July 12, 2012 HIPPY Call Notes

Intake Forms:

• Are not ready yet (so sorry!) and won't be final until HHSC finalizes the Benchmarks - as of today's posting they are still being edited. Since the forms gather Benchmark data, we cannot finalize the forms until these are finished.
• ETO - once you have your home instructors on board - please provide natha.jolly@hippyusa.org with their names and email addresses, so she can add them to the ETO online system.
• National Trainers - Texas is fortunate to have gained two more trainer interns - Adriana Trevino (one of our MIECHV own) as well as Olayinka (Yinka) Ojo of Irving HIPPY. Additional trainers include Carla Mowell, Keshia Bruno and Sylvia Bougacha. 

Testing:

• Please purchase your ASQ and ASQ SE kits and forms as soon as possible to fit within this year's budget. We have funds available to make this purchase too, let us know if you need assistance. 
• Protective Factors Survey - we are waiting on the UNT Computing Center to make updates to the PFS so it is a scannable form. Unlike ASQ & ASQ-SE, this test (PFS) is pre and post, so it's very important that pretesting be done before home visits begin with week 1. Once the form is ready it will be put on the blog. If you need it before then, please contact Amber.Ellison@unt.edu
• Carla is working on a timeline for intake and testing, this won't be done for at least another week because we are waiting to adapt the timeline that HHSC provides (Mary Riggs). 

Recruitment:

• Questions came up regarding recruitment - should each model be recruiting for themselves or is the central recruiting system in charge of recruitment?
• Answer - each community is doing things a little differently. The community ultimately decides on how to handle it. 
• It's important that each model understand each other's requirements and criteria so that families can be recruited and placed accurately. 
• Ultimately, each model is also responsible for filling and maintaining their caseloads. It makes sense to recruit for yourself, but also to keep your eyes open for families for the other program models, and refer to each other, or to the central intake system. 

Call next week will be on July 26 at 11am with the same call in information. Keshia Bruno will be facilitating the call and giving you more information about the required Coordinator Retreat (August) as well as the Kick Off (November).

I will be out for 1 week on vacation - please contact Keshia if you have any questions while I'm out: keshia.bruno@unt.edu. Thanks!

Carla

Attending:

• Lety and two new Home Instructors: Patricia Vasquez and Sabrina Garcia, Corpus
• Adriana, Dallas
• Karen, Amarillo
• Hollis, Longview