October 12, 2005 Leadership Committee Meeting Minutes

 

 

In Attendance:              Jennifer Anderson, Northern IL Food Bank

                                    Jim Caldwell, Gurnee Police Department

                                    Katherine Caskey, St. Martin de Porres High School

                                    Barbara Daudelin, Mundelein Park District

                                    Migdalia Diaz, OMNI Youth Services

                                    Yvette Ewing, 21st Century Stars Program-Waukegan Public Schools

                                    Judy Fried, NICASA

                                    Pat Garrity, Lake County Health Department

                                    JoAnn Jakubowski, Southlake Education Center

                                    Adrienne Johnson, West Deerfield Township

                                    Kimberly Kim, Lake Forest Country Day School

                                    Theresa Loerch, State Representative Kathy Ryg’s office

                                    Sali Martin, UCAN

                                    Alex Marx, Mundelein Park District

                                    Liz Nelson, Lake County InTouch

                                    Chief Ray Rose, Mundelein Police Department

                                    State Representative Kathy Ryg, District 59

                                    Sharon Sanders-Funnye, Boys & Girls Club of Lake County

                                    Lisa Sheppard, Gurnee Park District

                                    Connie Willegal, Girls Scouts – IL Crossroads Council    

 

The next After School Coalition Board meeting/Leadership Committee will be held on

Monday, November 14th at 8:30 a.m. at the Mundelein Police Department.

   

Announcements

 

Kathy Ryg announced that she has been receiving positive feedback from events she had attended in the past month; Boys & Girls Club Dare to Dream event, LAN’s truancy prevention symposium, CROYA, SERS Legislative breakfast, etc.   Kathy also mentioned there were plans for the One-To-One Mentoring Task Force to host a hearing at the Thompson Center sometime during the month of November.  Once a date is determined, an e-mail announcement will be sent to request testimony ~ written or verbal.   All are welcome to participate. 

 

Liz Nelson announced Lake County InTouch is conducting an assessment of municipal ordinances related to underage drinking. The assessment will be distributed to all police chiefs in Lake County. One of the reasons that InTouch is conducting the assessment is to create a database of Lake County ordinances related to underage drinking, since there is none thus far.

In Spring 2006 InTouch will host a forum to discus the survey funding and plan strategies to address underage drinking in our communities.  This topic sparked a lot of discussion on how to address underage drinking. Recent incidences of minors being caught drunk or with alcohol were also discussed. Consistency between municipalities and teaming up to show young people that Lake County is serious about addressing this issue was also discussed. An Underage Drinking Prevention symposium or summit may be the coalition’s next event, possibly in the spring.

 

Liz also reminded everyone to join the 19th Judicial Circuit Court, Lake County Health Department and local schools in celebrating a drug free community at the Red Ribbon Rally at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, October 26th in the Lincoln Plaza of the Lake County Courthouse and Administrative Complex, 18 N. County Street.     www.co.lake.il.us

 

Alex Marx, Mundelein Park District, announced the Mundelein After School Coalition will be hosting a Halloween Dance on October 28th at Carl Sandburg Middle School ~ all Mundelein

middle school age students were invited to participate.

 

Katherine Caskey announced that St. Martin de Porres High School would be hosting two Open Houses this Fall; October 26th and November 15th at 6 p.m.   All are welcome to tour the school and meet the students, faculty and staff and to learn about their unique educational program.  www.smdpwaukegan.org

 

Yvette Ewing, 21st Century Stars Program-Waukegan Public Schools, encouraged everyone

to participate in the Lights On! After School program.

 

Sharon Sanders-Funnye announced that the Boys & Girls Club of Lake County will be having ACT Prep classes to help students prepare for college and to get information about college tours.  More information will follow.

 
Presentation:   Donors Forum of Chicago

 

Yvette Ewing, 21st Century Stars Program-Waukegan Public Schools presented grant resources from Donors Forum of Chicago.

 

The Donors Forum of Chicago is a community of nonprofit, consultant and grantmaking organizations that is working together to strengthen, advance and protect the nonprofit sector.

Once your organization becomes a Forum Partner, you have access to information, colleagues, programs and expertise that help your organization fulfill its mission.    The Forum Partners include nearly 1,200 nonprofit organizations working in fields ranging from arts, education and the environment to advocacy, human services and health.  Benefits include research assistance and answers to questions about fundraising, discounts on memberships, workshops and subscriptions and timely updates on federal and state legislation that affects the nonprofit sector through the Donor Forum Advocacy Network.   The annual fees are based on the annual budget size of the Forum Partner organization. 

 

The Donors Forum has satellite offices in Schaumburg at their public library and in DuPage

County at their community college.  They are looking to add a third satellite, which will be at the

College of Lake County!  The details are still being worked out, but as soon as Yvette finds out

more, she will share the information with the coalition.

 

More information can be found on their website at www.donorsforum.org. 

 

Committee Reports – Review of the 1st Annual Meeting

 

Table Discussion Notes – Liz Nelson reviewed the notes collected from the 1st Annual Meeting addressing “How can the Lake County After School Coalition assist you/your organization with developing/expanding after school initiatives in your community?”  Several mentioned key issues such as youth/teen centers and transportation.  These issues will be discussed in more detail at the next Leadership meeting.  The notes from the table discussions have been attached for your review.

 

Barb Daudelin announced that since the Annual Meeting she had only received a few additions and corrections to the assessment summary and will need to resend the Countywide Agency Survey to organizations that have not responded.   Once the additional information is added, the results will be made available on the Lake County After School Coalition website www.lakecountyafterschoolcoalition.org

 

Lisa Sheppard reported that she would be sending acknowledgements to the 18 organizations (39 members) that have recently sent in their membership applications to the coalition.   The membership application is currently being updated and will be sent out via e-mail to all on e-list.  This application has been attached and will be available on the website soon.

 

Kathy Ryg suggested that the Lake County After School Coalition website should be included on all correspondence and literature.

 

Liz Nelson will be updating the website history page to include September 23rd Annual Meeting.

 

Board Action Agenda Items for November 14th meeting

 

Review of Bylaws – Ex-officio Members

Subcommittees – Youth Advisory, Transportation, Special Needs, Strategic Planning

Marketing Outreach

Membership - Benefits