MINUTES
PROVIDER ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING
Date: January 15, 2013 / Meeting Time: 12:30 p.m.
Location:
MENTOR MD
5720 Executive Drive
Baltimore, MD 21228 / Meeting Adjourned: 3:00 p.m.

Participants:

Member

/ Present / Absent /

Member

/ Present / Absent
Carnitra White, DHR/SSA / X / Terry Manning, Children’s Guild / X
Paul Brylske, Kennedy Krieger Institute / X / Jeanne Marks, Presley Ridge / X
Tom Curcio, Board of Child Care / X / Walter McNeil, Challengers Independent Living, Inc. / X
Shanda Crowder, DHR / X / Mark Mittleman / X
Ted Dallas, DHR Secretary / X / Norman Richard, Martin Pollack Project / X
Zachery Dingle Jumoke, Inc. / X / Rex Smith, Hearts and Homes for Youth (Tammy O’Rourke attending for Rex Smith / X
Carol Fenderson, DHR / X / Shelley Tinney, MARFY / X
Darlene Ham, DHR/OLM / X / Hattie N. Washington, Aunt Hattie’s Place / X
Ralph Hertges, Brook Lane Health Services, Inc. / X / Cleveland Williams, Williams Life Center / X
Kevin Keegan, Catholic Charities / X / Lynn Wisner, DHR / X
Carrie Knebel, CONCERN / X / Audrey McLendon, DHR/SSA / X
Joe Leshko Arrow Project, Inc. / X
Guest/Other Organizations Participants
Jacqueline Patterson, MENTOR MD / X / Elizabeth Thompson, Kennedy Krieger Family Center / X
Holly Powell, New Pathways / X / Fred Strieder, University of MD / X
Betsy Krieger, Zamryl and Isabelle Krieger Fund / X / Michelle Zabel, School of Social Work, UMD / X
Trina Payne, MARFY / X / Nicole Palmore, School of Social Work, UMD / X
Karen Kreisberg, Zamryl and Isabelle Krieger Fund / X / Kristina Ramos, WIN Family Services / X
Chloe Perez, Hearts and Homes for Youth / X / Laura Mueller, WIN Family Services / X
Donna McCarter, Neighbor to Family / X / Darlene Dockins, MENTOR MD / X
Mark Lardner, UMD/DHR / X / Robert Basler, KKI / X
Kathleen Smith, MENTOR MD / X / Eric Fenwick, Aunt Hattie’s Place / X

Minutes

October 2012 minutes were approved. The approved minutes will be placed on the internet.

Trauma Informed Services Discussion

Fred Strieder, University of Maryland School of Social Work and Elizabeth Thompson, Assistant Vice-President, Director of the Family Center at Kennedy Krieger Institute gave a presentation on Child and Family Trauma. The presentation reviewed:

  What is Child Traumatic Stress?

  Impact of Trauma on Child and Family

  National Child Traumatic Stress Network

  Trauma Informed Organizational Practice

  Trauma Interventions

  Secondary Traumatic Stress and the Workforce

The full Power point presentation is attached as part of the minutes.

Nicole Palmore from the Institute for Innovation and Implementation presented “The Development of Trauma Informed Systems of Care in Child Welfare, ‘Seeing through a Trauma Lens’, A National Glance”. The findings reviewed:

·  What it means to be a “trauma – informed state”

·  The impact on policy, procedures and outcomes

·  other states pioneering work with trauma-informed systems of care

The paper is also attached as part of the minutes.

As the group digests and reviews the information, the Providers Advisory Council trauma informed workgroup is review the services available in Maryland, what is happening around trauma informed services in Maryland? What are local departments of social services doing? DHR will review the policy. Workgroup to synthesize information, determine if all organizations have similar instrument to measure trauma, how would that change awareness and consciousness?

Office Licensing and Monitoring

Budgets

Letters were distributed to providers that budgets are due to OLM January 15, 2013. If there is a change in staffing, submit the changes.

Doc Vault Electronic Documents

MARFY is proposing legislation to allow private sector to develop an “electronic vault” for the storing of electronic documents. DHR will review proposed legislation (COMAR is silent on this issue). Private sector would not be required to use a specific vendor. Demonstrations are available for the Doc Vault vendor, contact Shelley Tinney.

New Business

Alternative Response, Community Forum for the Western Region is January 17th. A Community Forum will be held in each of the 5 regions. Each Jurisdiction is to review resources available for Alternative Response and work collaboratively with the community. The next Community Forum for Central MD will be scheduled sometime in April.

Legislation – 2 bills sponsored by DHR

1.  Voluntary Placement – to make into law the current policy that a foster child may return to foster care (in the aftercare program) until age 21 years.

2.  Substance Exposed Newborn – Standardize the practice of reporting substance exposed newborns so that DHR may provide care.

Next Meeting: March 19, 2013, 12:30 – 3:00 pm at:

The Children’s Guild

6802 McClean Blvd.

Baltimore, MD 21234

410-444-3804, Ext. 1159, Terry Manning

(12:30 for gathering / lunch, meeting starts at 1:00 pm)

Please send agenda items to Audrey McLendon PRIOR to March 11, 2013

Action steps before next meeting:

Trauma workgroup to reconvene to review next steps.

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