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Dakota County Connections Meeting Notes from:
Date/Time of Meeting: May 12th 2016 @ 9:00 am
Location of Meeting: Law Enforcement Center South Sioux City
Present: Tom Eakin/Brotherhood Trust and Love, Janie Snieder/A Better Way Therapy, Dave Mixdorf/South Sioux City Library, Leticia Garcia/Goodwill of the Great Plains, Nancy Oates/ResCare, Tonya Bauman/Building Blocks, Nicole Stack/Heartland Counseling, Corrin Mikkelson/NWS-YMCA, Josh Martin/DHHS, JoAnn Gieselman/SHIP &DCC, Yesica Saldana/Dakota County Health Dept., Mohamud Ibrahim/Dakota County Health Dept., Marian Burnett/Crittenton Center, Linda Philips/Siouxland Cares, Jeff Hackett/Boys Town, Judy Stanton/ Senior Lifestyle Advantage, Tony Gomez/Dakota County Commissioners, Rita DeJong/Boost-FF, Linnea Fletcher/PP Heartland, Kathy Moller/NENCAP/Ed Specialist, Kelly Flynn/City of South Sioux, Barb Mickelson/Big Brothers Big Sisters, John Ulrich/DHHS, Jennifer Jackson/Heartland Counseling, Sarah Deck/Juvenile Diversion,
Agenda Item #1 Welcome/Introductions and updates:
Discussion:
Group sharing: Everyone introduced themselves and told about the agency they work with.
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Jeff Hackett shared he is glad to be back and we are so glad he is too! Jeff shared that Boys Town provides mostly in home support in Nebraska, providing early intervention so families stay together and stay healthy! They currently are providing a parenting class in South Sioux City called Common Sense Parenting.
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Tonya Bauman from Building Blocks shared that May is Foster Care awareness month. She also shared about a learning opportuning she had with youth on trauma informed care. At this time Tonya is not sure how they will roll it out but will keep us posted. She is looking forward to working with Childcare Centers and Family support individuals from any agency in the future on trauma informed care.
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Marian Burnett from the Crittenton Center shared she has the joy of getting to be a grandma again! Crittenton Center continues to do parenting classes in South Sioux City, currently they are doing the Circle of Security class. They have a wonderful Resource Center that offers many supports to children and families.
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Linda Philips with Siouxland Cares shared they have a teen court program over in South Sioux City. She also shared had someone from Lincoln in doing grant monitoring yesterday, basically an audit and they came out with flying colors. Joan Spencer the Dakota County Clerk does an outstanding job of keeping everything organized! Siouxland Cares have given the South Sioux City schools a youth survey for their students to answer about alcohol and other drugs and we will be getting the results in the late summer or fall. They had three cases for teen court last month and they also did compliance checks where they had an underage kids go in to liquor stores and see if they could purchase alcohol and they had a 100% compliance rate, no one sold to the youth. Yea!
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Linnea Fletcher is with Planned Parenthood of the Heartlands and she shared that they are almost to the end of the first year of a 5-million-dollar grant, they address the issues of teen pregnancy in Woodbury and Dakota Counties. Part of what they are doing is putting together a youth advisory board, their second meeting will be here at the South Sioux library. They youth decided they would like to take turns holding one in Sioux City and then one in South Sioux City and back and forth. This will give the agency a teen perspective, it so often seems as adults we think we have all the answers. They will be able to talk about the issues and have some funding to help with them.
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Kelly Flynn with the City of South Sioux City shared they have a lot of exciting things going on with the expansions in South Sioux. Kelly talked about Green Star energy and the solar farm coming this summer and how Lance and the City are great at looking outside the box for renewable energy sources. Big Ox energy is taking all the food waste and turning that into energy so there is a lot going on in South Sioux City.
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Dave Mixdorf with the South Sioux City Public Library shared they will have the Dakota County Connections display up in one of the Large display cases at the Library. He also shared in their other case they have wood carvings that they will be having a silent auction on if you go to the web page you can find that. Dave shared they are also a location for dropping off and picking up items for the blessing bags. Also, next month is Cardinal Days and the Library is the sponsor for the drive-in movie. They will be showing The Dinosaur; last year 5000 people came it was a great turn out.
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Kathy Moller is the Education Coordinator with Early Head Start and NENCAP, she shared they are now taking application for the 2016-2017 school year.
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Barb Mickelson with Big Brothers and Big Sisters shared they serve Woodbury County, Dakota County, Union County, Plymouth County, and Sioux County. Right now in Dakota County they have 18 current matches, and they have five children on their waiting list waiting for a mentor. They also have five children in the enrollment process so over all they have 10 children that are looking for mentors. They are an evidence based mentoring program, they only ask four hours a month of time from a mentor many do much more then that but 4 is fine. There many people at our meeting today that were already mentors and it was pointed out that Linda Philips had been doing it for the longest period of time. Their big Fund raiser coming up is called “Over the Edge” where people can donate to have someone repel off the Howard Johnson Building it takes 1000 dollars per person. They hope to raise 90 thousand dollars. Corrin with the YMCA is willing to repel! Way to go! Send your donations to her and lets send her over the edge
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Judith Stanton with Sr. Life Style Advantage will be doing a Lunch and Learn at the College Center May 31st It will cover how you can be a better resource in your community. In her business she helps families better understand the difference in Sr. living centers and services. If you have a family member who health is declining she can help you and them decided if they need assisted living or what services may be best for their needs. Another thing Judith was excited to share with the group is that she will be sending out a Sr. Life Style Magazine to help people better know who are the go to agencies in the community. If you would like to advertise please let her know.
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Rita DeJong shared Boost FF is funded through a Dept. of Labor grant that will work with participants 14-24 with a focus on young adults between the ages of 18-24 who have been juvenile offenders. Boost also does mentoring and they have found some excellent mentors but always looking for more. Youth will learn valuable skills such as punctuality, reliability, work ethics, life skills and leadership skills. Rita shared she is always looking for opportunities with different agencies to give these youth leadership projects and experience. They just had a week long audit and came out successfully. They work with both Woodbury and Dakota County.
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Mohamud Ibrahim with the Dakota County Health Dept. he was new with us today and shared that he is Somalin which helps the Health Dept. reach out to more populations in our community. He has lived in the area 4 years.
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Yesica Saldana with Dakota County Health Dept. shared that they assist the minority population in Dakota County.
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Nancy Oates with ResCare shared they are a workforce service provider that contracts with the state of Nebraska. They work with individuals who receive state benefits and are referred to them by the state.
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Leticia Garcia with Goodwill of the Great Plains introduced herself as the employment specialist. She shared about the many programs they offer to help people find employment. Leticia also communicated they work with ResCare on employment support for individuals. They have a grant program that helps both the business and employee and it can supply 6-months of reimbursement to an employer in Nebraska.
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Tom Eakin with Brotherhood Trust and Love. They are starting their first session with veterans, they are reaching out to men and women who have served or are serving, they want to focus on the transition beyond what the government provides and trying to work as a network to help each other through that. Part of what they are doing is a veteran /employer transition program that has been have developed. Tom is looking for employers who will Beta test it for us and also looking for veterans in transition.
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Jennifer Jackson with Heartland Counseling shared about their Day Rehabilitation and Day Support Services that provides lunch every day, showers, and laundry facilities, they have group sessions in the morning and one in the afternoon during the day for individuals. Jennifer is always looking for guest speakers to come and talk with the individual that are in the program about what is going on in our community.
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Tony Gomes who is an elected official for the Dakota County Commissioners shared they have a lot of good things going on around the county. One of those is looking at positive way to use the old jail, they are looking at expanding the health dept., the board of commissions has met down in the basement in a little hall for a long time so they could move upstairs making this a better accommodation for the public. One of the things the board is talking about is raising up the next generation of leaders and how they could help with that. Tony suggested maybe getting Senior’s in High school more involved through meetings and tours. Help our youth understand the need for leaders and involvement in our community. We all need to help our youth understand about servanthood.
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Janie Snieder with A Better Way Therapy she shared that she provides CPP (Child Parent Psychotherapy), PCIT (Parent Child Interaction Therapy), Family therapy she also shared that all our PCIT therapist continue to offer services to families. Also that she, Robin and Penny continued coaching for the Pyramid model.
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Corrin Mikkelson with the YMCA shared they still have a lot of programs going on, currently they are getting ready for their summer camp coming up. They still have some room for some prek and Kindergartners, it is a really good program to get them ready for the coming year. Linda Philips and Corrnin talked about the Youth Volunteer Corps, a program offered through the “Y”, and connecting Tony Gomez with Ethan as they are both looking at building and finding leaders in our youth. It is a huge commitment for youth leaders but very important.
Agenda Item #2: Dakota County Connections on Display at the South Sioux City Library
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In May All the agencies that make up Dakota County Connections get to display information about themselves at the SSC Library! Please go check out the display when you get time!
Agenda Items # 3: Dakota County Parade:
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The parade is August 4th the lineup time is 5:00. If anyone is interested in heading this up please let JoAnn know.
Agenda Item # 4: Information Table-Come check it out!
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Bring you handouts, brochures and other information you want to share to our DCC meetings and put them on the table.
Focus Groups
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Community Response Meeting:
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Josh Martin and John Ulrich from DHHS presented on Alternative Response. This ties in with Community Response and is an important component to understand. This is another step in better understanding how we want to do Community Response so we do it right the first time.
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Survey Forms were distributed (with the wonderful support of the SSC Schools) to discover what the communities level of interest might be in a Youth/Community Center and After School Programing. We also looked at what we as a community need to do for grant funding.
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Currently we are offering classes in: Common Sense Parenting, Circle of Security. At our next meeting we will continue to look over the DCC work plan, identifying what is working and where some changes might be helpful. In the future we will also be looking at provider contracts for the next year.
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Street Project (Organization: Reporting and Retooling): -Our Focus Issues are: Identify a Mission statement, Identify levels of homelessness and appropriate responses to each.
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We have developed a mission statement and vision statement to share with the larger group on May 17th. Our organizational group will meet again June 14th, 1:30 at Trinity Lutheran Church.
Agenda Item #6: Rest of info on agenda
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Do to time, other information on the agenda was written out to view.
Agenda Item #12: Presentation by: Josh Martin and John Ulrich with DHHS on “What is Alternative Response?”:
Alternative Response is a new approach to help families with less severe reports of child abuse and/or neglect, connect with the supports and services they need in order to enhance the parent’s ability to keep their children safe and healthy.
Research shows that families who receive an assessment rather than an investigation are more likely to be receptive to and engage in services when they are approached in a non-adversarial, non-accusatory manner. Alternative Response eligible families will be assigned to a Children and Family Services Specialist (CFSS) who will begin the assessment process.
The CFSS will conduct family assessments to determine the family’s strengths and needs as well as assess for child safety. Families will be connected to the supports and services they need in order to enhance the parent’s ability to keep their children safe and healthy.
Next Meetings: Time 9:00-10:00
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June 9th @ Law Enforcement Center
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July 14th @College Center room 126c
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August 11th @ College Center 126c/Law Enforcement..?
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September 8th @ College Center 126c
Speakers for Upcoming Meetings:
June 9th: Corrinna Lenort – Voices for Food
July 14th: Lance Martin- Juvenile Justice Ministry
August 11th: Nancy Oates-Res Care
September 8th: Dave Faldmo- SCHC Medical Director SSC
October 13th Sarah Deck- Dakota Co. Juvenile Diversion/Teen court
November 10th: NENCAP- Head Start/ Early Head Start
December 8th: Jennifer Jackson-Heartland Counseling Services, Inc.
January 12th: Judith Stanton-Senior Lifestyle Advantage
February 9th: Jeff Hackett- Boys Town
March 9th: Margarita Ramirez-CAASA
April 13th: Barbara Mickelson- Big Brothers Big Sisters
May 11th: Julie Dorin- STARS
June 8th: Leticia Caballero- Goodwill
Dakota County Connections believes that strengthening our community requires all of us working together. This includes:
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Maintaining open communication with our partners and the community
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Identifying community strengths and needs
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Actively coordinating and sharing lessons learned
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Defining common outcomes
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Aligning individual community needs and resources to meet those outcomes
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Seeking additional resources to help reach our goals
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Using evaluation and community data to strengthen our programs
Dakota County Connections does not provide programs, it serves to provide a common table for community partners to gather around and collectively address community needs. We support all the organizations and individuals that are directed toward our common outcomes.
For more information, please see our Website at: dakotacountyconnectins.com
Would you also add the DCC website on your website so families can find the online resources DCC has to offer- Thank you!
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