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Broward County LogoBroward County Board of County CommissionersChildren’s Services BoardRegular Board Meeting Minutes May 18, 2018Governmental Center Annex, Room A337Call to OrderMs. Swartzbaugh called the meeting to order at 9:07 a.m. Roll CallMs. Swartzbaugh, Chair, called the roll, and a quorum was established with Carmen Jones, Andrea Keener, Monica King, Robert Mayersohn, Susan Nyamora, Dan Schevis, Joel Smith, Sandra Veszi-Einhorn and Allicia Walford in attendance, Robin Bartleman and Mickey Valbrun-Pope VIA telephone and Cassandra Evans, Commissioner Geller, Joseph Sansone and Lidia Wallace being absent.Staff members that attended are Silvia Beebe, CPD, Dr. Philip Harris, CSA, Tamika McBride, CSA, Anna Gibbs, CSA, and Andrea Froome, County Attorney.Guest that attended that meeting are Laurie Sallarulo, Junior Achievement, Dr. Sue Gallagher, Children’s Services Council (CSC), Keisha Grey, CSC, Somalia Delia, United Community Options (UCO), Misty Oliver, UCO, and Norma Wagner, Broward Behavioral Health Coalition.9:22 a.m. Robin Bartleman joined via telephone9:28 a.m. Ms. Veszi-Einhorn arrivedApproval of the April 20, 2018 Minutes Mr. Schevis moved and Dr. Keener second to approve the April 20, 2018 minutes as presented. MOTION PASSEDCSB Special Presentation Dr. Harris recognized two Board members that served on the Children’s Services Board (CSB) for some time and presented Ms. Beebe and Ms. Sallarulo with Certificates of Appreciation. Ms. Beebe stood and thanked everyone for their support and reminded Board members that although she will no longer be a CSB member she will continue to support the Children’s of Broward County in her new role as Assistant Director for Community Partnerships Division. Ms. Sallarulo thanked everyone for their support and shared she has been serving the children of Broward County for over eighteen years and although we continue to see the same issues, I’m confident that the Children’s Services Board members will continue to pursue and exhaust all avenues to make changes in the system of care and address the issues of the Children in Broward County. Children’s Services Council (CSC) Strategic Plan Presentation Dr. Gallagher, CSC, presented with on overview of the Broward Children’s Strategic Plan and an overview of Committee Highlights, IDS Partners, IDS goals, Racial Equity Goals and Strategies.DRAFT CSB MINUTES-May 18, 2018 PAGE 2Dr. Gallagher mentioned a few of CSC collaborative partners such as Broward County Schools, ChildNet, Broward Behavioral Health, Early Learning Coalition, Florida Department of Children and Families and Florida Department of Juvenile Justice and shared the four goals for IDS. First goal is to measure and contract around long-term, cross-system, and two-generational outcomes, second to apply a racial equity lens to this enhanced outcomes-oriented contracting and IDS work, third to empower provider and participants to be co-researched in pursuit of long-term outcomes and the forth is to share model of IDS-enabled, outcomes-oriented contacting at scale with state and national. Dr. Gallagher also shared Racial Equity Strategies and listed several Equity Initiatives, with a focus being on how the Request for proposals are written, Internal Operations and Create Feedback to Educate our community. Board members acknowledged the increased number of collaborative projects amongst the major funding sources in Broward County to serve the needs of the community and the efforts it took to make this happen. Board members asked questions about the changes in case management, are there issues that we could be missing, how are we getting this information to the parents and members of the community. Dr. Gallagher understood concerns of the Board members and shared that these questions reignited the integrated data system project by applying for federal grant dollars to address these types of questions. Board members also discussed the importance of understanding how to get this information out to the youth and developing the relationship of youth driven sports leagues, Boy or Girl Scouts and other adolescent groups. Ms. Gallagher also mentioned a SEDNA committee dealing with behavioral health and a LGBT taskforce that also meets regularly and those dates and times can be found on our mittee Liaisons/Chair’s ReportNeeds Assessment: Mr. Mayersohn shared that the committee discussed the utilization of CSA contracts that staff shared and would like to recommend to the full CSB to accept the recommendation of staff to increase or decrease funding as presented except for taking an additional $ 50,00 from one provider and give $14,000 to one and $36,000 to another. Mr. Smith moved and Ms. King second to accept the recommendation of the Needs Assessment to support the reallocation of funding with CSA providers. MOTION PASSEDSandra Veszi-Einhorn and Robin Bartleman abstained from voting. Mr. Mayersohn shared with the Board that the Needs Assessment Committee moved to recommend to the CSB to support the repurposing of FDLE funds that were underutilized in FY17. Mr. Smith moved and Ms. Veszi-Einhorn second to accept the recommendation of the Needs Assessment Committee to repurpose Byrne/JAG underutilized FDLE funding from FY17. MOTION PASSED Advocacy: Ms. Veszi-Einhorn continued to encourage the Board members to share as much information with their respective Commissioners as possible. Ms. Veszi-Einhorn also shared additional funding within Broward County and went on to introduce Ms. Sainvil which provide the Board members a Legislative update. The next meeting will be on June 4, 2018, at 9:00 a.m. in A335.New BusinessMs. Scott brought the Board up to date with current events of FDLE, Byrne/JAG funding. Ms. Scott update committee members of the amount of Byrne/JAG underutilized funds due to the poor performance of providers and agreed with Board members that this is not unusual for a provider first year of operation. Staff shared the utilization results with FDLE who then approved Broward County staff to repurpose all remain funds toward services that are aligned with FDLE priority areas. Dr. Harris reminded Board members that CSA staff engage in a thorough internal mid-year review utilization process to determine how to better meet the needs of the community and calculate what percentages of funding should be increased or decreased. Dr. Harris went on to share results of the provider utilization DRAFT CSB MINUTES-APRIL 20, 2018 PAGE 3outcomes and explanations that staff reviewed to make their final recommendations to the Needs Assessment Committee. Children’s Services Administrator’s Report10:55 a.m. Ms. Jones leftMr. Schevis made a moved and Ms. Veszi-Einhorn second to extent the meeting fifteen minutes. MOTION PASSED Dr. Harris Reminded Board members the May is Children Mental Health Awareness Month and please spread the word. Dr. Harris updated Board members of where CSA staff were with the monitoring visits of all the CSA providers that occurs once a year and the amount of time and effort that staff continues to put forth to complete and report back the results of providers. Public CommentMs. Delia and Ms. Oliver, United Community Options, shared information with the Board.Good of the OrderMs. Swartzbaugh, Chair, remined and reiterated the importance of attending the June CSB meeting.AdjournmentMr. Mayersohn moved and Mr. Smith second to adjourn the meeting. MOTION PASSEDThe next Children’s Services Board Meeting/Workshop will be Friday, August 17, 2018. These minutes were approved at the Children’s Services Board meeting dated June 15, 2018, as certified by:Lidia Wallace __________________Children’s Services Board Secretary ................
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