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Board Members in attendance: Ron Trusler, President, CPC
Jere Newton, Vice President, Lamb Co. JPO/Leaf RCI
Cherrie Shackelford, Secretary, Family Partner
Jeffrey Tunnell, Treasurer, CFO Central Plains Center
Carrie Barden, Chief, Lamb Co. Juvenile Probation
Kathy Givens, The EDGE Mentoring
Maridel Montgomery, DRS
Sheryl Russell, CPS
Brenda Jones, CPC – ECI
Kelli Shurbet, City of Plainview HD
Beth Hoffman, RCI
Brenda Cox, Workforce Solutions
Irene Favila, MET
Ronnie Hathaway, Castro Co.
Danielle Askins, AHEC
Kay Harris, Crisis Center of the Plains Stakeholders attending: Ruby Walters, Consumer
Kim Peralez, Administrative Assistant RCI
Kay Brotherton, Project Director, RCI
Michael Cox, RCI
Eugene Wang, Lead Evaluator, RCI
DeAnn Lechtenberg, TA Coordinator, RCI
David Allison, RCI
Victor Madrigal, Regence Health Network
Cari Hamilton, RCI
Polly Earhart, RCI
Jose Serrano, RCI
Larry Keltz, PISD
A.J. Bonner, Plainview/Hale Co. Gang Task Force
Caren Smith, CPC
Carmen Laymon, CPC
Steve Martinez, New Life Church
Captain Alfonso Martinez, The Salvation Army
Liz Myrick, Communities in Schools
Pat Baker, site visitor, SAMSHA
Ruth Ornsby, site visitor, SAMSHA
Michele Herman, site visitor, SAMSHA
Gwen Palmer, site visitor, SAMSHA
Karrie Peoples, CPC
Eddie Subealdea, Juvenile Prob. Plainview
Maretta Smithen, Hale Co. Auditor
Melinda Silvas, Hale Co. Auditor’s Office
Ronda Jackson, CPC WYC
Sue Jan Glenn, Private Practice, LPC
Jessica Patton, Crisis Ctr. of the Plains
Janis Henderson, TTU-HDFS
Gilbert Trevino, Floydada ISD
Elida Cortez, Communities in Schools
Welcome and Introductions
President, Ron Trusler called the meeting to order at 9:30 a.m.
Members and visitors introduced themselves. Minutes stand approved as printed.
Financial report
Jeff – Remaining balance for budget is $46, 842. Expenditures are $3,158. Approved expenditures are $5,400 for anti-stigma bags and $10,000 for Telemed equipment (which has been ordered). A motion to approve the budget was made by Maridel Montgomery and second by Sheryl Russell. Mental Health First Aid update
This is 12-hour course to become certified. This course is to learn symptoms of mental health disorders and how to respond to someone in a mental health crisis. Upcoming classes will be in Littlefield in February, Plainview again in March, and possibly Bailey Co. Rotary Club. The class is $15 and Ron can do these for any organization or group. Minds on Edge
A short demo of the DVD by Dr. Fred Feise called Minds on Edge, Facing Mental Illness, was shown. We would like to use the DVD to show to communities, judges, law enforcement, schools, community clubs, colleges, etc. Veterans Funds
Central Plains Center will be applying for a Veterans grant from DHS to receive $70,000. The service will include peer-to-peer support and a community care coordinator for our Veterans. LEAF would just support their initiative to apply for this grant with no responsibility. Kay Harris made a motion to support this effort and Jere Newton second. Rural Children’s Initiative update
DeAnn – The first wraparound training will continue in February. To be certified you have to attend all four days. There will be new trainings starting after this first certification is complete.
Also DeAnn shared a new need seen in TTU is young veterans coming to college. TTU is looking at how to give them support, making schedules to fit their needs etc. SAMSHA partner site visit
The site visitors introduced themselves. They were here to get insight on how we are doing and what our problems may be. We will meet with them more in-depth in the RCI Steward group meeting. They will also be meeting this evening with family partners and youth. The SAMSHA team will be here all week meeting with our RCI team members. A last meeting will be Friday at the Tommy Lewis Building at 8:30 a.m. Anyone is welcome to attend. Rural Children’s Initiative Overview
Kay Brotherton presented a RCI overview on Power Point. Subject topic included the following:
· Statistics show communities with a Federal grant changes family and child that were served but also the whole community was changed for the better.
· Hale County is the applicant; LEAF is the governing board and CPC. This is a collaborative endeavor of the 3.
· Collaborative History starts in 1998 as a small workgroup of agency partners to 2007 becoming Llano Estacado Alliance for Families with MOU’s, by-laws and 501c status as of today.
· LEAF was the first one of four Texas Integrated Funding Initiative (TIFI) funding sites.
· In 2005 became a Texas Mental Health Transformation (MHT) community collaborative, which covers birth to grave mental health.
· LEAF has helped to receive community funding.
· We are one of seventeen in the US funded as SAMSHA in 2008.
· LEAF has special regional demographics from a low population density, major Hispanic population, and high levels of poverty, vast service area.
· We use System of Care core values: Focus on building on strengths, family driven, youth guided, cultural and linguistic competence, community based (using wraparound), and evidence based practice
· Our population of focus with SAMSHA grant is youth and their families, ages 5-21, experiencing serious emotional disturbance.
· Tier one focus is youth at highest risk of out of home placement/youth in placement and near returning home.
· Tier two is an elementary age child exhibiting behavior of concern.
· Our service strategy involves 11 counties divided into 3 regions. With service partners like: Communities in Schools, Whiteaker Youth Center, Lamb Co. Juvenile Probation, Wraparound providers, and LPHA contracts.
The meeting was adjourned at 11:30 a.m. with the RCI Steward group meeting to follow. Please be here by 11:00 a.m. for the steward group meeting. The next LEAF board meeting will be February 16, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. at Tommy Lewis building.
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