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KEYS is a group of community members who focus on prevention efforts for children 5-10 years of age. Minutes
of the KEYS Meeting Those attending were Kathleen Dionne, Bonnie Moses, Irene Smith, and Cynthia Martin We discussed the way we are up against the wall with the United Way Literacy Committee. They seem to be doing the same things we have been doing so we need to look at what changes we could make. We started to look at other ways we can help this age group. One suggestion was to take on Parent Involvement. If this was our primary objective, we would not drop the idea of literacy but we would leave that for the other committee. We would continue to have someone go to the meetings. Irene discussed how foreign some of the concepts of involvement are for some parents. How do we aim our message at the parents who don’t have much time or don’t know about the importance of family time. Maybe the first goal should be to spend positive time with your child. We discussed just keeping this as our goal for the year. Five minutes a day with either parent, grandma, … Using help from elementary or middle school to put this out to the parents. Reader boards are a good idea or flyers. We would want to keep things short and simple. Homework for all of us: Do we need to change our mission statement? Come up with ideas for distributing the message Billboards, readerboards, Increasing the attendance was also considered. We want to talk about that next meeting. Bonnie brought out a video tape saying that the kids aren’t learning as much as 1941. Irene spoke about how what is taught is considered.
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