CAFCA Training Committee Minutes

January 10, 2006

Present: Renee Johnson (Third Way Center) chair, Katie Mason (CAFCA), Suzanne (CAFCA), Beth Nixon (Savio), Melissa Maile (Catholic Charities), and Leslie Wilmot (American Humane Association).

First Quarter Workshop: Discussed progress on Methamphetamine workshop. Still no details. Person doing workshop has not responded, and most likely will not until the date is closer.

Discussed making some contacts on the Western Slope, (maybe another CAFCA program, like Hands Up Homes) to assist with place and possible attendees. Katie will make contact. It is difficult to organize when we have so little information.

Discussed other possibilities if Meth workshop does not come through.

 Charlie Appelstein: Katie will confirm for May 11th. Several of the agencies agreed that they would be interested in paying part of the costs for their employees to attend (Savio, TWC, etc) We could also open it up an offer as a general CAFCA workshop. We need a description or what he is presenting on an a time frame. Katie is in contact. The cost for Mr. Appelstein is $800.

Annual Conference- "Staying on Track"

Date: June 23rd, 2006

Time: 8am - 8:45 check in and continental breakfast

          8:45 - 10:15 Keynote Speaker: Marguerite McCormack

                             (She speaks on Secondary Trauma, cost is $200)

          10:30 -12pm 1st workshop

          12 - 1:30 Lunch and Awards

          1:30 - 3pm 2nd Session

Location: Bethany (Beth will email to get Bethany's board approval)

"Save the Date" to go out next week, Katie has mailing list.

Awards - Need to be submitted by May 15th, so that we can organize by June 1st.

Catering: Katie will check with Excelsior about their program, and if they do not do catering, we will ask Lookout to do it for us. We still need to negotiate money, but they will work with what we have.

We all need to begin thinking about tracks for conference, and possible presentations. We are waiting to see what kind of response we get.

CAFCA Website: Katie advertised for speakers and did get a couple of responses, that she will forword on to us.

New Business: 

RJ is looking into possible "Gang" related topics for workshops.

Leslie is following up with Virginia Longoria.

Suzanne knows some speakers on Communication that she was going to follow-up with.

Also talked about "Executive Director" trainings and the results of the survey.

Next Meeting: At Third Way Center - February 7, 2006  8:30 - 10am