Preconception to Preschool March 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 Preschool March 2003</B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>PreConception to PreSchool Life Cycle Meeting</B></div> <div> <B>March 12, 2003</B></div> <div> <B>MINUTES</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Present: </B>Vicki Johnson (First Born), Nancy J. Hudson (Life Quest),  </div> <div> Shauna McCosh (Relaciones), Kathleen Trumbull (DOH, DSN), </div> <div> Donna Flenniken (La Familia-WNMU), Vicki Anderson (SWAK), </div> <div> Nikki Zeuner (HMS), Jamie John, Kendra Milligan (GCCHC) </div> <div> John Eich (GCCHC), Jane Olson (GCCHC).  </div> <bR> <div> <B>Program Updates:</B> </div> <bR> <div> First Born</div> <div> -We have been nominated for a National Award for having an exemplary program!; programs in NM have received two awards to date</div> <div> -<B>There will be a March of Dimes Pregnancy Workshop March 19, 10-5pm presented by Chris Jepson.  Attendees will learn how to train others in both a group setting and in a one-on-one home setting.</B></div> <bR> <div> Hidalgo Medical Services Family Support in Grant County</div> <div> -there are three Family Support Centers in conjunction with La Vida Resource Centers in Grant County</div> <div> -the Silver City office just opened and provides the Medical Assistance Program (MAP) Wednesday and Friday 9-12 where folks can sign up for free medication from pharmaceutical companies</div> <div> -people with low income may sign up for HMS sliding fee and/or Medicaid</div> <div> -Promatoras are trained with La Vida</div> <div> -their Diabetes classes will begin in July</div> <div> -they are working on integrating programs with other programs; GRMC is interested in collaborating</div> <div> -a Family Support Center is receiving the computer from UNM that has access</div> <div> to medical information, if you have a child in your program with a specific</div> <div> medical issue, you can use this computer, anybody can use it and the</div> <div> computer can be used for other things as well, 1-2 Promatoras will be trained</div> <div> on how to use it</div> <bR> <div> SWAK</div> <div> -Vicki Anderson is the Coordinator for Access and Visitation</div> <div> -have residence centers for Teen parents, Teen Residents and Boys</div> <div> -continuing participation in the CASA Program</div> <bR> <div> La Relaciones</div> <div> -Shauna got in! yay for her, boo for us, yay for us when she comes back in three years with all her new knowledge, skills and a Family Nurse Practitioners degree</div> <div> -She leaves in August and has to figure out what to do with her grant money, she needs to transfer her Adolescent Family Prevention funding to somebody else</div> <bR> <div> Life Quest Early Intervention</div> <div> -a proposal is being written for more early intervention services and GRMC or HMS will be the agency-yay!</div> <div> -Nancy is leaving for Chesco TOTS in Las Cruces-boo!</div> <div> -she will recommend that Torie Grass be the new director of Life Quest</div> <bR> <div> DOH Families Entitled/ UNM PreSchool Network </div> <div> -Kathleen Trumbull is the regional consultant to Early Intervention</div> <div> communities and provides training/technical assistance in classrooms for 3</div> <div> 4 year olds </div> <div> -she is moving to Las Cruces-boo!</div> <div> -she will be in her office at WNMU on Tuesdays through April</div> <bR> <div> La Familia-WNMU</div> <div> -new funding to help schools create a situation to help special needs children,     program is starting in July for one year</div> <div>       -they have received materials from the Center for Development and Disability</div> <div>       to provide a library with lots of videos and information for the public to use, a</div> <div>       list of the materials will be distributed</div> <bR> <div> <B>New Business:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Life Cycle's Priorities -> Grant County Health Council's Strategic Plan</B></div> <div> This is not to create more work but, to have the blessing of the Health Council when writing grants for funding our priorities.  Also, the State's DOH is becoming more outcome oriented and wants the Life Cycles to have a strategic planning process so that they can fund our activities based on us fulfilling these types of organizational requirements.   </div> <div>      Can we combine our priorities into three objectives rather than picking three?</div> <div> How about under a Mental Health objective: ATOD prevention, Child Abuse and Neglect, and Mental Health Providers with expertise in working with families and children.  Then under a Health Care objective: family planning, sexually transmitted disease prevention and treatment, prenatal care, breastfeeding support, immunizations, well-child checks, children with medical insurance and a medical provider.  And then under a Family Wellness/Support/Outreach objective: Home Visitation programs, father involvement, early intervention for children with or at risk for developmental delay, childcare, and include family resource centers (HMS).  </div> <div> We need a teen item; specifics of Teen Pregnancy including Pregnancy Prevention since we're PreConception, Teen Parents, and then also Teen Housing (SWAK).  </div> <div>      For the purposes of the strategic plan we can just flip these priorities into action steps like, continue to provide home visitations, parent resources, early intervention and/or family resources.  Other action steps can be letters of support, shared trainings, shared resources, service coordination.  Outcomes could be like, number of shared resources, cross referrals/inter-agency referrals.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Funds Available for Life Cycle's Needs</B></div> <div>      The Silver City YWCA initiative has publication costs for their first brochure.  They are finishing their strategic planning process and the Silver City YWCA will be in El Paso's overall strategic plan by May.  There is a meeting Friday, March 14 to work on Community Childcare and After School programs and programs for THIS summer.</div> <div>      A Fatherhood Initiative would be a great use of our money.  We can have a grant written with this money. We need to research who is funding these types of programs.  Mentoring money seems to be the source and John will find out about that specifically. La Familia has no reading materials/books/videos on fatherhood and fathers have come in to ask for them.  Getting these resources can be part of the grant to be written.  We can pay for 33 hours of research/grant writing.  John is the best person for the job.  We will have a contract written up for John to write a grant for a fatherhood initiative!</div> <bR> <div> <B>SWORD Health Fair</B></div> <div> <B>     </B>The Life Cycles will have a booth at the health fair and Jane Olson will be staffing it for the beginning of the day.  Give her any brochures/information/posters that you want advertised with the Pre-Pre Life Cycle at this event.</div> <bR> <div> Old Business:</div> <bR> <div> <B>Substance Abuse/CPS Reporting Training</B></div> <div> Shauna will email Los Pasos again for information on their harm reduction training.  We will wait until CPS has a new director to meet with them. We may gather together many groups and programs to undergo a Motivational Interviewing training.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Pre-Pre Resource Directory</B></div> <div> We should do something different that the 1-page Maternal-Child Resource list. The entry should be the service being provided and we should be cautious about the limitations of a 1-page resource directory.</div> <div> <B>  </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Next Meeting: April 9, 11-noon at Life Quest Early Intervention building</B></div> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>