After completing Lesson 4, you will be able to:
This lesson examines the relationship between your assessments, child progress reporting, and funding for KEIS. Your 5AAs serve many purposes, some of which you may not be aware of. As we’ve discussed, they measure child progress, guide your work with children and families, and inform state and federal funding for KEIS
After completing Lesson 3, you will be able to:
After completing Lesson 2, you will be able to:
The second term to clarify for this course is federal child outcomes, as this term has many meanings in different contexts.
The goal of this course is to demonstrate the importance of the Kentucky Early Childhood Standards (abbreviated in this course as KY Standards) and the measurement of child progress for your work in early intervention. We will interact through activities, notes you make in your Handout, Think Spots, Knowledge Checks, quizzes, and illustrations with a videotaped child. Click the button below to print or download the course Handout now, as you will use it throughout the course.
Purpose of Lesson 1
After completing Lesson 1, you will be able to:
You may be asking: Where are the KY Standards found? What are the KY Standards? How are they structured? Why do they matter to me? Great questions!
Let’s dig in!
Why this course?
We will review the importance of KY’s Early Childhood Standards (abbreviated from now on as KY Standards) for children in Kentucky Early Intervention Services (KEIS), their relationship to your accurate assessments, and their relationship to KY’s reporting of child progress for state and federal reporting. We’ll examine how your role as a provider is key to each of these steps.
This course includes 4 lessons with individual topics within each lesson:
This course is designed to take an hour and a half to complete and is fully online. The course includes content, Think Spots for reflection, Knowledge Checks to monitor your understanding, lesson quizzes, and a final knowledge check that must be successfully completed to earn credit for the course. You will take a non-graded pre-assessment to assess your understanding of key content before beginning the course. Quizzes must be passed with 80% mastery and may be repeated as needed.
Due to the recent update of the KY Standards (June 2022), there are no other courses at the present time. At this time, the Governor’s Office of Early Childhood is working on an introductory course on the standards. You can view the current standards at https://kyecac.ky.gov/professionals/Early-Childhood-Standards/Getting-Started/Pages/Start-Here.aspx
You will learn about the role of KY’s Early Childhood Standards for children aged birth to three years, in relation to your assessments, measurement of child progress, and federal funding for Kentucky Early Intervention Services (KEIS).
This course is designed for all Kentucky Early Intervention Services (KEIS) providers, from all disciplines.
Click the button below to print or download the course Handout now as you will use it throughout the course.
Course Creator
Caroline Gooden is a Project Director in Early Childhood at the Human Development Institute at the University of KY. She has worked in the field of early intervention as a service provider and as a researcher of child progress in First Steps.
Have you ever been to a training where the participants look like this?
In this short training, you will learn what engagement is and why it is important in adult learning, along with some low-prep and high-prep engagement strategies. The training is broken down into several short microlearning modules. As you are progressing, you will have some choices about how you want to learn and what strategies you would like to try. Our hope is that you will leave energized with some new ideas that you can customize to meet your needs.
Training Outcome:
Workplace Outcome: Participants will plan engagement activities during training to support new skills and transfer of learning and will incorporate at least one new engagement activity into a future training.
Congratulations! You have completed DAIL 111: KYGFIS! Please note that your supervisor may have follow-up questions or need more information. Please respond to any requests promptly.
Once you click “mark complete,” a certificate of completion will be available to you. You may print or download your certificate to verify the completion of DAIL 111: KYGFIS. This certificate will also be available at the beginning of the course anytime you log on.
This course is part of a series of trainings required for all new employees. All new hires are required to satisfactorily complete trainings before being assigned cases.
All courses must be completed in order and in a timely manner.
This includes DAIL:
Click the “Mark Complete” button below to access your certificate of completion.
Individuals under guardianship will have both assets (property owned), and liabilities (financial obligations).
For technical issues with KYGFIS, contact Jessica Wayne at jessica.wayne@ky.gov.
There are numerous reports that can be pulled from KYGFIS. Reports can be pulled based on your specific caseload, for regional needs, or for statewide needs. Which report you need to pull will vary based on your user role and your need. Your supervisor will review with you in more detail what reports to pull and when.
For technical issues with KYGFIS, contact Jessica Wayne at jessica.wayne@ky.gov.
Messages are a function to send messages internally between DAIL staff. Utilizing your Messages Guide, let’s practice in the Sandbox.
For technical issues with KYGFIS, contact Jessica Wayne at jessica.wayne@ky.gov.
1.) Open and log into the Sandbox using the button below. Check the URL to ensure that you are accessing the Sandbox.
2.) On the left hand side, above the navigation pane there will be an envelope. If the envelope is white and displays a number, this will indicate that there are unread messages.
4.) Click on the icon to display unread messages.
5.) Messages can be searched and filtered as needed.
6.) Some messages, when opened, will take the user directly to another page.
7.) Messages can be marked as “read” by clicking the check box next to the message and then the button “Mark as Read”. Or you can select all messages by clicking “Mark All as Read”. This will move the messages from the unread to read table.
8.) Messages are automatically created when specific events happen in the system. These can include:
Transactions are accounting functions that occur on behalf of an individual under guardianship. Information about an individuals income and expenses are also shown on the Transactions screen.
For technical issues with KYGFIS, contact Jessica Wayne at jessica.wayne@ky.gov.
Tasks are a way to assign reminders or to do’s. Tasks can be assigned by the user or a supervisor to complete.
For technical issues with KYGFIS, contact Jessica Wayne at jessica.wayne@ky.gov.
New individuals under guardianship and changes to current individuals will need to be completed in KYGFIS periodically. This section will review 6 steps to inserting and updating information.
Before inserting any new individual into the system make sure to do a search each time to ensure that there is no accidental duplication.
For technical issues with KYGFIS, contact Jessica Wayne at jessica.wayne@ky.gov.
Events are any case notes or significant incidents associated with an individual under guardianship and can include visits, phone calls, or inventories. Files can also be attached to any event.
Once an event is saved, it can be modified by the user for 24 hours
For technical issues with KYGFIS, contact Jessica Wayne at jessica.wayne@ky.gov.
Contacts for individuals under guardianship will need to be inserting into KYGFIS. Let’s practice in the Sandbox.
For technical issues with KYGFIS, contact Jessica Wayne at jessica.wayne@ky.gov.
1.) Open and log into the Sandbox using the button below. Check the URL to ensure that you are accessing the Sandbox.
2.) Search for the individual under guardianship by Last Name, First Name (Doe, Jane). Use a name provided to you by your supervisor.
3.) In the left hand navigation panel choose the link “Contacts”.
4.) Click the “Insert button”.
5.) Complete the fields with all information known about the contact that you are entering.
6.) Click “Save”.
7.) Repeat the steps to insert multiple contacts
Congratulations! You have completed DAIL 107: Effective Case Work Documentation! Please note that your supervisor may have follow-up questions or need more information. Please respond to any requests promptly.
Once you click “mark complete,” a certificate of completion will be available to you. You may print or download your certificate to verify the completion of this course. This certificate will also be available at the beginning of this course anytime you log on.
This course is part of a series of trainings required for all new employees. All new hires are required to satisfactorily complete trainings before being assigned cases.
All courses must be completed in order and in a timely manner.
This includes DAIL:
Click the “Mark Complete” button below to access your certificate of completion.
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Welcome to the Kentucky Guardianship Fiduciary (KYGFIS) training. In this training, we will review some of the common functions of using KYGFIS to record information, update individuals’ information, and run reports.
This training course is designed to provide an overview of the basics of how to use KYGFIS.
| Learning Goal #1 Understand the functions of KYGFIS that will be used by DAIL Guardianship staff. |
This course is part of a series of trainings required for all new employees. All new hires are required to satisfactorily complete trainings before being assigned cases.
All courses must be completed in order and in a timely manner.
