Preconception to Preteen July 2003

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=200 BGCOLOR="#990000" TEXT="#F7F7FF"> <div> <A HREF="http://www.gcchc.org" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.gcchc.org"><U>Home</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id17.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Calendar"><U>Calendar</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id18.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Grant County Information"><U>Grant County Information</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Health Council"><U>Health Council</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id20.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Council Staff"><U>Council Staff</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Community Meetings "><U>Community Meetings </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id89.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="InterAgency Alliance"><U>InterAgency Alliance</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id23.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Highlights "><U>Highlights </U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id453.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Resource Directory 2007"><U>Resource Directory 2007</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#FFFBF0" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <B>Preconception to Preteen July 2003</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Grant County Community Health Council</B></div> <div> <B>PreConception to PreSchool Life Cycle Meeting</B></div> <div> <B>July 9, 2003</B></div> <div> MINUTES</div> <bR> <div> <B><U>Present</U></B>: </div> <bR> <div> Cherry Cullen (Life Quest Early Intervention), Shauna McCosh (Relaciones), Donna Flenniken (La Familia), Terry Anderson (WNMU), Vicki Johnson (First Born), Jane Olson (GCCHC), Cathy Owens (WNMU-Social Work Dept.), Jennifer Bjornstad, Kendra Milligan (GCCHC), Carmen Munoz (El Grito Head Start), Roberta Jassu (Head Start), Beatrice Leger (HMS-Family Support Center), Nikki Zeuner (Family Support Centers).</div> <bR> <div> <B>Program Updates</B></div> <bR> <div> First Born Program</div> <div> -has been nominated by DOH's Behavioral Health Services Division for a federal award as being 1 of 10 innovative and exemplar programs in the nation</div> <bR> <div> La Familia</div> <div> -35 people are coming to training development workshop</div> <div> -offers stipends to come do the trainings</div> <div> -Fatherhood training series will be offered this fall and will include resources added to their library</div> <bR> <div> <B>New Business</B></div> <bR> <div> Expanding this Life Cycle to include K-8 Life Cycle</div> <div> -Everyone likes the idea of getting more involved with schools since it will help us pay attention to the pre-school issues of getting children prepared for school and focus on ways to help children achieve in school.</div> <div> -When we consider who else should be brought to this table who are not represented here, the prenatal component is apparently important especially with Shauna McCosh temporarily leaving our community and our meetings.  Folks to ask to come: Families First, WIC and Amy Duncan-midwife.  Also, social work interns from WNMU's Social Work Dept.</div> <bR> <div> New Consumer Co Chair for this Life Cycle needed</div> <div> -Jennifer Bjornstad hopes to be able to fill the vacant position.</div> <bR> <div> Presentation of ECO Mapping training by Cathy Owens from WNMU's Social Work Department</div> <bR> <div> This is a tool to use to help families and case management workers understand how the individual fits into the system that they are dealing with.  Comes directly from Systems Theory that has a biological basis; the parts within a system are parts of a whole and a change in one part affects the whole. </div> <div> Family Systems Theory looks at relationships as they relate to boundaries, roles and subsystems.  Problems in families usually stem from boundary problems; they're either too loose or too rigid.</div> <div> Ecological Perspective/ECO Mapping looks at how an individual relates to their family, groups and organizations, the community, the state, the nation and the world. </div> <div> When an individual is in the system, it focuses on teamwork and how important it is for agencies to work together when they are all dealing with the same person.  It is a good visual representation of how many agencies are serving that one individual and how information can be effectively sent to each other.  The most important piece in this is the indication of what type of relationships exist; direction of support, positive relationship, stressful/conflict, or tenuous.  An example of why understanding the system is important is take a child abuse case as an example. First, the police must give custody to the judge, therefore if a social worker doesn't like that decision, they must go to the judge, not the police.  Then, eventually the case must go to Children's Court but, if Criminal Court is dealing with charges affecting the child abuse case, the Children's Court must wait until Criminal Court is finished. Meanwhile if the family/worker has not made any negotiations over custody with the judge yet, the kid remains in custody of the judge.  It could take up to a year for the case to be resolved.  For the benefit of the child, it is important to know how the system works in this and every situation. Information sharing is important so that parents/case workers are able to get all of the information in order to make the most informed decisions for the children.</div> <bR> <div> This mapping can be used for the Health Council's new core team on family resiliency.  CPS, JPPO, HMS, BAMHs, and FBP (also, Bridge Builders is a piece of the core team) is wanting to look at the relationship that a family has with the system when there is a brush with the system or more than one brush, or when multiple family members are involved in the system.  The more that agencies are communicating and aware of how a family is involved, and all of the different parts of the system that they are effected by, the better the care that family and its individuals will receive from the system. </div> <bR> <div> Referral sources for prevention are key to this initiative.  Sources include daycares, schools, when unemployment occurs and is reported, when teen pregnancy occurs and is reported.  Then the person can be tracked within this system and given the best care and attention with an understanding of their history within the system.</div> <bR> <div> What is family resiliency? We're talking about resilient families and communities and our definition is: a family that navigates life's challenges together.  The definition can be applied to communities as well.  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Old Business/Shared Trainings</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Substance Abuse</B></div> <div> Sylvia Madrid from BAMHS will be here to make a presentation on working with families afflicted with substance abuse on August 7, 2003 from 11am to Noon.</div> <div> <B>YWCA</B></div> <div> -has lost considerable momentum</div> <div> <B> </B></div> <div> <B>Next Meeting: August 7, 2003 at the Life Quest building on Alabama St.</B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>