August YSOC Planning Group Meeting Recap

Hello Planning Group! This month's Planning Group meeting was chock-full as usual. Some highlights are:

1) The group decided to implement the Universal Referral Form created by our Evaluator Allison Burke. The form will be used in an inter-agency capacity and will come with training from Allison on how to input data into the corresponding database she is creating.
2) The October Stakeholders meeting is coming up soon! I am working on the mailing list for the invitations, but I need your help! Please send me your physical address, along with any other people at your agencies that you would like to attend the meeting (think supervisors and Deputy & Executive Directors; we want to show them what you have been doing in all these meetings!). We will prep for the stakeholders meeting at next month's YSOC meeting on September 15th, please be sure to be there!
3) I will be going through each team's section of the strategic plan to get rid of redundancies, clarify language, and come up with a game-plan to ensure success for each team in completing their action steps. Watch for my emails soon... :)

You can view the meeting summary on-line by clicking on the link in the "Meeting Summary Archive & Key Documents" menu on the left side of this blog. I have also added some events to the YSOC Calender, including two free mammogram clinics in September & November a workshop on August 27; you can view the details of these events by clicking on them in the calender. Maureen from Sac County ADS requested that the following resource about prescription drug abuse be posted: http://www.drugfree.org/notinmyhouse/. This is a free resource for parents/guardians/any adult who suspects a youth may be abusing prescription drugs. I want to thank all who showed up, including some new faces; I hope you will join us again next month and for the October Stakeholders meeting!

--Melody