About the FICCIT
The Florida Department of Health (DOH), Children’s Medical Services, Early Steps Program, maintains a statewide interagency coordinating council called the Florida Interagency Coordinating Council for Infants and Toddlers (FICCIT).
DOH is the established agency lead for Part C, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA).
FICCIT is a federal Part C, IDEA requirement (34 C.F.R. §303.600-605) and meets quarterly with the role to advise and assist DOH to:
Identify sources of fiscal and other support for early intervention service programs under Part C of the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA);
Assign financial responsibility to the agency;
Promote methods for intra-agency and interagency collaboration regarding child find, monitoring, financial responsibility, provision of services, and transition;
Prepare applications under Part C of IDEA, including amendments;
Transition from Early Steps to the state education agency; and,
Review the Early Steps Annual Report which includes the status on early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families.
For questions about the council, please contact [email protected]
By-Laws, Policies, Reporting, and Meeting Minutes
- By-Laws
- Public Comment Card
- 34 C.F.R. Part 303, Subpart G – State Interagency Coordinating Council
- Open Government – The “Sunshine” Law
Quarterly Meetings
The council meets on a quarterly basis, and those meetings are publicly noticed. Those announcements will be found here, as well as in the Florida Administrative Register (FAR).
Upcoming –
June 12, 2025
August 27-28, 2025
December 10-11, 2025
Past –
February 5-6, 2025 – Presentation
November 21-22, 2024 – Presentation
September 11-12, 2024 – Meeting Minutes – Presentation
FICCIT Membership Information
The Florida Interagency Coordinating Council for Infants and Toddlers (FICCIT) is composed of governor appointed members who are representative of the state’s population. Click here to view the current FICCIT membership.
Candidates in the following fields make up part of the required Council representation:
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- At least 20 percent of the members must be parents, including minority parents, of infants or toddlers with disabilities or children with disabilities aged 12 years or younger, with knowledge of, or experience with, programs for infants and toddlers with disabilities.
- A parent of an infant or toddler with a disability or a child with a disability aged 6 years or younger.
- Representative from the state education agency responsible for preschool services to children with disabilities;
- Representative from the agency responsible for the State Medicaid program;
- Representative from state agency responsible for regulation of private health insurance;
- Representative from the state agency responsible for children’s mental health;
- Public or private providers of early intervention services;
- Representative designated by the Office of the Coordination of Education of Homeless Children and Youth;
- Representative from the state agency responsible for child care;
- Representative from the state child welfare agency responsible for foster care;
- Representative from a Head Start or Early Head Start agency;
- Representative from a personnel preparation program;
- Representative from the state agency involved in the provision of, or payment for, early intervention services;
- Representative from the state legislature.
