Community Wellness Council
Minutes for March 9, 2012
12:00pm-1:30 pm, Wellness Center
 Call Meeting to Order – Chair, Hilary called the meeting to order at approximately 12:10
pm, Hilary, Peggy, Carol and Ginny present from the CWC Leadership team.
 Introduce Guests: Michelle from DOH, Father Robert Mundy from the DWI Planning
President/Resiliency Corps Board/Juvenile Justice Board, Cynthia Ferrari Coordinator for
the Valencia County Juvenile Justice Board, Dubra Karnes-Padilla Coordinator of
Resiliency Corps/UNM Valencia Fitness & Wellness Education Center Manager &
Lecturer II
 Review and Approval of Agenda (Not sure who moved and seconded minutes)??
(Note from Carol – Did we do this?)
 Business:
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Update and Background on CWC Hilary provided background regarding what the
CWC had been working on over the past few years following the loss of a paid
Coordinator and funding through the Department of Health. Peggy also provided
some history of where the Health Council started and the different names and
some of the past priorities of these councils and some of the accomplishments as
well.
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Update on Council Survey: Hilary discussed the Council Survey’s how they had
been distributed to local community groups/coalitions with the goal of getting
input on what these groups what role Community Wellness Council could play to
strengthen these groups missions. One of the main needs these groups identified
was funding and resources and another was coordination amongst existing
groups/coalitions and assessment. (Please add anything I failed to capture…I
forgot I was taking notes until about half way through the meeting…opps).
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Priorities: Hilary provided any overview of the community groups/coalitions that
were identified as being active by the CWC along with the priority areas each
group/coalition was currently working on to map the resources and to help
identify any existing gaps. The following areas were mapped by the group and
the corresponding information was written/recorded on individual poster sheets of
paper.
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Coalitions
 Youth Resiliency Corps.
 Valencia Roundtable
 Community Wellness Council (CWC)
 Juvenile Justice Board
 DWI Planning Council
 Valencia Ministerial Alliance
 CYFD Task Force
 Community Coordination Response Team (CCRT)
 Emergency Response Team (Manny Garcia)
 Literacy Council
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Civic Community Groups
 Kiwanis
 Civitan
 Pilot Club
 Neighborhood Organizations
 Rotary
 Business Women’s Association
 Chambers of Commerce
 Bosque Farms Fair Planning
 Moose & Elks
 Knights of Columbus
 Food Pantries
 Friends of Whitfield
 Breakfast optimists
 Church Groups (St. Vincent de Paul)
 Boys & Girls club
 Big Brothers & Sisters
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Issue Specific Areas
 Substance Abuse
 Homelessness
 Health Care/Mental Health Care
 Food
 Disabilities
 Youth Support/Activities
 Elderly
 Foster Care
 Joblessness/Training
 Education
 Suicide
 Gangs/Crime
 DWI
 Domestic Violence
 Child Abuse
 Poverty/Disparity
 Transportation
 Language Barriers
 Lack of After School Activities
 Literacy
 Territoriality
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Resources
 Libraries
 Recreations Centers
 YDI
 Risk & Assessment Center
 UNM-Valencia
 Community Gardens
 Senior Centers
 Community Band
 Mansion Players Group
 Partners in Wellness
 Valencia Counseling
 DVR
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Survey Results/What is need from a Heath Council
 Collaboration with Community Groups Goals
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Needs Identified
 More Funding Sources
 Grant Writers/Support Staff
 More Community Participation
 Next Steps:
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General Meeting where a member of each of the community
groups/coalition meet to work together on community health
issues.
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Begin general community meetings with needs/areas of concern
and provide data surrounding those topics and identify who is
already working on these needs/areas of concern.
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Make a plan on how to all groups can work together: Dubra
suggested the formula of the 4 C’s Communicate, Collaborate,
Cooperate, and then Check up for follow through.
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Make a list of what has already been done.
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Find boards where there are not existing members from the CWC
and do presentations to gather more information and support for
CWC mission/plan.
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Identify gaps prior to meeting.
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Identify key leaders to join in the process.
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Make another survey to be distributed via survey monkey to collect
more specific data that would rank needs and what resources/skills
members have to address identified issues. May use the help of
Epidemiologists to assist in creating new survey.
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Use and/or engage in Statewide Strategic Planning.
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Use a results based accountability type system to build plan.
(Michele emailed out more information regarding this process).
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Develop a process where there is Health in all Policies. Engage
policy makers to understand the impact of policy on health and
base decisions on community health and wellness.
 Adjourn – Meeting adjourned at approximately 1:45 pm. An agreement to meet again
with this focus group was made, but a date was not determined.