BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING - May 28, 2002

Board Members Present: Debbie Brockman, Ramalina Steiner, Helen Todhunter, Laurie Adamson, Martha Voorhees, Denise Thomson, Susan Vitale-Olson, Pete Ball, Martin Knott, Dayle Crane, Dianne Juhl, Rick Wilson.

Board Members Excused: Claire Bradley, Marilyn Wandry, Sue Shultz.

Board Members Not Excused:

Ohers Present: Joan Taie (Administrative Coordinator) Patrick Kilcoyne (public).

Debbie Brockman called the meeting to order.

I. Approval of Minutes: April minutes were approved.

II. Financial Report: Volunteer sheets were turned in.

III. A P&L & balance sheet was provided and explained by Joan Taie.

IV. Grant funding: Lori explained how the grant searching works and wants board members to let her know what they feel the DVTF needs and she will search out a grant that will cover it.

III. Committee Reports

A. Program - Next Meeting on the 5th at 10AM @ the YWCA. This will be in addition to the regular scheduled meeting on the 19th @ noon. We are still looking for speakers for the Summit 2002. Culture stats for Kitsap County were handed out. This was to help with identifying the local ethnic groups. Wilma Mankiller was a suggested speaker and she will be speaking at the Antonio Hyatt 9/9-9/11. Still researching and taking suggestions on speakers. Laurie suggested Thelma Bergonio Watson - she has a background in DV and Diversity. Dianne Juhl has known Thelma for 4 to 6 years. She felt she was an excellent speaker. She does tie in religious issues with her talks. She is also very booked and est. cost: $1000. Debbie suggested Bookta Ghelsar. Dianne knows who she is but has never heard her keynote. Susan really wants help and recommendations since she has never heard of most of these speakers and would like references. Diane has also mentioned Blackbear as a speaker. She would be easier to obtain because she is local. Breakouts are still being discussed as well. It was discussed whether Continuing Education Units would be available without offering breakouts and Dayle thinks they would.

B. Community Education No report

2. Topic Specific Workgroups

a. Bridging the Gap: Still working on the problems with protection orders and tribal orders. Trying to develop paper work that would work for both.

b. Faith Community Action Group: Still connecting with congregation leaders. Wanting to know what happens in a DV situation? Who responds? How do they respond? Interested in providing training for them. We are designing business cards to have for handing out. Working on the training agenda to get more guidelines to make it more appealing. Did a presentation and training for CK Presbyterian Church. It went well.

c. Substance Abuse Providers: Still working with SAPA so that we can do a presentation. The advisory board got to see a presentation and we received positive feedback. They really want to help but don't know how much.

d. RESPECT Kitsap Youth: Working on expanding program at the Juvenile Center. Focusing on developing a booklet around dating violence issues.

e. Perpetrator Treatment/Victim's Services: Meeting with Port Orchard Municipal Judges. They explained their procedure with protection orders and Debbie had explained the procedure of one form for every court. They were very interested in idea.

f. Minority Services - Women of Color Caucus Retreat in Ellensburg was great. We should think of who might want to go next year and work on perhaps scholarships for it. A report was passed out at the last meeting in regards to the title of the 2002 Summit. Dianne passed out a handout regarding the response of the Minority Services committee to the title "When Culture & DV Collide". They were not in favor of the title. Maybe the Summit should focus on indigenous immigrant populations. Maybe have several speakers from different groups in the underserved populations.

g. Legislative update - No report

Membership - Cheryl has resigned from the board, leaving one opening. No other report.

IV. Old Business

A. Review of Goals: A mini-retreat/BBQ is being scheduled for July 23 from 2-6. We will review our goals then.

B. RG Distribution - Debbie, Dayle and Joan will try to remember to bring RG's to the next meeting for board members to distribute. They are working and we need to get more out.

VII. Meeting Adjourned

Respectfully Submitted,

Joan Taie Administrative Coordinator