In April 2018, a settlement was reached in an ACLU of Michigan lawsuit filed on behalf of Flint school children over a lack of services during the Flint water crisis.
As part of that settlement a specific piece of the lawsuit called “Child Find,” is addressing the need to find children who may need additional school resources via a screening and assessment process.
— Flint Schools (@FlintSchools) April 9, 2018
In the settlement, Flint Community Schools, the Genesee Intermediate School District and the Michigan Department of Education will expand their existing partnership with Flint Registry and the Genesee Health System’s Neurodevelopmental Center of Excellence as part of the agreement.
The infrastructure of the Flint Registry will be used to find children and families that need access to an expanded resource. If a child has a concern on in their screening through the Registry or if a parent or guardian wants further testing, they will be referred from the Flint Registry to the Genesee Health System’s Neurodevelopmental Center of Excellence for additional neurodevelopmental assessment.
All this work is being done in close partnership with our colleagues in education to minimize any assessments that would potentially be done in a school setting. This process will go live with the Flint Registry in the 2018-2019 school year.
Under the agreement, the Michigan Department of Education would provide $4,139,571.51 in total to the Genesee Health System and the Flint Registry to fund the program.
To read more about the settlement click here: http://www.aclumich.org/cases/flint-schools