Minutes — Advisory Board

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2013-06-05

Present: John Nash, Jennifer Perkins, Jillian Depew

Old Business

Jason Goree  has been hired to a new position and will not be able to provide coaching assistance at this time.

New Business

Our craft for this evening will be finishing the personalized key fobs. They have been dyed and tonight we will add the snaps and rivets.

The Blue van is not operational this evening but the White van is running.  As noted Jillian has joined us for the summer. Tonight will be her first evening driving for the season. John will be riding with her tonight to help her locate the children since it is her first run of the season.

The Monday computer class made generous donations to Adult Life Training this week, so we now have more than $1.42 in the checking account. Year-To-Date Financials have been posted.

Jennifer Moved to adjourn, John 2nd motion passed meeting adjourned.

2013-05-22

Present: John Nash, Jennifer Perkins

Old Business

We are continuing discussions with Jason Goree  about teaching physical fitness to the kids.  He hopes to join us in June.

Jullian Depew will be driving for us again this summer. She will be available starting June 1st so she will most like drive for us on the 5th.

New Business

Our craft for this evening will be personalized key fobs. This time they will get to do some dying along with the stamping. They will also get to do some riveting.

ACE Recycling will be picking up our used monitors and other electronic items tomorrow after 1pm.  Anyone with electronics needing recycling should have them here before 1pm.

Tomorrow morning we will go pick up a couple 5 ft round tables from love in deed. They were in a bank and are supposed to be in wonderful condition. We can now stop pirating the tables that belong to abundant life.

2013-05-15

Present: John Nash, Jennifer Perkins

Old Business

None

New Business

The Mother’s day activity of painting coffee mugs and planting  a flower inside was very well received. The kids had a great time.

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For tonight’s activity  we will be doing some leather crafting. Making arm bands and headbands stamped with their names and painted  in bright colors.

We are currently negotiating with the fabulous Jason Goree Master Chief and Chinese Martial arts expert. We are hoping he will be able to come and help us with relaxation, physical education and lots of wholesome fun.

John moved to adjourn Jennifer seconded motion passed meeting adjourned.

 

 

2013-05-01

Present: John Nash, Jennifer Perkins.  Mary Grepke

Called to order at 3:23

Old Businesss

None

New Business

We have two computer classes started this week. One is Monday 7pm the other is Thursday at 2pm the Monday class still has 4 seats open and the Thursday class has one seat open.

The Monitor at door three has stopped working and we are sharing one of our monitors with them during the day. It gets shuttled back and forth between the two rooms as needed.

Brother Smith was to  have a transportation meeting last week and find more drivers. John has a call into him but he has not gotten back with  him in regards to taking children home on Wednesday evenings.

Linda Lock will be cooking the food this evening.

We have a new slide show on our web site.

Jennifer motioned to adjourn Mary second motion passed.

 

 

2013-04-24

Present: John Nash, Jennifer Perkins.  Mary Grepke had a conflict this week and will be here next week.

Old Business:  None.

New Business:  The board has been on hiatus due to the moving of the lab and equipment.  Meetings are resuming now every Wednesday at 3pm.

Another series of computer classes are going to start  next week.  There are more people than the equipment will accommodate so there may be two classes.

Access to recovery: We have withdrawn from participation in access to recovery because we feel we can serve the community better with our own style and process. We will continue to help anyone who comes to us including people who are in access to recovery but the help will be free and within our own format.  ATR is an excellent program and we appreciate the time we were involved but we think we are more effective using our own style.

We may be looking with another local agency for job skills training. Together we will look for a grant to buy about 24 notebook computers to be shared with three agencies for job skill training.

We need our own tables for the community room. We had 12 nice chairs donated last week we now need two nice 5 foot round tables. The community room is a shared resource available on a reservation basis with room for about 30 people.  The room includes computers and large screen monitors of power point presentations. There is a coffee pot and refrigerator,

Jennifer moved to adjourn, John 2nd motion passed.

 

2012-07-25
Impromptu meeting held when Board of Directors could not meet due to lack of quorum.

Present:John Nash, Jennifer Perkins, Cammy Fox, Jillian Depew, Jolene Nash

Old Business
Nada.

New Business
Advisory board meetings have been inactive since February due to members working schedules. However, there is a need to coordinate. As such we will meet Wednesdays after the children have arrived at the computer lab to plan for the following week.

The Science Central trip last week was a big success. Next events to be considered are Pages Crossing, LazerX, and Miniature Golf.

Next week Jennifer and Jillian will pick up children. Jennifer knows where the children live, and Jillian will follow her to learn their locations. Jillian returns to her normally scheduled teaching work August 8, but we hope she can join us after work even though she gets off too late to drive.

Jennifer moved to adjourn, Jolene 2nd, Everyone else nodded. Motion carried.

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2012-02-01

Present:John Nash, Jennifer Perkins, Cammy Fox, Jolene Nash

Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. Jolene 2nd motion carried

Old Business

New Business
DAC Meeting is Monday from 12:00pm to 2:00pm

There have been some problems with vandalism and theft. A van window was smashed a couple of weeks ago. One of our directors had her nook stolen from her personal effects. So we need to make sure we are more alert of who is going in and out.

Jennifer moved to adjourn, Jolene 2nd, Motion carried.

2012-01-25

Present:John Nash, Jennifer Perkins

Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
Operation Immersion for ATR Provider Staff will experience life as a soldier and gain a bette4r understanding of Military Culture and the challenges that the military personnel face regarding substance abuse will be May 9-11, 2012 at Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Indiana.

We are still thoroughly enjoying our awesome office done by My PHD (pretty house designs).

John received a donation of a HP touch pad. We could immediately use a couple donations of the like more for our staff.

The last of the painting of the lab is still waiting to be finished due to the volunteer’s work schedule but expects to complete it tomorrow.

There will be a directors meeting tonight from 6:30 to 7:30. The following topics will be discussed. Where to put things in the lab once the painting is complete, what we should do for our 2012 budget, Operation Immersion, whether or not we should continue to subscribe to Grant Station, the use of a scholarship form in rendering our expense in free services and the need for six 1GB DDR rams so we can load windows 7 on all our computers.

Jennifer moved to adjourn, John 2nd, Motion carried.

2012-01-18

Present:John Nash, Jennifer Perkins, Cammy Fox

Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
There was a board of directors meeting and it was established that we will now have monthly meetings

New Business

The board meeting will be held next Wednesday January 25th from 6:30 to 7:30pm. If the advisory board has anything they would like brought up John needs to be informed by Tuesday.

There has been some contact with the Shepard’s house in regards to coming to a presentation about alternate employment opportunities for veterans. So once we have a presentation put together we will contact the Shepard House about scheduling.

Our outer office was redone by My PHD (pretty home designs).

It was suggested that we ask Bronson about helping with the Karen youth on Wednesdays.

Jennifer moved to adjourn, Cammy 2nd, Motion carried.

2011-12-14

Present:John Nash, Jennifer Perkins, Cammy Fox

Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business

There will be a board of directors meeting next week.

Love in deed share house sent us a Christmas card.

DAC (Drug & Alcohol Consortium) who’s mission is to provide an effective network to collaboratively prevent substance abuse, primarily by youth, and to reduce the negative impact of alcohol and other drugs in the Allen County community will have their holiday open house on December 20th from 11am to 4pm. We are invited to stop in for their tasty potato bar.

As mentioned our add campaign was approved. Now we need to check the landing page for spelling errors and find/create some graphics to put on the page to enhance the appearance.

Jennifer moved to adjourn, Cammy 2nd, Motion carried.

2011-12-07

Present:John Nash

Minutes skipped.

Notes: Jennifer was called to Florida unexpectedly Monday, and Cammy would normally come in at 5:00 to help. Jennifer picks up the Karen children and Cammy takes them home. Due to my error we did not get transportation arranged in time to have the Karen event today, so I canceled the event. –john

Old Business
None

New Business
Our ad campaign has been approved for the Google grant giving us a $10,000 per month advertising budget. We must now put together our program plan for “Back to Work 2012″.

Thursday evening Adult computer class starts tomorrow, Thursday December 8 at 6:30PM in ALC room 131-133. It will end at 8:30PM. Topic will be Beginners module, which has the new Ubuntu and Windows 7 photos added and is awaiting printing.

This and next week are the last weeks this year that we are open. We will close for year-end maintenance and book keeping Sunday, December 18, 2011 and re-open Sunday, January 8, 2012. We also need the donation of three (3) nice 2012 calendars — one for the computer lab wall, one for the office wall, and one for John’s office wall.

During the month of December we are will be assessing our performance through the last eight years and revising our five and ten year goals for the organization as well as outlining our programs for 2012.
Adjourned. With only one person present, the weather cold and depressing, and the evening event canceled, it was a short meeting. –john

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2011-11-30
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Due to thanksgiving holiday there was no meeting last week.

New Business
We were approved for the Google grant giving us a 10,000 dollar a month advertising budget. We have put together and submitted our first ad.

During the month of December we are will be assessing our performance through the last eight years and revising our five and ten year goals for the organization as well as outlining our programs for 2012.

Jennifer moved to adjourn, John 2nd, Motion carried.

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2011-11-16
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business

Verizon Foundation’s ThinkFinity.org has started a speaking series that looks promising. A link was posted in our blog.

ATR teleconference was today. Noteworthy points include:

• We want 3461 participants for the year in ATR III. After the first month of year two we have 346 client which is about right on target.
• The Access to Recovery provider forum will be November 18th (This Friday) at public safety academy. Any person or agency interested is invited to join us for that informal session.
• There will be training Dec 6th and 7th in Marion county. This will be the last policy and procedures training for this year. Anyone who wishes to participate in ATR III after December 31st must have had this training at some point in the year.

In December there will be a large number of warriors returning to us from in-country deployment as Operation Iraqi Freedom ends. The veterans administration has promised all returning warriors will receive 30, 60, 90 day counseling through veterans administration. We do not know what the impact will be on ATR. We also don’t know what the need will be for employment services since we specialize in services to help those having difficulty finding employment such as Seniors and those recovering from addictions.

Shepherd’s house in Fort Wayne has 7 beds available for any homeless veterans with an honorable discharge. Contact phone #260-424-2500.

Due to Thanksgiving Holiday next week we will be closed Thursday and Friday. SCSEP (senior aides) will be working 8 hours on Monday and Tuesday so as to still receive a full paycheck.

We need to get a Google+ page up for Adult Life Training.

There is an opportunity to get some online advertising from a Google Grants program. We would most likely meet the eligibility requirements. The program would provide the funding for Google AdWords pointing to our website. This would allow more persons who need computer job skill training to locate us. While talking with Google it was discovered that our website ranks number one in Google search listings for ‘Free Computer Training in Fort Wayne Indiana‘. To qualify as the first unsponsored link in a Google listing is a rare and coveted occurrence.

Entertained a motion to apply for Google grant. Moved by Jennifer, 2nd by John. Two in favor, none opposed, motion carried.

Jennifer moved to adjourn, John 2nd, Motion carried.

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2011-11-09
Present: John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Cammy 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
We have added some advertising from GoDaddy.com.

We did not see a whole lot on http://thinkfinity.org this week but we will keep watching and try to collect a program appropriate for elementary children. In the meantime we will continue helping them with their home work and having group play in the gym. As well as providing them with a snack.

Jennifer moved to adjourn. Cammy 2nd motion carried

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2011-11-02
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Carl Griffin(from Eagle’s Nest)
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Carl 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
Next week everyone will bring ideas on how we can include more computer skill training for the younger children who come on Wednesday nights. We will start looking for ideas from http://thinkfinity.org

We are glad to have Carl Griffin from Eagle’s Nest with us today.

Jennifer moved to adjourn. Carl 2nd motion carried

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2011-10-26
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Cammy 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
Dac Annual Dinner Meeting is November 1st from 6pm to 8pm It will be held at the Courtyard Marriott Downtown: 1150 S Harrison St. The cost is $10.00 per person RSVP for Reservations to 422-8412 or Heidi@DACAC.org Please RSVP by Thursday 10/27/11

Access to Recovery Provider Network Forum. November 8,2011 10:00 am to 12:00 pm Public Safety Academy of Northeast Indiana 7602 Patriot Crossing Fort Wayne IN 46816

Cammy moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

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2011-10-12
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Cammy 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
John has been under the weather so we have missed a few meetings but he was feeling well enough to come today.

Jennifer went to the DAC meeting and received some motivational substance abuse posters for the office. October is substance abuse awareness month and Glenbrook Mall will have a Red Ribbon Event on Oct 29th. Then next DAC meeting will be on November 7th.

Cammy moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

2011-09-21
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Cammy 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
Today was the ATR provider phone call. They have met 76% of the target persons who are supposed to be served. The goal is 80% by the end of the month. There will also be a policy and procedure training session who were not trained during the spring session. The service definitions have been updated and we are to throw away all parts to the manual. The billing policy has also been changed. Those billing individually will have three business days to release their information into witts where before it was 24 hours. They have defined four core values: Integrity, Parody, Decency and Quality.

Tomorrow will be the third week collecting data to make our time keeping more accurate using six sigma techniques. The project is lead by six sigma black belt Jennifer Perkins in cooperation with Purdue University.

Cammy moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

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2011-09-14
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
Cammy will not be here today because of personal business so John will be driving the van today.

John went to Veterans training last week for treating PTSD and TBI.

John moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

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2011-08-31
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
Cammy could not be here for the meeting she had a conflicting appointment but she will be her after to help with transportation for the Karen children.

The WIN (Worldwide Interactive Network) administrator / manager training is tomorrow at Ivy Tech. The training is for administrators of the system in cooperation with the Indiana Department of Workforce Development. We were the first organization in the State outside of the Indiana DWD to have the KeyTrain system, and we appreciate that they have included us in the new WIN system. We use this capacity to teach soft job skills (reading, math, business writing) compatible with the national Work Keys system that provides impartial certification of job seekers’ skill levels via a test at the DWD and a resulting National Work Certificate. By requiring the National Work Certificate employers can be more certain of each potential new hire’s job skills: less problems where the employer discovers they have hired someone who can’t make change or read instructions. The KeyTrain was a good system and the WIN is like KeyTrain but with several significant improvements.

We have been accepted to attend tier 2 training with the Military Family Research Institute in cooperation with the Indiana National Guard and the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration by Star Behavioral Health Providers. This is a special invitation because we do not provide behavioral counseling, but the training will help us better provide job skills training and employment counseling to our Warriors. The training is all day next Wednesday and Thursday at Grace Collage.

We received a replacement PC related to a gift from the Nash family and used it to replace the slowest (20-year old PC) in the lab. The new PC has has a 2.5GHz processor, 2GB of RAM, Window’s 7, Ed Ubuntu and current versions of Microsoft Office and Libre Office. This is a massive upgrade for that seat which formerly had a 350MHz processor, 64MB of RAM, and no Windows. The new PC has already become the favorite for SCSEP participants and students in the lab.

John moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-08-24
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. John 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
We went to the veterans training meeting on Friday. It compliments the information that we got from Camp Atterburry in April. We need to research licenses appropriate to our work so that we better interface with the existing behavioral counseling agencies there is not a great understanding in these agencies as to what we do.

Cammy moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-08-17
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. John 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
We had a the ATR phone conference today at 11. The next ATR training is full so we can’t send anyone. Then next one will be Oct. 12-14. There will be some training for peer to peer counseling more information can be provided later should anyone be interested. The Indiana Arms conference in September is also full so we can’t go. On the plus side we are not required to go.

We have another teleconference at 2pm today about key train. Key train will stop working on the 31st of Aug and will be replaced with a new program called Wins. The Wins is supposed to be an improved method of improving job skills. Administrator training will take place today on the teleconference.

Mary Grepke (one of our volunteers who helps the Karen youth with their homework) will not be here today as she is recovering from surgery. We will be happy to have her back next week.

Cammy moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-08-10
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Heidi, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. Heidi Moved to accept. John 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
Star behavioral health is running a veteran cultural awareness training on 8/19/2011. It will be held at Indiana Wesleyan here in town and we are registered. In cooperation with Purdue, FSSA and Indiana National Guard. We won’t be permitted to attend the tier two and tier three training because we don’t provide behavioral psychological services.

We had our compliance review from IN-ATR which we passed. The statement was made that our records were exemplary and our training program was refereed to as exceptional. We are to make one modification to the way we fill out the log form. In part two we are add a statement beyond what we are writing that ties the goal to the person’s recovery.

Once school starts the schedule for picking up the Karen children will change slightly. We will leave at 3:30 instead of 3:00 to ensure the children have returned home from school.

Heidi moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-08-03
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Heidi
Minutes read by Jennifer. Heidi Moved to accept. John 2nd motion carried

Old Business
We need to finish reviewing the games that came in last week to see how they can be utilized.

New Business
We have installed windows xp on all the computers in the lab now.

Heidi has add 21 questions to her scavenger hunt. We will run one of the three sections tonight. Cammy will be unable to assist us this evening.

Heidi moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-07-27
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Heidi, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. Heidi Moved to accept. John 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
Heidi brought in some games and we will look at them to see if and how we can use them in the future. Tonight we have prepared an internet scavenger hunt.

Heidi moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-07-20
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Heidi
Minutes read by Jennifer. Heidi Moved to accept. John 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
We fund-raised for love in deed last week. We raised about 60 dollars the bill was 61 and we now have 3 dollars left in the checking account. So we need to be some more fund-raising.

We have stated sending volunteers to love in deed on Tuesdays. We send four each week and we will alternate the people we send.

The access to recovery conference call for providers was this morning. They have 917 enrolled and need to have 1819 so they are 974 clients short of goal promised in their grant request. Meaning each week each RC needs to admit four new people into the program. During the meeting we were asked if there were ways to spend more of the money because of the 1400 per client they are spending an average of 400 per client. I pointed out that they could send some of their clients to us so they get employed and stay recovered. This did cause some chuckling.

Memo 38 was discussed so anyone involved in the correctional system and any woman with any age child are acceptable into the program. Indiana Arms will be September 27-28 and it will be free this year at the Indiana government center and their will be 9 to 11 continuing educations units available.

Heidi moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-07-13
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy, Heidi
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. Heidi 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Still need to form a grant committee. We will have a meeting to discuss forming a group for the organizations with in this building with Pastor Keller.

New Business
Financial records for January through June are now listed on the web site. http://alt-fw.org/public/?page_id=1971

Heidi donated a large box of of paper an other office supplies. If anyone would like to donate a toner cartridge for our Laser jet 800 that would be great.

Heidi moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-07-06
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy, Heidi
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Still working on the grant research from the 8 foundations that we found. We need to from a grant committee to help with this process.

New Business
The senior aids started working on spread sheets today.

After much discussion Jennifer nominated Heidi to become an advisory board member Cammy 2nd motion carried.

Heidi accepted the nomination and is now and advisory board member and will attend our weekly staff meetings.

Barbra Goss (one of our senior aids) donated some peanut butter fudge for our staff meeting today.

Cammy moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-06-29
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Cammy 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Due to cost cutting we will not longer have the SCSEP (senior aides) on Wednesdays. They will be here Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. This was preferable to terminating some of the participants.

New Business
We got a response to the DAC grant, we knew in advance that it would be a long shot and highly unlikely that we would receive it because DAC is focused on intervention and school programs and we are focused on getting people employed so they don’t experience triggers and relapse.

We have eight foundations we are going to look at for grants. We will update as we apply.

Jennifer has earned her six sigma green belt training certificate. She will be completing her black belt training on July 29th. She will then complete a project to earn her black belt certificate. She will be doing her project on making our teaching process more efficient and reliable.

Our Senior aides are currently working on files learning files. They will hopefully be starting spread sheets the first week of July; our exact calendar is listed on our Google calendar.

Cammy moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-06-22
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Still waiting on funding for quiz bowl activity

New Business
The senior aids funding was cut back 20% and so their hours were cut back from 20 a week to 16 a week.

John moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-06-15
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Still waiting on funding for quiz bowl activity

New Business
Jennifer’s Car has died and it is complicating her ability to volunteer her time if anyone would like to donate a car please let us know.

John moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-06-08
Present:Jennifer, Cammy Fox
No meeting last week due to illnesses and vacation. Therefore no minutes to be read.

Old Business
None

New Business
John is in Texas for his son’s graduation. Jennifer taught class today, Cammy will supervise tomorrow and Jennifer will teach class again on Friday.

We will have Karen youth activity tonight.

Keith Porter is trying to get us funding so we can purchase the necessary supplies for a quiz bowl activity.

Cammy moved to adjourn. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-05-25
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy Fox
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. John 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Still need to get grants written

New Business
Due to tornado watch and extreme weather we are going to cancel the Karen youth class today. We let all our assistants know not to come today.

John will not be here June 8-12th for son’s graduation. Jennifer will be covering the 8th and 10th and Cammy will be covering the 9th.

Jennifer will be out of town next week visiting her cousin in Louisiana.

Cammy moved to adjourn to go to training. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-05-18
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy Fox, Jolene Nash
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. Jolene 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Our Three new aids are making excellent progress

We have yet to start any grant writing

New Business
We will need to provide dinner for the Karen youth tonight.

New service descriptions are more elaborate than before but we are in compliance.

We had an ATR III phone conference today and it went well.

Training for today Jolene Nash RN from IPPFW is giving a presentation on excellent case notes.

John and his family will be gone June 8th through June 12th so we need to arrange to have someone else to cover.

Cammy moved to adjourn to go to training. Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-05-11
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy Fox
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. John 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Leader cast went really great in cooperation with Abundant Life Church and Catholic Charities of Ft Wayne south bend Diocese we were able to bring 5 participants and out staff to the all day training session. The speakers were great, the information was great and more than one life was changed.

Operation Immersion certificates and CEU’s arrived today.

We now have the documentation so we can start using grant station.
The Grant station also provides training for grant seeking.

We still need to go the research on the vocational rehab and veterans administration services.

New Business
We have 3 new SCSEP participants from catholic life charities this week. Four of the last crew will be remaining and will serve as instructor aids and the rest have been reassigned to other charities to continue their training.

Jennifer has discovered that through workone it is possible to get some school training.

We are planning on doing a computer scavenger hunt for the activity for the Karen youth class tonight.

Cammy moved to adjourn Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-05-04
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy Fox
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. John 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Take back day was a success. Unwanted medications can be dropped of at the 4 sheriff’s locations any time and not just on take back day.

New Business
On Friday May 6th there is the Chick-fil-a leader cast. Our 5 catholic charities senior aids along with John and Jennifer will be attending.

We received a 50 dollar donation this week. Which is about 25% of what we take in within a year.

Cammy can now drive the church van to help pick up the Karen children.

We are starting to work on our grant situation and applications and we did buy a one year subscription to grant station yesterday.

We also need to research the vocational rehab and veterans administration services and see how they fit with employment services and job skills training.

It would be helpful if we had some day staff to over see the senior aids with their work so John is not interrupted while researching and applying for grants.

Cammy moved to adjourn Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

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2011-04-27
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy Fox
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
None

New Business
Once School lets out we will still pick up the children at the same time we will just play more games since they will not have homework.

National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day is Friday April 29 and Saturday, April 30th 2011. This is a combination of a local (4/29) and national (DEA.GOV 4/30) effort.
You can drop off unneeded medicines at Walgreen Drug Stores in Fort Wayne on Friday April 29 from 9:00AM until 1:00PM and Saturday April 30. The stores are located at:

Clinton at St. Joe
Lincoln Hwy. W at Brookwood
Chapel Ridge (Maysville Rd)
E. Paulding as South Anthony
Cook and Lima Roads
Dupont and Tonkel Roads
Jefferson and Getz
West State and Wells
You can also drop your unwanted Medications at

Allen County Sheriff’s Dept. 12535 Lima Rd Hrs.: 8am to 4:30pm
Fort Wayne Police Dept. 1320 East Creighton St Hrs: 24/7 in the lobby
Indiana State Police Post 5811 Ellison Road Hrs: 24/7 in the lobby
New Haven Police Dept. 815 Lincoln Highway East Hrs: 24/7 in the lobby
To find a participating drop off location close to you on Saturday, click the top ‘Got Drugs?’ banner on the DEA.GOV web site. For the local event you can also come Friday and drop off your drugs at local WallGreens Drug Stores.

Operation Immersions was both informative and entertaining. We survived death by power point and ate lots of food.

The biggest defining thing on relationships is the closeness they feel toward their battle buddy. The change they have gone through can cause friction when being reunited with their family. In the full-time military, there is a three week period of adjustment when our warriors return from deployment before they are reunited with their families. It is well structured adjustment time when they work on being returned to their families.

Indiana National Guard goes through the same training and the same conditions as full-time military. They are deployed just as long and have just as difficult a time being reunited with their families. However, they only get a three day adjustment period. When the National Guard go home, they are just released to families without time to adjust.

Additionally, when full-time personnel return home, they still have a job and a paycheck. The National Guard members usually find themselves unemployed. There is a significant need for an adjustment in our laws to provide parity.

The relationships involved are different than what we encounter. Our Warriors are trained to be independent and self sufficient. They trust their battle buddy with their life, but they may not trust an outsider that may not have military experience. This impacts our ability to help military personnel recover from addictions. As it is a very private problem, they may not want to admit a weakness or a need and they may have extreme trust issues with an outsider.

Our thoughts and prayers are with our national guard military who are undoubtedly spending the week away from their families filling sand bags and building walls to protect our cities from flooding. God Bless America and our troops. Amen.

Cammy moved to adjourn Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

2011-04-13
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer,
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried
Old Business
We are on target for operation immersion next week Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday
Cammy’s insurance information has been submitted but not returned by insurance company so she will still be driving her van this week

New Business
The annual report is published on our web site under annual report.

John Moved to adjourn Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

2011-04-06
Present:John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried
Old Business
DAC Grant was applied for, but not likely to receive anything because even though our work is important to sustained recovery from addictions, it is not consistent with the two stated areas in which DAC makes grants: judicial and prevention. Still, we can always hope – we are just not really consistent with what this particular agency would normally fund. Thank you to Jennifer and Cammy for helping managing the office so John could write the grant.

New Business
Abundant Life got new vans
Impact on transportation of Karen group. Cammy will turn in a copy of her Indiana driver’s Permit to Bobby Delong today to be added to the Abundant Life list of authorized drivers. Pastor Keller of Abundant Life has already approved.

Operation Immersion 4/19-21

• Need 1st & Last name, e-mail, DOB, DL #
• Get signed releases for event
• Review packing list
• Agenda issue – John must be back by 6:00 PM Thursday for Messiah Drama Dress Rehearsal – will need to leave early enough to accommodate.

Operating Schedule Next Two weeks
to accommodate OI and help SCSEP Participants still get a full paycheck will be:

• Mon 4/11 9:00-2:00 (5hr)
• Tue 4/12 9:00-2:00 (5hr)
• Wed 4/13 LID 9:00-1:00, Karen 3:00-7:00 (two work sessions) (8hr)
• Thr 4/14 9:00-2:00 (5hr)
• Fri 4/15 9:00-2:00 (5hr)
• (week total 28hr)

• Mon 4/18 9:00-1:00 (4hr)
• Tue 4/19 CLOSED
• Wed 4/20 LID 9:00-1:00 (4hr)
• Thr 4/21 CLOSED
• Fri 4/22 9:00-1:00 (4hr)
• (week total 12hr)
• (period total 40hr)

Normal work site is 3301 E Coliseum Blvd, RM 131-133;
LID worksite (Wednesday AM) is United Way Love in Deed, 7820 Bluffton
Road, Fort Wayne, IN 46809;
Karen work site is 3301 E Coliseum Blvd, RM 131-133;
There will be NO KAREN activity Wednesday 4/20 due to our closing that week.
After 4/24 we are back on our normal schedule, 9:00-1:00 business days

Training Video – Suicide Prevention http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n2QZlheuzc

Dates
DEA Holding Second Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day Friday April 29- Saturday April 30 at select Walgreen’s Drug Stores

• Clinton at St. Joe
• Lincoln Hwy. W at Brookwood
• Chapel Ridge (Maysville Rd)
• E. Paulding as South Anthony
• Cook and Lima Roads
• Dupont and Tonkel Roads

You can also drop your unwanted Medications at

• Allen C. Sheriff’s Dept. 12535 Lima Rd Hrs.: 8am to 4:30pm
• Fort Wayne Police Dept. 1320 East Creighton St Hrs: 24/7 in the lobby
• Indiana State Police Post 5811 Ellison Road Hrs: 24/7 in the lobby
• New Haven Police Dept. 815 Lincoln Highway East Hrs: 24/7 in the lobby

Annual IN ARMS conference Sept 27 and 28. This year it will be held at the Government Center at no cost to participants!

Jennifer moved to adjourn, Cammy 2nd Motion carried.2011-03-30
Present: John Nash-chair, Jennifer, Cammy
Minutes read by Jennifer. Cammy Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
John has yet to find the time to write anything up for the DAC grant to fund a secretary due to lack of having a secretary to free up some of his time in order to do it.

New Business
We discussed some personnel issues to try and determine where everyone would be best suited.

Cammy has volunteered to come in tomorrow at 9 am and then Jennifer volunteered to come in and take over at 11:30 am to work as the secretary to free up Johns day so that he will be able to write the DAC grant.

Catholic Charities is finishing up the recertification process for participants. After the recertification is completed there will be a new group of 7 or 8 who will start here. We will use the ones who remain to help tutor the new group of participants. They are expected to start within the next couple of weeks.

Carl Griffin has also accepted our offer to sit on our advisory board he could not be here this week but will be joining us next week.

There will be a DAC meeting April 4th at noon. The all DAC meeting last Friday was very informative and there were a number of useful presentations. One presenter in particular mentioned the Karen culture and the use of drugs. In particular our failure to educate them in differences in culture and laws concerning the use of drugs. It is considered ordinary and normal to use and opiate packaged like gum called thin and it is also common to participate in the use of meth-amphetamine called Yaba. Fort Wayne has the 2nd largest refugee population on earth the largest population is in Burma.

Jennifer and John will be participating in Operation Immersion April 19-21. This will act as their 2011 Semi-annual provider meeting for all ATR providers. Operation Immersions will provide the ATR staff the opportunity to experience life as a soldier and gain a better understanding of Military Culture and the challenges that military personnel face regarding substance abuse. Carl from Eagle’s nest will also ride down with us.

Abundant Life Church got two new van’s last week a 12 seater and a seven seater. Cammy will provide a copy of her driver’s license to ALC and asked to be placed on the insurance list and be able to drive one of the new vans instead of her own van to assist with pick up.

There is a training video on addressing suicidal thoughts and how to help prevent it. The link to the video is posted on our web site.

DEA take back for prescription drugs is scheduled for April 30th at several Fort Wayne area drug stores. There will be law enforcement officers present but no questions will be asked.

Chick-Fillet Simulcast Leadership training will be on May 6th at ALC. For more information or to register visit www.abundantlifecares.com/store

Jennifer moved to adjourn, Cammy 2nd Motion carried.

2011-03-23
Present: John Nash-chair, Jennifer
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept. Jennifer 2nd motion carried

Old Business
Still working on funding for our secretary one possibility could be the DAC grant.

New Business
Cammy Fox will not be helping with transportation tonight but has been nominated to serve as an advisory board member and she accepted the nomination. She will join us next week for staff meeting as well as helping us pick up the kids.

John motioned to appoint Cammy Fox to advisory board Jennifer 2nd motion carried.

Last week Ernest was trained to install software by doing the computers in our lab. This week he will start to set up the Salvation Army lab and collect a group of six to eight students to begin his training as an instructor. That will make the 2nd organization we have helped set up in the first quarter of 2011.

There will be a DAC meeting on Friday at Parkview on State street 10:45. Food will be provided.

Jennifer moved to adjourn, John 2nd Motion carried.

2011-03-16
Present: John Nash-chair, Jennifer (via phone from Germany)
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept

Old Business
Meeting with David Keller and Keith Porter to discuss Karen ministry is still to be scheduled.

New Business
Tonight Cammy Fox will help us pick up the Burmese/Karen youth for class. Bob Gill and Cammy Fox will help us take them home.

We are working on preparing Ernest Hicks for his new job at the salvation army for computer lab supervisor. We helped him train through having him refurbish all the computers in the lab with Microsoft Windows and Linux. Jordan is helping complete this process.

We are actively seeking funding to hire our first paid help.

Jennifer is enjoying her time in Germany. She has climbed a Mountain, visited a concentration camp, tried on German clothing and has eaten lots of food. She is currently excited to get back to fellowshipping with her family so she motioned to adjourn and John 2nd motion carried.

2011-03-09
Present: John Nash-chair, Jennifer
Minutes read by Jennifer. John Moved to accept

Old Business
None

New Business
Tonight Cammy Fox will help us pick up the Burmese/Karen youth for class.

Keith Porter informed us that a meeting is planned with David Keller and himself to discuss the future of the Karen Ministry.

The format we are using to help build up other people to give them to other agencies has been review by the state program director for Indiana Access to Recovery and is acceptable to the program. It is also acceptable that we assign our personnel to work at more than one agency.

Dianna Hoskins who was the head of OBCI sent us an email letting us know that she is taking a job in Ohio. The impact of this on us has yet to be determined.

New service definitions for ATR have been received and are out for review and comment.

Jennifer moved to adjourn, John 2nd Motion carried.