First Steps: Service Coordinator

 

 

There are several steps in getting the eligibility process completed. For a bubble chart of the process click here.

Steps in the eligibility determination process

1. Initiate eligibility determination activities including document review, comprehensive developmental screening (not required), etc.

2. Complete initial evaluation with information from at least two professions or disciplines

3. Intake coordinator uses all information to determine eligibility (in some cases this may involve a meeting if necessary to make the decision)

4. Plan any necessary assessments for IFSP development

 

It’s important that service coordinators understand what the law says about nondiscriminatory procedures. So, you will need to take a few minutes to read Part C, Section 303.323 of the Federal Regulations below.

 

Part C, Section 303.323

 

Sec. 303.323

Nondiscriminatory procedures.

Each lead agency shall adopt nondiscriminatory evaluation and assessment procedures. The procedures must provide that public agencies responsible for the evaluation and assessment of children and families under this part shall ensure, at a minimum, that—

(a) Tests and other evaluation materials and procedures are administered in the native language of the parents or other mode of communication, unless it is clearly not fea­sible to do so;

(b) Any assessment and evaluation procedures and materials that are used are selected and administered so as not to be racially or cul­turally discriminatory;

(c) No single procedure is used as the sole crite­rion for determining a child’s eligibility under this part; and

(d) Evaluations and assessments are conducted by qualified personnel.

 

(Approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 1820-0550)

(Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1435(a)(3); 1436(a)(1), (d)(2), and (d)(3))

Individualized Family Service Plans (IFSPs)

 

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