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Five Town Communities That Care
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August 13, 2010 Executive Director's Update
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Dear Board, Work Group Members, and Staff; |
Welcome to new Five Town CTC Board members Adam Kohlstrom, Lynn Johnson, and Neal Blake! What a wonderful, supportive group we have. Makes my job so much easier! :-)
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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 idea of a Poker Run for classic cars in September has hit a few snags. Turns out it requires a "Games of Chance" license to operate one. This is not costly ($15) but time-consuming to get. In Rockport it may be necessary to have it go before the select board, which doesn't meet again until September 14...stay tuned.
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We will be hosting a Life Skills Training curriculum class for teachers newly assigned to deliver this middle school prevention program in local schools. Staff from Camden-Rockport Middle School, Hope Elementary School, and the Ashwood School will be trained by LST expert Nancy Dube to use the materials on August 24th. Staff and volunteers involved with Five Town CTC are welcome to attend as well, just let me know.
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We have submitted our Form 990 to the IRS and the State of Maine. Thanks to Sandy Thomas and Mik Mikelson for all of their hard work getting this ready.
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We have also filed our annual charitable solicitations report with the State of Maine and applied for renewal of our Charitable Solicitations license. (All non-profits raising monies from the public in Maine are supposed to be licensed to do so.)
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We will eventually be expanding our offices into the suite next to ours on the second floor here at the Meadow Street Offices. The current tenant should be out in September, but Mark wants to do a bit of renovation in there, so we may be in by October. This will give us some additional much needed storage space, a private office for sensitive meetings, and a larger conference room. It will also allow us to provide a resource library for public use! Mark Ingraham and his partners have offered us a generous in-kind donation to make this possible. Be sure to thank him if you see him out and about in the community.
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Planning for the Harvest Hootenanny continues. If you would like to help the steering committee, we could sure use it! Call me for more info.
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The Youth Involvement Work Group has crafted a letter and job description for a Five Town CTC Youth Advisory Board. We are hoping to attract up to 20 CHRHS students to serve. For more information contact Ed O'Brien (eobrien@harborfamilyservices.org).
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STAR |
 STAR will begin again in mid-September. If you know of folks who would make great STAR staff, be sure to let Nicole know! We are still short a couple of support staffers!
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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 met on August 10th. Minutes are available at the office. Their next meeting is on Tuesday, September 14th @ 9:30AM.
The Community Outreach and Public Relations Work Group does not currently have its next meeting scheduled.
The Program Evaluation Work Group does not currently have its next meeting scheduled.
The Coalition Maintenance Work Group: will meet next on August 31th.
The Funding Work Group will meet again on August 13th, and again on August 27th.
The Youth Involvement Work Group met on August 11th. They currently do not have another meeting scheduled.
The Community Data Work Group does not currently have its next meeting scheduled.
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Conferences and Training | ENGAGED COMMUNITIES: GROWING SUCCESSFUL CHILDREN
A 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, 2010
Where Augusta Civic Center, Augusta, ME
Who should attend Program teams: directors, managers, content specialists, teachers, home visitors-in partnership with community champions
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2010 Annual Tri-State Advanced Victim Assistance Academy---Working with Youth: Intervention & Prevention Skills
SAVE THE DATE: November 3&4 in Portland, ME.
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in closing...
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I am looking forward to celebrating my oldest daughters 'official' graduation from UMO (Ecology and Environmental Science) with a party this weekend. She managed to not just make it through Organic Chemistry I and II this summer, but did so with grade grades, too! Two out of my three have now graduated from college....if I think about it too much, I feel kinda old!
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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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