Jerry Morton Opened the Meeting

FSS Meeting

Ramsey's Cafeteria

November 2, 2001

In Attendance (15): Jerry Morton, Heather Shelton, Joshua Booher, Wilhelmina Williams, Sandi Fisher, Grayfred Gray, Ken Libby, Bob Kronick, Laura Harris, Sherry Bundren, Patricia Copper, Marcus Hill, Kerry Patterson, Cynthia Rockey, Nan Gaylord

Jerry Morton opened the meeting

Next meeting is 11/30/01 at Ramsey's Cafeteria

Went around and discussed what is going on at each organization towards the concept of FSS. Organizations that presented informationwere:

Little TN Valley Educational Coop

Educational Psychology Dpt. COE

T.I.P.S. (TN Infant Parent Services)

Alcoa Schools Family Resource Ctr.

Tellico Plains FSS Clinic

Grayfred Gray discussed his promotion of FSS.

Nan Gaylord - College of Nursing

TN's Community Services Agencies

TN Internship Consortium In Psych.

Cherokee

Kids Are Kids Program - for birth to six years old. Jerry Morton will bring some copies to the next meeting.

Gray also spoke of what is going on politically and how we can make a difference.

Kronick spoke to the group about the children document. The web site will be sent out ot the listserv this week for everyone to look at and peruse.

Community Services Agencies:

Community

Prevention (FSS falls here)

Intervention

State Custody Kids

TIPS is a school for birth to three children. - they mainly use local grants. They prefer to tap into local people and resources. TIPS also does in-home intervention. Located at TSD.

Tellico Plains:

Vaccines for children program

health education

physical & mental health services

Cherokee - 2nd Step Violence Prevention Program

Possible agenda for the next meeting is building parent involvement in the Consortium and with FSS.

A second agenda item for the next meeting is to discuss the Consortium and where we want to go as a group.