Interagency Meeting Minutes

Minutes: 1/12/12

Next Meeting: February 9, 2012

Chairwomen: Debra Obenhoff and Judith McKinnon

Treasurer: Fred Ratto

Secretary: Allison Reynolds


New Hire Minute: None at this time.

Updates:
Homeinstead-Hosting a free webinar monthly on care giving.
Home Front Development Corporation
- Has been awarded a new grant to to help individuals with environmental issues to their homes such as mold mildew, etc.
Warren County Cooperative Extension
- Is looking for applicants for their Eat Smart NY program. The program deals mostly with families with children but may help other individuals. Other programs they have are Supporting Healthy families. Which helps to teach parents and caregivers of preschool age children parenting skills over 6 weeks incentives for participating. Tuesday Feb 28-April 3 6;30-8 at the Queensbury Location.  VITA is another program that helps individuals who qualify to get their taxes done for free.  
Southern Adirondack Child Care Network
- Is doing a quality assurance study. They need individuals to take a survey.
Southern Adirondack Independent Living Center
-February 14 Advocacy Day in Albany call for details 792-3537

Agency Spotlight: Southern Adirondack Independent Living Center
Jocelyn Blanchard discussed the programs that SAIL has to offer. We are not a residential living facility. We help individuals with many different types of disabilities. We work with all age groups.  We provide a variety of services such as advocacy, accessibility surveys, computer classes, independent living skills training, information and referrals and trainings.
SAIL also houses the Nursing Home Transition and Diversion and Traumatic Brian Injury Medicaid Waiver Programs. The two programs serve about 400 people preventing them from being a nursing facility and able to receive services in the community. We also house the Money Follow the Person Demonstration which helps get information to nursing home residents about what their options are. SAIL has served over 1453 people last year and saved NY State $4,541,516 by helping individuals either avoid nursing home placement or bring them out of a nursing home facility.
Long Term Care Council Initiatives
Workforce Development
- Looking to start Aide trainings locally. So that more people could attend.
Housing
-Working on having forums about senior care and accessible housing issues. Also discussing downsizing, waiting lists for housing, planning ahead of time, and solutions for those who live rurally.
Transportation
- Working on updating the Aging in Place transportation guide and making it more usable and more widely distributed
Advocating for more accessible transportation options
Civic Engagement
-Care teams initiative for faith base groups to have free training on how to create and run effective care teams.
-Commuinty forum on decreaseing duplication and unity for best service provision
-Volunteer recognition commuinty day and commuitny vounteer recognition fintiatives