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Five Town Communities That Care
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July 22, 2010 Executive Director's Update
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Dear Board, Work Group Members, and Staff; |
Summer is such a busy time for most of us, with family and friends visiting. I hope you are all taking time to provide opportunities, skills, and recognition to those young people you see during the long summer days!
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SAVE THESE DATES!!
| Fall Coalition Meeting: Thursday, September 16th from 11:30AM to 1:00PM.
FTCTC Public Meetings-Coalition Building: Seven Years of Success, Ideas for the Future: September 21 at 6:30 and September 28th at 3PM. Locations to be determined.
FTCTC Board, Staff, and Workgroup Retreat: October 16th from 8 to noon. Location to be determined.
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Quick Updates
| The Funding work group is moving ahead with the Harvest Hootenanny, scheduled for October 9th. This event will be a partnership between Five Town CTC and West Bay Rotary. More details will be coming soon!
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Jody Spangler, of the Ashwood Waldorf School stopped by the Five Town CTC offices on Thursday to explore the services that we provide. We discussed several options for the school to consider, including a policy review, staff training in inhalants, and collaboration on the school delivering the Life Skills Training curriculum.
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On August 2nd I will be in Washington, D.C. to participate in a focus group on the implementation of the President's 2011 plan to test his "Prevention-Prepared Communities" model. Specifically, they are thinking about the issues involved with evaluating a large scale test (there will be 30 communities awarded in the 2011 round) of a community-level intervention.
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The Coalition Maintenance Work Group is busy planning both a couple of general info sessions for the public and an organizational retreat. The dates are included in the section above and more info will be coming soon. For now, please save those dates!
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West Bay Rotary Donates $600!
| Peter Russell accepted a check for $600 from the members of West Bay Rotoary on Thursday, July 15th. Five Town CTC was one of five organizations presented with donations this quarter. The next time you see a West Bay Rotarian, be sure to thank them!
Photo: Peter Russell (2nd from left) accepted a donation
on behalf of Five Town CTC. Photo by Leni Gronos.
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STAR |
 Unfortunately, we were not invited to submit a grant to the Annie E. Casey Foundation after all. But, we will move forward with our plans to get the STAR materials in a manual (just at a much slower pace!).
Nicole was in for a bit on Thursday. I really am looking forward to working with her and hope everyone can make her feel welcome!
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DFC News
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OK, this is a recording. GET YOUR VOLUNTEER LOG SHEETS TO SHERYL PLEASE!
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Work Group and Board Meetings
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The Board of Directors next meeting is still a bit up in the air. I will keep you posted when the final date has been chosen.
The Community Outreach and Public Relations Work Group does not currently have its next meeting scheduled.
The Program Evaluation Work Group met on July 15. Plans were made to meet with Hank Lunn of Community Connections at the next workgroup meeting, to provide a summary of the Table Talks series, and to complete the evaluation of the last GGC session.
The Coalition Maintenance Work Group: will meet next on July 20th.
The Funding Work Group next meeting will be Friday, July 30th at 1PM at the Five Town CTC offices in Rockport.
The Youth Involvement Work Group does not currently have its next meeting scheduled.
The Community Data Work Group does not currently have its next meeting scheduled.
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Conferences and Training | A Range of Responses to Address Underage Alcohol Offenders: Is One Approach More Effective than Another?
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Treatment of underage drinking offenses by the justice community, in general and in the courts, is often inconsistent. On one end of the spectrum are aggressive penalties established in the law, which may make judges reluctant to give a young person a record. At the opposite end are laws, which make underage alcohol issues a status offense or offer the Court little opportunity to impose meaningful penalties on adult providers who engage the justice community. So how have jurisdictions approached these problems? What policy implications, if any, exist because of the jurisdictional approach to underage alcohol cases? Our program will look at a range of responses applied by the justice community to address underage alcohol problems. Our faculty will examine which strategies, or combination of strategies, are most effective in addressing these issues.
LOCATION: Online Audio Teleconference
DATE: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 3:00-4:15 Eastern Time
NO REGISTRATION FEE: Register on line at: http://www.udetc.org/audioconf_judicialregistration.asp
INQUIRIES:
Aidan J. Moore
Senior Program Manager
Judicial-Probation Outreach Project
Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation
amoore@pire.org
603-369-1766
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Youth Development Institute (Formerly
the Dropout Prevention Summer Institute)July 26-28, 2010
University
of Maine
Conference
registration fee is $100 per person. Registration includes: three
breakfasts, three lunches, breaks, two (2) CEUs, and Institute
materials. Deadline for registration is July 16, 2010. For any questions, please contact Roxanne Lee at (207)
581.2493 or roxanne.lee@umit.maine.edu. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ENGAGED COMMUNITIES: GROWING SUCCESSFUL CHILDRENA Conference Organized by: Maine TTA Center at EDC in collaboration with the Maine State Early Childhood Division/DHHS, Maine Head Start Director's Association, Maine Department of Education, MEAEYC, Maine Resource Development Centers, and Maine Roads to Quality When Tuesday, August 31 - Thursday, September 2, 2010Where Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, ME Who should attend Program teams: directors, managers, content specialists, teachers, home visitors-in partnership with community champions -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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I had a great time last weekend with our Board Chair Dick Strong and some other friends. Dick took a group of us out on his sailboat for a trip through the Fox Island Thoroughfare. My young friend Keng Geo and his cousin Yong went along with us. Keng had a great time, but Yong was pretty seasick the entire time!
 Keng and Dick out on the bay.
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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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