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

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