InterAgency Alliance July 2006

<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>InterAgency Alliance July 2006</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>InterAgency Alliance</B></div> <div> <B>Agenda</B></div> <div> Thursday, July 20, 2006</div> <div> 8:30 a.m. at the Silver Consolidated School's Administrative Office</div> <bR> <div> <B>I.     Introductions & </B><B>Current Events -</B></div> <div> Ø     Boy's and Girl's Club is meeting the 4th Thursday of the month at noon at the Red Barn. </div> <div> Ø     Bayard passed a smoke free ordinance to take effect Aug. 10th. Includes bars and workplaces.</div> <div> Ø     DWI will meet at 11:30 a.m. in the Santa Clara City Hall on Aug. 8th.</div> <div> Ø     Aug. 4th at Penny Park Theater Loren Kahn Puppet and Object Theater at 7:45 p.m. Donations welcome. Recommended for children 9 and up.</div> <div> Ø     Sept. 30th Celebration of Boston Hill morning kick off at trail head. Speaker Dave Simon (sp?) Director of State Parks will be there. </div> <div> Ø     Oct. 14th Red Hot Children's Fiesta from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Penny Park. Planning meeting on July 27th at 10 a.m. at the Health Council office, 3202 N. Ridge Loop.</div> <div> Ø     Active and Alive kick off occurred call Melvyn Gelb for more info at 538-5318 ext. 112</div> <div> Ø     Child Care- new facilities are in the works and a drive to recruit new home providers call 538-6195</div> <div> Ø     Sept. 23 Regional Early Childhood Conference at Cobre High, call 538-6195 for more info.</div> <div> Ø     Speak Up, Grant County! Focus groups starting throughout Grant County on community health and wellness. Call 538-0200 for focus group date in your community or visit website <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Arial" ><U>http://www.gcchc.org</U></FONT></div> <bR> <div> Check Health Council website for all the community meetings : www.gcchc.org </div> <bR> <div> <B>II.     Old Business - </B></div> <div> A. Follow-up on May roundtable discussion re: Homeless Youth: Alice Jones stated that though interest was high in the topic there had not yet been a meeting. She suggested that the group consider how grandparent issues ties into the homeless youth matter since Grant County has 7 times the national rate for grandparents being primary care givers to grandchildren. She proposed that grandparent's issues be a topic for a future IAA roundtable discussion. The group agreed this would be a good place to start to tie homelessness into the broader issue that is affecting our community.</div> <bR> <div> <B>III.     New Business- </B></div> <div> A.     Roundtable Discussion in August - Meth - update: Melvyn Gelb discussed possible invitees for the roundtable. Four agencies, including Border Area Mental Health Services, will send representatives/speakers. The group suggested El Refugio, NM Legal Aid, CYFD, and JPPO as possible voices that need to be heard on how meth is affecting the community. </div> <bR> <div> <B>IV.     Community Committee Updates </B></div> <div> ·     <B>Therapy in Schools</B> - Next meet in August. Call Mary Stoecker for date and time, 538-8573 ext. 120. She urges anyone interested or involved in children's mental health attend. Also preventionists that have contracts to teach/train to schoolchildren coordinate their efforts at this group.</div> <div> ·     Governmental Committee- No meetings. Milligan reported that a new chair was needed after all the hard work Alice Jones did leading this committee.</div> <div> ·     Domestic Violence Task Force- Milligan reported the group was drafting a resource guide for domestic violence and sexual assault that would be available to the community. Plans for teen outreach involving DV awareness were being made. The group also hears updates from police on DV & SA issues. Some recent ones have involved meth users prostituting out children. Police and the DA's office are working at prosecuting the associated crimes they are seeing with meth connections. She urged the group to attend the meeting.</div> <div> ·     Fitness & Nutrition in Schools (FANS) will meet on Aug. 17th at 12:30 at the Health Council offices, 3202 N. Ridge Loop.</div> <div> ·     Continuum of Care- No report.</div> <bR> <div> V.     Life Cycle Updates - </div> <div> ·     Children's Life Cycle - Currently planning the Red Hot Children's Fiesta and is taking on mapping children's services in Grant County.</div> <div> ·     YAC (Youth Advisory Coalition)- No report.</div> <div> ·     Senior Life Cycle - No report.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Next Meeting: Roundtable discussion on Meth in the County---Thursday, August 17, 2006 at 8:30 a.m. at the Silver Consolidated School's Administrative Office</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>