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Rock ‘n Roll Meeting Minutes Attendees: Mel Thom (parent), Jim Borte (CC Sheriff’s Dept.), Michelle Maike (Praxis Research), Dori Goin (Diversified Resources), Sylvia Moon (Evergreen Family Village), Glenn Goldberg (GUTS), Jody Moss (PDRC), Kim Kettel (Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe), Khia Donahue (youth), Jim Martin (Diversified Resources), Dave Fluke & Jody Jacobsen, (Juvenile Services). Presentation:
Due
to a lack of communication with the school district, Michelle Maike, evaluator
for the Safe & Drug Free Schools program, graciously filled in and
provided information on the Behavior Intervention Specialist services provided
by local schools. Behavior
Interventionists are provided for youth in grades K-8th.
Interventions work with identified children who are victims or at-risk
of becoming victims of violence. The
programs have done a fabulous job locally and have made a tremendous
difference in the kids themselves, the classrooms and the families of the
participating children. They
found increased academic performance for the participating youth and
subsequently the entire classroom performed better.
The
grant-funded program has served over 2000 kids in 2000-01 school year and is
in it’s last year at the schools, although some schools will be able to fund
the program and run services on a limited basis.
Crescent School will be able to keep their combine Behavior
Intervention Specialist/Mental Health person 2 days a week with other funding.
Port Angeles School District is probably going to be able to keep the
services in the two middle schools but they will be scaled back.
As
for mental health services, there is a specialist assigned to each district to
work with youth K-12. You can
contact your local school district office to find out who the mental health
specialist is in your district. You
can also contact Bob Kreiger at Peninsula Community Mental Health Center at
#457-0431 or at the Children’s Center at #452-2595.
The Port Angeles High School has a mental health specialist on site who
works with youth both individually and in group sessions.
Choice, the Alternative School does see a significant need for a mental
health specialist/counselor however they do not have access to the specialist
provided to the high school. The
Multi-Systemic Therapy (MST) program is currently funded through the next
school year, 2002-2003. Services
are being provided to local school districts at least through that time. If
you would like more information about these services, please contact Michelle
Maike directly at #457-9766. Announcements: Glenn
Goldberg, Director/Founder of GUTS (Gifts
Unlimited Teen Seminars) was awarded a grant and is eager to work with
local agencies at replicating GUTS around the country.
GUTS
is an intensive four day seminar with teenagers and includes experiential
learning, team building, music and fun to help youth realize their self worth.
Originally conducted at Juvenile Services, follow up reports showed
that the recidivism rate of clients who participated in GUTS was about half
that of the control group of you who did not participate in the seminar.
The School of Social Work also did an evaluation that showed a
significant increase in self esteem with youth after the seminar.
The
GUTS Institute: Paying for the seminar has always been a barrier to
participation. With the
assistance of the foundation grant funds, rather than teaching the seminars
himself, Glenn will be able to train willing participants and transfer the
program to agencies in the community, enabling them to provide the seminars to
more youth throughout the county at a substantial savings to the participants.
The
GUTS Institute training will run for nine days, May 16-24th, 2002.
The first five days of the training will be teaching the trainers how
to run the seminars. The last
four days will include hands on experience of running a four day seminar with
20 youth. Each participating
agency is providing a male/female co-facilitator team.
The two-team participants will be coming from five agencies: Sunshine & Rainbows (Forks), Holy Trinity Church (PA),
Jefferson County Juvenile Court (Jeff.Co.), and Tempest (PA).
The Sequim Community School had been invited but have not confirmed and
the Sequim Boys & Girls Club may participate instead.
The
foundation funding will allow for 20 kids to participate in the four day
seminar and staff will be trained to carry it on. People who do the training
commit to hosting one GUTS seminar within four months of participating in the
training. Lynn Keenan is going to
be the project evaluator. They
will be tracking attendance, grades, recidivism, abstinence/relapse with
regard to drug/alcohol use, self esteem, and creation of subsequent
attachments. Training will
include Portable Ropes and 12 aftercare sessions for the kids.
The trainers will receive several special gifts and tools as part of
their participation. If you are
interested in participating as a trainer, you may have an opportunity if an
agency is not able to keep their commitment.
Looking for diversity in the team trainers.
If
you know of a teen who is at a cross-roads in their life, please consider
contacting Glenn for a referral to participate in the seminar.
Participants will include a mixture of kids, some high risk kids, some
well functioning youth with self esteem issues and some in the middle.
Youth must be of high school age.
In
the future, Glenn plans on conducting further GUTS Institute training’s
around the nation. Local programs
would be coordinated by locally trained teams but the Institute would still be
available a couple of times a year in Clallam County. New
website!!! Check out GUTS new
website at: www.gutsforteens.org.
For referrals or more information, please email Glenn at guts@tenforward.com or call #457-0745. Project Updates
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Mentoring: New volunteer training scheduled for January 30th,
2002, 3:30-6:00 PM at Juvenile Services.
We need volunteers so if you know of anyone, please have them call
#417-2282 Ext. 240 for more information.
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Jamestown
S’Klallam Tribe is
also formalizing a mentoring program through the tribe.
They currently have nine tribal youth paired with mentors and are able
to coordinate up to 15 pairs. DASA
will be hosting a training for their mentors on February 21st,
2002. ·
Mediation: PDRC awarded a small grant and are now ready to take on
Parent-Teen Mediation referrals. Seven
teens have been trained and have entered the practicum.
The contract between Juvenile Service and PDRC is now on a
month-to-month basis due to looming state budget reductions.
Currently using the teens in the Victim-Offender mediations and they
are doing great! ·
Restitution
Fund: 4-H coordinates work group meeting at Tempest Youth Center
every Monday and Wednesday from 3-6 PM. As
of November, 9 youth have paid 10 victims a total of $876.94 in restitution
monies. The contract between
Juvenile Services and WSU 4-H is also on a month-to-month basis due to
potential state budget cuts. ·
Teen
Court: Teen volunteers hearing first time offender cases two nights
per month. Since April, we have had 32 youth go through Teen Court, only 3
have re-offended, resulting in 10% recidivism rate.
27 Exit hearings have been held with all but one case having
successfully completed diversion. Upcoming Events Become
a Mentor, volunteer mentor training for work with at-risk youth under
Juvenile Court supervision. Wednesday,
January 30th, 2002, 3:30-6:00 PM, Juvenile & Family Services. Call #3417-2282 Ext. 240 for more information. Parenting
Matters Foundation 3rd Annual Benefit Luncheon: Saturday, February 2nd. Guest speaker Scott Beers from Talaris Research Institute
will be discussing “Inside the Child’s Mind:
Lessons from Brain Research”. The cost is $25.00 (plus a children’s book).
For more information please log on to:
www.parentingmatters.org/events
or call #681-2250. Peninsula
Dispute Resolution Center is hosting several in-service training’s listed below and are open to
the general public. For more
information, please call #452-8024. ·
How
Gender Impacts the Mediation Process, February 6th, 5:30-7:30 PM, Peninsula College, Room K-4.
Presenter: Nancy Lynn
Newman ·
Family
Dynamics: For Family, Parent/Teen
and Restorative Justice Mediators. February 25th,
6-8 PM, Sequim Library. Presenter:
Diana Hornbogen, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist ·
Restorative
Justice Refesher,
March 5th, 4:30-7:30 PM, Port Angeles Library.
“Taking A
Stand with the Truth”, Dr. Jeffrey Wigand (The Insider).
Friday, February 8th, 2002, 9:00 – 3:00 PM, Gig Harbor.
$25.00 per person, lunch included.
Deadline: February 1st. Call (253) 853-7954 or (800) 550-4609 for registration
information. “Parenting
with Love and Laughter”, Judy Ford, best selling author and inspiration speaker.
Friday, March 1st, 2002, 7:00 PM.
Tickets $5.00, available through Juvenile Services or Prevention Works!
(#417-2384). “Collaborating
for Student Success”, hosted by the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction in
Ocean Shores, March 11th – 13th, 2002.
For more information please call April Wrigth at (360) 725-6049 or
email: awright@ospi.wednet.edu.
7th
Annual National Prevention Symposium - Empowering
Our Youth To Thrive in Uncertain Times.
Seattle, July 31st - August 2nd.
Look for more information soon at:
www.chef.org,
or call/email Debbie Pitcock Crawley at #1-800-323-2433 x 129, dpc@chef.org. Next
Meeting: Thursday, February 28, 2002, 4:00-5:00 PM
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