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Special Needs Key Informant Focus Groups Key Findings Report August 2006 Introduction This document discusses and analyzes the process and key findings of the Key Informant Focus Group sessions that were conducted with 58 participants in Stillwater Area Community Education's Early Childhood Family Education and Adult Basic Education, and Courage St. Croix programs. These individuals were recruited and self identified as interested fiom among current clients and their parents to participate in the group sessions. The process was planned, organized and conducted during the months of July and August 2006, by the St. Croix Valley Area Community Family Center's Special Needs Suivey Team and Wild City Resources. The team includes Directors and staff of Courage St. Croix as well as Stillwater Area Community Education, Early Childhood Family Education, and Adult Basic Education programs. The team is a subgroup of the Integrated Planning Team, which is the planning authority for the St. Croix Valley Area Community Family Center. The appended data reports were compiled by Community Education, Early Childhood Family Education and analyzed by the Special Needs Team, Decision Resources, Ltd. Wild City Resources. Wild City Resources developed this report. Background The Key Informant Focus Group sessions were intended to provide a subjective user friendly, method of assessing responses to the same key questions that were addressed in the statistical study conducted in the School District by Decision Resources LTD. These included general knowledge, level of support and preferences for the concept of an Integrated Community Family Center, The process was developed to provide access to the perceptions of current key special needs clients who could not be effectively reached through a telephone survey. It was initiated in order to assure that the opinions of individuals and families who experience barriers to participation were considered during the planning and decision -making process for the new St. Croix Valley Area Community Family Center.