Location: Boardroom
at the downtown CMHA location at 51 North 4th Ave (across from Safeway). In
attendance (from sign-in sheet): Carla Bullinger, Anne Burrill, Larry
Stranberg, Kathie Vilkas, Diane Wright, Sharon Taylor and Jessica Dunn.
Accept Minutes
& Agenda
During lunch we:
· Reviewed meeting
minutes from Jan 23, 2017
Motion to accept
minutes as presented - MFSC
· Reviewed meeting
agenda for Feb 27, 2017
Motion to accept agenda as presented - MFSC
Presentation from the Communities that Care Program
Carla Bullinger and Anne Burrill presented
some results from the CTC's 2016 Community Assessment Report from data
collected in the second survey of the CTC program.
Highlights
from the presentation:
Evidence
based model for a community to engage in based in prevention science.
It is a
roadmap that helps guide a community (outcome focused).
Extensive
surveys (grades 6 - 12) in 2009, and now again in 2016.
Looking
at research based predictors of problems for youth issues.
Over 20
predictive & protective factors are surveyed for.
CTC
follows a specific process, and then chooses an evidence based program to
address issues identified in the survey. Williams Lake was chosen as a pilot
program City for CTC in 2009.
Locally,
we implemented "Positive Action", and this second survey is an
assessment six years later.
Prevention
Needs Assessment Survey (6 - 12 grades - entire district)
70%
response rate (over 1200 kids).
Anonymous
and confidential
Multiple
measures to screen out invalid surveys
Provides
comparative data results between 2009 - 2016
Gives a
snapshot in time
Comparative
results from 2010 --> 2015:
Low
Commitment to school 53% - 44% (9% better)
Parental
attitudes favourable to anti-social behaviour and drug use (no significant
change)
Early
Initiative of antisocial behaviour (1) and drug use (2) 35 - 30 & 48 -38
(5% and 10%)
Community
Laws and Norms 57 - 52 (5% better)
Fewer
kids are high risk now (60 - 55%)
Improvement
in high protection factors (60 - 67%)
The
first survey lead to the evidence based prevention program, Positive Action
because it can be used in schools, the community and families. It is a
curriculum based program.
Aligning
our work for collective impact: local Circle of Courage (poster), Glass
Slippers, Youth Group, Building Resilient Learners framework/ Sense of
Belonging Plans for each school (from SD#27 interest to tackle the low
commitment to school factor).
Students
now in grade 6 - 8 have had the most exposure to Positive Action and have also
shown the greatest improvement.
Some
other results:
14.2
-> 5.4 (attacked someone intending to hurt them)
7.5
-> 3.4 Gang involvement
21
-> 4 (binge drinking)
Grades
6 -9 improved, 10 - 12 did not improve (50%)
shoed Depressive symptoms
Children
living in Poverty 20 is BC average (in WL it was 24-> 28 now)
Early
Childhood vulnerability of children in kindergarten 44% (BC is 32%)
20% of
children in Williams Lake do not have an adult they can talk to
Priorities
for the next year have been chosen with percentage goals
April
7th - Community Planning session (8:30 am - 1pm) to focus on depressive
symptoms.
The view the entire
reports (both 2010 and 2016), please visit School District No 27's website at
http://www.sd27.bc.ca/healthy-schools-healthy-students/communities-that-care/
Choosing a Poverty Reduction focus
Discussion:
choosing an indicator from the CTC community profile (such as Neighbourhood
Attachment) to focus SPC efforts on; to explore bringing a successful evidence based
program to our community to address the chosen focus with partner agencies
and/or community groups.
This item was deferred to the next meeting
when more members are present.
All Candidate's Forum
Request
for the Social
Planning Council to have two representatives work with committee organizing an
all candidates forum.
A non-partisan
committee has begun working following the BC2030 meetings held in our
community. They have requested reps from
those people who participated in the BC2030 sessions. At this point there are a few members from
the Council of Canadians on the committee and they would appreciate assistance
– whether as a SPC rep or rep for your own organization.
The framework for the
forum will be unique. The committee will
select a few of the sustainable goals outlined below and have a speaker on the
topic. Each candidate will then be asked
how they will address the issue.
There is some
financial support for the forum from BC2030.
The Gibraltar room is tentatively booked for Apr 20, 2017.
The next meeting is
March 7 at 1:00 pm in the library meeting room.
You can contact Bette McLellan at 250-392-6423 for more information.
Action: Jessica will
attend this meeting, and send more information out to the group (see below).
From BC2030 website: http://bccic.ca/bc2030/
BC 2030 is a
non-partisan political campaign that looks to the UN Sustainable Development
Goals as an opportunity for British Columbia to demonstrate provincial
leadership on global issues.
The SDGs are a framework of 17
goals that aim to address the world’s environmental, social, economic, and
security challenges. Unprecedented in nature, these new goals are:
-aspirational : challenging
us to move past a business as usual mentality for seeking solutions
-interconnected and indivisible
: recognizing that to truly be achieved, we cannot think of them as existing in isolation from each other
-and universal :
asserting that global issues transcend borders existing within all countries
The goals invite all people and
all tiers of government to understand where they fit into a bigger picture.
For the first time, all
countries, including Canada, will be required to provide updates on our
progress to the rest of the world. British Columbia needs to look at how the
issues we face locally fit in with our country’s progress. Now that Canada has
committed to this global framework, British Columbia has a concrete role,
connection, and mandate to contribute its fair toward achieving these
goals.
With communities around the
province and world increasingly feeling the impacts of global issues such as
poverty, inequality, and climate change, BC 2030 recognizes the importance of
moving to action as quickly as possible. The campaign focuses on our upcoming
2017 provincial election as a platform to explore this conversation in a
provincial context and invite our political leaders to expand their thinking.
BC 2030 is an invitation to think
differently. These goals are brand new and the world is still trying to figure
out how to best go about achieving them. There is space and need right now for
innovative leadership in Canada on what implementation of these goals looks
like at a subnational level. British Columbia has an opportunity to be this
leader.
View the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals on the UN web
site listed below:
http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sustainable-development-goals/
Roundtable Updates
Kathie Vilkas - Hospice
Hike for Hospice is going ahead this year (since 2005)
End of Life Hospice Training is taking place again in April. Note: people
can still attend this training even if they cannot commit to volunteering.
Carla Bullinger - Workshop on sexual molestation is being organized for Williams Lake
for this fall. March 1 at 1 pm at the WCS is the next planning session.
Anne Burrill - Housing First: homeless count taking place today (results by the end
of March). This current program is winding down with the funding.
Larry Stranberg - Community Futures has partnered with Chamber of Commerce for workshops
in September about how to sell (and buy) a business.
Sharon Taylor (IMSS) - see the Press Release sent out. The IMSS was notified that
there office is being closed at the end of March.
Motion - the SPC will write a letter of support to the Minister, and cc
to Todd Doherty.
Action - Jessica will draft letter and send to board for their review.
Meeting was adjourned. The next
monthly meeting will be on Mar 27/17
