April 24, 2001 5 p.m.
Silverdale Lutheran Church

Board Members Present: Susan Vitale-Olson, Claire Bradley, Denise Thomson, Debbie Brockman, Dayle Crane, Cheryl Graf, Martha Voorhees, Pete Ball, Dianne Juhl, Martin Knott, Sally Olsen, John Lee

Board Members Excused: Ramalina Steiner, Dean Logan, Marilyn Wandry

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

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

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

II. Financial Report: The financial report from March was submitted. Sue wrote grants from the Ludwig Family Foundation and Bona Memorial Foundation. Sue also mentioned a grant possibility with Phillip Morris. The YWCA is also applying for this grant, so Sue will talk with the Y and see if we are "competing" for the funds. If so, we won't apply. The board was reminded to turn in their monthly volunteer timesheets. Cheryl mentioned the importance of financially donating to the DVTF as a board. If everyone donates then it looks good on our grant requests that the board fiscally supports the agency also.

III. Committee Reports:

A. Program Committee:

1. An overview of the Awards Ceremony was given. Community DV Award recipients are Barbara Mills, Navy Family Advocacy, Leah Schipper and Catherine Clark, and the Suquamish United Church of Christ. We had a meeting with SAPA (Substance Abuse Prevention Association) to discuss our upcoming Summit. They are looking into booking Alex Stalcup as the keynote speaker. SAPA will pay his $2500 fee. It was moved and approved for the DVTF to pay for his flight and accommodations. The next meeting with SAPA to discuss specifics will be on May 17 at the Public Works bldg.

2. Tomorrow's Network meeting with feature Kate Espy from Harrison Memorial Hospital's S.A.N.E. program.

B. Community Education: 1. Speakers: Cheryl wrote a letter to the Dispute Resolution Center suggesting they give Ramalina an honorarium for her work with their training and to consider giving the DVTF a donation for all of our time. We will be considering a fee schedule for upcoming trainings. Sally and Dean are going to look into a fee schedule. Claire informed the board that she will not be allowed to be our representative on the SAIVS board because she is officially the back-up rep for the Prosecutor's Office. SAIVS meet on the 2nd Thursday of the month from 9-10 a.m. at the Child Support office. Martha, Pete and Martin all expressed interest in becoming our representative. Cheryl will email them in regards to this.

2. Training/Topic Specific

a. CPS: Susan reported that 25 DCFS workers are signed up for the protocol training.

b. Bridging the Gap: They meet every other month on the 4th Thursday. The next meeting will be on May 24 at 4:45 p.m. at the Child Support Bldg. Lots of people have been showing up and are enthusiastic - wanting to tackle lots of issues.

c. Faith Community Action Group: They are distributing brochures and working on the emergency housing fund with the YWCA. The plan is to get Kitsap Co. churches to fund $50/night for victims to stay at Howard Johnsons. Dianne hired someone to help create a database of churches for Kitsap. You can now also order Faith brochures through our website.

d. Substance Abuse Providers: Martha and Ramalina did a training at Olalla Guest Lodge. At WSCADV Annual Conference on September 23-25 in Wenatchee, they are going to do a Chemical Dependency/Domestic Violence training for 9 hours.

e. R.E.S.P.E.C.T. Kitsap Youth: Last week's meeting hosted Jennifer Irvine. They also picked a logo that Heidi created for them. Denise also attended a Safe Teens training. The May 18 meeting will be focusing on goal statements.

f. Victim's Services/Perpetrator Treatment: Debbie reported that they are trying to get Perpetrator Treatment providers to know what was covered in previous sessions by clients who are switching providers. Also how much/if any money is owed to the previous provider by the client. They are working on a standardized form to help gather all the information. Also, Project Family is now providing the parenting class "Helping Children Who Witness DV" to perpetrators of domestic violence. The class starts on May 1st. PF has been providing the class for victims of DV for a couple years.

C. Membership: No report.

IV. Old Business:

A. The amended by-laws were moved and approved. The by-laws now say that our board can have up to 16 positions (versus 15).

B. A sign up sheet was passed around for the "It's Time for Kitsap Kids Celebration" event to be held at the Kitsap Mall, April 28-29. We are going to have a resource table there.

V. New Business:

A. Sue handed out the proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2001-2002. If you have any suggestions, please let Cheryl, Heidi, or Sue know.

B. Dean is getting too busy with the SAIVS board and so he has asked to step down as Chair of Community Education committee.

VI. Updates

A. Heidi passed out new business cards for the DVTF.

B. The Human Rights Council would like the DVTF to serve as a "pass through" for their annual conference. They would like to have us help them so they can get a discount on speaker fees with our non-profit status. Sally will get more information. If the DVTF decides not to do it, the YWCA will be approached.

C. Denise told us about a multimedia exhibit called "Behind Closed Doors". After much enthusiasm from the board, she is going to get more information on it and present it to us.

D. Dayle reported that the Minority Services group would like to officially be considered one of the DVTF's workgroups and the board agreed.

VII. Meeting Adjourned

Respectfully Submitted,

Heidi Hoke
Administrative Coordinator