Date or Check

Activity

Determine needed Child Find public awareness materials from Region 10 ESC.

Review district personnel records to determine which employees have not received general orientation /training on Child Find.

Schedule and/or present training on Child Find orientation to new personnel.

Train new staff and/or update returning staff on local Child Find policies and procedures.

Distribute local special education referral process and service description to each teacher prior to start of school.

Distribute Roles and Responsibilities regarding Child Find requirements to all district personnel.

Send Campus Assurances Checklist and memorandum regarding procedures and orientation requirements to principals.

Send District Assurances Checklist to central office and auxiliary staff administrators for completion of procedures and orientation requirements.

Send memorandum regarding Child Find procedures to district administrative secretaries, along with copies of procedures and Rolodex card inserts.

Distribute Child Find information in information packets that go home with students.

Ask to present Child Find information at September school board meeting.

Contact day care centers, doctors' offices, police, Head Start, ECI, homeless shelters, charter schools, private schools, home schools, and other community supports regarding Child Find procedures.

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Activity

Update system for tracking Child Find referrals.

Review Child Find items for current school year in Texas Education Agency compliance monitoring system document .

Ask to present Child Find information to local service organizations (Rotary, Lion's Club, Kiwanis).

Give presentation at monthly school board meeting.

Place an article describing the Child Find referral process and name of LEA contact in each campus newsletter.

If applicable, notify local district programs for pregnant and parenting students of Child Find procedures.

Establish or reestablish contact with the local ECI program to network and discuss referral and communication procedures.

Monitor system for tracking Child Find referrals.

Send follow-up copy of Campus Assurances Checklist (see August) to campus administrators who have not returned a completed form.

Send follow-up copy of District Assurances Checklist (see August) to administrators who have not returned a completed form.

Ask local media (radio stations, television stations, cable television provider) to run public service announcements on Child Find.

Present Child Find information to community service organizations (community bulletin boards, cable television, Rotary clubs, Kiwanis, Soroptomists).

Establish or reestablish contact with the local Head Start and other agencies that provide services to children and youth.

Review Child Find items from Texas Education Agency Standard Application System Budget Request Form Assurances sections for compliance for current school year.

Update system for tracking Child Find referrals.

Contact local newspapers to request publication of Child Find awareness article.

Monitor system for tracking Child Find referrals.

Document efforts to provide public service announcements through local media and articles in local newspapers.