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Saratoga
Partnership for
Prevention
Youth and Adults Working Together
for a
Safe and Healthy Community
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Date:
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January 14, 2010 |
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Facilitator: Executive
Board |
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Location: |
3 Blue Streak Blvd., 2nd floor, School District
Administrative Offices
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Recorder:
Becky Black |
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Attendees: |
John Kelly,
Michael Piccirillo, Rev. Eleanor Stanton, Diane McGarry, Cindy Dort, Kelley
Bayer, Eric Catalano, David Torres, Paul Arciero, Jamie Williams, Brenda
Quinn, Jack Sandler, Susan Costanzo, Jackie Quarters, Jen Kelly, Jim Murphy,
Maureen Cary and Becky Black.
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Materials Distributed: |
none |
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Overview |
Discussion |
Decisions/Actions
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News and
Announcements
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Judy will facilitate a
training for the Community Awareness Committee
at 12:00 p.m.
on January 21, 2010
at Cornell Cooperative
in Ballston Spa.
The topic will be Environmental Strategies and will cover how to reach a
larger audience and make population-level change.
The Prevention
Council’s annual Safe Spring Leadership Conference will take place on March
18 at Skidmore College. This event brings together SADD Clubs from all over
Saratoga County for a variety of workshops and trainings. The keynote
speaker is adolescent brain development expert Mike Nerney.
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Partnership
Updates
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The United Way
has given the Prevention Council and the Partnership permission to apply for
a technologies grant that will allow them to explore media-based outlets for
parenting programs, such as podcasts, radio broadcasts, online videos, etc.
This will give busy parents the opportunity to gain access to parenting
seminars on various topics like bullying or college prep while going about
their daily lives. The grant is due February 10.
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Any
suggestions for reaching parent audiences with alternative methods are
appreciated.
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Committee
Updates
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Transition Committee:
This committee plans to expand the August high school welcome for 8th to 9th
graders to include a social component. Recognizing that students need to
visit with friends after the summer, the committee is hoping to add a school
fair , including tables for school clubs and other information, as well as
carnival-type food. A second component will include a presentation to
parents and kids on the top 5 things parents and students need to know about
high school. The last component will offer tours of the building with
student hall guides.
Community Awareness Committee:
This meeting was rescheduled for the 21st of January to coincide with Judy
Ekman’s training. They are also still working on a drug drop within the
community and hoping to implement a public awareness campaign with doctors'
and dentists' offices. A Parents Who Host media campaign is also planned for
spring.
Youth Committee:
This group will meet at the end of January. Becky Black met with the
Saratoga High School SADD Club and plans to join forces with them on a
Sticker Shock Campaign in the springtime. Sticker Shock is a campaign where
students place stickers on large packages of alcohol (with the permission of
local store owners) in order to remind adults that buying for minors is
illegal and that adults can be held responsible. The statement on the
sticker will be a “Parents Who Host Lose the Most” message.
Parent Resource Committee:
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The next Parent University offering listed
on the district website will be held on January 28th. The topic is “My Child
Has Been Tested: Help Me Understand what the Results Mean.”
Next year the committee will try to
establish a monthly schedule of programming. This will be set prior to the
school year.
Parent University would also like to begin a neighborhood series of programs
in an effort to reach a broader parent base. For those parents who may not
be able to attend school-based programs for any number of reasons, this
program will bring much-needed parenting programs close to home. The first
one is scheduled for March 24th at Jefferson Terrace from 5:30-7:30 with a
mediated topic on bullying.
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Next Meeting
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February 11, 2010 at
noon in the school district administrative building, 3 Blue
Streak Blvd. |
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