Infant & Toddler

Connection of Virginia

January 2023 Update

One thing that the New Year always brings forth is hope and, on that note, we'd like to wish all of you a very happy New Year. May your invaluable contributions bring forth excellence to you as well as the children and families you serve. Happy New Year!

What Is Baby New Year? The Fascinating History Behind This Popular New Year's Symbol

TRAC-IT NEWS

 NEED TO KNOWS

Insurance Confirmation Reminder: With the new insurance flow deployed at the end of last week, there is a new requirement for the Insurance Confirmation tasks to be completed before the IFSP task is marked complete. Based on Help Desk tickets this week, this requirement does not seem to be widely known. Please share this reminder with service coordinators and TRAC-IT users in your local system that have the insurance role.

As a reminder, resources are available to support the new insurance workflow:

• A 17-minute video demonstration of the new process is available on our website.
• The new flow is available in the Sandbox for practice.
• An updated TRAC-IT user manual and a new Quick Reference Card for the insurance workflow are posted in the Help links in TRAC-IT.

TRAC-IT SUPPORT:

• EMAIL: VATRACITsupport@ssg-llc.com
• PHONE: (804) 508-7229

TRAC-IT CELEBRATIONS

Infant & Toddler Connection of Mount Rogers Goes All In

Mount Rogers CSB and ITCMR recognizes the outstanding efforts of their team for embracing TRAC-IT with some new swag!

Child Development

I Can TRAC-IT

SUPPORTING SOCIAL-EMOTIONAL SKILLS

New SSIP Workgroups Forming in the New Year

Interested in participating in a stakeholder group or volunteering to review proposed materials related to our SSIP steps and activities? We are looking for people to help us with the following SSIP steps that will be addressed over the next year:

• Explore screening or assessing for other factors that impact infants’ and toddlers’ social-emotional development, such as parental depression, anxiety, trauma, parent-child interaction, attachment and temperament
• Develop an implementation plan including professional development activities and resources needed to support use of the Pyramid Model in the Infant & Toddler Connection of Virginia
• Build reflective supervision capacity to support all providers

If you’re interested in participating, please send your name, your role in the EI system (service coordinator, service provider, parent, administrator, etc.), email address, and area of interest (from the list above) to Kyla Patterson at k.patterson@dbhds.virginia.gov no later than January 13, 2023.

PROFFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

A GEM YOU MIGHT

HAVE FORGOTTEN

Supporting Social and Emotional Development: What ALL Early Interventionists Can Do!

https://www.veipd.org/earlyintervention/2022/04/05/supporting-social-and-emotional-development-what-all-early-interventionists-can-do/_snapshots_final_4-2019.pdf

WHAT DID

YOU MISS?

Talks on Tuesday December 2022: Families: Moving from Resilience to Recharge

WHAT'S COMING

UP NEXT?

Save the date for the next Talks on Tuesday on Self-Care: February 7, 2023

Equity in EI ECHO coming soon



The VA EHDI Team is pleased to announce that we are hosting our FIRST conference. The 2023 VA EHDI Conference will an in person event held on February 14-15, 2023 at the Richmond Marriott in Short Pump- 4240 Dominion Blvd, Glen Allen, VA 23060.  Additionally, February 13 will be a pre conference day that will consist of our winter quarterly Advisory Committee meeting and the VA EHDI Statewide Learning Committee meeting. Registration is free and complimentary lodging is available upon request. Please visit our website for more information and to register today!

Topics discussed at the conference include:

• cCMV Screening
• Hearing Screening
• Hearing Loss
• Diagnostic Testing
• Family Support and Resources

See the attached save the date and share with your stakeholders as necessary. Please feel free to reach out to va_ehdi@vdh.virginia.gov if you have any questions or concerns!

EHDI Conference Save the Date flyer

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Local early intervention system managers (LSMs) or their designees, or directors of programs that contract with one or more local early intervention systems in Virginia, are invited to submit employment opportunities for posting.



• ITC Rappahannock-Rapidan | Early Intervention Professional | Posted 2022-12-07 | PDF
• ITC Blue Ridge | Early Intervention Case Manager-Bilingual | Posted 2022-10-21 | LINK
• ITC Crater District | EI Program Manager | Posted 2022-10-19 | LINK
• ITC Loudoun County | EI Program Manager: Assessment Services |Posted 2022-09-07 | LINK

For questions about certification of practitioners, contact David Mills • 804-317-7776

For questions related to completing the online application, contact VATRACITsupport@ssg-llc.com or from 8AM-5PM ET by calling 804-508-7229.

Infant & Toddler Connection of Virginia is part of the Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Services

https://www.itcva.online/itcva-staff-1

1220 Bank Street, 9th Floor, P.O. Box 1797, Richmond, Virginia 23219-1797

Main Office: (804) 786-3710 • Main Fax: (804) 371-7959