{"id":1460,"date":"2013-11-15T10:47:06","date_gmt":"2013-11-15T15:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/?p=1460"},"modified":"2020-06-25T01:54:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T01:54:26","slug":"service-coordination-is-both-wonderful-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/2013\/11\/15\/service-coordination-is-both-wonderful-challenging\/","title":{"rendered":"Service Coordination is Both Wonderful &#038; Challenging!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day in the life of a service coordinator: Jenni\u00a0arrives at work early to prepare for an initial assessment, making sure the paperwork is ready in case an IFSP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/8269397025_f85ef815e0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1466 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/8269397025_f85ef815e0-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Three Women Meeting\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/8269397025_f85ef815e0-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.veipd.org\/earlyintervention\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/8269397025_f85ef815e0.jpg 448w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>is developed too. After the 2-hour assessment and IFSP meeting, she drives 40 minutes to her next visit with a family and their OT. The visits runs long as the family requests assistance with groceries to get them through\u00a0the end of the month. Since they have no family nearby, Jenni offers to search for some resources and call the mother later. After a quick lunch in the car, Jenni heads back to the office where she finds 3 voicemail messages from a family and two service providers requesting IFSP meetings to review outcomes. She\u00a0writes contact notes\u00a0for the morning&#8217;s activities, returns the calls, makes an additional call to a family for her monthly contact, and does some research on local food pantries. She also sends the IFSP developed\u00a0that morning to the physician and service provider agency so that the child&#8217;s speech therapy will start soon. In the midst of her busy day, she also receives two new referrals and is able to reach one of them to schedule an intake visit for next week. Before she leaves for the day, she calls the family she saw that morning with a list of phone numbers for local food\u00a0pantries and promises to touch base with the family again tomorrow to see if they are able to find the help they need.<\/p>\n<p>Whew! What a day, huh?<\/p>\n<h2>Service Coordination is Multi-Faceted<\/h2>\n<p>While not every day is like this, service coordinators are generally\u00a0busy people. They have many roles they play including leader of the IFSP team. In some programs, they work in dual roles as both service providers\u00a0(like educators or therapists)\u00a0and service coordinators.\u00a0They work with many different kinds of\u00a0families, with service providers from different backgrounds, and within systems that have varying requirements for documentation, billing, team functioning,\u00a0etc. They must be experts on the\u00a0EI process and how to adapt it for each family. They must know community resources and how to help families access them. They need to plan their time efficiently for office time, travel, and visits with children and families. While juggling all of these realities, they must also be able to build strong, sensitive relationships with families and providers so that IFSPs are implemented in ways that meet the changing needs of children and families.\u00a0It&#8217;s a\u00a0multi-faceted job that requires\u00a0a great deal of knowledge and skill!<\/p>\n<h2>It&#8217;s BOTH Wonderful\u00a0&amp; Challenging<\/h2>\n<p>When I think about being a service coordinator, I remember finding the job to be both\u00a0wonderful and challenging, sometimes in the same day!\u00a0 On the\u00a0wonderrful side of things, here&#8217;s what I loved:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Building relationships with families that helped them grow<\/strong> &#8211; Service coordinators may not seem like teachers but they are. They help families learn skills\u00a0like advocacy and how to find resources\u00a0that families can use long after they leave the EI program.<\/p>\n<p><strong>No two days were ever the same<\/strong> &#8211; Everyday is different with new opportunities to see a child master a new milestone, help a parent achieve a goal, or help a team solve a problem.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Working with a team that focused on the child&#8217;s &amp; family&#8217;s success<\/strong> &#8211; There was nothing better than observing and celebrating a child&#8217;s progress as a team (which of course included the family).\u00a0Each of us\u00a0played a part in something that could have a long-term\u00a0impact on the child&#8217;s life and that was powerful.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there were challenges too. Sometimes the number of families I supported overwhelmed me or the resources I wished I had in my community just weren&#8217;t there. On other days, managing the paperwork or traveling a long distance to see a family who was not home\u00a0were not my favorite parts of the job. Every job has it&#8217;s challenges, though. When the challenges got to me, I&#8217;d try to focus on the many positives, like the card I&#8217;d received from a family thanking me for my\u00a0time with them\u00a0or the picture another family sent me of their son on his first day of preschool. I knew I&#8217;d made a difference.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you like most about being a service coordinator? What do you find most challenging and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information about service coordination, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eipd.vcu.edu\/sub_service_coord.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Service Coordination<\/a> page on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eipd.vcu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">VA Early Intervention Professional Development Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day in the life of a service coordinator: Jenni\u00a0arrives at work early to prepare for an initial assessment, making sure the paperwork is ready in case an IFSP is developed too. After the 2-hour assessment and IFSP meeting, she drives 40 minutes to her next visit with a family and their OT. 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