Event ID: 2733507 Event Started: 9/30/2015 7:00:00 PM ---------- Please stand by for real-time captions. >> Are we all unmute -- on mute still? >> Hello. >> Everybody else is unmute -- on mute. >> We do have a few people calling in on phone. We are giving them a few minutes. >> At this point I know Emma Nelson is coming in -- calling in and Susan [Indiscernible]. >> Because we have so many people that called in by telephone and not viewing the screen, I like to start off with what to it that -- expect during our our time together. There is a PowerPoint time -- [Indiscernible] that has some of the highlights that I have for today. If you are viewing the PowerPoint, great. >> For those of you who have called in, I know that you will have the substantive PowerPoint after the meeting. I am hoping that just by the things that I am sharing with you that you will be able to follow along the conversation. >> What I will be doing also shortly into this time together is causing -- pausing to have an opportunity for anyone who is in the room or who has called in to make comments about some of the things that I am highlighting, ask questions, what we are hoping is for those of you in the room to please use the chat pod area so as we talk about a particular topic if you will put your comments in there, put your questions in their and we will stop, as [Indiscernible] the topic. I asked Gail if she would read out the things in the chat pod area. We will do what we can to answer questions. We are going to acknowledge the questions that we have, if we don't have answers today we will work on those in get them back out. Then I will pause and ask people on the phone if they would unmute themselves at that point and make their comments or ask questions. That is how we will try to keep the conversation rolling during this time together. >> I would like to get started in this time we have together. And make a few comments and talk about some of the highlights that I am excited to go over with you today to start the conversation. >> Several years ago the [Indiscernible] network I am referring to the national Center and the state projects. Several years ago our network was charged with finding national solutions to national problems. And we were to identify efforts that would improve the lives of children and those children in every state of the nation. The results have been a national initiative that we focused on. We focused on that during the grant cycle, we focused at the summit and they are listed here in front of you, early identification referral, literacy, transition, intervenors and qualified personnel, family engagement, and child count. >> I just want to make it clear that we here at NCDB are truly here to assist state projects. And three ways that I can think of that are hopefully distinct and that we make more more obvious is we are here to assist they projects. First of all I am leaving out a directive from [Indiscernible] network. That can be done through our shared development of tools of communication platform such as this one and many others for sharing the implementation of activities. >> As well as, secondly, discussing what is going on, what is working, what is not working, what could be next. >> And then, three, we are very committed to making it clear to [Indiscernible] we are into a -- indeed living out this commitment to the network. I hope that we make it very clear that we are making a difference for the children who are deaf blind and their family and service providers. >> These initiatives to me represent the common content that we have that helps our technical assistance network [Indiscernible] these children and the families and achieve the outcomes that we are seeking. That they learn and they participate in meaningful life as they move into adulthood. >> How we tested the children and their families and the service survivors -- providers are those common technical assistance practices. Not only did we have sessions related to the initiative but we also have sessions that address these common practice topics such as building our community and engaging as a network, then the process of implementing TA and then project and data management which is a common thread, we have struggles and successes that we like to share. And then a session on future directions to think about perhaps what is next. >> Even with those two days there was not time at Summit for all of us to focus our conversations on each one of these initiatives and common practices. It is my hope that collectively we can address the difficulties, expand on our successes and use these effective common practices and even make this necessary modifications that need to be made for successful implementation. >> We are about to move into year three of our grants, I believe this is the perfect time to invite additional and expand in discussions on this collective work. >> During this particular webinar I am once again going to encourage all the states to engage in the tools and the processes that have been developed in each of these national initiatives. As a start, I wrote a form to [Indiscernible] it went back to the 2015 Summit materials that were on the NCDB website. It is there that you can still find each of the national initiatives. And common practices of TA. Specifically you can see the notes, you can see the action plan that indicate together we can do a better job that make a difference for every child in every state. >> Thirdly, there were presummit materials that were intended to sum up the collective work that was done prior to Summit. Those materials have been moved to each initiative or TA topic homepage. >> Viewing materials from each of the sessions can be helpful to you whether you participated in the session or not. The way I see it is these materials which would include activities, tools and processes will help you within your state effort just by viewing them. >> But you will also find ways to link to other states for implementation partnerships because I know each state is limited in their own resources and it may be difficult to implement things on your own. I found it difficult in Mississippi while I was there without partnerships. >> Thirdly, I hope you notice when you go take a look at the action plans that you will notice there are opportunities to share successes from your own state and the partnerships you have made. Therefore contribute to their success, the network as you share. >> Foreign posts, from initiatives and technical assistance practices, the lease from those you will be seeing those and they will be occurring monthly. There will be summaries as another way to get information. There will be summaries on what has been developed, what is developing now. And various ways that state projects might choose to engage in implementation together. The one on the screen in front of you is a recent forum [Indiscernible]. And forums are meant to start conversation. I hope that conversation will be encouraged and I expect that in the conversation there will be discussion of [Indiscernible]. Potential modifications in that initiative area. Strength of success. I really encourage you to check in with the initiative groups on the website and see these evolving conversations. >> Conversations and sharing and finding information for us involved quite a bit of technology and it is still a bit of a challenge for our network. In fact I remember when we were first encouraged to use foreign technology in our TA delivery in order to be more efficient and effect if, at the time I am talking about doing a lot of work in the mentoring work, for me that is where it first started in a big way. The challenge was for me to develop a whole new set of skills in our technical assistance work. Even as our skills increase, we will continue to face challenges because technology is ever-changing and we will continue to face the need for new skills, additional skills. >> Even as our skills increase, the challenge that I see that we are facing right now is finding the resources to cover the cost to make sure that the technology that we use also presents our information so that it is accessible to all. >> Most of you [Indiscernible] technology challenge, particularly the skill challenge because you have come to the website to search for materials and find the opportunities to engage with others. We all sincerely thank you for coming to our NCDB website and creating a profile and looking around. We appreciate you to the invitation seriously and we know many of you have joined initiatives to stay current in that collaborative work and collectively build solutions. We understand that messages and information comes to you in multiple ways. I have listed some here on the screen, some are new and some are old, we are sending out emails, list serves, notifications from the website, the NCDB news . I just hope that in all these ways messages are coming to you that you know NCDB is committed to keeping everyone informed and connected to these growing tools and expanded activities from the initiative groups and the TA practice groups. >> Our commitment to you is to make the content and the group spaces on the website current and informative. We are hard at work to have a clear path for the tools and activities that will help you in your work. What we're trying to do specifically is build narrative the home page of each initiative so that you can see right away and what the purposes are you will be able to follow information as it is delivered to you via form post and many other ways. >> I was very tempted when preparing for today's webinar [Indiscernible] I thought it be more helpful in this brief time together to provide highlights from each of these initiatives and TA practice areas. My hope is to entice you to check the tools and the activities, both the current ones and upcoming ones, that you might not have considered. >> As I give highlights and introduce you to certain aspects of the work within the initiatives and the TA practice areas, please be thinking of the questions that you see in front of me. >> Robin, are you able to hear me? >> I am. >> I hope everyone is still able to hear me. I am getting a message that my connection has been lost. >> [Indiscernible]. >> I see a screen and I am coming back. >> While Linda is getting her camera up and going I'm going to do a test. Can you tell me if the slides are moving forward at this moment? >> I am moving them myself lowered and backwards from the questions. I see I'm getting a few responses. Linda's screen froze, I was moving the slide lowered on my screen I just wasn't sure if you folks are seeing it on your screen. >> Linda, have we lost your phone connection? >> Sounds like it. If we can hold for a moment on these technical difficulties we will get right back to you. >> Can anyone hear me at this point? If you can type it in the chat pod. >> I can hear you, but we all lost connection. Not just Linda, but Mark and I. >> I am still on. I'm going to transfer my headset to Linda from my computer. Linda, here you go. >> I think this is an obvious example of the technology that we are still learning, we think we have it right and then things happen. >> I would like to move along to some of the content. >> As we talk about some of the highlights from the initiative and from some of the TA practice areas that we focus on in the summit, I do want you thinking about these questions that you see in front of you. Because we are going to stop after each of the initiatives and after each of the topic areas and see if the comments to be made, in particular if there is a tool or activity that you have found extremely helpful lately if you can put that into the chat pod that would be great. Gail will summarize that after each topic. So if people on the phone could take advantage of the comments. Also been asked questions. The questions I am asking today are pretty broad [Indiscernible] initiative and I want to hear particular barriers that exist in the use of the tools or the implementation activities. And then some solutions that some of you have already come up with to make modifications even with these scenarios in place. >> I'm going to go through these one at a time and we will stop because I want to hear from you. >> The first initiative that you see in front of you is some highlights of the early identification and referral. >> I hope everyone can hear me a little bit better. >> Some of the things that are happening right now are that there are additional resources being layered into the toolkit per the system that you need to work with when you are trying to find children and get them referred. Those resources in the toolkit will get according to the system whether you are approaching part c or [Indiscernible] or community programs. >> Also what is happening right now in this initiative work are the considerations of the needs for provider packets for each of the systems. When you want to communicate to them more clearly. The work is working on the development of those provider packets. What also came out of some a conversation was the need to have a letter that had some weight to it that as systems are spoken to they know it is a critical need at the national level as well as state level. We are seeking that letter now in partnership with [Indiscernible]. >> There are some structured monthly webinars that are going to start October 7, Robin put a invitation at the bottom of the screen to that one. Those will start off with the beginning stuff when you're trying to use that toolkit and doing a self-assessment. There will be an overview of that. Following that would be another webinar October 28 that will talk about the action planning needed depending on which ever system you are going to select to approach first. >> The following webinars that come our November 18, you don't have to remember these there will be availability to this PowerPoint afterwards and specific details will be there as well., 18 November is approaching part C, generate 20 the medical community and February 10 Eddy and [Indiscernible] we have webinars on the schedule to states who have learned how to best approach those systems and make their story known and assist other states to do similar work. What we also have lying ahead are the TA , application for TA support which will be coming to you. >> I am going to stop for a second. In relationship to the early identification and referral initiative, are there any comments, questions? First we will check Gail with the chat pod and then listen to people who may be connected by phone only. >> Linda, so far there is nothing in chat. >> If you are on the phone and you would like to make a comment, please unmute yourself and speak up. >> We are going to make up for lost time and move right along to a quick highlight from the literacy initiative just to give you a quick update on this one. Also with literacy we are doing some reworking of the literacy website. There are some missing links and new material that will be plugged in. We are also looking at repurpose thing cell documents that is research-based information giving it a DB focus. >> I'm going to stop and say when I use the word we it is NCDB as well as wonderful technical assistant work groups, the TWIGS as well as other work groups in each one of these initiative areas. I wanted to make that clear. >> The other media work that will be happening from the literacy work group activity is to strategically do some marketing of the material that is in the literacy website which includes the skills check with, and marketing it to a broader audience is the intent so people can find these materials and use them. >> The other work happening at the literacy website is linking them to Perkins resources and talking about the differences between what can be found on the literacy website, what can be found in the literacy material at Perkins and what they have on their site. We know Perkins has a vast array of activities and examples that should be looked at. And work well when you look at the literacy strategy that you find on the literacy website. >> Other communities of practice that we anticipate linking to in order to bring into the conversation and the use of this website are the teacher groups, intervenors, families particularly the teachers using vacation matrix, the module users, we anticipate getting the word out to a lot of people about this wonderful resource and building additional ideas within its. >> I am going to stop and see if there are any comments from anyone. Have these tools or activities been helpful that you want to say a word about what is so helpful about it? Are there use or linkage useful for these tools? >> CtrL -- Cyral Is typing. Martha loves the literacy checklist. Cyral Likes the ideas of the linkages to the pass and literacy site. And the links on the Perkins [Indiscernible] literacy to link back to the NCDB literacy site. >> Great. I knew I would hear some enthusiastic comments about the literacy checklist as well as the site and strategies and importance of other great literacy activities. >> There are a few other people typing I will pause for a second. Gail, I think I'm going to get started. -- Go ahead and read these. >> [Indiscernible] sent a link to the literacy checklist to the schools and it has been helpful. >> Julie from California says she likes the checklist and the website trying to see all that is on the website before sharing with the team. It is a good tool but also one practical barrier right now is making sure TA providers know what is there and how to use it before passing it along. >> Right. One of the things that lies ahead is we have webinar dates in mind to address things just like that to make sure that we are able to give that explanation, Julie that best describes how to use the tools and we can address barriers to the use. >> We are writing these ideas down and keeping them. >> I can see Chris is also typing. >> I think I will move on and we can come back and see what he might be saying. Were going to move into the transition initiative. And some highlights that I would like to give you, all of you are probably aware that there is a survey out now to get state projects describing what is going on with students that have graduated and into adult life. I know you have gotten those. If this information is new to you please contact us. >> Another thing that is happening is a we look at a self-assessment guide that is rubric in nature that is developed that under developed and make sure that it is updated and useful to individuals, family members, two teams as you think about what needs to happen first, second, third, fourth and on as you do transition planning and skill building. >> With the results from the survey and the relook at the self-assessment guide, what we hope will then be in information brief that recommends clearly for successful adult life these things should be happening in the lives of children and students as they grow older for success. We are reaching down to things that need to be happening. Once you know you have a child with disability in order to think ahead to an adult life. >> There is a video under development to be used for awareness, that is a broad term but the video was made at the recent transition Institute by interviewing a whole lot of people. It is under development and it will have multiple uses. Which you will hear about as it gets finished. Transition Institute planning for another year is happening, Georgia is in the lead this next year, that is also in the works. >> The IT TI training and planning that happens as teams take advantage of that training and plan for their individual students across the states that are engaged in that. Suzy Morgan is beginning [Indiscernible]. That is starting up. What we hope comes next our conversations around the need for effective follow along with students who go to things like transition Institute who are engaged in the IT TI work and had we make sure that action plan, individual action plans are developed for students and get done? >> Some strategic planning we think is obvious for the coming year it is better with some additional new planning that we are doing now with Helen Keller national Center and regional reps. I am personally committed to also looking very closely at new partnerships with the vet -- develop mentally disability services. Some strategic planning to make sure there is as much success as we can possibly see in the lives of students were getting out of school. >> Stopping a minute and taking a look at the chat pod. Have you summarized what people are saying are asking about the transition initiative? >> Joline was looking for the deadline on Jerry's survey. We posted information about that in the chat pod. Thank you, Chris. He gave us a add for the panel that gets you to various resources that is on the right-hand corner of the site. Thanks, Chris. >> Go-ahead Gail. >> I do not see anybody typing in related to the transition issue. >> Except for the third -- survey, deadline November 30. >> Let's move along into another initiative. This is the intervener initiative that we are expanding to be not only an intervener initiative but an initiative that builds qualified personnel because intervenors need knowledgeable supervisors in order to be the best that they can be. Highlights of what's going on with this particular initiative area, once again the IT guide is there in the material for the decision making. What the team goes through to plan the use of an intervener. >> A quick update to you all on the tools for training. The modules, I think everybody is aware but completion of modules nine through 18 they are being launched as the day rolls along. The field testing of module 19 to 26 is going to begin in October as well. Tool development is happening. The use of the modules, of course there is the module user groups and all of the activity there. Many people are using the multiple ways and getting support from Nancy. >> Other updates, the portfolio development work. There will be upcoming webinars November 4 and then a follow-up February 17. What Amy and I hope to talk about is critical method that we are working towards completing so that practicing intervenors can demonstrate their CEC competency knowledge and skill through an E portfolio and the steps to have that eat portfolio reviewed and be able to -- by a certifying board. A lot of work is going on right now in finishing up those tools. >> The group, the workgroup there is a special workgroup working on recommendations for practicum and mentoring of intervenors as they learn and are able to show those knowledge and skills in their eportfolio I know there is work in hand in certain states beyond you top that are looking at training happening of intervenors resulting in credential. In addition to that current option there is going to be more. And the other big one is shifting towards the need for qualified personnel as a whole. Teachers of the blind those who would to provide intervenors, there is some bringing together of a work group that represents the personal prep program at the University. We are talking about what exists now, what kind of professional development exists now, recruiting, supporting new teacher training, what that looks like collectively. There is going to be some updated program descriptions on the existing program from defining of roles, of the teacher of the deaf blind. >> Resulting from that would be a review of the competency [Indiscernible] CEC if that role is changing from competency and needs shifts and changes. At the same time looking at what is a complementary role of a technical assistance Project with personnel prep. Lots of conversation upcoming. >> I'm going to stop and see if there is comments or questions related to this very large initiative as it expands. >> Julie is asking who is leading the qualified personnel? Will still be John Killoran. >> Actually that is mean. I work that into my job description and I will do that in partnership with Amy Parker as she is leaving [Indiscernible] expansion. I hope that is the quick and brief answer. >> She says are -- horray. >> I was a part of the workgroup when it was first in existence. I am pretty excited about bringing it back and doing some very active things. It is not just personnel prep it will be the conversation between personal prep and the TA project because of the critical need for the roles of both. We will be working together. >> Should I stop for a minute? Julie still agrees and says it sounds good. Does anyone want to unmute and come back onto the meeting? >> Not hearing anything. We will move to another initiative about family engagement and quick highlights that I can give you on this particular initiative. >> The four families which is on the NCDB page , when you click on it because families matter, what you see there will be some stories that are in the process now of gathering those stories that we hope encourage those families and inform them with links to resources. That is one activity in the works. >> I want to remind you of the links to the families lead organization that you also find on the homepage of the family engagement initiative. Families lead is still a great way for space to have materials to work on family leadership training. >> The family engagement homepage is highlighting the highlighting of collaboration. That is the stories coming in from state projects who works closely with their TTI's -- PTIs. There will be webinars coming up in the spring to sum up some of those stories and how those are best used. That is April 20 and May 25. >> Some other collaboration going on is looking at MF80B, charge foundation and joint efforts which include some role the finding, what do we work on, what to each of them focus on, I know right now a module free in particular has been used to work with NCDB to inform families about intervenors but there is many -- there are many ideas and work. >> The other couple things I want to mention is the work being done to support family specialist call the mastermind group. What they do is meet in an Adobe room to share ideas and resources. If you have a family specialist that is not connected to that please get in touch with Megan Cody and we will make sure the family specialist are ready to join. That comes out every Friday, just to let you know. This group does the Friday fun facts. It is being click the buy family specialist around the nation it is an effort to is dire -- to inspire families to do something new each week with their child. >> Let me stop and see if there are comments about family engagement work, questions, particular barriers we need to address in using these materials. >> New Jersey will be doing the family fun facts in October. Thanks Carly. >> Anybody on the phone want to join in and speak up? *6 To unmute. >> Let's move along to the tile count initiative and what to expect. Once again I would like to give you those expectations of what is coming. A lot of these are based on what happens every year but also some of the comments from Summit. >> There is a webinar scheduled for October 21 that will have some explanation of the report and how to use the report for decision-making within your state. Mark [Indiscernible] will be leaving that. -- Leading that. >> This particular area of euros -- zeroes in on the need to get help as far as having a colleague letter, something to the state superintendent and state special at directors that goes to the systems about the critical need to do accurate counting of children. The letter should also say, what we are hoping, then serve them with qualified personnel. The letter is being worked on. Once again in collaboration with [Indiscernible]. We hope to have some success in a bit. >> I know some of the other discussions at Summit included needing direction in adding for people using FileMaker Pro, information about intervenors services and how to collect that information and get it into the database. >> Another discussion was a broad one about our network needing to have a common database that everyone can use. Discussion is forthcoming, first webinar is October 21. >> I'm going to stop and see if there are comments or questions about the child count initiative. Either in a chat, which I'm not seeing right now. How about on the phone? >> October 21 webinar is around the child count report and the results from that report, the recent one. >> I'm going to shift gears, I know Mark is typing I guess I should pause for a minute. He is probably going to give me some direction on what I said. >> Mark is saying to Cyral that we will discuss the 2015 account and additional resources. >> Gail is giving a link to the listing of all the webinars. She has promised an announcement coming out listing them all. >> Let me go ahead and move into what are not initiatives but are the topical areas that represent our common TA practices. Of course the first one I have up on the screen is our network engagement and our efforts in that area. >> I may ask Sam and Morgan who are leading that particular conversation to join in and add a word or two. I am just giving you a highlight of what is happening right now. There is a work in progress to have a database that state projects are participating in where activities are listed so we can see in the database what is happening. What [Indiscernible] can look to see what states are involved in different activities and have a link to those and have a conversation. We are calling it an asset mapping of who is doing what so we can encourage conversation and work across Stateline. >> There is also work to have a private portal for conversations that state projects want to have with each other. That is coming. There is a workgroup going to have conversations about this as the week rolls out. You will be hearing more about the plans on that from that workgroup. >> There is also work on how to better support in a more systematic way new directors of state projects, the mentoring I found extremely helpful when I started in 1999, I had a mentor assigned to me and they were looking at plans for that. There is a webinar plan to talk more about all of these things to be worked on in early 2016. >> Let me stop and see if Sam, do you want to add some more to that? I am also looking for questions and comments in the chat. >> Anyone would have to take themselves off of mute with *6. >> Can you hear me now? >> Yes. >> I was talking to myself but that is nothing new. >> That was great, Linda. I was going to add, I don't know if we have got more responsive some states but I think we're up to 20 responses from states in the state database. Our hope is to eventually have everyone put their information into the database. That survey went out a few months ago. If you need us to send you that survey information again you can reach out to me my email is on the website. We will also be reaching out to state again in the next few weeks to see what we can do to get you to contribute to that. It is shaping up really well and hopefully we will get everyone on board. That is all I have to add. Thanks, Linda. >> Thank you, Sam. I am pausing to see if anybody has any questions about any particular activity. >> I'm going to move to some of the highlights from TA implantation practices and also asked Katie -- Peggy if I need additional information that she join and. -- Join in. What I want to share is at Summit it was introduced that there is a framework, a guide, when you do child focused TA , there has been a name change to that particular document. Implementing evidence-based practices for children who are deaf blind, a TA reference guide. Right now feedback is coming in from a work group on that. It will be ready for state to take a look for themselves and use at about mid-November. It will be in the state portal that Sam and Gail are working on right now. >> What we would do is get feedback and make more revisions as the year rolls along. There is a webinar that is going to accompany this slide an explanation of its use, taking questions, having conversation about it on December 9. >> The other document and guide being worked on right now is a framework to help with system TA . That is also being worked on and updates will be coming on that. >> Pegy, I'm going to see if there is anything more you want to add. >> Not too much. I just want to thank everyone who has helped so far at Summit. There was a group of people that helped give feedback on a earlier guidance and that was really big to incorporate all that feedback we got. We haven't implementation workgroup, there is a core group of about 6-8 people that are knowledgeable about the documents and provide detail advice. There are additional people who are able to be deeply involved but want to stay somewhat engaged in the process. If you're interested in participating at either level let me or Sam no. Linda said we should have the next version ready around November. You probably say -- saw Sam sent out a request for tools and resources. Right now we're hoping to see examples of what is out there. We will not incorporate them as links to the tools without letting you know or getting permission. >> If you have any tools that you use like needs assessments, other types of checklist that you are willing to share with our implementation team that would be nice. That is about -- that is where we are at. We will send out a new version to everyone around mid-November. >> Thank you Peggy. >> I'm going to check to see if there are any questions? >> Not hearing anything. One of the last things I want to sum up for you were some of the highlights that came from Summit that came out of two of the sessions, one was an evaluation practice of the database and data management and also the future direction session. Just to let you know, we know there needs to be additional discussion on the benefits and possible -- the benefits of having common practices and processes. And identifying what those can be like to evaluate our effort. >> It means we looking at OPIs across the network . These particular topics fold in very nicely to the work that is happening with the network engagement and TA implementation discussion. >> That is my brief way to say we took notes at Summit, we have an action plan trying to make sure none of the ideas are lost and none of the needs go unaddressed. We are trying to fold those into the discussions happening in those two areas, network engagement and TA implantation. >> Any questions or comments on this very brief highlight? >> We are at 1:00. What I want to do is keep this to an hour. Week will go -- we will go over a couple minutes. I want to repeat from earlier, this PowerPoint has in it live links to the materials and what it is I was talking about, finding materials, connecting to people. Here toward the end of the PowerPoint are my links to the lead people who will connect you to those workgroups and the state projects that are already engaged in the initiative. >> You see Megan and Nancy and Mike and Amy, Megan again, and Mark. >> And as Sam and Peggy let you know they can be contacted . Their names are here and a link to their email. >> We do want to hear from you and talk with Mark or myself about some of these other future directions and common practices on how we evaluate ourselves. The discussion has just begun. We look forward to more of that. >> Just to give you a farewell comment, but also welcome to the new year. Tomorrow is October 1. Today was the first of what you have heard it said pieces about these comments is it is the first in a series of Wednesday webinars. These are going to start this fall and continue through the winter and spring. >> Gail gave you a link in the chat box to the listing of these webinars. The intent of these webinars is to give you much more in-depth information about each of the initiatives and common TA practice efforts , I just gave you brief highlight today. I encourage you to come and hear more. We are encouraging questions, but suggestions on all of these initiatives and these practice areas. >> As we begin the new year together, I am really looking forward to talking to each of you and listening. I want it to be an open dialogue about the work in front of us. >> I'm going to check one last time in the chat pod for any last comments for those a you able to participate today. >> Tale has corrected me in the chat, I am always overzealous about how much work we are going to accomplish. She has let the world know not every Wednesday that these webinars will be occurring. There is other work that has to be done in your states. We won't be doing that to you. She says it is usually to Wednesday's a month. Event have on the NCDB homepage will help you navigate to that. >> I wasn't correcting you, I was helping people who were hyperventilating. >> Thank you. I do hope to keep things a bit calmer. It is under the webinars as well on the website to see what lies ahead. >> Any additional comments from our participants? In chat or by phone? >> I am not hearing anything from people on the phone. I think I will say good day to all of you. I know it is laced -- late on the east coast now. I wish you all well. >> There are multiple goodbyes going on. I'm going to hand the controls back to Robbin, and I appreciate your patience with our technology. >> Thanks, Linda. >> [Event Concluded]