Deltana Community Human Services Partnership Project Meeting

The DGHSPP meeting is confirmed for July 21, 2008 5:00 pm in the Delta Junction City Hall
(an earlier e-mail stated August 21 so please note the correction and forgive repeated information because of the date clarification).

If you are unable to attend please phone the toll free conference number: 1 866 348-8715. Then enter the code #3721355.

The State of Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has granted three years of funding for our Deltana Community Human Services Partnership project. During the first year,the project hopes to provide the Deltana/Ft. Greely community with a strategic plan to be used for furthering program development with comprehensive integrated behavioral health prevention and early intervention services related to substance use or abuse, suicide, birth defects and secondary disabilities, youth development and resliency, with the hope to promote community, family and individual wellness.

Ted Sponsel, is our project coordinator and brings years of professional experience to our project. We hope your participation will help us to create a community plan for prevention or intervention services in the Delta/Greely community; we strive for data and information that will be used to seek further funding for implementation of the services that we identify through this project.

During our first meeting, we will define our mission statement and develp a first step plan based on what the community says we need.

We need you and your friends to be there, so encourage others to come and forward this invitation to anyone who may be interested. If you have questions please e-mail me.

Delta Junction Community Coalition Meeting
July 21, 2008 5:00 pm
City Hall
Facilitated by Deborah Hayes dhayes@nwresource.org or (800) 478-7307 and
Ted Sponsel, Project Consultant tsponsel@nwresource.org or 457-8343

Project Goal: To Promote a Healthy Community Utilizing Effective Practices and Partnerships

AGENDA

• 1. Introductions – (Name, agency if applicable, interests) – Deborah Hayes
• 2. Review of project background and last meeting – Deborah Hayes
• 3. Review of the Grant – Ted Sponsel Division of Behavioral Health (DBH) stated long-term goals:
  All Alaska children, youth and adults can be mentally healthy and living successfully.
  All community members are connected, resilient and have basic life skills.
  Mission statement brainstorming.
  Three year funding period
  FY 09: Strategic planning framework steps 1, 2, and 3: Community needs assessment and community capacity
  building, build a strategic plan that includes a vision for prevention activities and strategies to organize and implement
  the prevention effort identified by our community.
  FY 10: Strategic planning framework steps 4 and 5: Implementation of the project identified in steps 1, 2 and 3.
  Evaluation of the project.
  FY 11: Continue implementation of the project and seek continued funding to sustain.
  Review the Project Timeline – Logic Model and graph
  Multi-Modal approach:
  Physical health (including substance use)
  Mental health
  Adequate living situation
  Social skills and community participation
  Education and training
  Employment
• 4. Immediate tasks: A brainstorming session – Deborah Hayes and Ted Sponsel
  Identify Community Planning Team members. How does the Community Planning Team (CPT) relate to the Coalition? Is the Coalition the same as a stakeholders group? What are its responsibilities? What is the makeup of these teams? Who should serve and how nominated/elected/appointed?
  Develop a needs and resources assessment model. What do we need to accomplish to say that we have competently assessed the behavioral health and behavioral health services and gaps in the Deltana region? Lists, surveys, opinion, records/statistics (law enforcement, school, public health, mental health).
  Workgroups: What workgroups we anticipate and who should be on them? (assessment, specific area workgroup, sustainability)
• 5. Complete mission statement – Ted Sponsel
• 6. Schedule and plan next meeting: What do we need to accomplish at the next meeting?

Again, thank you all for your letters of support and for your participation.

Deborah A. Hayes, M.Ed., Director
Northwest Resource Associates
Alaska Center for Resource Families
815 Second Avenue, Suite 101
Fairbanks, Alaska 99701