mulvane substance abuse task force tuesday, january 19, 2010 6:30-7:45 p.m
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Mulvane Substance Abuse Task Force
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
6:30-7:45 p.m.
Ron W. Paschal,Deputy District Attorney
• Currently Deputy D.A. with the Eighteenth Judicial District (Sedgwick County)
• Supervises Juvenile Offender/Child In Need of Care Division
• Recognized by his peers as 2007 Kansas Prosecutor of the Year
• Will discuss his experience of how substance abuse and juvenile adjudications affect youths’ futures, as well as issues around the juvenile use of electronic media. e.g. Facebook
Outcomes of Tonight’s Meeting
Understand structure of subsequent meetings and next steps.
Establish work groups and record contact information for each group.
Briefly explore what each individual can contribute to their chosen work group.
Walk away feeling empowered and with at least one idea for immediate action.
Structure of Task Force
Within the next months, our task force will establish a Steering Committee. It will consist of members from various sectors of the community.
The leaders of each working group will be responsible for attending subsequent Task Force meetings and reporting on the activities of their working groups. In turn, they will take information and ideas back to their group.
Each subsequent Task Force meeting will have an informational presentation, which will be posted in advance on the Mulvane High School web page. If other members, (besides Work Group leaders,) have an interest in the presentation, they are welcome to attend.
Mulvane Working Groups
• Publicity – “selling” the task force to the community, recruiting members and key leaders, publicizing task force efforts
• Family – disseminating good parenting information, prevention education, starting or expanding a parent network
• Explore Youth Activities – partnering with existing community agencies to provide/expand alternative youth activities, engaging youth in prevention efforts
• Intervention/Prevention-Legal Issues – analyzing community data, working on environmental prevention, ATOD (Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs) referral and treatment
• School/Community Collaboration – prevention education, school policy and activities, intervention
Introductions
Please introduce yourself to your working group:
Your name and family/work details you wish to share
What sector of the community you represent
Your favorite leisure activity/hobby
Decide Tonight’s Recorder and Reporter
Recordersummarize and record the answers to tonight’s
discussion questions and turn in the papers before you leave
ensure the contact list is complete and has been copied before we adjourn
Reporterpresent a brief summary of your working group’s
discussions to the whole group
Discussion Question 1
At this point in time and specific to your work group,
What is one issue related to Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs (ATOD) prevention that you think needs to be worked on in Mulvane?
What abilities and resources can you apply to the issue you identified?
5 Minutes for Discussion
Discussion Question 2
In your current work group, and based on what you have discovered or uncovered here today, -
What are one or two actions you are willing to commit to taking when you return home from this meeting?
5 Minutes for Discussion
Reporters Report!
Next Steps - Timeline
Next Task Force Meeting: Mulvane High School
February 17, 2010, 7:00-8:00 p.m. The educational component will be “Prevention Foundations: The Social Development Theory.”
Work group meetings should occur before February 17. Please contact Lisa Blume, RPC if you require assistance with your work group meeting.
Next Steps – Temporary Leaders
RIGHT NOW, choose a: Organizer – will be responsible for organizing the first
Work Group meeting and notifying the members of the date, time and location. (see yellow sheet)
Facilitator – will be responsible for setting the agenda and leading the first Work Group meeting. (see green sheet)
Recorder – will be responsible for taking meeting minutes at the first meeting and distributing the minutes after the meeting. (see blue sheet)
Indicate on your contact sheet who has volunteered for these roles.
Discuss possible times and locations for your first group meeting.
Next Steps - Information
Next week – look for a flyer summarizing this evening’s work on the webpage. We will try to have minutes/summary of each Task Force meeting posted by the following week.
There will also be Training Proposal posted. Work groups can request the trainings.
Critique
• If you have feedback on the Task Force meeting process OR
• If you have suggestions for educational components you would like to see in subsequent Task Force meetings…
Email Cathi Wilson [email protected]
“America's drug problem is not going to be solved in courtrooms or legislative hearing rooms by judges and politicians. It will be
solved in living rooms and dining rooms and across kitchen tables –
by parents and families.”
Joseph A. Califano, Jr., CASA’s chairman and president and the former U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare.
For further information, contact:
Lisa BlumeWichita/Sedgwick County
Regional Prevention Center at Mirror, Inc.357 South Lulu Street
Wichita, KS 67211
Phone: (316) 262-2421Fax: (316) 262-8688