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HomeMy WebLinkAbout201107_SAAB_Min_Jul1 DRAFT JEFFERSON COUNTY SUBSTANCE ABUSE ADVISORY BOARD Tuesday July 12, 2011 3:30 – 5:00 PM Mt. View Facility 1925 Blaine Street, Port Townsend Room 6 Meeting Minutes Board Members Present: Conner Daily, Ray Hunter, David Sullivan, Catharine Robinson, Mike Phimister, Arnie Danberg, Fran Joswick ,Hargopal Boyd, Sam Markow, Kay Pownall Board Members Absent: Anne Dean, Tony Hernandez, Coleman Riddle, Chase Glenn Staff Present: Ford Kessler, Teresa Wirth, Kelly Matlock, Julia Danskin Staff Absent: Guests: I. Introductions II. Approval of Agenda –M/S/A David Sullivan/Catharine Robinson/All III. Approval of the May 2011 SAAB meeting minutes M/S/A Ray Hunter/Catharine Robinson/All IV. Public Comments/From the Floor/Announcements Julia reported that Anne Dean has verbalized her intention of resigning from the SAAB. She will be submitting her letter of resignation. V. Provider Reports Prevention – Kelly DBHR Prevention Redesign – Cohort 1 The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) is underway with the Prevention Redesign Initiative (we have been referring to this as “Cohort 1”). For Jefferson County the next step/steps will be a series of trainings over the next eight months by the evidence-based Communities that Care from the UW and DBHR staff for the Jefferson County Community Network (JCCN) Board Members. Julia Danskin and Kelly Matlock are working to open up participation in these trainings to other interested community members, specifically SAAB Board Members. Project Alert DBHR has changed the way that it is funding prevention services for Jefferson County through the Prevention Redesign Initiative. With this restructuring there is no money for the direct service delivery of Project Alert. There are City of Port Townsend prevention funds through 12-31-11 that will be used for Karen Obermeyer’s facilitation of the Project Alert classes for the 6th and 7th grades at Blue Heron Middle School in the fall of 2011. City of Port Townsend prevention funds for 2012 are unclear at this time. Jefferson County Public Health is working to identify funds that can be used to pay for Karen Obermeyer to facilitate Project Alert classes to the other middle schools in the county for the 2011 – 2012 school year. 2 DRAFT Port Townsend High School Student Task Force The Port Townsend High School Student Task Force received a scholarship from the Washington State Office of the Attorney General to attend the Spring Youth Prevention Summit May 18th and 19th at the Great Wolf Lodge in Grand Mound, Washington. The students made a presentation on the social norms campaign they did last spring. Protecting You / Protecting Me Chimacum School District (only has PY/PM in the 5th grade class) 5th grade - Kelli Greenspane facilitated all 8 lessons. Port Townsend School District 5th grade - Mike Evans and Garin Williams facilitated all 8 classes. 4th grade- will start with the classes next year. 3rd grade – Jeanie Glaspel facilitated all 8 lessons. 2nd grade – Jeanie Glaspel was unable to do these lessons this year. 1st grade - Jeanie Glaspel facilitated all 8 lessons. PLEASE NOTE: Jeanie Glaspel has retired. Greg Peterson will be replacing her. Kelly Matlock is working with DBHR to get the funds to have Greg Peterson trained in the curriculum for next year. Lynn Humphrey, a volunteer with the PT Police Department, will be training in the curriculum this summer in order to facilitate the classes for the 4th grade at Blue Heron Middle School for the 2011 – 2012 school year. Quilcene School District Unable to facilitate any grade levels due to budgetary concerns. Brinnon School District Classes in Brinnon are combination grade levels. This year all students in the combination classes received one of the PY/PM grade level curriculums. This was the first year that Brinnon had these classes facilitated, and the feedback from the staff was very enthusiastic and supportive. Public Health- Julia The next Board of Health meeting is scheduled for Thursday, July 21, 2011 County Drug and Alcohol Coordinator Ford Ford announced that there has been a 2% budget cut for the upcoming fiscal year and it is anticipated there are more to come. The Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) is currently exploring different models for service delivery. VI. Old Business Relapse Prevention Jail Program Fran Pat reported that there continues to be approximately 15 people per month attending the Relapse Prevention program in the jail. Additionally, there are 4 AA meetings in the jail per week. Let’s Draw the Line Kelly/Mike Let’s Draw the Line has taken a back seat to other projects. Mike presented the following proposal to the SAAB on a possible SAAB project. On June 29, 2011, Barbara Hansen, Kelly Matlock, and Mike Phimister met at Port Townsend High School to discuss a project aimed at addressing the consequences of underage drinking. Carrie Ehrhardt was aware of the topic of the meeting but was unable to attend. 3 DRAFT A recent presentation of the current Washington Healthy Youth Survey (middle school through high school) was made by Jefferson County Public Health to community members. The results of the survey indicate that Jefferson County youth have elevated levels of substance use (alcohol and other substances) when compared to the statistics for Washington State. This information supports the observations of Barbara Hansen, the PTHS and CHS Prevention Specialist, in her work with local youth in terms of how pervasive substance use and abuse is among county teens. Due to the age of the survey respondents, the implication exists that they are being supplied by adults, some of whom may also be providing user friendly environments where underage drinking/drugging is permitted. Earlier this year the Jefferson County Substance Abuse Advisory Board gave tentative approval to support the Let’s Draw the Line, a Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) state-wide media campaign for the spring of 2011. The objectives of this campaign were to: Mobilize youth groups across the state to carry out this campaign to inform adults as to the legal consequences for supplying alcohol to minors; To proactively let the adult community know that youth want the community’s support in keeping alcohol out of the hands of minors; and To start a conversation in our communities about this issue. Initially the PTHS Student Task Force chose to take on this campaign project for the City of Port Townsend. While the Student Task Force was able to fulfill many of the required tasks associated with the campaign, due to a variety of factors, it was not able to complete the campaign as prescribed by DBHR. Consequently the local efforts did not generate a community dialogue regarding the issues of underage drinking. HISTORY OF THE PARENT PARTY PATROL Linda Elliott was a concerned parent in Tacoma, Washington. She began to ask where her underage son was spending his weekend evenings. She found out that he was attending underage drinking events. Linda then went to local law enforcement and asked if she could ride along on their underage drinking calls. From the information she gathered, Linda started a program called the Parent Party Patrol. The Parent Party Patrol, now a non-profit that has chapters around the country, attempts to inform parents of the consequences they and their children face when disaster caused by underage drinking occurs. The organization of PPP focuses on communicating with local citizens by means of a panel, made up of local citizens, that addresses a community gathering. A typical panel consists of a state or local insurance expert, a member of law enforcement, a parent of a child involved in an underage drinking event, an attorney, an emergency room medical professional and a city or county official. Attendees are typically concerned parents, grandparents raising grandchildren, non-parental guardians, members of local service organizations, and members of faith communities. Students are not asked to attend. Referrals for additional information are available to those requesting assistance. While the SAAB represents the whole county, Barbara Hansen, Kelly Matlock and I discussed the possibility of developing a local professional panel presentation like the ones that the Parent Party Patrol in Tacoma have developed to use as a pilot in Port Townsend. It would be my hope and objective to have this professional panel presentation occur sometime this fall and that it would generate the organization of a local Parent Party Patrol that would function countywide. Knowing that the PTSD did not have the ability at this time to take this on as a project, Kelly Matlock suggested that the professional panel presentation be presented to the SAAB in an effort to have SAAB take this on as a project. If SAAB decides to do this, the PTHS will provide a space for the presentation. Information about a community meeting 4 DRAFT could be disseminated via the local radio station, churches, school newsletters, and newspapers. If the SAAB agrees to support this project, it would be necessary to act in a timely fashion to establish a list of panel members and their willingness to participate and to schedule the presentation with PTHS. POSSIBLE TARGET DATES FOR PRESENTATION 10-3 - 6 11-1 – 3 IF THE PLAN IS ADOPTED, SOME OF THE NEXT STEPS FOR SAAB All Board Members are to bring two names of potential panelists to the August meeting. Not having a date for the event, a primary and backup participant would be important. Categories to be filled are: a. a state or local insurance expert b. a member of law enforcement c. a parent of a child involved in an underage drinking event d. an attorney e. an emergency room medical professional and f. a city or county official To set (negotiate) a date, a SAAB Board Member will need to contact the primary community members or the secondary community member who have volunteered to be a part of this panel presentation and Carrie Erhardt, the PTHS Principal. Once a date is set, who will be responsible for creating a flyer? Mike Phimister will handle the posting at obvious locations. Once a date is set, SAAB members who will commit to contacting media/organizations for promotion need to be determined. A source for resource information (pamphlets, etc.) needs to be found. At some point the District Superintendent and the School Board will have to be informed. Who will do this before a presentation date is set? Please note: A Superintendent who is sensitive to dispersal of student use and drug information may not approve of the presentation...especially around levy time. Brainstorm other steps. Subcommittee work groups No reports VII. New Business Fran presented the following proposal for a SAAB Community Outreach project Purpose of the project: To increase the awareness of community members of the hidden and collateral costs associated with substance abuse, alcohol and prescription medication to Jefferson County residents. To be accomplished through presentations by SAAB members to community groups and organizations. Committee #1 Develop a list of appropriate community organizations with the name of group, program contact person and phone number. Committee #2 Develops outlines for speakers to use for presentations using The Collateral Cost Study and The Drug Take Back program. Presentations to include dollar amounts in specific areas and remedial actions already in place (jail relapse prevention and drop off boxes). The outlines will serve to promote consistency and accuracy when speakers address groups but allow for individual delivery styles. 5 DRAFT Committee #3 Select 4 organizations from the list compiled by Committee #1, contact the appropriate person and do a presentation to the group using the outline developed by Committee #2. Be prepared to lead a short discussion period to obtain feedback and possible solutions to the problems identified in the presentation (teams of 2 suggested). Fran asked SAAB members to sign up for the above mentioned committees. COMMITTEE 1 Arnie Danberg – Lead Mike Phimister Catharine Robinson David Sullivan COMMITTEE 2 Hargopal Boyd – Lead Kay Pownall Conner Daily Chase Glenn COMMITTEE 3 Ray Hunter – Lead All members Adjourn— M/S/A Hargopal Boyd/Catharine Robinson/All Meeting ended at 5:00 pm Next Meeting: August 9, 2011 Respectfully submitted by: Teresa Wirth