KEIS Service Coordinator

Early Intervention Specialist

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Coordinate and actively participate in public awareness and child find activities.
• Determine the nature of each referral and the appropriate follow-up contacts.
• Provide intake into the early intervention system, including obtaining necessary information and releases.
• Inform the family of their rights and safeguards and of the availability of advocacy services.
• With the family's consent, meet the family in their home or at another location as preferred by the family to assist in identifying their priorities, resources and concerns.
• Secure medical information and history and recent evaluations and assessments of the child and arrange for additional ones, as needed.
• Ensure that eligibility for early intervention services is determined for the child.
• Prepare families for and enable them to participate in all aspects of the early intervention process.
• Coordinate, facilitate, and participate in development of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP).
• Assist the family in reviewing available resources, services, and providers and in identifying other possible options.
• Ensure procedural safeguards, including confidentiality and timely delivery of services.
• Maintain ongoing tracking data and accurate records pertaining to children and families served and to available resources.
• Maintain communication and linkages with the District Early Intervention Committee (DEIC), local Preschool Interagency Planning Councils (PIPCs), and other community and local interagency groups in order to:
• share information, in accordance with procedural safeguards;
• address service coordination and child find/public awareness issues; and
• refine the service coordination system, as appropriate.
• Establish and maintain cooperative and collaborative relationships with referral sources and service providers.
• Coordinate ongoing assessments and evaluations and promote early intervention teaming during these processes.
• Assist the family in developing a system for gathering and maintaining pertinent information and records.
• Ensure identification of the family's resources, priorities, and concerns on an ongoing basis and develop a partnership with the family through regular contacts.
• Coordinate, facilitate and participate in the development, review, evaluation, and updates of the Individualized Family Service Plan (IFSP) with the family and other members of the early intervention team on an ongoing basis.
• Facilitate, enable, and ensure the family's involvement and decision-making authority throughout the information-gathering process and the planning, development, implementation and evaluation of the IFSP.
• Assist the family in identifying and accessing appropriate services, resources, and providers for their child and their family.
• Serve as a single point of contact, in collaboration with the family, to coordinate, monitor, and ensure effective and efficient delivery of services that are pertinent to the child's and family's total service needs and assure that duplication and fragmentation are avoided.
• Facilitate collaboration and mediation among the family and service providers to ensure an integrated transdisciplinary process and to strengthen the family's ability to coordinate services for their child.
• Assist the family in times of crisis or unexpected events.
• Coordinate and facilitate development of plans for transition to preschool or other placement as part of the IFSP in a timely manner as defined by law.
• Ensure the faithful implementation of all procedural safeguards, including the family's right to implementation of the IFSP, the right to privacy under the Family Education Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), the right to due process, and the right to advocate for additional…