19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
Exploring Factors that Impact Family Support
In 2017, the federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau (MCHB) released the funding titled “Family Leadership in Language and Learning (FL3)” (HRSA-17-051), an opportunity that
Hands and Voices (H & V), a parent-driven organization that serves families with children who are deaf or hard of hearing (DHH), applied for and was awarded the FL3 cooperative agreement. An important initial activity of the FL3 was to conduct a comprehensive national needs assessment. This presentation explores parent information garnered in the needs assessment and specifically examines factors that impact a parent reporting that they had received support after their child was diagnosed as DHH. Findings include age at diagnosis is a bigger predictor than a child’s chronological age in whether a parent reported being supported. Additionally, Pacific Islander parents reported receiving more support than any other group of parents. These findings provide a prompting for H & V and Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs to explore the underlying reasons why specific groups of parents feel more supported and continue to strive for earlier diagnosis.
- Identify the most important predictors of receiving family support
- Understand the prospective benefits for earlier screening and diagnosis
- Explore areas for improvement in EHDI Programs and FBOs in supporting families
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Presenter: Vicki Hunting
Vicki Hunting is mom to two adult daughters; the youngest a young adult who is deaf/hard of hearing. She has worked in project management, process reengineering and quality/process improvement and evaluation for over 20 years with experience. Ms. Hunting has experience using the Model for Improvement using Plan-Do-Study-Act(PDSA) cycles as a framework for QI projects. This experience also includes; testing, implementing and spreading changes as well as using data for improvement, and developing and interpreting run charts and control charts. In her current staff position as Director of Data and Evaluation at Hands & Voices Headquarters Ms. Hunting works to ensure data and evaluation functions and practices of the organization are developed and monitored, works on establishing efficient, accurate, and timely data tracking to ensure data quality, integrity, reliability and validity. Vicki has been involved in the H&V in Iowa since it began in 2004.
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Ms. Ward earned a MS in Health Education in 2008 through Utah State University and became a certified as a Quality Improvement Advisor by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in 2015. For the past 15 years, her career efforts have demonstrated commitment to improving public health through health promotion, education, research, policy development, evaluation, and grant development from the community to national levels. Ms. Ward’s positions and interests provide her with broad and valuable experiences in public health. Currently, Ms. Ward is engaged in learning systems development (e.g., coalitions, learning communities, and collaboratives) and children’s health research (e.g., environmental, viral, and genetic factors) as the Director of Quality Improvement at the National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management, an MCHB-funded technical assistance center. She is also the project coordinator of the CMV (cytomegalovirus) Public Health and Policy Conference and serves on the board of the National CMV Foundation.
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