Early Intervention Consulting

PCG Human Services, a unit of Public Consulting Group (PCG), can support your efforts to serve children and families while meeting federal requirements in a way that

• reduces dependency on state revenue over time
• generates revenue
• improves program accountability
• supports program design

In a struggling economy, early intervention (EI) programs face many challenges: APR compliance, stakeholder involvement, huge fiscal shortfalls, and unprecedented fiscal accountability.  Under these conditions, how can your state maintain essential EI services and ensure the long term sustainability of its EI program?

EI experts in Public Consulting Group’s (PCG’s) PCG Human Services unit can help insulate your agency from external pressures by helping you to develop and implement a strategic and efficient system for service delivery, data collection, service payment processing, and reporting. 

Based on true experience in the field, we use a best practices approach to solving clients EI programmatic challenges. Services may include

• Review of internal state payment activities to pinpoint opportunities for improvement
• Financial planning enhancements
• Redesign of accountability systems
• Fiscal and programmatic consulting to prepare you for fiscal monitoring and audits
• Analysis and revisions of state policies, procedures, and operations.

PCG staff members have significant experience with EI program management. Our EI consulting team leader is a former state director of IDEA early childhood services with a proven track record of success in eliminating fiscal overruns, instituting performance-based budgeting, implementing Payer of Last Resort provisions, and ensuring that all payment sources are fully accessed.

Our team also has expertise in implementing evidence-based interventions in the area of family/assessment and engagement and social emotional development. PCG has a collaborative relationship with the federal Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) and the federal Regional Resource Center Program (RRCP).

Among our recent projects,

• PCG conducted analysis on the early intervention service delivery structure and reimbursements rates for the states of Texas and New York.
• PCG helped the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to establish and operate a Medicaid claiming operation for early intervention services.
• PCG implemented an electronic individualized family service plan (IFSP) case management system for the state of New Hampshire, to accompany the state’s implementation of PCG’s EasyIEP™ special education data management solution.

Our EI consulting services offer a significant long term return on investment. Benefits include

• Generation of new revenue
• Improved accountability
• Improved compliance
• Consistent operations

 

 

Contact PCG Human Services today to learn more about how our EI consulting team can support your state’s IDEA Part C program and comprehensive early childhood efforts.