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Board Members in attendance:
Ron Trusler, CPC, President
Jere Newton, RCI, Vice President
Cherrie Shackelford, Secretary, Family Partner
Jeffrey Tunnell, Treasurer, CFO Central Plains Center
Carrie Barden, Chief, Lamb Co. Juvenile Probation
Brenda Cox, Workforce Sol.
Sheryl Russell, CPS
Debra Flores, TTUHSC SON
Maridel Montgomery, DRS
Ricardo Garcia, PISD
Stakeholders attending:
Ruby Walters, Consumer
Polly Earhart, RCI
Michael Cox, RCI
David Mclung, RCI
Kay Brotherton, RCI
Jose Serrano, RCI
James Kemper, RCI
Rhonda Jackson, CPC – WYC
Roger Karr, Lbk MHMR
Welcome and Introductions
President, Ron Trusler called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m.
Members and visitors introduced themselves. No corrections to the minutes, they stand approved as printed.
Financial report
Jeff – The remaining balance from our THI funds is $16,593 to spend by September 30th. After this week though, the balance will be under $4,000. Carrie inquired about there still being funds allocated for someone to still attend the Anger Management course. Jeff stated there would still be monies for the course. Sheryl made a motion to accept the budget summary Jeff presented and Carrie second it.
“Don’t Laugh at Me”
Ron – played an audio clip for us by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary. Peter was the special speaker and performer at the Georgetown conference last week in Washington, D.C. area. Operation Respect is his non-profit organization to spread the message of not making fun of others.
LEAF Focus Activity
Ron- The board needs to think of where we are headed. Again, each of our agencies will need to donate money/pay dues as board members, to support our continued community outreach. As a group we brainstormed about our strengths and desires.
LEAF agency strengths:
CPC- Mental Health, substance abuse, intelligence health
DARS- Training employment, resources
PISD- Educate students and parents, resources for community, accessibility
Uniting Parents- Case management, family child with special needs
School of Nursing TTU- Community service training certification
Workforce Sol.- training/jobs, youth programs, support services
CPS- Work with families in a variety of different ways
TX Rural Mediation- Mediation and training in all counties
Juvenile Probation- work with youth violations, laws and families
LEAF desires:
JP- would like to work with kids before they get in trouble, including younger siblings
CPS- if able to have families in services before a crisis intervention happens
Gang Task Force- wished there was more of this type of service for our youth
DARS- continue in our LEAF relationships, services in community, counseling in small communities to be paid for
PISD- needs more parental involvement especially in older grades
Uniting parents- desire parents to be accepting of help and resources, make resources known and available
RCI- needs more Hispanic consumer/family involvement
Our LEAF goal is to find a target we want to help. Email Ron your thoughts on these desires and resources. We will discuss these things further.
August meeting moved to 10th
The LEAF meeting for the month of August will be moved to the 10th instead of the 17th.
MHFA Schedule
Ron- Debra received her MHFA teacher certification last week. Ron and Debra will be doing training class for CIS, August 9,11, & 13th at Reese Center. Then next training will be Aug. 27, September 3, 17, 24 at Houston School. There are some openings for this class. CEU’s are available including TCLEOSE. Charge is $15 for non-employees of CPC.
Nomination/Election of Second VP
Ron- in our by-laws it states we are to have a Vice President. Sheryl and Maridel will be our nominating committee to come up with names to elect VP. Also we need a succession plan. Please refer to handout. Debra made a motion to accept the succession plan and Jeff second it. LEAF can oversee funds other than for mental health. Ron wants LEAF to be more than CPC and rotating officers would help this.
RCI update
A group of seventeen community partners attended the National Conference in Washington, D.C. last week including the RCI team and two youth. RCI’s Look of Hope calendar was entered into the ECCO awards and won the Community Outreach category. Rico, one of the youth, was allowed to help award the winners.
On October 19th RCI will take a group of people to Austin for the SOC Symposium at the Capital. Contact Kay if you have interest to attend.
August 10 & 11th the National Evaluation team will be here to see our system in place. So the LEAF and RCI meetings will co-inside with this time. Kim will be calling on community leaders to interview with the team.
Then, our youth partners will be presenting at the Symposium in Glendale, AZ
RCI recently hired James Kimber as Social Marketer. James really has a heart to make a difference.
David Mclung handed out RCI U-turn newsletter and Sho Out schedule.
For October 8 & 9th at a Peer to Peer training the youth have been asked to do a session and also at the Family Conference.
The U-Turn youth group completed there first video entitled 10:30. The video was put on Yellow Ribbon website as a suicide prevention. It can also be watched on youtube.com.
RCI will do a small public service announcement for YADA.
Representatives attended Jose’s Cultural Competence training from Wayland, Covenant Hospital, and CPC. An upcoming Free Cultural Competence workshop will be September 16 & 17, 20 & 21 in Plainview from 9 to 3 each day. The will be for licensed mental health professionals and other mental health professionals. Contact Jose at 291-0388.
Polly announced that Neighbor-to-Neighbor, the family partner support group meeting would be Tuesday, July 26th at 6:30 in the Whiteaker building. They will be sharing back to school tips for parents.
Meeting was adjourned at 11:30 a.m. with the RCI steward group meeting to follow. The next LEAF meeting will be August 10th starting at 9:30 a.m. at the Tommy Lewis Building.
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