Terminology D - E
From Voices for Ohio's Children
Day Billing Unit
A billing unit based on a twenty-four hour period in which a Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) waiver is delivered to an eligible individual.
Day and Evening Reporting Centers
An alternative to juvenile detention. Day reporting centers provide several hours of structured activities and supervision for youth that need more supervision than home detention provides. Evening centers provide supervision and structured activities during the high crime evening hours (usually around 3-9 pm). This type of program allows youth to continue living at home, but spend significant time at a structured center on a scheduled basis.
Days of Caring
Opportunities for volunteers, whose workplaces conduct campaigns, to donate their time and labor to work at a United Way agency on one of five annually designated hands-on service days between August and November or in tailored volunteer opportunities for larger volunteer populations. This first-hand exposure to partner agencies helps to provide momentum in the workplace campaigns.
DC: 0-3 (Diagnostic Classification of Mental Health and Developmental Disorders of Infancy and Early Childhood)
This system is a comprehensive guide to early assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning for mental health problems and developmental difficulties in infants and toddlers ages 0-3. A scale (1-100) is used to determine the child’s level of functioning, analyzing areas such as developmental history, family functioning, cultural and community patterns, and caregiver-infant (child) relationships. Treatment may be implemented that takes into account relevant areas of the child’s functioning.
Useful Website: http://www.son.washington.edu/certif-imh/dc03/overview.htm
DECA (Devereux Early Childhood Assessment)
This is an evaluation tool used by parents and teachers to assess the social and emotional development of children ages 2-5 years old. Parents and/or teachers, who have known the child for a minimum of four weeks, observe the child and evaluate social and emotional factors, such as behavior traits, on a nationally standardized assessment scale. A primary objective is to identify the presence or lack of protective factors within the child such as initiative, self-control, and attachment in order to determine if further evaluation or treatment is necessary. The DECA is primarily used for referral purposes for treatment of children who display a lack of protective factors.
Useful Website: http://www.journal.naeyc.org/btj/200401/shillady.ASP
DECA-C (Devereaux Early Childhood Assessment Clinical Form)
Designed to support early intervention efforts to reduce or eliminate significant emotional and behavioral concerns in preschool children. The DECA-C can be used to: (1) Guide interventions, (2) Identify children needing special services, (3) Assess outcomes, and (4) Help programs meet Head Start, IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), and similar requirements.
Useful Website: http://www.kaplanco.com/store/trans/productDetailForm.asp?CatID=17%7CEA1000%7C0&CollID=2606&Max=3&ID=1&Page=1
Defense Attorney
The attorney/lawyer representing the accused. A defense attorney can be a private attorney paid by the child, the child’s parents, a public defender, or private attorney paid for by the state.
Delinquent
A legal term for a juvenile who committed an act that if committed by an adult would have been a crime. Deportation/Removal The formal removal of children from the U.S. when they are found removable for violating immigration laws. This may be based on grounds of inadmissibility or deportability. Deportation is ordered by an immigration judge.Now called Removal, this function is managed by ICE.
Detention Center
There are 40 juvenile detention centers in Ohio. Some counties have their own detention centers for the county’s juveniles and some detention centers serve children from several counties. A child may spend time in a detention center while awaiting her adjudicatory hearing.
Detention Hearing/ Sheltercare Hearing
Held in order for the judge or magistrate to consider whether to release or detain a child and must take place within 72 hours of a child being taken into custody.
Developmental Assessment
Looking at a child’s strengths and needs in the areas of social/emotional, adaptive, cognitive motor (including vision and hearing) and communication development.
Developmental Center
An institution operated by the Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disorders (ODMR/DD) for children and adults with mental retardation/developmental disabilities. The Developmental Center provides training and habilitation for individuals unable to live in the community.
Developmental Delay
A child has a developmental delay if he fails to reach developmental milestones for their age in one or more of the following areas: social/emotional, adaptive, cognitive motor, and communication skills.
Developmental Disability
Any physical or mental condition, such as mental retardation, cerebral palsy, autism, epilepsy, etc., that begins before the age of 22 and causes a child to acquire skills at a slower rate than their peers, is expected to continue indefinitely, and impairs the child’s ability to function normally in society.
Developmental Milestone
A skill recognized as a measurement of a child’s functioning typically achieved by a certain age.
Dispositional Hearing
The dispositional hearing is similar to a sentencing for an adult. At the hearing, the judge will decide on a child’s sentence. The hearing may seem more informal than other hearings because not all of the rules of evidence are used during the disposition.
Donor Designation
A term used to explain a particular type of pledge option available to contributors. When used, it directs funds to a specific impact area, partner or non-partner health and human services agency, or other United Way where a donor lives and could access health and human services programs.
Due Process
Rules and procedure specified by law that must be followed in a court proceeding. Due process protects a citizen’s rights and helps to guarantee a fair trial.
Early Release
When a child comes home from detention, a group home, or wherever they were sent during their disposition, before the end of their assigned time because a judge ordered their release sooner than in the original order.
ECEC (Early Care and Education Collaborative)
A project focused on designing and implementing public education strategies that will create an effort to expand the supply and quality of early childcare and education resources, and share what is learned with the broader childcare community.
Useful Website: http://www.finebynine.org/pdf/SECPTAN_Multisite_10_04.pdf
e-CFund (Electronic-Community Funding)
The United Way requires partner agencies to submit an annual program funding application. The application is submitted online through a program called Electronic-Community Funding or e-CFund for short. Included in the application are agency and program budgets and overview information, the program’s logic model demonstrating the benefit or impact of the program to clients, demographic information, program partnerships, and client success stories. This application is an important source of information for United Way Volunteers when monitoring program performance and making program-funding decisions.
ECM (Employee Campaign Manager)
The person designated by the company president or Chief Executive Officer to organize the United Way employee campaign in the workplace.
EDJJ (National Center on Education, Disability and Juvenile Justice)
EDJJ focuses on assisting practitioners, policymakers, researchers and advocates to identify and implement effective school-based delinquency prevention programs, education and special education services in juvenile correctional facilities, and transition supports for youth re-entering their schools and communities from secure care settings. Their website provides links to related organizations websites, information on their current research and other resources such as publications and presentations.
Useful Website: http://www.edjj.org
EI (Early Intervention Services)
Services designed to evaluate and meet the needs of children and to enhance their families’ abilities to foster their development. It is a component of the Help Me Grow program and referred to as “Part C.”
EISR (Early Intervention System Review)
Ohio’s monitoring process of Early Intervention Services. The purpose of EISR is to help counties understand how well their system is serving children with developmental delays and disabilities and their families, determine county compliance with the program standards which are based upon Federal Regulations for IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act), and Ohio’s policies for implementation of the EI system, and determine areas of need for follow-up technical assistance to county Early Intervention (EI) systems.
Electronic Monitoring
Alternative to juvenile detention that is most often used when a child is under “house arrest,” allowing him to only leave under pre-arranged conditions. The monitoring device is attached to the child’s ankle and a signal is sent to the monitoring staff if the child tries to remove it or if they are not where they are supposed to be. The monitoring can be set up to allow the child to leave for school or work, but then they must come right back. In order to use this system a home phone line is usually required in the where the child will stay.
ELI (Early Learning Initiative)
Started in 2005, ELI is collaboration between the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) and the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) designed to provide preschool aged children (3-5) at risk of school failure with educational experiences that help them enter Kindergarten ready for learning success! Children are eligible for ELI if their families are working at least one hour each week, on cash assistance, and meeting work requirements, and/or at or below 185% of the Federal Poverty Line. Program providers must be licensed by ODJFS or ODE and meet the following guidelines: provide planned instruction by a teacher holding or enrolled in a program leading to an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education, implement curriculum that complies with ODE Early Learning Content Standards, participate in professional development, assess program quality on a biannual basis to determine program capacity and professional development needs, and monitor/ report child progress using an assessment called “Get It Got It Go.” If accepted as an ELI provider, a contract is offered from ODJFS or ODE, specifying a flat rate per-child for provider services.
(Program & Initiative)
Useful Websites:
http://www.ode.state.oh.us/ece/Miscellaneous/early_learning_initiative_FY06/
http://www.jfs.ohio.gov/cdc/eli.stm
Ella Baker Center
The Ella Baker Center is an advocacy group for human rights in criminal justice system through tactics including grassroots organization, media advocacy, public education, policy reform and legal services. Their site offers a list of their programs with descriptions and access to news, list of events, and publications and reports.
Useful Website: http://ellabakercenter.org
Emancipated Youth
A person under age 18 who has been determined to be a single case by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or who is unattached to a family.
Employer-Based Insurance
Health insurance plans offered by an employer for an eligible employee. This type of insurance can have variable contribution schemes ranging from the employer paying 100% of the employee’s health care costs to paying a set percentage of the employee’s premium and requiring the employee to contribute towards the premium and co-pays.
Enterprise Software
Enterprise, UWS’s integrated information software, facilitates all aspects of fundraising, pledge accounting, and volunteer development. Enterprise is customized specifically to the United Way environment.
EPSDT (Early Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment)
This Medicaid program provides healthcare for youth under 21 years of age who receive Medicaid. EPSDT ensures that children on Medicaid are screened on a regular basis. If screening results in diagnosis of a disability or health condition, the state must cover treatment, even if the state does not provide the same services to adults in Medicaid. Screening services include: developmental assessment of physical and mental health, physical examinations, immunizations, laboratory testing, vision/hearing/dental screening, and health/education guidance.
Useful Website: http://gucchd.georgetown.edu/files/online_resources/crowley_testimony.doc
Evaluation
A comprehensive examination of a child’s strengths, and areas where growth is needed to plan services or to determine eligibility for services.
Evidence
Information (photographs, testimony, documents, etc) used to make a point being argued by a lawyer.
Evidence-based Practice
Interventions for which there is consistent scientific evidence showing that they improve client outcomes. Similar to “Outcome-based” (Below)
Useful Website: http://www.nri-inc.org/cmhqa.cfm
Expulsion
The removal from school, for a lengthy period of time, of a juvenile for some violation of a school district's rules.
Expungement
A court order for all references to a child’s case, including court records of the case to be destroyed.
