CICC

The County Interagency Coordinating Council (CICC) is the advisory body to the local ESIT contracted early intervention lead agency. The CICC focuses on making services easier for families to access locally and on building community capacity for early intervention services.

Washington’s State Interagency Coordinating Council (SICC) oversees local CICCs. Through the SICC, the Washington state ESIT program, which is administered by the Washington State Department of Children, Youth and Families (DCYF), ensures that early intervention services lead agencies are guided by operational ICCs.

Members

CICCs are made up of community members, family members, service providers, and local agencies and include the following:

• Parents and family members of children ages birth through 12 years old with disabilities or developmental delays
• Local health departments or districts
• Tribal governments (where applicable)
• Washington State Migrant Council (where applicable)
• Other minority community representatives
• School districts and educational service districts
• Higher education and personnel preparation
• Early intervention service providers
• Military (where applicable)
• Medical providers
• County human services
• Local DSHS representation from Division of Developmental Disabilities (DDD, Community Services Office (CS) and Children’s Administration (CA)
• County or regional mental health agency
• Child care providers
• Other public and private agencies that provide services to infants and toddlers (such as child care providers, parks and recreation, Medicaid transportation rockers)

Some of the issues addressed at the local level by the CICC include:

• Improving the local early intervention system by identifying public and private funding sources across all relevant community partners
• Assisting in implementing local payer of last resort policies and procedures
• Helping identify local gaps in services and community needs and developing strategies to improve or resolve them
• Collaborating and coordinating with other local planning groups to improve services for children and families
• Organizing local public awareness outreach efforts
• Organizing and sponsoring local early intervention training for families, providers and community members invested in early intervention and early childhood issues

Committee members are eligible for mileage and child care reimbursement to help support participation. Mileage is reimbursed at current state travel reimbursement rates and in accordance with the State of Washington Office of Financial Management Travel Regulations.

For more information about the CICC, please contact Sarah Thayer at 509.613.9111 or email sthayer@srhd.org.

CICC meetings occur quarterly and in person at 1101 W. College Ave, Spokane WA unless otherwise indicated.

• Sept. 25, 2024, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. (noon)
• Dec. 4, 2024, 12 noon -2 p.m., Microsoft Teams
• March 19, 2025, 12 – 2 p.m.
• June 18, 2025, 12 – 2 p.m.