Chatham Community for Alcohol and Drug Free Youth
Minutes
December 15, 2010
Present: George Greger-Holt (Chatham Cy Schools), Susan Powell (CCADFrY), Colleen Hughes (US/PDFNC), Rob Schooley (Chatham Cy Schools), Tom Velivil (OPC Area Program), Alison Uhlenberg (Dept. Juvenile Justice), Suz Robinson (Chatham Cy Schools), Ellie Morris (Chatham Cy Public Health Dept), Adris Fortunato (El Futuro), Justin Lana (Chatham Cy Together!), Travis Patterson (Chatham Cy Together!), Troy Roberson (Pittsboro PD)
GREETINGS: George welcomed everyone and the group introduced themselves as several new members were in attendance.
ANNOUNCEMENTS/UPDATES:
Susan and Troy shared highlights of their recent visit to DC as part of the White House Drug Free Community Grant of which CCADFrY is a recipient for the next five years. While there they met the Director, Deputy Director and Division Supervisor of the grant. It is highly likely that at least one of them will visit us during the next few years for a community event.
Troy was also able to arrange a tour of the West Wing where Bo was frolicking in the Rose Garden and Oprah was also seen from afar. Susan loved seeing Bo.
Susan reported that the CCADFrY website has a new URL – chathamdrugfree.org. The website will be live soon. Susan also reported that the first electronic newsletter was sent to members on December 9, 2010.
Susan also announced that Maria Soto, CCADFrY’s former Hispanic Outreach liaison resigned to accept a full time position with Chatham County Together! Susan met with community partners at Hispanic Liaison and El Futuro who have agreed to work closely with us to reach our Latino families.
AGENDA ITEMS:
Parenting/Safe Homes - Suz asked for input on locations for the parenting workshops to be held February – May 2011. Members in attendance agreed to hold two workshops in Siler City (one at the Armory and one at a faith-based site) and two in Pittsboro (one at Margaret Pollard and one at a faith-based site).
A Parent/Safe Home Committee was formed with Travis and Troy signing up as members, along with Suz. Alison, Ellie and Addis expressed interest. Any other members are welcome to email Suz (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) and let her know you would like to be part of the committee.
Suz and Susan will meet Tuesday, December 21st to discuss the parent/safe homes committee. Suz will then contact all individuals to expressed interest in the subcommittee to arrange a meeting prior to the next CCCADFrY meeting so an agenda and the first location, date and time can be arranged prior to the next CCADFrY meeting.
Susan passed around the new Safe Homes/Safe Stores logo. She then reported that the goal of Safe Homes is to increase awareness in communities about the risk factors present in neighborhoods; to determine if policies are appropriate and if not to develop new policies; and to survey community norms around safe homes.
Youth Training – Susan announced that Erik Rowles would provide training for SAAD groups in March. If CCADFrY likes the program, Erik will be hired for future youth training.
Colleen reported that Kyle Smith would lead the TRU (Tobacco Reality Unfiltered) Groups at Chatham and Horton Middle Schools. Recruitment will be held in January and events will be held the rest of the year.
Troy and Susan discussed the partnership that CCADFrY has agreed to with Pantry, Inc (Kangaroo stores) as part of SAFE stores. All Kangaroo employees will receive free BAR training by an Alcohol Law Enforcement (ALE) agent. CCADFrY will pay for the training.
Melinda will create employee underage alcohol sales attitude pre/post surveys for employees. Susan will need CCADFrY volunteers to assist Troy in collecting the attitude surveys. Troy will coordinate underage youth purchase surveys, with officers in attendance, upon completion of the training.
Kangaroo managers shared that employees currently participate in online training, which is extremely ineffective.
Medicine Drop – Troy announced that the statewide medicine drop campaign would begin in midMarch. This year there will be multiple locations for medicine to be dropped off in a coordinated effort across Chatham County. Pittsboro Police, Siler City Police, and Chatham County Sheriff’s Department will all participate in the collections. Troy recommended that we purchase additional banners so one will be available at each site. He also asked for volunteers to be willing to assist with the medicine drop-off. Last year the collection time was on a Friday afternoon from noon – 4pm.
Logic Model – Susan requested that we move developing the Logic Model to next year. With all that we are undertaking this year, there were no objections.
Next meeting will be held Wednesday, January 19, 2011 in Troy Roberson’s office at CCCC on the Pittsboro campus.
No further business, the meeting was adjourned.
Respectfully Submitted,
Suz Robinson