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Midwest Regional Children’s Advocacy Center
Advisory Board Meeting Minutes
April 7, 2009
Present: Stacie Papineau, Amy Boydston, Sheri Miller, Monica Maurer, Erin Baker-Daggett, Paula Condol, Jay Wood, Billie Larkin, Jeanne Meyer, Ivy Riveland, Jan Lutz, Jane Braun, Anne Cherek
Agenda:
New conference line phone number: from now on we will be accessing the following phone number for all of our advisory board calls: 1-877-729-6158. Follow the prompts and when prompted, the meeting room/reservation number is 8324014521 followed by the # sign.
Leadership reimbursement: there will be a cap of $1500 in reimbursement to attend leadership to include: hotel, registration and airfare. Anne can book your flights if you choose.
Journal Club: 4 mental health calls will be scheduled for each month. Future calls will include victim advocacy, to begin in 3 months, followed by a call for directors over the next year.
Hospital Summit: August 3-4, 2009 in Bloomington, MN. Ideally we’d like to have “teams” of a CAC director, Medical Provider and an MDT member. Each region will select several “teams” to attend, for a total of 12 teams.
Funding increase: our next fiscal payout will increase and we’re coming up with ideas on how to utilize these funds. Jane stated that she would like to give the chapters an additional $5000 if the chapter has a paid coordinator (not necessarily full-time) and not a coordinator who is a CAC director. Forensic Interview training and Facilitator training are two areas where we would like to begin providing scholarships to with this increase in funds. Addtionally, the NCA n.e.t. partial funding pool would be increased. If you have other suggestions please email Jane.
Telehealth(THICM): Jane asked everyone to please continue to press your center directors to encourage their medical providers to sign-up for Telehealth. To sign-up people should go to www.thicm.org and click on “join THICM” to complete a pre-registration survey. After completing the survey they will receive an email with login-information within 48 hours.
State updates:
Illinois: Billie stated that the chapter helping the CACs in the state that have accreditation coming up. The chapter is getting ready for their fundraising walk in May. The chapter is also working on restructuring the board of directors. Billie requested that everyone get together during Leadership to network and discuss what’s going on in their states. Chapter surveys were sent out for a talk Billie is doing at Leadership- only 28 have been received. Please send them in ASAP.
Indiana: Jan reported that the state- wide training for court testimony is continuing to be presented with the next session being May 4th. A new CAC was opened in a county where they closed doors last year, and two new centers are scheduled to open by the end of April.
Iowa: Stacie reported that the chapter plans for a state-wide MDT training in May. The chapter is working on developing a website.
Kansas: Amy reported that the chapter is sponsoring a pre-conference at a state conference in the next month. The chapter will also provide some NCAtrak training. Amy attended all video streams on the standards for accreditation and is creating a self-assessment for Centers to use prior to site reviews. She offered to share this with anyone who is interested.
Missouri: Jay reported that the chapter is involved in appropriations at the legislator and involved in the budgeting process. The state held a prevention conference that had a great turnout. Missouri’s Safe Care training was held and it was also well attended and received.
Michigan: Sherri reported that the chapter is working towards chapter accreditation. Sherri is the state chapter coordinator. The chapter is also striving to outreach to the CACs in the northern part of the state.
Nebraska: Ivy reported that the chapter has been doing/planning a lot of training. The chapter is also working on accreditation and obtaining VOCA funding.
South Dakota: Erin reported that the chapter is planning for their summer retreat plans, chapter accreditation, and are working on their 501c3 paperwork as well. Erin is also visting with the state’s CACs.
Wisconsin: Jeanne reported that they just had a chapter meeting, and a smaller group within the chapter will work on plans for the chapter’s future.
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