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Dear Providers,
Happy New Year! I hope you have a wonderful 2017. Why don't you get the new year started off right by joining us for our January Coalition Connection Face-to-Face meeting on Friday, January 6, 2017? We will meet at 9:00 AM at Trinity Pentecostal Tabernacle Church on Hwy 77 in Sunny Hills. I hope to see you there.
Thank you for all you do!
-Lynne
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Office Closures on Monday, January 16
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All Coalition offices will be closed on Monday, January 16, in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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TSG Assessments, Due January 31
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Teaching Strategies GOLD assessments for the Winter 2016/2017 are due January 31, 2017. Be sure to check the “TSG Transfers” class. This is a temporary folder and children should be moved to their appropriate classes as soon as possible. A preliminary review found many children still in the “TSG Transfers” class, and some providers established new accounts for children which resulted in duplicate children.
If children were assessed earlier in the Checkpoint period, please review your ratings of your children to see if it still accurately reflects their current developmental level. Children two or more steps down from the colored band in four or more areas will be reviewed during the Developmental Assessment Task Force (DATF) meeting the following month. If there is no concern about a child, that child should be within or above the colored band for his/her age. The Coalition’s TSG data is often reviewed and analyzed by OEL, so it is important that TSGs are correct. If you have any questions about TSGs or colored bands, please submit it to redline@elcwnf.org.
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School Readiness Provider Monitoring Tool, Form OEL-SR 20M (2016-2017)
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The School Readiness Provider Contract Monitoring for 2016-2017 in is full effect. We have monitored several programs, and we will continue the process each month throughout the fiscal contracted year (2016-2017). SRCM Notification letters will be emailed and uploaded to your provider portal to inform you of the date we will be visiting your program. In the letter, it will specify the documents you will need to upload to your provider portal for a desktop review before we visit your program. The letter will also identify requirements for the 5-year child records check as well as information we will be reviewing when we are on site.
For your review, when completing the monitoring tool, Coalition staff will be using SR Provider Monitoring Tool, Form OEL-SR 20M.
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Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida!
Door Decorating Contest
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We are excited about Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! occurring the week of January 23-27. Attached you will find the flyer that contains information about the books of focus as well as enrichment activities in which you can engage children in your center. To encourage Celebrate Literacy Week, Florida! activities, we are holding a door decorating contest. You can use “From Head to Toe” (for ages birth – 3 years old) or “I Don’t Want to be a Frog” (for ages 3 5 years) to theme your door. You can use an external door to your center or an internal classroom door. More than one door can be decorated per center and entered in the contest.
All doors must be decorated and ready for judging by Friday, January 20. If you are interested, complete the attached registration form and return to Sallie Brosnan at sallie.brosnan@elcnwf.org no later than Tuesday, January 17. Once you have completed your door decorations, please send a photograph of your door to Sallie Brosnan (via email) no later than 10:00 a.m. on Friday, January 20. Judging will take place during the week of January 23-27 on Facebook. The door with the most “Likes” will win a prize (to be announced at a later date).
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Attached please find the Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Flyer regarding services available for free income tax preparation from January 23 - April 17 in Bay County. VITA will also be available in Jackson and Washington Counties this year, and a flyer will be included in the BLAST when it has been made available.
Please hang THIS VITA FLYER in your center for any who might need assistance with income tax preparation.
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Performance Funding Project Reminders
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Things are moving fast for the providers who are participating in PFP. The first benchmark has been completed, and the second benchmark is just around the corner (Benchmark 2 due: January 16, 2017). The TA/coaching visits are going well, and teachers are working hard to increase their post-CLASS scores.
As we approach the deadline for Benchmark 2, we want to reminded all of you to upload your deliverables as early as possible so they can be reviewed and either approved or denied prior to the deadline. By uploading your deliverables prior to the deadline date, you give yourself more time to correct any deliverable that has been denied prior to the deadline date. If you wait until the deadline date to upload the deliverables, you will receive a delinquent notice from OEL and run the risk of being considered as a non-participating provider.
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Healthy Start's Car Seat Program
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Healthy Start's Car Seat Program, funding by the Bay Health Foundation, offers car seats and installment education to families with a documented need and completed referral form from a Healthy Start Community Partner. The program is offering infant and toddler car seats, so no booster seats are available. Families in Bay, Franklin, and Gulf Counties quality for this program.
We are community partners with Healthy Start, so if you have a family in need of a car seat, please contact Mandy McDavid at 850-747-5400, Ext. 108 or email her at
amanda.mcdavid@elcnwf.org. Please do not reach out to Healthy Start directly as they need to have a referral from the Coalition first.
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Questions about child development or behavior? Ask the Warm Line.
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