One Island, One Team, One Dream, to be Drug Free!
Tuesday,
February 12, 2008 @ 4-5:30pm
Location:
High School small cafeteria
Facilitator:
Dan Stinson
Attendees:
Regrets:
Bruce Benson, Sybil Kennedy
Present:
Dan
Stinson, Sandy Anzalone, Chris Pyc, Gary Roesch, Sally Yageric, Peter
McMahon, Peter Sukmanowski, Kathy Duff, Reg Schopp, Mary Cooke, Dick
Crawford, MaryAnne Nelson Loeffer, Lori Stein, Jill Townson, Denise
Oursler, Carol Jones, Andres Arroyo, Chris Swiatek, Bob Christmann, Neil
Seaman.
Attachments:
Topic:
1.
(5 min.) Welcome/ Intro.
2.
(15
min.) Upcoming events:
·
Theatre
for Change – Feb. 26th @7pm
–
PR--On
Isledegrande, School and Town web sites.
·
Teen
Challenge – March 27th @7pm
–
PR--Promote
w/ Feb. date flyers!
Other
PR ideas: Ministerium; through Linda Tufillaro. w/ sports leagues.
Open
to all.
Parent
forum follow-up for either event? Yes. March 3 at Library? GIFTS should be
represented, someone from Teen Challenge, maybe drug court judge to
explain the system, BILY (Because I Love You) (behavior management-related
support group)…
GIFTS
reps should put together resource handout for attendees. Should be sent
out to agencies, Dan S., and Denise Oursler. Denise and Jill will
collaborate and contact the agencies—obtain pamphlets, etc. Denise will
report an update back to Dan in approximately a week. Agency tables in the
Viking Mall? Flyer will be more anonymous.
Joann
Hudecki will give a short presentation at Feb. 26 meeting.
3.
(10 min.) Drug Court – Follow up? Power Point
presentation that could be put online. Consider. Promote on
Isledegrande.com via a catch article? Have GI Court make up an info
brochure for the TFC presentation.
4.
(10 min.) Project Sticker Shock – Sally Yageric –
Canceled meeting in Dec. due to wind storm. Will be rescheduled. The
project includes the placement of stickers on alcoholic beverages that
warn against adults serving minors.
5.
(15 min.) Youth Board – Discussion – Merge with
One Island or no? Keep the Youth Board and have them send a liaison to the
One Island meetings?
6.
(15 min.) Other items on the table:
·
Video
production - How will it be used? – Not discussed
·
Survey – Not
discussed
·
Safe Homes –
Do we have a representative from each school? Sally hasn’t heard from
any reps. GI contact needs to follow up with her. Next meeting: March 13
at 10 a.m. at the Harlem Rd. Community Center. Dan S. will follow up with
Bruce Benson about a rep from the Middle School.
·
TIP/Help phone
line – Trooper Pyc and Peter Sukmanowski -- Who will take
responsibility for collecting messages? Issues w/ potential for false
reports. Trooper Pyc is hesitant to have this linked directly to the
school (have done that before, not effective). Peter S.: Should be
community-wide. Guidelines/logistics would need to be solidly in place
before implementing. Peter S. should prepare a presentation at next
meeting, addressing issues raised and fleshing out the hows, whos, and
whats.
7.
(10 min.) New Business: Grant program: $15,000 award
– based on collaboration between school and police (topics: school
safety/ anti-drug, etc.). Apply (through Town)? Have J. O’Connell
(Town’s grant writer) look at. Town Board will consider at their next
workshop (2/25). If approved, grant writer should sit down with a One
Island rep and discuss projected programming expenses.
8.
(10 min.) Next Steps: Some youth representative should be involved with One
Island, and link this group to the classroom world. Even involving the
at-risk and offender students should be considered.
Next
meeting: March 11 at 4 p.m.