2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference
March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH
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When the Going Gets Tough… Think Sustainability
The EHDI System has done an excellent job of setting strong goals in 1-3-6, ensuring family and DHH involvement, and working towards diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Goals, however, can only truly be achieved with strong sustainability efforts over time. Leaders often find themselves putting out daily fires and juggling demanding tasks without taking the time and opportunity to lead efforts that will be sustained despite obstacles that we all face. Projects and programs often face an untimely end, due to inability of leaders to ensure that sustainability measures are put in place.
Sustainability can be achieved, even through unexpected systemic impacts (i.e., COVID), changes in funding, changes in personnel and organizational relationships. Systems improvement can be achieved when organizations and stakeholders focus on sustainability efforts. Incorporating viable practices into an organization/agency can be transformational for short- and long-term success. Stakeholders across the board—parent leaders, EHDI coordinators, D/HH Leaders, and others—will be ready to respond more quickly, more efficiently, and more successfully to the ongoing challenges posed in the complexity of systems building when capacity and sustainability efforts are incorporated into daily practices.
This interactive session will provide key strategies and practical insights to ensure sustainability over time, focusing on the positive impacts of 1) mentoring/coaching 2) avoiding burnout 3) preparing for inevitable transitions in personnel (succession planning).
- Explore and practice the applications of utilizing Mentoring/Coaching techniques to build the next generation of leaders.
- Discover the markers of burnout and how to avoid this in your personal and organizational health.
- Develop strategies and tools to set sustainability goals, including financial viability.
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Presenter: Janet DesGeorges
Janet DesGeorges lives in Boulder, Colorado and is Executive Director of Hands & Voices Headquarters. Janet has presented to groups worldwide about the experiences of families as they journey through life with a child with deafness or hearing loss. Ms. DesGeorges received a program certificate from the MCH Public Health Leadership Institute in 2011 at the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. As an EHDI Systems advocate, Janet believes in the principles and guiding philosophies of Hands & Voices towards a parent-driven, professionally-collaborative approach when supporting families in the early years. Her areas of interest include Leadership Development for parents who participate in systemic improvement; Deaf Education Reform and Improvement; Children’s Safety and Success(preventing child abuse and neglect); Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Systems; and Parent/Professional partnerships in Quality Improvement processes.
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Terri Patterson is the Director of Chapter Support for Hands & Voices, Coordinator of the H&V Leadership-to-Leadership (L2L) Program, and a member of the core management team for Hands & Voices Family Leadership in Language and Learning (FL3) Center. Her passion stems from her family, specifically her son who was born profoundly deaf in 1999. Through her personal experiences raising, supporting and advocating for her son, as well as navigating the systems that support children who are D/HH, she provides perspective, herself, as a hard of hearing adult. Her leadership skills continue to grow as she trains and provides technical assistance to over 50 Hands & Voices Chapters and efforts across North America through one-on-one training, leadership development, state and national conference presentations and national organizational engagement with NAD, NCDB, HRSA.
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Lisa Kovacs is the Director of Programs for Hands & Voices Headquarters and the Director of the Family Leadership in Language and Learning (FL3) Center. She and her husband Brian have four young adult children including her son who is hard of hearing/deaf. Lisa was the 2019 Antonio Brancia Maxon Award for EHDI Excellence recipient. Her professional interest include; Parent Advocacy; Implementation of parent participation and engagement in systems building; Parent to Parent support; Deaf Education Reform; IDEA, ESSA, Part C and Part B Training to Parents, and Parent Leadership Training and Development.
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Sara is a mom of four children, including a daughter who was born at home and later identified with progressive loss. An occupational therapist by training, Sara has worked for Hands & Voices since 2001 as the editor for the quarterly newspaper, the Communicator. Sara has a special interest in advocating for hearing screening in the homebirth community. She was a coauthor for the Virtual Waiting Room web presence at Hands & Voices, the handbook Bridge to Preschool: Navigating a Successful Transition as well as articles and presentations on teaching our deaf/hh children about sex, promoting self-advocacy, progressive hearing loss, and the decision process regarding cochlear implants. Sara transitioned out of her role as Director of Colorado Hands & Voices since 2011 at the end of February 2022. She finds her new consulting role with her young adult children rewarding and challenging.
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