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DES Cannot Immediately Come Into. Compliance With Part C Due to the Need for Major Systemic Changes To Address System Capacity Issues, Coordinate Monitoring, Policies, and Data Systems Across All Participating Agencies and Providers and Deliver Team-Based Services At the May 20, 2004 hearing and in its testimony, DES acknowledged that it is not complying with Part C and cannot immediately come into compliance with Part C requirements. In her presentation, DES/ AzEIP Director Xxxxx Xxxxx identified at least five major barriers to DES’s ability to come into immediate compliance with Part C: (1) The lack of a coordinated interagency monitoring system to identify and correct noncompliance; (2) the lack of interagency coordination on policies and procedures to ensure they reflect Part C requirements; (3) the lack of coordinated data systems between and within participating agencies to ensure that Part C compliance elements are reflected; (4) insufficient system capacity to ensure adequate personnel to provide timely evaluations and assessments and early intervention services; and (5) a team-based model of service delivery that can track children from referral to exit from the Part C program. One major barrier to immediate compliance is DES’s need to establish an interagency monitoring system and coordinated policies and procedures, since Arizona’s statewide system of early intervention services involves efforts from five different State agencies and two major programs within DES as well as numerous private contractors. Five different agencies (including DES) conduct child find, evaluations and assessments, and provide service coordination and early intervention services and transition planning. At the public hearing, DES officials testified that DES does not have a system to monitor its intra- and interagency State counterparts that provide early intervention services or the private providers that conduct evaluations and assessments and provide service coordination and early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families. DES has just begun to establish protocols for monitoring of all Part C requirements but has yet to conduct monitoring of other State agency partners. DES has established a dialogue for working with each of these agencies on an ongoing basis to coordinate all Part C activities including monitoring these agencies’ compliance with Part C requirements and providing joint and collaborative training and technical assistance. However, as noted by a...