%0 Journal Article
%T Transforming Early Intervention Screening, Evaluation, Assessment, and Collaboration Practices: Increasing Eligibility for Children Impacted by Trauma
%A Brooke N. Winchell
%A Sarah J. Greene
%A Stephanie A. Adrihan
%J Topics in Early Childhood Special Education
%@ 1538-4845
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0271121418791288
%X In this program description, the authors describe outcomes of a 2-year project influencing programmatic changes to screening/assessment practices and increased collaboration with Child Welfare (CW) in an early intervention (EI) program. The EI professionals reviewed how they assessed children who have been abused/neglected. Based on their findings, they revised the eligibility process and assessment tools utilized. Objectives of the programmatic changes were to increase the number of children substantiated as abused/neglected to become eligible for EI services and improve identification of social emotional delays. A summary of overall outcomes is presented aling with implications for policy and practice
%K assessment
%K CAPTA
%K early intervention
%K maltreatment
%K screening
%K social emotional development
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0271121418791288