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DocuSign Envelope ID:CAABEAFA-9919-4207-B5CD-58E618EA747E <br /> For Deliverable 3, NRI will initially consult with both the Department of Public Instruction <br /> Office of Special Education and with the Chapel Hill Carrboro City Schools and Orange County <br /> Schools to identify the current tools, process and expectations used for behavioral assessments. <br /> Consultation with the School Systems will begin with a face-to-face meeting to review the <br /> background, timeline, and goals of the project. NRI will request data that these agencies have <br /> gathered over time to identify student needs and to determine the parameters of the <br /> Behavioral Health Systems of Care (SOC) assessments. Working within the federally established <br /> SOC framework, NRI will use this information to conduct a Behavioral Health SOC assessment <br /> that will identify areas that can be improved upon. We will request the active assistance of <br /> school personnel as we develop and implement the assessment process. <br /> A dynamic and effective System of Care has the following expected outcomes: <br /> improvement of results for children with special needs and their families; <br /> promotion of efficiency, effectiveness, accountability for results; <br /> • provision of service coordination and case management; <br /> • implementation of interagency financing strategies, <br /> • provision of interagency personnel training and staff development. <br /> These outcomes require baseline knowledge of the capacities and challenges in a child or <br /> adolescent's life, along with knowledge about the systems (integrated or otherwise) that serve <br /> those children. It is important to understand how and where these systems support each young <br /> person's strengths and challenges. Noting this, NRI believes that the most effective tool to <br /> measure these outcomes is the Integrated Care Quality Systems Review (QSR) (See attached <br /> sample from the QSR tool used in New Mexico). The QSR is based on a body of work conducted <br /> by Ray Foster, PhD, Ivor Groves, PhD, Paul Vincent, MSW, George Taylor, MA, and Kate <br /> Gibbons, MSW, LICSW. NRI has received approval from the Director of the Child Welfare Group <br /> (copyright holder) to use the QSR Tool for Orange County, NC. The Integrated Care QSR <br /> Protocol would be used to determine specific areas of improvement for Chapel Hill Carrboro <br /> City Schools and Orange County Schools. <br /> The QSR provides ground-level, real-time, rapid assessment and feedback used by local and <br /> state agencies to strengthen frontline case practice, improve training and supervision <br /> capacities, and adapt practices to complex, ever-changing conditions. The QSR provides an in- <br /> depth case review and practice appraisal process to examine how well persons are benefiting <br /> from the services received and whether these services have been coordinated with one another <br /> in an effective manner through the use of in-depth case reviews and practice appraisal <br /> processes. Each individual served is viewed as a unique test of the local service system or <br /> provider agency. Small spot-checking samples drawn from the local service sites are also <br /> reviewed to determine the person's status, recent progress and related system practice and <br /> Page 13 <br /> NRI • 3141 Fairview Park Drive • Suite 650• Falls Church, VA• 22042 • 703-738-8160 •www.nri-inc.org <br />