February 1, 2017 at 2:00 PM - Special Population Committee Meeting

Discussion: 

Call to order at 2:03 PM.

Staff:  David Ludwig, Deb Hericks, Scott Isaacson

Discussion:  Chair reviewed the survey results, suggest you share with staff.  There will be a summit this summer that will include anyone who has anything to do with Behavioral Health can attend.  It will be onsite at ESU 3 and broadcasted to ESU 10 and ESU 13.  ESU 1 Administrator shared their tier document.  This will give you a tier process to address the needs.   The is a continuous need for mental health providers. 

Discussion:  Chair reviewed discussions that we had with the ESPD committee regarding Tele-Therapy for SLPs.  They will continue to review and discuss a solution.  Executive Director has had discussion with Director of NCRSA regarding Global Therapy. 

Discussion:  Executive Director discussed Circle of Friend is now being done by Keith Rowher. Dave will have a meeting with him and others the beginning of March.

Discussion:  Technology Director gave an update on the the SRS/APP development.  Zend conversion is done and in testing the system.  In the meantime the System Analyst has been working on the APP Site.  There will be a meeting next Friday to discuss the transition of the sites to the Edfi Dashboard.  There hoped to have this in production this summer.  The Innovation Grant would also help move this project forward to compete the conversion process to Zend 3. 

Discussion:  We had recommendations come from Affiliates and ESUs and working through the recommendations.  We will approve procedures manual next month. 

Discussion:  Executive Director shared the Master Service Agreement and SRS costs within that agreement.  Suggesting a 5% increase in the tier structure. 

Discussion:  Executive Director will contact Rose Dymacek on the PEP Conference on March 18-21.

Discussion:  Committee Chair reviewed RS Directors Report.