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Prevention Works! Minutes |
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Clallam
County Prevention Works! Community
Coalition The meeting began with a quick overview of the plans for the afternoon. The idea was to make this a social event with special cookies brought by many individuals to have a special day. It began with the power point presentation on Prevention Works! The group seemed appreciative of the effort put into this presentation that is being used for other presentations throughout the state. After the presentation, Jane Shefler called the meeting to order. Those attending were Jane, Mary Jacoby, Betsy Cadwell, Angie Graff, Bill Jevne and guest, Cherie Reeves-Sperr, Chris Borchers, Debra Sharp, Diana Assumpaco, Elna Kawal, Janet Williams, Janice Laine, Jennifer Charles, Jim Borte, Judith Morris, Lillian Nesse, Mel Melmed, Martha Hall, Nancy Martin, Nita Quan, Pam Arnott, Tanya Barndt, Tom Anderson, and Cynthia Martin. Debra Sharp, the new county Prevention Specialist was
introduced. Elna Kawal reported on KEYS and the efforts of this
committee to develop a community calendar of all the activities related to
literacy that are being done in Clallam County. She also discussed the activities related to reading that are
taking place at any activities related to literacy to encourage reading.
They are also accepting donations of new and gently used books for
distribution. The funding from the Early Learning Foundation to
support the four conferences we are doing this year was discussed.
They gave $5000 for the Big Event, OPAEYC, Home Visiting, and
Parent Education conferences. The status of the Early Learning Foundation Grant
Committee was discussed. The
excellent contribution from United Way to fund the grant writer, Mary
Jacobs, and what an excellent job she has done were brought up.
The grant will be taken in on Wednesday. Seven groups participated in a very harmonious way in
bringing about the cooperative efforts of this committee. Nita Quan reported that DCFS will do a training for
home visitors working with depressed parents which will even include seat
time. The Carolyn Foundation was discussed because of a
need to make changes. United
Way had agreed to administer and pay bills for 2% of the grant.
The issues United Way is expected to handle has increased.
United Way would like this fee to be increased to 5%.
It was moved, seconded and unanimously passed to increase the fee
to 5%. Nancy Martin said that over 60 children in foster
care in Clallam County are not currently being chosen by any families or
agencies for holiday gifts. Anyone
who is willing to do this should contact Larry Hayden from DCFS at
565-2240 (I think). If this
number is incorrect, contact Nancy Martin for a better one but I wanted to
get the minutes out as quickly as possible so many of you could take one
of these children. Each child
expresses one desire and some needed items.
Everyone is supposed to buy 3 things and they need to be delivered
to DCFS by next Monday, The next meeting is Monday, January 14 at 4:00 at
Olympic Medical Center. Thank you all for the delicious cookies.
The left over cookies were taken by agencies to use at Holiday
Celebrations of young families.
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