The 2018 U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) Office of Safe and Healthy Students Title I, Part D Coordinators National Conference, Navigating Title I, Part D Administration: Charting Your Course, was held on May 22-24, 2018. The conference brought together state Title I, Part D (Part D) coordinators, experts from the field, and staff from ED and NDTAC. Topics addressed at the conference included improving education for youth in the juvenile justice and foster care systems; understanding and serving crossover youth; the administration of Part D programs (e.g., state plans, capacity-building for subgrantees, assessing and meeting local facilities’ needs, achieving Part D outcomes, and subgrantee monitoring); and the Every Student Succeeds Act.
The Conference Program contains the agenda, handouts, and activities from the conference.
Part D State Coordinator Panel I: Achieving Part D Outcomes
During this session, coordinators shared how their State programs are working to achieve and improve student outcomes. Panelists discussed answers to the following questions:
What is working at the State level to achieve desired student outcomes? What are the biggest State-level challenges to doing so?
What is working at the local level to achieve desired student outcomes? What are the biggest local-level challenges to doing so?
Facilitator:
Earl Myers, OSHS, ED
Panelists:
Murray Meszaros, Part D Coordinator, Utah
Amber Skaggs, Part D Coordinator, Kentucky
Karen Steinhaus, Part D Coordinator, California
Part D State Coordinator Panel II: Building Subgrantees’ Capacity
During this session, coordinators shared efforts to build subgrantees’ capacity to administer Part D. Panelists discussed answers to the following questions:
What capacity-building activities do SEAs undertake to help State and LEA subgrantees optimize their use of Part D funds?
How can ED support these capacity-building activities?
Facilitator:
Hamed Negrón-Perez, FPO, OSHS, ED
Panelists:
Valerie Ashton-Thomas, Part D Coordinator, Maryland
Dawn Carmody, Part D Coordinator, Michigan
Suzanne Peck, Part D Coordinator, Idaho
Part D State Coordinator Panel III: Subgrantee Monitoring: Effective Practices and Challenges
During this session, coordinators discussed their most effective practices for monitoring subgrantees. Panelists responded to the following questions:
What are your SEA’s most effective monitoring practices?
What are your SEA’s biggest monitoring challenges? How do you address them?
Facilitator:
Phyllis Scattergood, FPO, OSHS, ED
Panelists:
Rachel Beech, Part D Coordinator, Kansas
Patricia Frost, Part D Coordinator, Nebraska
LaNetra Guess, Part D Coordinator, Texas
Keynote Presentation: Blueprint for Change: Education Success for Youth in the Juvenile Justice and Foster Care System
In this session, representatives from the Juvenile Law Center and the American Bar Association provided an overview of the Blueprints for Change (Education Success for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System and Education Success for Youth in the Juvenile Justice System and Education Success for Children in Foster Care). These tools are designed to help various stakeholders—including youth, educators, juvenile justice and education system administrators, and State and local agencies—improve education for youth involved in the child-serving system. The session featured goals and benchmarks that can be applied to states’ Part D programs, as well as examples of State and local levels of practice.
Moderator:
Simon Gonsoulin, Project Director, NDTAC
Presenters:
Katherine Burdick, Staff Attorney, Juvenile Law Center
Nadia Mozaffar, Staff Attorney, Juvenile Law Center
Kathleen McNaught, Assistant Staff Director of Child Welfare, American Bar Association Center on Children and the Law
Marcus Jarvis, Juveniles for Justice, Juvenile Law Center
Bruce Morgan, Juveniles for Justice, Juvenile Law Center
During this session, OSHS staff shared their thoughts about federal monitoring for Part D and elicit from coordinators how OSHS’s monitoring can be most helpful.
Facilitator:
Hamed Negrón-Perez, FPO, OSHS, ED
Part D State Coordinator Panel IV: State Plans
This facilitated discussion shared how SEAs will (1) implement the Part D goals and objectives from their State plans, including those related to transition; (2) use and evaluate their State plans to guide the administration of Part D programs; and (3) support subgrantees’ and facilities’ adoption and use of State plans.
Facilitator:
Nicole White, FPO, OSHS, ED
Panelists:
Patricia Frost, Part D Coordinator, Nebraska
Kyle Peaden, Part D Coordinator, Wisconsin
Colin Usher, Part D Coordinator, Nevada
Plenary: Understanding and Serving the Needs of Crossover Youth
During this session, participants explored needs and strategies related to improving the education of youth involved in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems. Speaker defined “crossover youth,” described needs and challenges related to serving this population of students (e.g., providing effective transition services, collecting data, conducting program evaluation), shared opportunities and strategies for collaboration, and shared practical examples for coordinators.
Presenter:
Macon Stewart, Senior Program Manager, Center for Juvenile Justice Reform, Georgetown University
