March 22 Conference Call - HIPPY Sites

Attending:

Aliceson Pinkerton – Wellness Points, Longview, Gregg County

Kathy Siepak – UTPB,  Odessa

Kit Prince – Richardson ISD

Adriana Trevino – Dallas

Deana – Amarillo

Leti Aleman – Corpus Christi

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      Aliceson

•        Heard today – tentative award is out – it’s on the HHSC website – lists each vendor
• ·         Have posted the positions – have not moved forward, need to have funding in place
• ·         Transition with new CEO of the agency, social service office is also moving, therefore the system in flux

Kathy Siepak – UTPB,  Odessa

• ·         Have applied to HUSA for the contract
• ·         Intake, enrollment materials – on the timeline – link on back office -  http://www.unt.edu/hippy/backoffice/forms.html
• ·         Public awareness packet  - Carla will put up on website

Kit Prince – Richardson

• ·         Do we have to track the “old” families as well as “new” families?  No, only the new

Adriana – Dallas

Deana – Amarillo

Leti – Corpus Christi

• ·         Still waiting

Contracting

• ·         Signed by implementation agency
• ·         Needs to be in place  to purchase curriculum
• ·         Fees need to be paid to purchase curriculum? Yes, the fees must be paid. You will be invoiced along with the contract. These will be going out in the next few days!

Review home visitors – what we’re looking for, who is typical

• ·         Parents in the community – preferably from among the parents you are recruiting for the program
• ·         Communication skills, leadership potential, actively engaged with their own children

Preservice Training

• ·         Dates for preservice – date has not been set, probably will be in August in Little Rock

HIPPY Conference Call 2/9/12

Attendees:

Dallas, Thalia Brinkman Dallas UNITED WAY

Working with DISD/ and they will be hiring additional home instructors
Adriana Trevino – Dallas ISD

Longview - Aliceson Pinkerton

Will provide HIPPY as soon as they hear back about funding and implementation.  They are ready to hire and get started

Odessa - Kathy Seipak and Brenda Waters: submitted application to Carla and has been approved, waiting for funding to be provided and is ready to move forward

Potter County / Amarillo Maria Garcia

Possible private providers that have not confirmed, but does look promising and can move fwd with application. Population is identified and home visitors identified.

RGV/McAllen - Monica and Michelle

Easter Seals/ subcontracting HIPPY… have submitted paperwork and waiting to hear back on funding. Have home visitors.

Nueces County / Corpus Christi - Karen

UNITED WAY: Has submitted paperwork and waiting to hear back on funding. Have started identifying target population.

The theme of the call is each are waiting on the funding in order to move forward. They have home instructors identified and ready to hire.

Q/A

Q:  Coordinator retreat/Pre-service two types of training that are offered. The HIPPY USA conference and the Kick Off are two other trainings provided. What are all these trainings? When and where are the trainings? How long are the trainings? Who should attend?

·         A: Preservice is a one-time training for new coordinators and assistant coordinators (full week) and the programmatic supervisor (direct supervisor of the coordinator) attends the first two days of the weeklong training. If the fiscal agent “supervisor” wishes to attend, it would be greatly beneficial, but it is not required.

·         Coordinator Retreat is an annual training, provided by Texas HIPPY, for 2 days, held in the Dallas area. It is for program coordinators/assistant coordinators.

·         Kick Off is an annual training, provided by Texas HIPPY, for 2.5 days, held at a retreat setting 1 hour from Dallas, which is for home visitors, coordinators and assistant coordinators.

·         HIPPY USA National Conference is a biannual national conference, for Coordinators and Assistant Coordinators held in even numbered years, provided by HIPPY USA. The National Conference will be held in April in Dallas. It is recommended that new sites not attend at this time, as staff will be very busy with start up.

·         The next preservice will be in Little Rock AK –on March 18-23, please contact Angela Jones, ajones@hippyusa.org for registration and information.

·         In order to accommodate new coordinators who are not hired in time for the March 18 Preservice, a second preservice may be held in the Dallas area. New coordinators should attend the next available preservice.   

Q: HHS funding? What is the date of releasing of funds?

·         A: We do not know the answer to this – please direct questions to HHSC.

HIPPY office will be making phone calls for site visits for compliance/start up training.

Call ended at 11:34 am