HomeMy WebLinkAbout2016-05-26 Meeting MinutesBlock Grant Planning Committee Meeting
May 26, 2016
Human Services Building
ATTENDANCE
Voting Committee Staff Staff Cont. Public
Manny Diaz Rick Wynn Lori Young
Karen Johnston Shalom Black Stacy Yurko
Anne Larew Christy Briggs Sharyn Overcash
Sheldon Schwartz April Brown
Ann Spottswood Doug Amsley
Megan Shreve Cori Seilhamer
Kim Wertz Steve Nevada
Amy Hicks Stacy Rowe
MINUTES
I. Welcome & Introductions
Introductions were given
Rick reviewed the information in the packet
II. Approval of February 17, 2016 Minutes
Sheldon motioned to approve
Karen seconded the motion
All approved
III. FY 16/17 Plan – Draft Review
Part I: There was one change in section 2 since the draft was sent; the Drug and
Alcohol Advisory Board section was changed.
They now hold eleven meetings per year. Six in Franklin County and five in
Fulton County.
The voting members of the Advisory Board include: Criminal Justice, Business/
Industry, Labor, Education, Medicine, Psycho-Social, Student, Elderly, Client and
Community. They provide input in the Block Grant Plan, are informed of Block
Grant impact and are made aware of any Drug/Alcohol requests for new
funding, projects or service enhancements.
Number 5 was added as part of the template this year..
Part II: The public hearings and notices have been advertised and will be
documented for the Plan.
Part III – Did not have to respond to.
Part IV - No change to the introductory section.
MH/ID
There are a couple of changes in the MH/ID section.
Talked about what was done in FY 15/16.
One of the big focus’s continued to be Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT)
Steve expressed they held a CIT training and have fifty nine (59) individuals
training.
Continue to do the Mental Health First Aid Training.
Supportive Employment
Will be hearing this in ID and MH
Looking to assure people who want to have a job, can have a job.
Continue to examine evidence based programs.
Received a grant for Communities That Care.
Looking to do a mapping process.
Readmission rates continue to decrease.
Franklin County Older Adults
Partnership between Aging and Mental Health
Continue to do WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan)
The Community Support Program continues to host the Leadership Academy.
Had 12 graduates from the Academy
Every secondary school has school based mental health outpatient and Student
Assistant Program (SAP).
Seeing a need for bilingual professionals.
Homeless Assistance Program: For the Homeless Assistance Program, we get about
$100,000 a year for everything.
Children and Youth Services
Started with two programs and will be eliminating one and looking at another
possibility.
The one being eliminated was the Family Based Strength Workers.
The new one they are looking at is with HCP (Healthy Communities
Partnership). Doug is unsure of the exact costs. If two conferences are
needed, there may not be funding left over.
For FY 15/16 there was funding for a new program, Check and Connect, and
it is being provided to Waynesboro School District. It is a truancy program
and C&Y is looking at putting the same program into the Chambersburg
School District.
Drug & Alcohol application changes
Barriers for Franklin and Fulton County treatment services. Access to certain
levels of care and the time frames to get into those levels of care are a barrier.
Two primary levels of care are detox and long term inpatient
Franklin County assessments are indicating an increased need for long-term
inpatient treatment.
Strategies to address the opioid epidemic are new for FY16-17.
Early Intervention Level of Care
DDAP added this level of care (0.5) this fiscal year, but it does not have a
parallel DSM-V diagnosis for treatment.
Proposal to select an evidence-based program to implement for this
level of care at each of the Outpatient Treatment provider sites.
Funding Proposal
o Continue funding the entire Continuum of Care for substance use
(Prevention, Intervention, Treatment and Recovery)
o Too Good for Drugs
o Teen Intervene
o Girls Circle
o Interrupted
o Operation Save a Life trainings
Prescription Medication Campaign
o The name of the project is BeRXsmart
o The initial phase is about proper medication management and proper
medication disposal.
o As we go into Phase II we will look at the results of this campaign in order to
develop the messaging of Phase II.
Treatment funding will include detox, inpatient, and Vivitrol injections.
Recovery funding will be allocated to a recovery vendor (The RASE Project).
The HSDF basically funds two things. Training Days and “211”.
No questions were asked.
IV. State Budget/Program Updates – Rick et.al
The latest rumors about the State Budget are that they are going to pass the budget
on time.
Mostly because this is election year and they will be running for office soon.
The down side of this is that there will not be an increase for the Block Grant.
V. Fiscal Update – Stacy R. (Handout)
The most up to date numbers were active through March. With the projections,
Stacy expressed they are estimating around $82,000 to carry over into FY 16/17.
Only state funds are eligible for carryover.
Eligible to retain up to 3% of state funding, annually. The cap is $167,000.
The county contributes 2.72% on all state funded expenditures.
Rick is asking the Committee’s approval, for at least $80,000 or more contingent on
the total amount of carryover, for the Data Warehouse, out of the carryover.
Approval of the Data Warehouse money:
o Sheldon motioned to approve
o Kim seconded the motion
o All approved
Rick thanked everybody for the e-mail votes on 15-16 budget changes.
The money is for a generator for the SCR (Specialized Community Residents)
through Keystone Human Services.
VI. Public Comments
Anne Larew asked if the Committee is “term limited” on the Block Grant Committee.
Rick expressed that he can expand and contract the committee as long as he asks
the Commissioners for permission.
Anne expressed, as an option, to invite people they know to come and sit
through a Block Grant meeting to see if this is something they may be interested
in.
o Kim suggested a student
o Rick suggested someone that has knowledge of the drug and alcohol system
from a consumer end.
o Manny suggested someone from Head Start.
VI. Next Block Grant Committee Meeting
October 25, 2016, 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Human Services Building
425 Franklin Farm Lane
Chambersburg, PA 17202