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HUMAN SERVICES ADVISORY COMMISSION MINUTES JANUARY 11, 1999 1 2 3 Mr. David Thompson asked if there was some sense of any particular segment of the 4 population who tend to under - utilize services, and could this group be targeted in some 5 way? Who would be most likely to benefit from Information and Referral? he asked. 6 iv Fa S1-cr . 7 Ms* aylor said that this was a good question. She said that the group that she 8 chaired at the Forum did not know the answer to that. Her group wanted the County to 9 convene a meeting with providers to go further into problem - solving, and the question 10 would be: What system would be helpful; who needs that information; and, where is it 11 most lacking? in substance abuse, in mental health, in child care, or health care? 12 13 There was discussion about the January 16, 1999 Board of County Commissioners 14 Goal- Setting Retreat. Ms. Sue Russell had agreed to take the recommendation of the 15 Human Services Advisory Commission of the November 16, 1998 meeting before the 16 Commissioners at that Retreat. However, Mr. Kittrell said that unless the Human 17 Services Advisory Commission had written a letter, to the Commissioners, it was too 18 late for them to be represented at the on the Retreat Agenda, because the Agenda was 19 all set. It was the consensus of the group that no letter had been drafted at the 20 November 16, 1998 meeting. 21 22 Karen Taylor said that the Human Services Advisory Commission needed to reach a 23 conclusion on the Forum Report this evening and get it into the hands of the 24 Commissioners as soon as possible, or we will have done all this work for naught. Ms. 25 Taylor added that we need to be true to the voices who spoke at the 1998 Forum in our 26 recommendation or else we will have a credibility problem with those who attended. 27 28 Albert Kittrell said that we need to also get this report and its recommendation into the 29 hands of the participants. 30 31 Ms.� ylor said she thought that we should check on whether or not Sue Russell had 32 indeed reserved a time to speak to the Commissioners at the Goal- Setting Retreat. 33 Mr. Kittrell said he didn't think that she had done so. 34 s- 35 Ms. aylor suggested the following be done as an Executive Summary as one 36 paragraph with the following basic information: "The Policy Forum was held, 105 people 37 participated; these were the topics; the major conclusions were; the recommendations 38 are." Then, the longer report comes after that summary for people who want to read 39 through it. 40 41 Beverly Foster summarized our discussion by saying, "The recommendation or 42 conclusion should be, `to continue efforts to establish an ongoing, current, viable 43 information and referral database for access by citizens and human service 44 professionals.' " 45 46 It decided by consensus to adopt this as one of the recommendations to the Board of 47 County Commissioners. 48 \\OCEMAIL\ APPS\ USERS \USERS\N MARTIN\MY_DOCS \HSAC \MINUTES \011199.DOC; Last printed 02/15/99 9:42 AM 3