2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
3/19/2018 | 2:15 PM - 3:15 PM | The Role of the Utah EHDI Parent Consultant(s): A Day in the Life | Mineral D/E
The Role of the Utah EHDI Parent Consultant(s): A Day in the Life
One of the purposes of HRSA-17-059 “Universal Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention Program” funding was to address the importance of families within the EHDI system by incorporating family members into our learning communities, facilitating partnerships between families and various professionals and programs within the EHDI system, and developing formal partnerships with statewide, family-based organizations to provide family support to families/parents/caregivers of infants who are deaf/hard-of-hearing.
Although Utah EHDI has partnered with Utah’s federal Family to Family Health Information Center for years, this session will describe the new formal partnership created as a result of HRSA-17-059. We will detail what this partnership looks like, from how the new EHDI parent consultants were hired and trained to where they reside. We will explain how the Utah EHDI program is using these new consultants in affecting change within our system statewide. You will also hear directly from our new EHDI parent consultant(s) defining what their daily work entails and projects in which they are involved. Sharing of ideas amongst audience members will be welcomed.
- Describe ways in which Utah EHDI is utilizing their parent consultant(s)
- Identify new ideas that could be used with their own state's parent consultant(s)
- Compare Utah EHDI's parent consultant(s) roles with that of their own state and share ideas amongst each other
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Presenters/Authors
Stephanie Browning McVicar
(), Utah Department of Health and Human Services, smcvicar@utah.gov;
Dr. Stephanie Browning McVicar is the Director of the Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program, the Children’s Hearing Aid Program, and the Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Public Health Initiative in Utah. She works for the Utah Department of Health and Human Services' Children with Special Health Care Needs Office in Salt Lake City. Dr. McVicar is a pediatric audiologist, an advocate for CMV testing in newborns, and passionate about the prevention of congenital CMV infection. She is originally from Western New York and has extensive experience and knowledge in Audiology and the management of health care programs in both the public and private sectors.
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Heather Adams
(), Utah Dept of Health / Utah Parent Center, haadams@utah.gov;
Heather Adams joined the Utah EHDI team as a Parent Consultant in November, 2017. She is a mother to four beautiful children. Heather's youngest child, adopted from China, has Pendred's Syndrome and is deaf. She provides a unique perspective to families just beginning their journey with a deaf or hard-of-hearing (D/HH) child. She is a valuable part of the EHDI team developing and maintaining active family engagement and leadership efforts for families of children identified through newborn hearing screening who are D/HH.
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Rachel Hyde
(), Utah Department of Health, rahyde@utah.gov;
Rachel Hyde joined the Utah EHDI team as a Parent Consultant in August, 2017. She is a parent to two rambunctious toddler boys! Her older son, affected by a congenital CMV infection, is deaf. As a parent who has been through the EHDI process, Rachel offers a personal perspective to Utah stakeholders during all three components of the EHDI system. Rachel is happy to talk with parents about any aspect of their EHDI journey, answer their questions, provide resources, support, and be a safe haven for families struggling in the EHDI process.
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