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Five Town Communities That Care
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May 18, 2010 Executive Director's Update
| Vol 2, Issue 17
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Dear Board, Work Group Members, and Staff; |
Much going on, as usual! Please take the time to read through the news below. Let me know if you have questions or need more info!
I challenge you to start your day by watching this wonderful video (don't give up on the video too soon):
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=42E2fAWM6rA
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Important Dates
| Harvest Hootenanny Planning Meeting: May 21@1PM at the CTC Offices
STAR Cycle 19 Celebration: June 3 at Hope Elementary School, 6PM.
Midcoast Community Chorus Benefit Concert: June 12 @ The Strom Auditorium, 7PM. (Advance Tickets required.)
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From our Board Chair, Dick Strong:
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From an email sent on May 14th:
"I spoke to Lesa Brown, Rockland Pizza Hut manager, today to see if she had
gotten any feedback from her bosses about the letter I sent to Pizza Hut's
V.P. summarizing Lesa's much appreciated support to STAR.
Lesa told me that on Wednesday (2 days ago) that she was attending a Pizza
Hut manager's meeting. She was called up to receive the letter and praise
for what she was doing for a non-profit, and was commended in front of
everyone for her excellent community work. She was told that the letter was copied
by Pizza Hut senior management and sent to every area and shop manager as an
example of how they should be responding to community needs in Pizza Hut's
name (i.e., good PR). Lesa said Pizza Hut corporate management is starting a
campaign to get it's managers to be more proactive in their communities and
to their customers. Lesa was cited as an example of how they wanted their
managers to act. Lesa was made very proud by the recognition we spawned from
her superiors. She was very pleased by the extra step FTCTC took to notify
her boss(es) of how much we appreciate her as a Pizza Hut community-minded
employee.
Lesson to be learned: a proactive, and a "step above the norm" (e.g.,
letter to corporate), acknowledgment of our appreciation to our supporters and
partners often pays off for them (and us) in ways we might not have predicted."
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DFC News
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Work continues on our 2010 action plan. It would be great to have some updates available to share with others...anyone want to volunteer to submit an paragraph or two?
There has been much interest on the national level in developing local messages regarding graduation time. If you would like to work on this idea, let me know (dalene@fivetownctc.org).
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STAR |
The celebration is scheduled for the evening of June 3rd at 6PM @ Hope Elementary School. If you can help with the celebration, please contact Tug at 975-6722.
We have been invited to submit a letter of intent to the Annie E. Casey Foundation to fund some further development and testing of the program. We will keep you posted on that progress!
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Table Talks
| We have been awarded a small grant from SAMHSA to conduct a series of Table Talks in the community. These are small, intimate gathers of parents who know one another where a facilitator takes the group through a series of exercises related to youth alcohol use.
We are currently seeking parents of middle-schoolers to act as hosts for the Table Talks. For more information, contact Sheryl Whittier at the FTCTC offices (236-9800 or mentors@fivetownctc.org).
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Quarterly Coalition Meetings
| PLEASE SEND IN NOMINATIONS for Youth Advocate Award winners. If you know of an individual or agency / group doing great things for our local kids, send an email along with their name and why you think they should be honored as a youth advocate. There are great people out there who are doing great things for kids...get their names in so that we can honor them!
Our next meeting is scheduled for mid-August. Let us know if you have ideas for keynote topics!
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Work Group and Board Meetings
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The Board of Directors will meet next on June 14th.
The Community Outreach and Public Relations Work Group is scheduled to meet today (May 18).
The Program Evaluation Work Group is scheduled to meet again on June 10.
The Coalition Maintenance Work Group is scheduled to meet today (May 18).
The Funding Work Group will meet again on May 21 to work on planning the Harvest Hootenanny.
The Youth Involvement Work Group does not yet have a date for its next meeting.
The Community Data Work Group does not yet have a date for its next meeting.
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Quick Updates
| We are still working on a draft organizational budget. A revised budget will be considered by the Board of Directors at is next meeting.
Board Vice-Chair Lisa Ettinger and I traveled to Westbrook, Maine on May 13th to attend a meeting of the Westbrook Children's cabinet (at their invitation). They wanted to hear more about the CTC system and how it might facilitate their work. Their response was quite positive and they are now planning to visit the Five Town CTC site.
Hope Elementary School Principal Carol Hathorne is leading the school through a review of its substance abuse policy and actions to reduce access to products that are commonly abused as inhalants. Please be sure to commend Carol on her strong leadership on this issue!
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GoodSearch and GoodShop make it easy to earn $ for FTCTC
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$5,000 Toolbar Giveaway Starts Wednesday!
Contest Details
Goodsearch will donate $1 for each toolbar that is downloaded from each
unique IP address up to a maximum of $5,000.
The contest runs from May 19th at 12 noon to May 21st at 12 noon
Eastern.
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From the NonProfit Times:
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"Lucky 13" board truths
Making sure that managers don't get bored with boards, or that boards don't get bored is an important part of ensuring success.
Speaking at the recent Association of Fundraising Professionals' international conference, June Bradham, president of DevelopMint, and an expert on board makeup and operations, offered her insights into getting the best out of boards.
Bradham, who has received numerous awards and widespread recognition for her work with nonprofit boards, said that her observations, work with, and on, boards and discussions she has had with people who have served on boards has led her to draw the following conclusions about getting the best from boards.
Board success, then, comes from the following components:
- Stellar board makeup.
- Passion for the cause.
- A dedicated, smart and visible CEO.
- An inspiring CEO who engages board members.
- Plenty of time for board members to socialize.
- Trust and transparency.
- Asks that follow a great experience, not just a sense of obligation.
- Plenty of opportunities for board members to get their hands dirty.
- Meaningful lessons that complement current skill sets, not training sessions.
Bradham also suggested the following action steps:
Revisit board recruitment. Are you asking the right questions and meeting several times?
Examine board meetings. Is there time for socializing and is there active discussion?
Arrange for the chair and CEO to meet with board members individually.
Start more informal CEO-board interactions, in and out of meetings.
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Conferences and Trainings
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Reality Tour Teleconference
May 20th 2pm (online): Go to http://www.eventbrite.com/event/588803126 to register.
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Psychological First Aid (PFA) Training:
This program is a six hour, interactive, face-to-face training that provides public health professionals, emergency responders, and natural community helpers without former mental health education with the concepts and skills associated with psychological first aid. Additionally, this training is applicable to public health settings, the workplace, the military, mass disaster venues, and even the demands of critical incidents, e.g., dealing with the psychological aftermath of accidents, robberies, suicide, homicide, or community violence.
May 26, 2010 Northern Maine Medical Center, Fort Kent. Find More Information and Registration ONLINE at: www.neias.org/mecdc/pfa2010.html Questions? E-mail Tammy McLaughlin at tmclaughlin@neias.org.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meth and Inhalants Training:The Maine Inhalant Abuse Work Group, the Office of Substance Abuse, MethWatch (MAPSA), and AdCare Educational are pleased to announce a one day training featuring two workshops! Available on May 20th the morning workshops are titled " Inhalant Abuse: It's Right Under Your Nose" and the afternoon workshops are "Methamphetamine in Maine: Understanding the Drug and What You Can Do at the Community Level". Please go to www.neias.org/SATadregme.html to download the brochure and/or register online. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prevention Ethics Training:Sponsored by OSA and Maine DHHS. Presenter: Jackie Vallie, CPS is offered in Orono, Maine: June 1, 2010 and in Portland, Maine: June 2, 2010. Registration Fee: $35 To register online, to download a brochure or for further information, go to http://www.neias.org/SATAdcal#prevethics Pre-registration is required. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OJJDP's 12th National EUDL Leadership Conference: Building Community Futures with Blueprints for Success. August 18-20, 2010 in Annaheim, CA. Visit www.udetc.org for more information. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2010 Annual Tri-State Advanced Victim Assistance Academy---Working with Youth: Intervention & Prevention Skills SAVE THE DATE: November 3&4 in Portland, ME. |
in closing...
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Be sure to congratulate Board member Andrew Lesmerises on the arrival of his first child, Oliver Odin Lesmerises who was born at 4:04 PM on May 9th, weighing in
at 7lbs 13 oz and measuring 20 3/4 inches!
My middle child (Deanne) has returned from the wilds of Manhattan after finishing up her four-month internship at the New York Theatre Workshop, so the house is once again full of her creative energy. Hopefully some of it will rub off on me!
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Dalene Dutton
Executive Director
Five Town Communities That Care
219 Meadow Street, P.O. Box 1135
Rockport, ME 04856
www.fivetownctc.org
dalene@fivetownctc.org Office: (207) 236-9800 Cell: (207) 322-9262
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