Board of Directors Meeting
March 27, 2001 12 p.m.
Bremerton-Kitsap County Health District

Board Members Present: Susan Vitale-Olson, Dean Logan, Claire Bradley, Denise Thomson, Debbie Brockman, Dayle Crane, Cheryl Graf, Martha Voorhees, Pete Ball, Dianne Juhl, Marilyn Wandry

Board Members Excused: Sally Olsen, John Lee

Board Members Not Excused: Ramalina Steiner, Martin Knott

Others Present: Heidi Hoke (Administrative Coordinator), Sue Nolan (Financial Coordinator)

The meeting was called to order by Chairperson, Cheryl Graf.

I. Minutes: The February minutes were approved as written.

II. Financial Report: The financial report from February was submitted.

III. Committee Reports:

A. Program Committee: Minutes from the March 21 meeting were submitted. The next meeting will be April 18, 9 a.m. at the YWCA.

1. Desserts are needed for the Awards Ceremony. Discussion about who should/could speak in behalf of the Task Force. Dianne will call Mary P. from the state to see if she’d like to attend. It was moved and approved to spend no more than $400 for the Awards ceremony.

2. Some board members met with SAPA about joining efforts towards the Summit. Perhaps a drug/alcohol piece around DV. Another meeting will be planned to talk about this further. So far, Summit ideas include 1) immigration issues and 2) drugs.

3. Debbie has volunteers at the YWCA who are willing to deliver Resource Guides around the county. Heidi will make up a distribution plan.

4. Dean and Marilyn have been asked to submit articles for the upcoming newsletter.

B. Community Education:

1. Speakers:

• The County training was well attended.
• The HMH training went well but a few key people were missing.
• The DRC training is this week.
• There might be a Youth Violence training this Fall for the County.
• HMH might hold a DV training for all its employees.
• The Law Enforcement training is scheduled for May and June.

2. Training/Topic Specific

a. CPS: no report.

b. Bridging the Gap: The meeting last week went well, they continue to work on the Judicial Roundtable planned for the Fall (Sept/Oct). They’d like to make it a regularly scheduled series for the judges. The committee is looking for more “gaps” to work on. They are doing research into neutral transfer zones - there is a need to have more of them set up. Dean is working on getting any DV victim able to go to any court in Kitsap County to get a protection order. As it stands, sometimes they receive different services from the different courts.

c. Faith Community Action Group: Faith brochures and order forms were sent out to Faith communities throughout Kitsap County. They are working with Martha Voorhees at the ALIVE Shelter on a DV housing fund to help victims. Dianne will start working on a breakout session for the next Summit and the YWCA Faith Forum for October. They are also working on helping pastors do an assessment for power and control issues.

d. Substance Abuse Providers: no report.

e. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Kitsap Youth : The group has a new name! RESPECT stand for Relationship Education Strengthens and Provides Empowering Choices for Today’s Kitsap Youth. The next meeting is April 20. They will be having a resource table at a few upcoming events.

f. Victim’s Services/Perpetrator Treatment: No report.

C. Membership: They are getting more applications and need to conduct interviews. Membership committee is: Denise (Chair), Cheryl, Dayle, Dean, Sally.

IV. Old Business:
A. Confirmation of time/place for April 3 Exec. Meeting - Puerta Vallarta Restaurant from 4-6 pm
B. Community DV Awards - Vote for Recipients. Heidi will tally the votes and let everyone know.

V. New Business:

VI. Updates
A. The DVTF now has a position on the SAIVS board.
B. Pete found out that the VINE Program costs $21-27,000 !!

VII. Meeting Adjourned

Respectfully Submitted,

Heidi Hoke
Administrative Coordinator