California Family Resource Centers | Michael D. Eisner College of Education | Department of Special Education | Deaf Studies Department | National Center on Deafness
Irma Sanchez, Cynthia Lemus-Ramos, and Sherry Freitas, and Janell Graves at Family Focus Resource Center
or just email us at parentlinks@csun.edu | Phone: 818-677-6854 | Fax: 818-677-5574
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Parent Links Brochure ENGLISH (pdf) | Parent Links Brochure SPANISH (pdf)
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Universal Newborn Hearing Screenings
Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Program
Working in association with the Southern California Hearing Coordination Center (SCHCC) and South-Eastern California Hearing Coordination Center (SECHCC) covering the following counties: San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Kern, Ventura, Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Orange, Riverside, San Diego, Imperial
The mission of the Parentlinks (Hope, Dream, Achieve) program is to empower parents of Deaf and Hard of Hearing infants and toddlers by providing them with comprehensive information and awareness through mentoring, networking, and resources, and by honoring the family’s relationship with their child and their choices in language and communication opportunities.
The purpose of Parentlinks (Hope, Dream, Achieve) is to provide emotional and social support to parents who have infants and toddlers who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing, and to provide unbiased and comprehensive understanding of communication options and the services that can be provided for their child and their family.
The Parentlinks (Hope, Dream, Achieve) program is based on the following beliefs:
The Parentlinks (Hope, Dream, Achieve) program values unbiased acceptance of what families choose for services and communication options.
Using funding from a federal Maternal and Child Health Bureau Newborn Hearing Screening and Intervention grant, the California Department of Education will provide funding to three existing Parent Training and Information Centers or Family Resource Centers to fund a parent mentor to provide the following support to parents of infants and toddlers identified through the California Newborn Hearing Screening Program (NHSP). Referral to Family Resource Centers is a requirement of the California Early Intervention Act:
Contact families identified by the NHSP (one time) that fail to show for outpatient hearing screen appointments, to do the following:
Contact families identified by the NHSP (one time) when an infant is referred for diagnostic hearing evaluation, to do the following
Contact families of infants identified with hearing loss through the NHSP, and provide six to ten hours of services, which will include the following:
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