and Child Health Bureau, Division of MCH Workforce Development. She has served as principal investigator for more than 25 contracts and grants totaling more than 15 million, ranging from training grants to public health systems research awards.
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Chantelle Dowsett
(Co-Presenter), Chantelle_Dowsett@unc.edu;
Chantelle Dowsett, PhD, is the Evaluation Manager for the National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center. With a background in lifespan human development and population research, she has more than 20 years of experience evaluating state- and federally funded projects focused on the effects of early childhood interventions and welfare and employment policies on low-income families. Her research in early childcare and education, school readiness, and child development has been published in Developmental Psychology, Psychological Science, and Early Childhood Research Quarterly.
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Kristen Hassmiller Lich
(Co-Presenter), klich@unc.edu;
Kristen Hassmiller Lich, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She specializes in the application of systems thinking, operations research and simulation modeling methods to inform health policy and management decision-making. Kristen is the Core Lead of the Systems Integration core of the National MCH Workforce Development Center. Her work seeks to advance the way we use system maps, models, and local data to improve outcomes.
Amy Mullenix, MSPH, MSW, currently serves as the Deputy Director for the National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center and the Maternal Health Learning & Innovation Center, two national training and technical assistance centers housed in the MCH Department at the Gillings School of Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In this role, she coordinates and supports partnerships among the multiple academic and practice partners engaged in each Center to build the capacity of MCH practitioners across the country.
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Amy Mullenix
(Co-Presenter), amy_mullenix@unc.edu;
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