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Home My WebLink About09-22-2010 New Hanover County Youth Empowerment Services Advisory Board Meeting September 22, 2010 3:00- 4:30 Lucie Harrell Conference Room 601 New Hanover County Government Center AGENDA What Who Welcome & Agenda Review Bill Trant Review of May & July Meeting Notes All Director's Report Kathy Stoute YES Update New Business Meeting Topics Bill Advisory Board Notebooks Kathy Old Business By-law revision (For approval) All Election of Officers All Member Comments/News All Adjournment New Hanover County Youth Empowerment Services Advisory Board Meeting September 22, 2010 3:00 - 4:30 Lucie Harrell Conference Room 601 New Hanover County Government Center Minutes: YES. 22 September 2010 Welcome & Agenda Review Bill Trant Meeting called to order 3 pm Review of May & July Meeting Notes All (Postponed) Director's Report Kathy Stoute YES Update Youth Served July 1 - Present CSR: 65 (29 active) Grant: 200 JPS: 37 ( 8 active) Grant: 225 PDS: 0 ( 0 active)Grant: N/A Total: 102 Total: 425 • Vacant Licensed Clinical Therapist position in JPS filled with a start date of 10/5 • HBFC program is serving four youth/families recently released from YDCs • PDS staff attended training in VA last week on the Nurturing Parents program that will soon begin accepting referrals from Intake CC on primarily diverted youth (some may be on probation) for adolescents ages 13-17 and their families who would benefit from parenting and relationship skills development (Family Dynamics) • PDS began first CLTL group on Tues, 09/21 with 6 middle school CSR youth and second CLTL group begins Mon, 09/27 with 7 Pretrial Release youth ages 16-17 scheduled • Sixteen CSR youth completed 310 community service hours at the Arboretum over the course of the summer • Nine CSR youth & staff participated in collaboration with GTF youth and staff in a tour at the NHRMC on Sat, 09/18 and while the group are touring the ER a lifelike simulation occurs of a man entering the ER with a gunshot wound, gang related incident, the man is pronounced dead and the family is told) . The tour group is taken to a conference room to discuss and process the event. A Doctor, Police officer, and counselor lead the discussion. Prior to the tour the youth's parents sign a permission slip. • CSR is now accepting referrals from WPD for at risk youth Position filled for license clinical therapist. Roxanne Pearson Staff attended training in VA New Business Meeting Topics Bill Bill proposed that we have a standing agenda item titled meeting topics where YES divisions and community agencies would be given the opportunity to provide presentations for discussion on the topic ensued. All concurred with the concept. Advisory Board Notebooks Kathy YES portfolios issued to all present Kathy reviewed the contents with members Old Business By-law revision (For approval) All (Postponed) Election of Officers All Elections were conducted in accordance with YES bylaws Motion was made by John to close nominations and proceed with voting Zach second the motion. Motion carried by unanimous vote of yes. Officers elected - Bill Trant Chairman Wanda Marino Vice Chairman Amy Horgan - Secretary. Zachery Mitcham assistant Member Comments/News All Kenneth advised the board of his position as coordinator for an AIDS patient assistance initiative. Zach offered his service to provide information security awareness to the YES program constituents. Adjournment John made a motion to adjourn ; kenneth seconded the motion Motion carried Meeting adjourn formally at 4 :10 pm Attendance: Present - Bill Trant - Chair Kathy Stoute - Director YES John Kearney - DJJDP Amy Horgan - Southeastern Center Kenneth Nelson Not present- Angela Lee Mary Springer Wanda Marino IANIV 4 COMMUNITY CHILD PROTECTION TEAM _ New Hanover County re 1650 Greenfield Street ��°P ORTO' P.O.Drawer 1559 Wilmington,NC 28402 Telephone(910)798-3476 Fax(910)798-3491 September 2,2010 • Mr.Jason Thompson,Chairman New Hanover County Board of Commissioners 230 Government Center Drive,Suite 175 Wilmington,NC 28403 Dear Mr.Thompson: This report is being submitted by the New Hanover County Community Child Protection Team (CCPT)in order to meet state law that was established in response to Executive Order 142 in May 1991. The duties and responsibilities of CCPT were adopted as North Carolina Administrative Code 411.0400. The original purpose and composition of the team were further formalized and expanded by G.S.7B 1406,effective July 1, 1993. This annual report is vital to the overall productivity of CCPT and represents a formal mechanism for our team to inform the county about child protection needs. The Community Child Protection Team is composed of agency representatives, child advocates and citizens at-large who take action to identify and address gaps or deficiencies in services and resources through several avenues, one which is the annual report to the Board of County Commissioners. It is a community team,not a Department of Social Services team. Law mandates specific membership on the CCPT. In addition to the members mandated by law,up to five additional members may be appointed by the Board of County Commissioners. It also gives the Board authority to appoint local law enforcement officers. We ask that you appoint Lisa Savitts,New Hanover County Sheriffs Office, Teresa Fountain, Wrightsville Beach Police Department and Melissa Moore, Wilmington Police Department. The CCPT further recommends that the following five individuals be appointed: Elizabeth Mandel, Child Advocacy and Parenting Place Exchange Club Center; Judge Jay Corpening, Chief District Court Judge; Mary Ann Lama, Domestic Violence Shelter and Services, Inc.; Robert Speight,Department of Juvenile Justice and Diana Woolley,citizen-at-large. In New Hanover County our CCPT is comprised of two teams addressing service delivery to our children. One team, composed of case workers, meets monthly to review selected cases in which abuse, neglect or dependency has been found and where barriers or gaps in services have been identified. This team may also review other types of cases with identified needs which impact on child protection within the community. Our CCPT department head team meets quarterly to address the gaps and deficiencies identified by the monthly CCPT meetings,as well conducting extensive child fatality reviews. We recognize the budget difficulties facing you for some time to come, but the CCPT would appreciate your consideration of the identified service delivery needs throughout the upcoming fiscal year. Our primary task for this effort is to engage the community and make visible the very important role we can all play in helping to provide every child with a chance to thrive and succeed. This conversation is very challenging in the current environment,but our CCPT has accomplished many goals throughout 2009. (A)Community forum on November 6, 2009, entitled "Brain Storm: The Effects of Stress." This topic was selected in an attempt to better understand and educate on how the impact of maltreatment effects the brain's development, stressing that the health of our children reflects the health of our community. (B)The"Flower Launch" event during Child Abuse Awareness Month (April 2009)in recognition of agencies and professionals who work tirelessly to keep children safe, as well as multiple agency events. (C)Successfully recruited two additional Child Medical Examiners, Dr. Hoke Pollock and Beth Deaton, PNP with Cape Fear Pediatrics, who perform physical exams associated with abused and neglected children. We are thrilled to have them working closely with us and our most vulnerable children. (D)Two members of the CCPT(NHC Health Department and Child Advocacy and Parenting Place Center) collaborated and were awarded a substantial two-year prevention grant for the Strengthening Families Program, an internationally recognized parenting and family strengthening program for high-risk families that has been found to significantly reduce problem behaviors, delinquency, and alcohol and drug abuse in children and to improve social competencies and school performance. Child maltreatment also decreases as parents strengthen bonds with their children and learn more effective parenting skills. We are proud that New Hanover County was one of only 15 in the state to be awarded this highly competitive Prevention initiative,with much credit given to our collaborations. (E)A major local business, PPD, has established prevention of child abuse and neglect as one of their community priorities. They have partnered with our CCPT to advocate for our children. With all of this,we are not proud that North Carolina ranks 37th in the 10 measures of child well-being in the new Annie E. Casey Kids Count®report,or that North Carolina ranks 36th when measuring children living in poverty. We know that ranking can hardly capture the full range of conditions shaping children's lives,but we believe these indicators are critically important because they reflect a wide range of factors affecting the well-being of children,such as health,adequacy of income,and educational attainment.More important to note is that the report does not reflect the current period of economic recession because the effects of the economic downturn were not felt by most families until well after the survey closed.Most experts project significant negative changes over the next several years. Our question is: "How will the children in New Hanover County fare?" The answer is still unclear. Increasingly experts recognize that negative forces within a community can overwhelm even well- intentioned parents and caregivers and that attention must be given toward creating environments that •