Meeting Minutes from 3/18

In attendance:
Denise Lewis- Boys and Girls Club
Yvette Watkings- Genesee House
Amy Kickliter- Neighborhood House
Nelson Lopez- Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers
Steven Van- Neighborhood House
Elizabeth Carr- SPL
Donna Bland- Neighborhood House
Tien Duong Le- IDHA
Ba Cam Ma- Gamelin House
Gregory Schaffer- ReWA
David Bashore- ReWA
Naomi Chang- SHA
Katherine Bush- DOT
Annie Edwards- Neighborhood House
Corrina Repp- Elderplace
Maggie Sung- ReWA
Marci Miller- Neighborhood House

General announcement:
Neighborhood House thanks you for your feedback regarding their recent RV focus group results. Contact Amy if you would like a copy of the report.

Agency updates:

Denise Lewis-Boys and Girls Club
Boys and Girls club of Rainier Vista will open on October 1st
Will be hiring 15 part-time, 5-6 full-time staff
Will include a music studio, game room, computer room
YTP and Nature Consortium moving there, but probably open at current location for beginning of school year
Could open health clinic but still looking for partnerships

Annual Easter Egg Hunt, at Rainier Community Center, March 22nd, 10:30AM
Spring Break for kids ages 5-12, 7:30AM-6:00PM, $75

Yvette-Genesee House
Needs outreach to residents by CBOs. Could host a service provider get-together
Genesee House has many isolate elderly
Few families are participating in ESL classes
Please send her flyers or visit to make residents aware of programming

Amy Kickliter-Neighborhood House
Amy is moving to the White Center office, will still work on the computer lab at R.V.
Will be offering new ESL classes
Looking for funding/HUD money for computer lab
Interested in partnership development, building funding from Regence

Nelson Lopez-Puget Sound Neighborhood Health Centers
Teaching a stress reduction for body and mind class
Learn how to reduce stress, pain and anxiety through Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction
Nine-week class every Monday from Apriil 14th to June 16th, only $45
Call Nelson at 461-6957 x119

Steven Van-Neighborhood House
April 5th- Cambodian New Year performance at White Center
Possible performance at UW for free with food
April 2nd – Community meeting to keep youth alcohol-free
Rainier Vista, 5-7PM
Kids who drink before age 15 are 5 times more likely to have alcohol problems as adults

Elizabeth Carr-SPL
SNAP-Seattle Neighborhood Actively Prepare
Preparedness disaster program-Learn how to put together a disaster supplies kit, create a family disaster plan and organize with your neighbors to take care when disaster strikes
Columbia Branch Library, 4721 Rainier Ave S.
Thursday, May 8th, 6:30-8:00
Each branch will now have its own event flyer
Seattle Reads 2008 will feature The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears by Dinaw Mengestu
Look for events in May

Donna- Neighborhood House-Yesler Terrace
Project HANDLE
Distributed flyer for event in conjunction with African American Outreach on Saturday
Will be first HIV testing event for girls
Calling all sisters to unite to help stop the spread of HIV/AIDS
Saturday, March 22nd, 3-6PM
Langston Hughes Clutural Center
104 17th Avenue S.

Tien Duong Le-IDHA for RV and High Point
Now in charge of Vietnamese tea time 10-12, 1st Tuesday of the month
Focused on Vietnamese, Cambodian, and Chinese
Works with RV management office
Provide low-income housing, homeownership education and counseling, financial literacy, tutoring and support, job skills and related services.

Ba Cam Ma-Gamelin House
Look for Providence’s new logo with the sun rising but everything else is the same
Looking for more collaborations with other agencies
Please contact, he wants the residents to “break the ice” with the outside world
Population is 78% SE Asian, 10% are English speakers
Ba can translate small things
Please come to the birthday party on the 2nd Wednesday of the month to distribute your information

Gregory Schaffer, David Bashore-ReWA
Hiring for tutors and math teachers
ReWA is considering its leasing options and role in Rainier Vista given the expansion of the Boys and Girls Club
Looking for more collaborative options for the second hour of the youth program

Naomi Chang-SHA
Facilitating resident activities
Organizing block watch for RV community, please post flyer
Multi-ethnic-diversity committee is bridging ethnic gap
Community pot-luck very successful with 90 people
Monthly clean-up started in March drew 30 people
Wants to encourage more renters to be involved
Tien taking over coffee talk, please come announce your events
April 24 art event, look for a forthcoming flyer

Katherine Bush- DOT-katherine.bush@seattle.gov
Working on pedestrian master plan
Goals are to get more people walking, reduce the number of crashes involving pedestrians, and engage all Seattle in a dialogue about creating a walkable city
Interested in developing walking tours of the Rainier Valley
Planning a stakeholders meeting for CBOs; let her know if you want to participate

Annie Edwards-Neighborhood House
Family support for Rainier Vista and Yesler Terrace
Offering residents opportunities for self sufficiency
Will link seniors with services

Corrina Repp- Elderplace
All-inclusive eldercare for ages 55+
Primary medical care and access to specialists
April 11th, free blood pressure screening at Gamelin House
Anyone in the community is welcome, see previously e-mailed flyer

Maggie Sung-ReWA
Training program for childcare, 8-week intensive training to become a licensed child care provider
For level 3 ESL or higher
Students will be able to work in a childcare facility or open their own place
Contact Maggie@rewa.org for flyer

Marci Miller- Neighborhood House
Works in childhood development for ages 4-5
Early Head Start for birth to 3
Parent Child Home Program, PCHP- enrolls in September for ages 2-3
Participants get a free book and toy
PCHP is always full so enroll early!

NEXT MEETING TUESDAY, 5-20, 10:00-11:30AM AT PUGET SOUND NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTERS, DETAILS FORTHCOMING

Nelson Lopez will facilitate this meeting