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Human Services Advisory Commission- Minutes of Regular Meeting, May 21, 2001 -Page 2 of 7 5 3. Member Comments / Updates on Their Organizations' Activities Rebecca Young spoke at length about the Wake County Foster Children Advocacy movement currently in the news. There is a movement there to make sure that children in foster care get proper care and to cut down on the time that the children stay in foster homes. 10 4. Items for Decision — Minutes A. Minutes of March 19, 2001 were approved as presented. B. Minutes of April 16, 2001 were approved as presented. 5. Reports 15 A. Status on the Staff s Report About Previous Forums and Actions Taken Sharron asked that this be tabled until the July meeting. B. Outcome of Funding for Non - Profits: How Funding Compared with HSAC's February, 2001 Recommendations 20 Sharron said it has not been released to the Board of County Commissioners and that it that will be released Wednesday. She added that we did not cut any but we did not add any, and there was minimal increase in a few agencies. The overall increase was 5 % 6. Items for Decision - 25 A. Topic for the 2001 Human Services Forum Co -Chair Kinert opened discussion. She said that topics that had been mentioned are a. Homelessness, which was discussed at length at the April meeting. b. Housing 1. for the Mentally -Ill 30 2. for Persons in Abusive Households 3. that is Affordable for all c. School Violence* d. Elder Abuse* 35 e. Domestic Violence * These were sent to Staff and copied to all members via email by Ms. Hudson Fuller, who was out of town during this meeting. 40 Discussion ensued. Rebecca asked Rosetta Wash that if the Forum covers homelessness would it take the entire forum time? Rosetta answered that she is in favor of covering the entire scope of housing. She thinks that there is time to address the entire scope of housing including the issue of homelessness. Rosetta added that her concern is that the topic of homelessness doesn't get lost while the greater topic of housing is presented. She said that her concern is that there are people who have totally no housing, not 45 even inadequate housing. Robin Barnhill asked Rosetta if, in her experience, does she see families who bounce around from one homeless shelter to another, especially children. 5 Robin and Rosetta discussed the issue of the age cut -off for a person to live at the shelter without an adult . Rosetta said it is age 18.