Act Early State Team

January 27, 2022 State Team Meeting

Meeting Agenda

Goal 4 Intervention and Coordinated Community Supports

Meeting Objectives:

  • Highlight recent Act Early State Team member activities related to intervention and coordinated supports (Goal 4 of the State Plan).
  • Learn how interventionists from Unified Therapy Services optimize services in rural Iowa and Wisconsin.
  • Identify strategies the Team can use in Wisconsin to increase timely access to intervention services and coordinated supports.

Agenda:

Session Recordings:

Lightning Round Updates

  • Starr Burke and Suzi Wolf, Birth to 3 Kenosha County – Parent U, a program funded by a social-emotional support grant for local Birth to 3 programs
  • Rebecca Thompson – Wisconsin Autism Provider Association efforts to address interventionist shortage from a systems level.

Unified Therapy Services – Leveraging intervention services in rural areas

Presenter:

  • Kara Takes, COTA\L; Rehab Director