One Needs Assessment

The One Needs Assessment (ONA) component is designed to get all users accustomed to identifying their needs in a single location within a standardized timeline. The ONA is the first step of completing the Education Department’s System of Tiered E-Plans and Supports (ED STEPS) process.  

The ONA pulls data from a variety of Department systems to create a needs analysis for districts, schools, and educational entities using their unique data to create recommended and required questions. The system has useful features such as auto saving and individualized priority needs selections. These priority needs become the structure for goals, strategies, and actions steps in the One Plan (OP). 

Training and Videos 

• Video: Navigating the One Needs Assessment  (13 mins.) 
• Video: One Needs Assessment Reporting Feature – Analysis Tool (11 mins.) 
• Video: One Needs Assessment and One Plan Training – January 2022 (YouTube: 1 hrs. 57 mins.) 
  • Training Presentation Slides 
• Root Cause Analysis Training  
  • Root Cause Analysis Presentation Slides 
  • Video: Root Cause Analysis Training (YouTube - 18 mins.) 
    • Slide #8 video can be accessed here. 
• Trainings
  • More details can be found on the ED STEPS Training Page

Resources

• OEDS Role Identification Chart
• ED STEPS Brochure
• ED STEPS Planning Cohorts
• ED STEPS User Manual
• One Needs Assessment Summary
• ED STEPS ONA and OP Glossary 
• LEA and School – ONA and OP Requirements  (School Label Flowchart) 
• Questions and Triggers Resources: 
  1. FY25 (Cohort 1) Questions and Triggers: Local Educational Agencies and Schools  
     1. FINAL: (Excel Link) - (PDF Link) 
     2. Tracked Redlined Changes: (Excel Link) - (PDF Link) 
        • Note: The redlined version displays the differences made between the FY24 ONA (used by Cohort 3) and the FY25 ONA (to be used by Cohort 1).
  3. FY25 Questions and Triggers: DDs and ESCs
     1. (Excel Link) - (PDF Link)
     2. These questions are for both Boards of Developmental Disabilities and Educational Service Centers.

 

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