| Dennison, Texas
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Linda Horten
2300 West Morton Suite J
Denison, Texas 75020
(903) 463-5691
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| Description of effective Public Awareness and Child Find activities implemented in rural areas of your service region.
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- They exhibit at a lot of health and resource fairs. If someone says that they are having a fair, they say to them, "we want to be there." They set up booths, sometimes do screenings, if they can't do screenings they give families a lot of information where they can self-screen.
- If any cultural events comes up in the community they also try to be there. They want to be visible.
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| Collaboration with other agencies in implementing public awareness or child find activities.
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- They are part of the community management team which works in conjunction with the Children's Mental Health Program. They are also part of a community resource coordinating group which is comprised of agencies that work with children through the age of 17. There are about 7 agencies mandated by the State to sit on that group. All six counties have a community resource coordinating group and they have staff that are assigned to be members of each group.
- Other groups/organzation that the agency has personnel participate on are a local health coalition and an association for retarded citizens. Every county has an individual social service group or networking group that gets together either once a month or quarterly and talks about what is going on in their programs. They always have someone present at those meetings.
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| Process used to plan and implement public awareness and child find activities.
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- We make sure we have staff on all planning committees. We also have a person that does a lot of contact with doctors and gets materials out, but every staff member has some responsibility to do public awareness.
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| Resources received from Local Agencies
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