Midwest Regional Children’s Advocacy Center
Advisory Board Meeting Minutes
March 6, 2007
Present: Jane Braun, Anne Cherek, Kim Martinez, Sara Schumacher, Paula Condol, Amy Boydston, Sondra Schwehn, Jan Lutz, Ben Murray, Tom Frost, Sue Tesdahl, Kathy Pomahac, Jay Wood,
Date of Next Call: Tuesday April, 3rd, 11 am CST
Agenda:
Jane talked about the following:
Accreditation Bootcamp: will be held:
Western Region in Colorado Springs, CO May 8-9, 2007
Midwest Region in Chicago, IL, July 17-18, 2007
This year, bootcamp is combining new sites and sites up for re-eval.
New Non-member Grantees for 2007: new non-member grantees will be brought together in St. Paul May 1st (2p-6p) – 2nd (8a-12p). This is taking the place of the on-site visits from NCA and the Project Director. Travel should hopefully be able to be same day, on both days.
2007 grant review results from NCA: results shown by grant category % funded (success rate). No one from the MW region was funded in program expansion, tribal, non-member training, or research. Jane mentioned that as a region, we’re going to need to work on that.
- NCA reminded PD’s to remind chapter’s that the program support grants that go out to CAC’s and Chapters, need to be completely spent. NCA does not want any money back, as it is to their advantage to spend it all.
-NCA grants people will call the new non-member grantees 2x/year to check in and offer support.
Chapter accreditation training committee: has completed their work and hope to present to the Board of Directors in June, and then presented at the National Summit in OH in October. If approved, chapters can be begin applying for accreditation in 2008, with the oldest chapters to be first to be reviewed. The MW region does not have anyone being reviewed until 2009.
Training: national trainings that NCA and RCACs collaborate on are scheduled and agreed upon for the year (i.e.bootcamp). Additional trainings, sponsored by NCA and RCACs will not be held/scheduled. However, this does not mean individual states can’t do their own versions within their own states. But, it needs to clearly be identified that NCA and RCACs are not involved in these trainings, nor replace the trainings that are sponsored.
Kim reminded everyone to:
- Please send in their information for the new online atlas that will be going up on the MRCAC website this spring.
- There are still openings for Basic MTA, June 21-23, 2007. If you know of any medical professionals that would benefit from this training, please go the website www.childrensmn.org/mrcac under Medical Training Academy, and download a registration form.
State Updates:
IA: Sue reported that tapes of a girl interviewed at CAC, who was murdered by an offender, may be allowed in a federal sexual abuse/child pornography trail.
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