State Level Collaboration Sample Clauses

State Level Collaboration. DHFS and DPI agree to collaborate with state level Head Start entities including the WI Head Start Association, the Head Start Collaboration Project, United Migrant Opportunity Services (Migrant and Seasonal Head Start grantee for Wisconsin), Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Disabilities Services Quality Improvement Center (MSHS DSQIC), American Indian Branch Region XI Disabilities Services Quality Improvement Center (DSQIC), and the Great Lakes Quality Improvement Center for Disabilities (QIC-D). Areas for collaboration include: • development of state and local informed referral networks and transition procedures to insure the identification of all children who may be eligible for specialized services; • support for collaboration of services for young children with disabilities and their families through the development of policies, procedures, and funding priorities; • partnerships in the area of personnel development to promote, as appropriate, consolidated and/or consistent preservice and inservice opportunities for staff who work with young children with disabilities and their families; and • sharing of aggregate data about children participating in programs such as age ranges, client characteristics, services, transitions, service locations and services and personnel.