Name of committee

QQCAV Steering Committee

Current Members

Karen McCoy, Gale Cole, Barb Lea, Steven Starbuck, Kelly Limin, Susan Sweetman, Kim Charlebois, Michele Arsenault, Gale Parks, Lisa Robson, Roxanne Lamothe, Jennifer Bishop, Cheryl Clarke, Sandy Watson-Moyles, Teresa Gauthier, Sally Fremr, Sarah Phoenix, Sheri, Meeks, Jocelyn Boates, Kate Lightfoot

Date of Meeting

November 4, 2009

Members that attended meeting

Susan Sweetman, Steven Starbuck, Sarah Phoenix, Gale Cole, Barb Lea, Kim Charlebois, Sandy Watson-Moyles, Kelly Limin, Teresa Gauthier, Cheryl Clarke

Regrets

Karen McCoy

Review of last minutes meetings

• Minutes were reviewed from the last meeting and have been approved to be posted on the QCCAV website.

Correspondence

No Correspondence

Steven now has the key to the QCCAV mailbox in Belleville and will be checking the box.

Financial Report

      None

Brief minutes of meeting and discussion

Updates/Events

SUB-COMMITTEE REPORTS

Executive

• Membership list was reviewed and updated; inactive members and unrepresented organizations were identified. Lori to forward this list to Kelly.
• Terms of Reference were reviewed; Susan reviewed and discussed changes to the document. Lori to forward the revised document with changes highlighted to the Committee for review and final approval. Any changes/concerns to be sent to Lori via email at coordinator@qccav.ca. Once updated and approved the Terms of Reference (November 2009) will be posted on the QCCAV website.
• Steven addressed the issue of profits from QCCAV events - these will be deposited in the general account with no designation. Funds from the Ministry will be spent first (must be spent by March 31^st). Kim is estimating $8,000 profit from the November 5th event and suggested that the conference generates most of the profits and therefore there should be some funds guaranteed to the Education & Training Committee for the next conference. Susan clarified that it is difficult to designate the dollars for anything in advance as Ministry funds are not guaranteed year-to-year; requests for funds must be submitted to the Committee, if there are competing demands the discussion will come as to where the priorities lie.

 

 

Education & Training

• Kim reported that as of November 3rd there were 105 registrants for the November 5th event.
• Kim unsure as to what the attendance will be at the November 5th evening events as there is no registration necessary. Eight speakers are booked for the evening events to serve as panel members; the floor will also be open for questions/comments.

 

Child & Youth

• No activity/report

 

Membership

• Sub-committee working on 2010 AGM
• Next meeting is November 17^th

 

Protocol

Central/South Hastings

?        Next meeting is December 17th

?        Sub-committee to follow-up with Lee at the December 17th meeting to confirm letters have been sent to signatories not regularly attending Protocol meetings.

North Hastings

?        No report

Prince Edward County

?        Next meeting January 12th, 2010

 

  - November is Woman Abuse month

- November 25th is International Day of Ending Violence Against Women

- May 2010 is Sexual Violence month

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Domestic Violence

Court, Elder Abuse

Network

?      Domestic Violence Court meetings will now piggyback twice annually with the Central/South Hastings Protocol Committee; the first instance of this will be at the December 17th meeting.

?      No updates from the Elder Abuse Network; Susan advised Roxanne is intending on returning to the Committee

Other Business

-         Minister announced funding for Coordinating Committees, however Minister only mentioned funding was for Domestic Violence, Kelly suggested the QCCAV write a letter to the MPP to mention the Minister failed to mention Sexual Violence in the funding announcement; it was suggested the QCCAV invite Daryl Kramp and Leona Dombrowski, MPPs to the 2010 AGM.

-         Lori to make QCCAV letterhead and send to Steven, at the next Steering Committee meeting will work on including members' names on letterhead; Lori to do permission form to bring to next meeting to be given to members to re website links.

Discussion RE:  Revisiting goals/future endeavours for the Committee; it was discussed that the QCCAV should:

-         announce special events as a Committee

-         clarify goals, identify gaps in service, advocate for those gaps to be filled

-         identify what should drive Committee decision making. Here Sandy asked why the Committee does not have a representative from ?Safe Schools? on the Committee. Sandy further stated the Committee should be kept updated as to what the schools are doing as the Committee needs to get back into the 'grassroots' ? agencies are seeing the gaps in the system.

-         identify what is going to give the QCCAV the 'greatest impact' for the Committee's time.

-         possibly make a presentation to: the Teachers' Federation, Board of Education and Principals. Here Barb suggested the Committee should try to do something early in the New Year so the Committee can at least see the curriculum for 2010 in this respect and Steven mentioned the Roots of Empathy program could be a great way to get into schools.

-         identify the first step. It was suggested this should be children & youth ? the sub-committee it is not currently active but this may be an opportunity to get it so again ? it was suggested the Steering Committee invites General Members to participate/advocate in other work.

-         Teresa informed the Committee about the ?Fourth R? program being presented by Public Health at Centennial ? R = relationship ? this will be part of English curriculum presented by Public Health ? Sandy raised the question 'why is Public Health doing this?' and feels this should be done by those mandated to do it.

Review of work plan

Next Meeting Date

December 9, 2009 1:00pm; Executive to meet at noon.