A listing of providers and events in the area of the Rainier Vista housing development.

Oct 20, 2010

Rainier Vista Service Provider Meeting Minutes 10/19/10

Rainier Vista Service Provider Meeting
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
At REWA
Meeting Minutes



Attendance: Kate Farmer, Neighborhood House, Mari Becker, Seattle Parks and Rec; Scott Behmer, Lettuce Link; Jason Rolfe, Youth Tutoring Program; Emily Barbee, REWA; Abbie Zahler, ICHS; Emily Johnson, NeighborCare; Naomi Chang, SHA; Heidi Viets, Neighborhood House, Mike Graham-Square, Project Handle (Neighborhood House).

Service Updates:
Lettuce Link – Scott gave an update on progress of RV urban farm. There will be a couple of work parties in November, and the project hopes expects to be completed in Spring 2011.

Youth Tutoring Program – Jason discussed tutoring programs. Teen Tutoring Program – any teen can work with tutor on Monday – Thursday from 5:30-7:40pm, kids in grades 7th grade and above. Must be a member of Boys and Girls Club (cost of membership is $30 or $10 if live in public housing). YTP also has tutoring two days a week for 1st -12th grade students.

REWA – After school programs at RV and youth program in Tukwila. Kids must enroll for these programs, they at capacity right now. Program is for 3rd – 12th grade students. Monday – Thursday from 4:00pm - 6:30pm. They also host after school field trips on Fridays. REWA also offers two girls groups for 4th -6th grade girls. There is a Leadership and Service group for 7th grade girls. University of Washington Women in Business Club is connected with this group. Girls are learning public speaking, leadership, etc. REWA also hosts a Boys Group for elementary boys, they learn martial arts.

SHA – September 25th Multicultural event was a success. A lot of service providers and residents attended. Multicultural Committee hosted event. The committee works on integrating residents and homeowners with a goal of cultural diversity. Group meets at Neighborhood House on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 6pm. Traffic & Safety Committee meets every other month on the first Monday of the month at Neighborhood House. This is a community group and they work with SDOT on traffic and safety issues. Cambodian group meets every week-end at McBride Court. Navy Kheav from Neighborhood House facilitates this group. Somali group meets at McBride Court Friday – Sunday from 4-7pm for youth. Tamarack Place will open in November 17 with 86 units and retail on the first floor. Phase 3 is under way and 118 rental units expect to be completed in 2012.

ICHS – ICHS offers community education, such as Diabetes, smoking cessations, insurance info, etc. ICHS will visit organizations and discuss these topics and more. ICHS offers a Vietnamese women support group, and Chinese Group that meets monthly, also a weekly dance class. They also have in-clinic health educators at Franklin High School to address family planning.

NeighborCare Health – Emily is a new AmeriCorps member working with NeighborCare who provides dental and medical care to low income and uninsured. Emily is working on the coordination between the medial and dental clinics, both will move to the same building in January. The Rainier Beach Medial & Dental Clinic will open in early 2011. Emily discussed the emergency walk in dental clinic.

Project Handle (Neighborhood House) – Mike is part of the Drugs Free Community Coalition. He is working at High Point and also Rainier Vista. Recently held a Drug Take Back Day. At this event a large amount of prescription drugs were turned in. He is working with SHA, the Tamarack Place building will be smoke free building, Mike will do education. New smoking call in QuitLines will be available in Mandarin and Vietnamese languages.

Seattle Parks and Rec – Mary coordinates Sound Steps, walking group for people over the age of 50. They do training for 5K, 10K, and marathon for adults. Enhanced Fitness is fitness program for seniors. Tim Pretare is currently working at Van Asselt.

SHA – Job Connection – Larry is working with clients who live in SHA communities to find employment.

Business:

HARVC – members talked about merge of HARVC with RV Service Providers and discussed changing name to Rainier Valley Service Providers. There is a group of service providers who meet at New Holly, Kate will contact the leader of this group. Discussion on whether we could open this meeting up to them or attend their meetings. Discussion that New Holly may work with a different population and may be some pros/cons about including this group. Kate will meet with the facilitator and report back at the next service provider meeting. Mari will also check on the name “Rainier Valley Service Providers” to see if there are any other groups using that name, she will contact Chamber.

New members – discussion on how to increase size of this group or get more people to attend meetings. Some of the suggestions were to tell providers to invite 2 guests to the meeting. Group talked about trainings. Kate talked to Neighborhood House staff and also talked to a couple of other leads about training, but was unable to find free trainings. Emily suggested some webinars which would be free, Kate will look into this. Some of the suggestions from the last meeting were discussed, such as inviting residents. The group thought inviting resident leads may be a good way to get program info out in community, such as connecting with the leads of the Somali group and Oromo Cultural Group and inviting them to the next meeting, may be a way for programs to better connect with community and get to know some of the leaders. Kate will talk to both groups. She will also talk to Guray from NH to see if he can attend next meeting and help translate if Somali group leader attends. Naomi suggested inviting Linh Thai from Vovinam Martial Arts group, as he would like to be more connected with the community and needs help recruiting local kids for his program. Naomi suggested holding a potluck once or twice a year, which is what Service Provider group used to do. The group liked this idea and will host a potluck on Tuesday, December 14th at 12noon – 1:30pm, this will be the last service provider meeting for the year.

Next Meeting: Tuesday, December 14th at 12 Noon – 1:30pm at Boys and Girls Club, Jason will host. Please bring a dish to share. Please note this will be the 2nd Tuesday of the month (not the 3rd Tuesday).

Meeting adjourned: Minutes by Kate Farmer.

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