Rainier Vista Service Provider Meeting 2.14.12 minutes

RV Provider Meeting
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at 1pm
At RV Boys and Girls Club

Attendance: Grace Scarella, Nature Consortium; Denise Lewis, Boys and Girls Club, Minh Nguyen-Wickman, ICHS; Jenny Mauer, Atlantic Street Center Rainier Beach Family Center; Naomi Salinas, Bike Works; Lauren Arnesen, Neighborcare Health Clinics; Scott Behmer, Solid Ground Lettuce Link Program, Ray Padilla, Bellwether Housing, Shere’e Robinson, Bellwether Housing – Genesee Apartments; Laura Horan, Neighborhood House; Nhi Tran, Seattle Neighborhood Group; Amy Tseng, Neighborcare Health; Bev Johnson, Seattle U Nursing Program; Kate Farmer, Neighborhood House; Mike Graham-Squire, Neighborhood House; Jason Rolfe, Youth Tutoring Program CCS; Kim Spears, REWA.


Smoking Cessation Workshop – SHA went Smoke Free as of February 1st. Mike Graham-Squire of Neighborhood House will be working with SHA to offer smoking cessation workshops at some of the larger SHA sites. King County Public Health will assist. There is a Quit Line, but that may be ending in March. Mike has also done training with NH Head Start and their FSW workers on how to talk to people about quitting smoking. More trainings will be held in the future if providers are interested. The Smoking Cessation workshop for RV will be Wed, March 14th from 6-7:30pm at the Boys and Girls Club. Denise has a group of parents that come on this night and she will promote the event with them and also with youth. King County Health is working on a flyer. Neighborcare Health and REWA will assist with the workshop. Kate will send the flyer out to providers when it is available so they can help with outreach and promoting the event.

Seattle U nursing Students will be back in community to volunteer from April 5 to end of May. Providers are interested in possibly planning another Health Fair, we discussed the potential date of May 17th at 6-7:30pm at the Boys and Girls Club. Bev Johnson will not be leading the group this Spring, another professor will oversee the students. The providers will invite the students to the next provider meeting in April on a Thursday, to talk more about details and planning for the Health Fair.

Resource Fair – Providers will likely host another Resource Fair to get summer information out to youth. Fair will be held in June, no date yet.

Safety – more break ins are occurring in the neighborhood. Some of the stores and restaurants and businesses have experienced break ins. Windows have been broken, and doors are being rattled to see if they are closed all the way, also businesses have found electrical tape on the door jam preventing the doors from closing. Safety Meeting will be held on Monday, March 5 at 6:30pm at Neighborhood House and all providers may attend to address community and safety concerns. Providers can follow up at our next meeting on the outcome of this meeting and what they can support around safety.

911 Emergency Call – Providers talked about hosting a 911 Emergency Call instruction workshop for residents. Many fear calling police so it might be helpful to have a workshop to instruct residents on this. Providers can talk about possibly hosting a Fall event for this at the next meeting.

Intergenerational work – Getting youth and seniors together has been talked about at past provider meetings. The group talked about how to get this to happen. Programs could build time into their program to connect with seniors. Providers could hold an event to get youth/seniors together. Kate will invite Ba from Providence Gamelin to the next meeting to see what ideas he would have to get this started.

Next Meeting: April 12th at 1pm at Rainier Beach Family Center hosted by Jenny Mauer.