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Next Steps: Report from the consulting group All Aces. They will then provide another round of coaching for staff and some experiential sessions for residents & staff. 4. Human Service Updates a. MI: MI and Valerie Viscosi met with Steering Committee for CRNA grant(Mental Health Task Force). They discussed adjustments to the timeline as a result of the pandemic. The CHNA Steering Committee has approved the adjusted timeline, which includes pushing out some of the major tasks to later 2021 into 2022(e.g., Critical Incident Response Protocol,repository for available mental health programs and services). The task force will continue to focus on completing a Community Mental Health Assessment on the Adult population for the majority of 2021. Completing this assessment will give much-needed data for the adult population and will provide insight into areas of need, gaps in programs &services, and barriers to accessing mental health services/supports. It will also allow our school partners to continue to prioritize operating and educating in a pandemic; and plan for next academic year, as the school personel will not need to be as involved in developing the assessment for adults. MI has begun discussions with Framingham State Center for Social Research to assist with the survey. MI will gather stakeholder input on the draft survey questions once they are available. b. MI: Announces that there will be a presentation on January 27th on the Psychological Consequences of Racism in the Black Community. Announcements have been sent out. c. MI: William James Interface Program continues to be steady with 51 referrals over the past 6 months (June 1-Nov. 30). This is similar to prior referrals with adult population up and under 18 population down. A new contract was signed with Interface for the next 2 years. d. MI: COIVD Vaccines. Current planning with police/fire/board of health. No vaccine in possession and not anticipating much until late February. There have been lots of inquiries. e. TS: Setting up more QPR trainings for February. Feels Zoom has been an asset. They are training two new QPR trainers on the school side,Julie Fenn and Kristi Demirev. 5. Action Items: a. Committee members will send questions to LZ regarding things they would like to discuss with police department personel. b. Share the links for police video to other groups/connections in town. 6. Next meeting date- set for February 24th at 7PM. 7. Adjournment- at 8:30