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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1983-01-24-HSC-min.pdf Fi HUMAN SERVICES COMMITTEE Minutes of the Meeting of January 24, 1983 Present Steve Baran, Ilene White, Stan Finkelstein, Roberta Black, Handy Zarle, Tom Zarle, Judy Zabin; Bea Phear, Dave Enman, Renee Hatten Minutes The minutes of January 10 were corrected to show Roberta Black as present, and to strike the last three words from the RePlace report A-95 Review Bea reported that Jere Frick had requested insight regarding the Health Planning Council of Greater Boston's request for continued funding Stan said that the Boston HSA was considered near the top nationally, and he saw no reason to make a negative recommendation. In general, the HSA structure creates an extra level of bureaucracy, and is dominated by providers, even with the goal of participation Enablement Dave thanked the committee for their letter of support to the Selectmen regarding the access study, and reported that the Selectmen and approved the study, with the proviso that if any recommendations refer to town accessibility changes they come with cost estimates as well Mystic Valley Stan gave a brief description of MVMH's reaction to the presentation to the Board of Selectmen on January 12 Kay Tiffany had contacted him, Steve, and Judy about meeting with the committee, which was scheduled for the February 7 agenda Stan had attended a meeting with the Lexington MVMH Board members and Frank Donnelly over the weekend, where he outlined his suggestions for compliance, later followed up in a memo to Kay Tiffany (distributed to committee) They will consider instituting a general management reporting system and a comprehensive case for the CIT in Lexington to fulfill Stan's expectations They had requested seeing the RePlace reports, which are available but Stan discouraged using that as a model, since the nature of the agency colors the expectations Stan had suggested they look at Merton Kahn's model Stan asked if it was the sense of the committee that we might reconsider the recommendation, expressing concern about being inflexible if they do indeed produce useful documents It was the sense of the committee that the recommendation was made, and eleventh hour was over however, we would encourage renewed request and greater dialogue for next year Provider's Council Renee distributed her outline, suggesting a meeting in Late February on coninuation of crisis as a topic, and April for Respite Care There was a sense that the December meeting didn't get to the meat of the issues in Crisi intervention, and that there was confusion on the part of the providers regardng the purpose show-and-tell or exploring problems? Committee members requested copies of the minutes It was decided to use a case study model for a continuation of the crisis topic, perhaps having the Concord program present Renee will come to the February 7 meeting wi with a draft invitation and case outline She will also plan for an April meeting on respite care, to establish the pattern of having a series J Judy asked if the police department gets training from MVMH Steve commented that v the small group (Replace, Police, and MVMH) should also be encouraged to continue meeting independently of the providers council Roberta suggested varying the settings of the providers meetings to familiarize them with oneanother Stan suggested asking for free space in the Sheraton Inn, where they could stop and gab over a drink after the meeting Ilene suggested including a request for meeting sites in the invitation letter Wild Acre Inn Bea reported that she still had no response to the letter to Dr Yudowitz, and that she had left a message to that effect for Norm Cohen, but he had not gotten back to her Bea was asked to write Norm. RePlace & DSS Partnership Bea reported that she had gone to DSS with Bill Blout on Thursday, and had been encouraged about the possiblity of becoming a "Partner' , probably for about $5,000 ,. per year (which would bring $15,000 from DSS in matching funds) There are massive forms to complete, and Bill and Bea are working with the DSS staff to accelerate the process as much as possible 1. Child Abuse Bea reported that she had met with Estelle Cross, the Hastings School child abuse team contact, and two people from the Mystic Valley Council for Children around the issue of child abuse reporting The various goals were sifferent, with Estelle primarily interested in understanding the reporting process, Matty Bloom interested in having an effect on the drafting of legislation around mandatory reporters and the involvement of district attorneys, and Kent Boynton intersted in encouraging DSS to fulfill its educational role Bea said her interests were more in public education such as had been done by AA in the past, perhaps using soap operas to sensitize the public This may be a future providers council topic Next Meetings February 7, with Mystic Valley 7 30-8 00 providers council 8 00-9 00 other business February 21 Respectfully Submitted, Beatrice Phear