SFN Advisor Meeting

September 9, 2004

Workforce Center, Room 243

Present: Terry Raddatz, Linda Schwichtenberg, Molly Kalow, Lisa Treml, Anne Runck, Libby Bergen, Keri Lorenz, Darren Kermes, and Wanda Houska

Partner Check-ins

• CSEC and Court Services from Scott and Carver Counties are teaming together on the development of a day treatment school to be located at the Scott County JAF site. The program will be called 3Cs (choice, challenge and change). The organizers have been consulting with Harbor Shelter and are modeling after a similar program.
• Belle Plaine plans to implement the Steps for Respect, anti-bullying curriculum that has been used in the Shakopee District. Next year the districts will try to coordinate a cooperative training for staff in August prior to ‘workshop week’.
• Sunpath Elementary has received a $10,000 grant from the ADC Foundation for after school programming. Plans are to utilize this time for a Title I program so that students will not have to miss regular classroom instruction. It will be patterned after the GOALS program currently being done at the Middle School.
• Public Health has been busy with the ‘No Shots, No School’ policy. Park Nicollet Clinic in Shakopee has been very accommodating and helpful with this mission.
• Tentatively, the Nursing Center will be opening in October and will be located at the Anchor Center in the Workforce Center. Its function will be to assess, educate and refer.

April-June Reporting

Terry and Linda are working on modifying the Public Health Care Plan to meet wraparound criteria.

So far the collaborative has tracked 194 multi-agency plans for the 03-04 contract year. The group agreed that the quarterly tracking method that was started last year is working well. Wanda asked that Advisors contact her if they have any suggestions to make the process work more efficiently.

The list of reported plans will be distributed to the Steering Committee on Monday.

Oct-Dec LCTS Participant List

The deadline is TODAY for any changes that need to be made to those involved in the random moments. These changes will be effective for the Oct-Dec quarter. Participants can be deleted during the quarter but additions must be made at least three weeks prior to the beginning of the quarter.

Workgroups

Training

The next training for new Resource Coordinators is scheduled for 9-4, September 23. The morning section of the training includes SFN history, background and collaborative activities. It would be appropriate for new supervisory staff to attend this portion. The afternoon will include the ‘nuts and bolts’ of wraparound and how to make it work within different settings.

Training notes:

• Wanda and Terry will reserve a room.
• Wanda will send a notice to Advisors. It will be up to them to pass the information on to the appropriate staff within their organization.
• A separate notice will be given to Steering and supervisors to attend the morning section.
• Molly will present ideas for utilizing the wraparound process in the school setting. This will be the first time a school-specific section is included as part of the training.
• Use of the revised Inter Agency Referral Form will be included in the training.
• Use of the List Serv will also be included (if approved by Steering on 9/13)
• Wanda will put together manuals and a few kits. She will first check with Jan, Danelle, Terry and Molly to see which tools are used in the training.

Interagency Coordination

This work group will resume meetings soon and begin plans for the countywide intake meeting tentatively set for November.

Informal Resources

The work group has not met since the last Advisor meeting. Their plan is to present the List Serv idea to the Steering Committee on Monday and proceed with implementation based on their feedback.

Funding

Wanda briefly went over some possible changes in the formula the state uses to calculate the amount of LCTS funds the collaborative is able to generate. The change will inevitably result in a decrease in revenue for counties state wide.

Grant research and writing has been added to Wanda’s position. She has found that it is difficult to know the gaps and needs of each of the collaborative partners. A Project/Program Ideas form has been created so that partners can easily pass on this information to help Wanda focus her search. This form will be emailed to Advisors and put on the website.

Next Meeting

October 7^th 9-11am CAP Conference Room