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Strategic
Planning/Policies and Procedures Committee Meeting Report The committee met at the Family Development Center from 11:00 AM to 12:30 PM. Members present: Florence Bucierka, Brenda Butterfield, Connie Hyatt, Jan Laine, and Carol Huard. The committee received the minutes of the last meeting
and reviewed what it had done on July 11, 2001. The vision and mission
statements were approved and each goal was tested to insure it related to the
vision and mission. The ideas from the annual meeting were incorporated as
strategies for the goals. * Vision of Prevention Works! Promote awareness and activities, which contribute to the
elimination of substance abuse, child abuse & neglect, and violence. Mission Statement of Prevention Works! To reduce risk factors which lead to substance abuse,
child abuse and neglect, and violence by assisting families with children from
conception through four years of age; by strengthening protective factors and
enhancing the resilience of children, youth, and families in Clallam County. Goals of Prevention
Works! 1.
Encourage community groups to work together toward the Clallam County
Prevention Works! Community Coalition Mission. §
Secure
collaborative funding, shared agency space, cross training, set the
expectation for collaborative initiatives, recognize collaborative
initiatives, board of directors provide leadership, integrate systems, promote
inter-agency coordination on a cases by case basis, endorse collaborative
efforts, develop inter-agency service teams for families, training on how to
collaborate, ropes course (Networking) §
Calendars
of parent education and home visitors services-for purposes of referring §
Work with
law and justice portion to have prevention as part of their mindset §
Advocate
for health care access for families (dental, mental, medical) §
Cross
training/resource sharing between disciplines (home visiting, parent ed.,
community health nurse) 2.
Bridge the gap between research and practice through the development
and implementation of ongoing prevention activities. Educate on research based
practices, recognize agencies that are using research based practices, develop
a prevention resource library from which cost and service effective prevention
strategies can be created, find means for educating the public about this
goal, PW! Website, invite “experts” to the community, connect to UW,
research community, foundation, corporations, etc, incubator for the
community, promote the coalition for state & national recognition, funding
follows research based practices. (Direct Service) 3.
Actively solicit prevention-focused projects and funding. Train providers on fund raising
and grantwriting, secure $ to hire community grantwriter to support coalition
projects. (Funding) § Task force for long term funding §
Make the
501 © 3 decision (times 3) 4.
Provide educational opportunities to realize the mission of Prevention
Works! Provide prevention focused
educational opportunities. (Marketing and Training) Community norming around prevention § PR and marketing of who we are as an organization (video 10-12 minutes) § Cross training/resource sharing….see goal 1 §
Diverse training for diverse parent educators for diverse
parents of diverse children (need for multiple types of parents
education-parent to parent; curriculum 5.
Advocate for research based prevention activities to policy makers,
providers, community members, and businesses. (Action/Advocacy) § Community norming around prevention. § Work with law and justice portion to have prevention as part of their mindset. §
Advocate for health care access….see 1 6.
Encourage expansion of parent education, home visiting, and quality
childcare. (Focus Areas) 7.
Initiate and facilitate the development of a Community Prevention Plan.
(Vision) ·
Substitute “Chemical Dependency” for “Substance Abuse?” Reminder regarding the Mission Statement The goals must be measurable. a) How do we reduce risk factors? b) How will we strengthen protective factors? c)
How do we enhance the resilience of children, youth, and families?
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