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Nevada Early Intervention

Nevada Early Intervention. Determining if the Family Survey Response is Representative. Survey Background. Nevada determined that all children with an IFSP that had received services for six months or longer would receive a survey.

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Nevada Early Intervention

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  1. Nevada Early Intervention Determining if the Family Survey Response is Representative

  2. Survey Background • Nevada determined that all children with an IFSP that had received services for six months or longer would receive a survey. • Contracted with the University of Nevada, Reno, Center for Excellence to assist with developing the survey and to disseminate and report on findings. • A task force developed the survey utilizing the NCSEAM and ECO survey tools and an existing Nevada survey.

  3. Background Continued • Spanish surveys were sent to families indicated through our data system as Spanish speaking.

  4. Survey Rate of Return

  5. Respondents in SFY 07

  6. Race/Ethnicity Breakdown by Regionof Families Responding to the Survey

  7. Race and Ethnicity Survey Results Compared with State Demographer The slight variance of a few percentage points is most likely accounted for by the category of two or more races, which is not a category collected by the State Demographer.

  8. How to Improve Return Rate • Created a workgroup to discuss options and incorporated the following for this year: • Simplified the survey, the questions were too wordy and were repetitive. • Goal to get survey on one page. • Every survey was sent with English on one side and Spanish on the other, so families could use language most comfortable with. • Created a flyer for direct service staff to help them inform families that the survey was coming.

  9. Appealed to direct service providers several times to urge families to complete the survey. • Tracked the response rate midway through and sent reminders to programs where response rate was low to remind families. • Put identifiers on the envelope (program logo) so families would realize it was not “junk mail.” • Had a high percentage of surveys returned for incorrect addresses, sent them back to programs for address correction and resent.

  10. Future Comparison to Ensure Representative Response Rate • Instead of comparing the survey return rate with the statewide population demographics, will compare the return rate with the demographics of the early intervention population receiving the survey. • Considering have an online option for the survey. • Considering having a personal identifier on the survey. • Overall feel that Nevada is getting a representative return rate for the survey across all regions.

  11. Nevada’s Contact: Wendy Whipple, Part C Coordinator • wwhipple@dhhs.nv.gov Survey Results can be viewed at Nevada’s Website: http://health.nv.gov/docs/2007NEISAnnualFamilySurvey.pdf 2008 Survey will be available this Fall

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