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Board of Directors Minutes |
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Board Meeting of Prevention Works! Cynthia Martin, Norma Turner, Elna Kawal, Florence Bucierka, Karen Meyer, Jim Borte, Susan Hillgren, Rachel Anderson, Jennifer Charles, Shaine Schramling, Pam Arnott Meeting called to order 8:05 a.m. Minutes of 6/23/04 Board Meeting approved Treasurer’s Report – Balance Sheet passed around. $9376 in CD and checking account. Tobacco program put $1200 toward web site maintenance. Cynthia talked about an endorsement request – PW Board voted to endorse grant request for Parenting Matters Foundation and First Step Family Support Center to Barbara Bush Foundation for Literacy Grant. Rock N Roll - Susan Hillgren – Gwen Cole would
like to co-chair Rock N Roll. Discussion about High School policy on
juvenile smoking. Gwen and Susan are working on paper – to approach high
school for room to be used by groups such as Family Planning, Healthy Families
other community organizations involved with PW and Rock N Roll for access
for resources. Parent Ed Summit – Friday, Oct. 1 from 9:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. – Kevin Haggerty, UW (Prevention Concepts and Parent Recruitment and Retention) and Drew Betz, WSU Coop Extension (Top 10 or 15 tips for parent educators) – session for whole group. $20 prior to Sept. 24. $25 Sept. 25. Jennifer is working on registration flyer. Will go out to Shaine by end of the week/early next week. Guiding Good Choices Training – Sept. 15-17. 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. Dorothy Glenn from Seattle - $50 for 3 day training. Held at PA City Council Chambers. Looking for representation from West End. Limit of 24 on registration. Tobacco – Hearing was yesterday. Commissioner Chapman, Florence and Rachel – going back to the Clallam County Fair Board. Originally was complete ban – Fair and Parks Board, were supportive in sense of work, but unable to endorse ordinance as written. Change – pass ordinance only if it is modified that it would be creating designated smoking areas on county owned property. Florence Updates · Update on Peninsula College (Florence) – clarified Foundation for Early Learning Funding for their 30 year celebration of Family Life Education. · Lower Elwha Tribe – recipient of SAMHSA planning grant – celebration on Sept. 10 from 1-3:30 p.m. Indian Salmon Bake – invitation for Prevention Works. Susan and Florence will be attending. · WA State Prevention Summit – Oct. 21 – 23 in Yakima. David Olds is going to do a presentation at Clarion Hotel – Florence will get more information. · Looking for committee to work on Prevention Works! Brochure – Jim will set up a meeting. Would like to have it done by end of September. Have for Parent Ed Summit. Jane and Florence are getting together – end of September as deadline to finish 501c3 application. Pam – Bootcamp for Dads contact – gave a contact for Seattle area or waiting until later to meet with him. Maybe focusing on Dads for Home Visiting Summit – Committee has not actively worked on that. Ongoing goal in next year or so to do an event about Dads. Homeless Task Force – Serenity House is opening a location above Healthy Families with a Washer/Dryer and food and education – for homeless, street youth. Asking for folks to – bring gallon of laundry detergent once a month. Looking for volunteers and items. Monday, Wednesday, & Friday 3-7:00 p.m. Norma – WA Institute for Public Policy – Benefits and Costs of Prevention – 3500 Research Studies – Conclude that Home Visitation Programs are Good Investment. Juvenile Prevention is good investment. Legislation required them to do this study. Group that met last month and is meeting again – what are ideas on how to get legislators this information – Ruth Kagi and Mary Lou Dickerson. DARE doesn’t work. When PW group met with Chris Gregoire – she talked about need to convince legislators. Mike Doherty mentioned that Chris Gregoire in September – wanted to talk with PW and Health Care people again. Discussion of Planning Documents Publicity – Synopsis – Need to recruit more members to work. Work more closely with other committees and agencies. Proposing to improve capacity of community agency, promoting programs and prevention advocacy. Ability to promote program part of any group. Has had discussion with local media and local PR who are willing to be involved. Do survey of membership – see what they want to happen. Are they looking at one-day training, 2 hour training once a month. Jim has people willing to do Public Relations Training and Advocacy Training. May be some ways that Publicity and Outreach work together. Parent Educators – Utilizing Best Practices but knowing that there needs to be some flexibility. Increase number of agencies reporting parent education opportunities – parent ed offerings for the fall and distribute to court system. Continue parent ed summits. Discussion of other upcoming ideas for continuing parent education. Suggested to have several meetings with potential parent educators – for pre funding and post funding. Rachel – could have collated litter bags – valuable for smokers and non-smokers available for classes. Home Visiting – Very self-explanatory – distinction between parent ed and home visiting is group vs. 1:1. Enhance funding/staffing for Home Visiting. Seat time for participation in training – has been incredibly important to past successes. Ongoing Home Visiting Summits and trainings as needed. Studies to improve infant mental health – not just post-partum depression. What are universal ways to improve infant mental health. Child can catch depression from mother. Nita Lynn and Marian Birch – working on post-partum support group application. Care project as part of DSHS – chronic neglect cases working with mom’s and babies. Tobacco – Big overall goal is the ordinance. For both hospitals to be very restricted in their smoking areas. People smoking outside emergency room is a violation of Washington Clean Air Act as Secondhand smoke going into building. Increase advertising around secondhand smoke. Wanting to promote Quitline. Working with Treatment Providers to treat nicotine as addiction. Decrease number of smokers in Clallam County – DOH reports 35% of county residents (adults) smoke. Compliance Checks – looking for letter complimenting businesses to keep tobacco out of hands of minors, signed by Norma and from Prevention Works! Community Coalition – could get some publicity for PW. In letter – most of your peers, are not selling. Comes as reward afterwards – recognizing that they do a good job. Emphasis on community norm that most residents don’t smoke. Increase awareness of Great American Smokeout (3rd Thurs in Nov) - ACS (American Cancer Society), Kick Butts Day, World No Tobacco Day, Increase tobacco presence on PW Web Site. KEYS – Main event was participation in 2004 OPAEYC conference – presentation on focus of KEYS. Got a lot of interest. Goal is to work on transitioning into Kindergarten – work with 1 school district a year – helping kids transition into Kindergarten. Previously had developed a literacy calendar – Contacted agencies about what they were doing on Literacy issues – idea was that efforts weren’t being duplicated. Have now turned over literacy piece to Clallam County Literacy Council. CCLC – presenting a play on literacy. Having open house to bring in other groups – working on PowerPoint Presentation. Brought and distributed 750 books to PA Family Play Day. They are going to be invited to co-sponsor Parent Ed Summit. Next PW Meeting: September 13 – Quen Zorrah, Speaker from Jefferson County Olds Model 4:00 p.m. Will also discuss “What is Home Visiting and why it is important.” 2-3 minute synopsis of committee planning and goals for upcoming year at PW Meeting. Home Visiting Committee – needs to meet again. Meeting adjourned 9:48 a.m. Respectfully submitted, Shaine Schramling, Secretary |
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