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YSOC Collaborative Meeting Ideas

Ideas for YSOC Collaborative Meetings

December 2009—June 2010

 

Please add your ideas, comments, and suggestions and email to Melody at mhazzard@ac-ac.org.  Please note that the group decided that YSOC Collaborative meetings will continue on the third Tuesday of each month, from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. at 4343 Williamsbourgh (Strategies for Change). Because the group has come up with so many ideas for future Collaborative meetings, it was decided at October’s meeting that additional events may be added to the Collaborative’s regular schedule of meetings. These extra events may take place at different times, days, and at different locations than the regular monthly meetings.  The following ideas are based on the group discussion at October’s YSOC meeting.

 

1. “Dialogs” (panels) with primary referring agencies, including: CPS; Probation; law enforcement; courts; and education. The purpose of these dialogs would be to 1) both parties identify barriers to optimum services for clients; 2) facilitate understanding, cooperation, and collaboration between providers and referring agencies; 3) recommend policy change(s) to referring agencies.

 

2. Trainings, including: gang violence (presented by Sacramento Police Department vice gang unit); cultural competency (LGBTQ, others); evidence-based prevention & intervention practices. Trainings would be free to YSOC Collaborative partners, and agencies would be able to bring staff. Will try to offer CEUs for AOD & Mental Health counselors. Will also focus on eliciting participation from referring agencies (CPS, education, probation, law enforcement, etc.).

 

3. Activities to meet grant work plan objectives, including: focus groups; brainstorming sessions; work groups (these could also meet outside of Collaborative meetings. Topics to include: 1) advocacy strategy for AOD & Co-Occurring issues (identifying local, state & federal policies to create a policy statement for YSOC Collaborative, participating in advocacy activities such as recruiting lobbying support from legislative liaison at NASW and attending hearings at State Capitol); 2) inviting county-contracted prevention providers to attend a Collaborative meeting to brainstorm ways to forge better connections between prevention & intervention; 3) “next steps” study session with Sacramento County Alcohol & Drug Services staff to prioritize “do-able” objectives from the YSOC Collaborative Strategic Plan; 4) work session to identify strategies for making data/information from County ADS’s YSOC more accessible for providers.

 

4. Your idea here!

 

 

October 21, 2009

Melody Hazzard, MSW, AOD/YSOC Project Coordinator

Leave a comment with your ideas, suggestions, and feedback!

October YSOC Planning Group Meeting Wrap Up

Hello All!

We had a great time at yesterday's YSOC One Year Appreciation Celebration! We had a tasty lunch of healthy foods, an awards ceremony, a demo of Valley Vision's exciting new youth development website YSP Connect, and changed our name to the YSOC Collaborative. You will find October's meeting summary, as well as the Draft Written Strategic Plan that will be presented to the community at next month's Stakeholders meeting under the YSOC Meeting Summary and Key Documents menu on the left-hand side of this site. Feel free to use track changes to make ask questions and make comments and suggestions to send back to me, this is your document so your input is much appreciated. I will also be sending you all a list of the group's ideas for future YSOC Collaborative meetings for your feedback and additions.

PEI Series Begins Today

The first of MHSA's Prevention and Early Intervention Phase II series of five meetings begins today. The schedule of meetings is as follows:

Meeting 1 (Orientation) Tue, Oct. 13, 3pm-6pm 7000 65th street
Meeting 2 (Stressors) Tue, Oct. 20, 3pm-6:30pm 7000 65th street
Meeting 3 (Trauma) Tue, Oct. 27, 3pm-6:30pm 7000 65th street
Meeting 4 (Discrimination) Tue, Nov. 3, 3pm-6:30pm 7000 65th street
Meeting 5 (Committee) Mon, Nov. 16, 3pm-6:30pm 7000 65th street

Parenting for Prevention Parent-Teen Series

People Reaching Out is holding two FREE Parent-Teen series at the Citrus Heights Civic Center Campus. The dates for the series are:

Wednesdays September 30 - November 18, 2009 from 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.
Wednesdays February 3 - March 24, 2010 from 6:00 - 9:00 pm.

The series is designed to address:
--Key questions teens need answered
--How parents and teens can communicate more effectively
--Tools and techniques that build confidence and responsibility
--How to set and maintain limits
--Steps for good decision making

For more information and reservations call 576-3300 x 306. Check out their website here.

Free Resources for Military Families

Time To Talk has a new (free) kit out for children & families of military personnel. You can download the kit (for free!) here. Resources include: 10 Things Military Teens Want You To Know & Transitions & Teens: A Guide for Military Parents.

Bullying Prevention Task Force

The SCUSD Safe Schools Office, Integrated Support Services, and Youth Development are sponsoring an Anti-Bully Campaign, which will kick-off with the first meeting of the Bullying Prevention Task Force on Wednesday, October 7th at the Serna Center (5735 47th Avenue) in the Pennsylvania Room from 3:30 - 5:30 p.m. The goals of the Bullying Prevention Task Force are to engage a broad group of stakeholders in developing a strategic plan for bullying prevention at SCUSD focused on: programs and services; policies and procedures; education, awareness, and training. For more information, please contact Lawrence Shweky at (916) 643-9141, Zenae Scott at
(916) 643-7992, or Sonja Stires at (916) 643-7990.

LGBTQ Resource Line

Mental Health America (formerly Mental Health Association) of Northern California has partnered with Sacramento City Unified School District to create and implement an LGBTQ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender & Questioning) Resource Line. The resource line is a warm line, meaning that adolescents can call, leave a message, and have their phone call returned within 48 hours by a social worker with experience in providing services to LGBTQ students and their families. Services include information/referral, short-term counseling, and advocacy. All calls are confidential and all services are provided free of charge. The LGBTQ Resource Line number is: (916) 643-7997

Other Resources for LGBTQ clients are:

Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA)
Student-run clubs that provide a safe place for LGBTQ students get support on campus. GSAs operate on the following campuses in Sacramento County: Burbank; Johnson; Kennedy; McClatchy; New Tech; Rosemont; The Met; and West Campus. For information contact the GSA Network at (415) 552-4229 or online at gsanetwork.org.



Trevor 24-hour Suicide Prevention Line:
1-800-850-8078

PFLAG (Parents & Friends of Lesbians & Gays)(916) 978-0410 or pflagsacramento.org

Sacramento Gay & Lesbian Center(916) 442-0185 or www.saccenter.org