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Port Townsend Empowered Teens Coalition Meeting Minutes
October 25, 2022
3:30-4:30pm
Purpose of meeting: Coalition Assessment Tool (CAT)
Facilitator for this meeting: Lindsay Scalf
In attendance:
Sector Representative
Youth
Parents
Businesses
Media
Law enforcement
Religious or fraternal organizations Albert Scalf
Schools Holly McIlvaine
Jessica Garcia
Civic/Volunteer groups LoLo Sherwood
Organizations serving youth Liz Uchitelle
Emily Abell
Healthcare Professionals Claire Chambers
State, local, or tribal governmental agencies
Other organizations involved in reducing substance
use
Andrew Fechenbach
Holly Gumm
Laura Tucker
Time Activity
3:30 Started meeting
Introductions
3:35 Updates
• Emily Abell updated the group about a recovery project for youth under the age of 28.
Any youth under the age of 28 who have lived experience of substance-use disorder can
participate to share their story and get trained in a destigmatizing recovery framework
from either the Mockingbird Society or True Colors United.
• Vaping Prevention Education report- THANK YOU to Holly McIlvaine and Mr Twomey at
Blue Heron Middle School for inviting the coalition to speak to the 8th graders! We
facilitated vaping prevention education for eighty-five 8th graders. The lesson included
three health-fair style stations which discussed:
Facts about Vaping: Students learn that vapor products actually produce aerosol mist, not
vapor! Ingredients in vapor products. Observation of a pig lung to understand how a
healthy lung functions.
Media Literacy: Students critically analyze the messages we see in the media, and how
corporate 'big tobacco' tries to influence health decisions to gain new/lifelong consumers.
Addiction and the Brain: Students learn about the rewards circuit of the brain, and how
nicotine impacts dopamine. Students participate in an activity 'all tied up' that explores
the difference between a 'habit', and an 'addiction'.
• CPWI Survey- 132 responses so far, DBHR requires 180 from PT and the deadline is
November 15
• Guiding Good Choices- Tuesdays from November 8-December 6, 6-8pm at JCPH
• Medication Take Back events in Quilcene and Port Ludlow
• Holly Gumm updated about “My Shoes My Story” project, youth are decorating shoes to
tell their ‘story’ about any subject they want legislators to know about. Lindsay and Holly
G and Holly M will connect about doing this project with the prevention club at Blue
Heron.
• Holly Gumm updated about guided hikes with Wild Society- November 5 is the next hike
and it will be focused on ‘Mindfulness’, contact hgumm@co.jefferson.wa.us to register.
3:55 Coalition Assessment Tool
We took 10 minutes to complete the Coalition Assessment Tool. Though the survey asks for a
name in order to fit the response into the database, when the responses are made into a report
on my end, it is de-identified so I won't know who says what.
https://washington.prevention.systems/test/14547242zTu2isK1ik2IRfojuhNlYzVHv
4:05 Community Development project with University of Washington Community Oriented Public
Health Practice Program.
• overdose prevention policy capacity building project with ten students from UW to assess
community readiness for naloxone policy implementation in Jefferson county
• November 2-December 16
DRAFT PROJECT SCOPE Research Questions
• How many public spaces in Jefferson County have an overdose prevention policy, or have
one and need to access naloxone to have on hand, or don't have one at all?
• What is the best way to outreach to businesses, bars, nightclubs, restaurants, to provide
education about naloxone, overdose prevention, and ‘never use alone’ to make sure that
all substance consumers are provided with overdose prevention if/when they need it?
• What kind of stigmatizing language related to substances exist in current overdose
prevention policies? What are ways to reframe that language to reduce stigma of
substance consumers, stigma that can isolate them from community networks of harm
reduction/recovery?
4:15 • Red Ribbon Week update from Holly McIlvaine, fun activities for youth and lots of
participation in projects related to a substance-free campus.
• Olympic Prevention Partnership Mini grants- opportunity for funding of any pro-social
event for youth. Funding would become available in January 2023, and would need to be
spent by the end of June 2023. Laura will send out information on how to apply for
funding.
• Introductions to welcome Claire Chambers into the group, welcome Claire!
• Discussion of where to find the nearest ballot box, don’t forget to get your ballot in on or
before November 8!
4:25 Closed meeting
Next meeting: November 22 3:30-4:30pm via zoom
Lindsay Scalf
Pronouns: she/her
Community Prevention and Wellness Initiative Coordinator
Jefferson County Public Health