BoCo VOAD
Meeting Minutes
January 17, 2017
Present: |
Julie Phillips, Mike Moore, Patrick Van Horne (Team Rubicon), Julie Kurzawa (Foothills United Way), Linda Drullinger, Tamara Jenlink, Joycelyn Fankhouser, Mary Eldred, Mariah Henderson (City of Longmont OEM/Americorps), Andrew Notbohm, Tiernan Doyle, Aaron Titus, Mickey Ellenwood, Marta Loachamin, Aimee Kane (City of Boulder) |
Next meeting: |
Tuesday, March 7th from 3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m., location TBD |
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Announcements and Discussion
Larimer County VOAD Hosting an exercise focused on Long-Term Recovery
TBD–tentatively scheduled in April
MWVOAD Conference
Sunday April 23 to Tuesday April 25, 2017
Longs Peak United Methodist Church
1421 Elmhurst Drive
Longmont, CO 80503
$100 registration early bird
CEMA Conference
Tuesday, Feb 28, 2017 to Thursday, Mar 2, 2017
Colorado Springs
Hotel Elegante
2886 S Circle Dr.
Colorado Springs, CO 80906
1 Day Attendee ($125.00); Full Attendees ($275.00); free to attend the COVOAD quarterly meeting
City of Longmont Resiliency for All (presented by Marta Loachamin)
Inclusion of Latinos/Spanish speakers
–30% of the community in Longmont
–Identifying barriers/gap needs analysis
–Developing recommendations
–share findings with local municipalities
–expand resources to Spanish speakers, through cultural brokers
–focus groups
–compañeras (women’s group)
–presentation of findings (collaboration with BoCo Strong) will occur at the end of 2017
BoCo Strong 2016 Work Plan (presented by Tiernan Doyle)
Objectives:
–Focus on collecting information from member organizations
–Creating a directory/Membership information
–Membership recruitment
–Better understanding of response timeline, resources, and existing agreements
–Citizen preparedness groups that already exist/connecting them with the VOAD
–Being more cognizant of disaster trainings and programs throughout the county
–harness that energy and provide more direction to the community
–Create guidelines to better serve specific communities in the county (cultural context)
–IMA/mountain community
–communicate better regarding their specific needs/resources
–focus on documenting process and cross-training to preserve institutional memory
–Full report available on the BoCo VOAD website
2017 Goals
Improve Membership involvement by hosting two focused meetings (one in May and the other in Nov)
Top goals from the Nov 2016 annual meeting:
Plans/Processes
- Resource guide updates/capacity survey
- Clarify roles of existing safety net organizations (not involved in VOAD)
- Joycelyn and Tamara to spearhead
- Case Management Readiness Master Plan
Training/Exercises
- Psychological first aid
- Henry (MHP) will be able to instruct
- Tamara Jenlink motioned to make Psych First Aid a priority
- Linda Drullinger seconds
- Motion passed unanimously
- Henry confirmed willingness to instruct
- Trauma Informed Training
- Table Top Exercises
- Overall suggestion: priority to have training throughout the year, not necessarily every month
- Mary Eldred requests a calendar of all upcoming training
- Tiernan says this already exists on BoCo VOAD website, please send any training to her to be added
Members/Organizations/Groups to recruit
- Humane Societies
- Via
- Financial Assistance/Counseling
- Community Foundations
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Action Items
Tentative Calendar:
February: Pscyh First Aid
March: Planning meeting/COVOAD
April: Long-term Recovery training (Larimer County VOAD)/MWVOAD/State of VOAD Meeting
May: Training
June/July: Summer Exercise
August: Training
September/October: Fall Exercise and Resilience Summit
November: Training
Trainings to be scheduled:
Psychological First Aid (Henry Mitchell)
How to Prepare for Everything (Aaron Titus)
Disaster Communications (Andrew Notbohm)
Trauma (Tamara Jenlink)
Discussions:
BoCo VOAD discussion regarding the latino community/cultural context
Exercises: