Board Meeting 12/08/06

ATTENDING

Bob Schueler, Paul Ottenstein, Lyn Legere, Mary Gregorio, Steve LaMaster, guest Kim Wong, Maria Restrepo-Toro, Deborah Delman, Brett Poza, Margaret Jordan, David Webster, Diane Gould, Brian Osborne, Kerri Kuklentz 

NOT ATTENDING

Marcia Webster, Clara Carr, Will Buckley 

GUEST

Kim Wong visited local mental health agencies, and attended the PVR course while visiting for the past two weeks. Kim is an active board member of his local chapter.

 NOVEMBER MINUTES

The November minutes were approved after a few corrections were made. The following are the corrections made: Under regional conversation, a suggestion was made to hold a conversation about art at the Danforth museum. The annual USPRA conference will be held in Lombard, Illinois. Each CPRP workbook will be sold for $45.00.

 ACKNOWLEDGMENT FOR PAST BOARD MEMBERS

With the loss of two board members from November’s meeting, there was a hope to acknowledge all members who have served on the board. Potential brainstormed ideas were:  ordering plaques for all past members, listing past board members on the website, giving each person a paperweight, and/or giving gift certificates to those people who have served on the board.  There were several folks who supported the idea of names listed on the website.

 USPRA UPDATE

Anyone with suggestions and/or feedback on how membership fees can be collapsed, please contact Bob immediately. He will be sharing feedback on Monday, December 11, 2006 in a teleconference.

 AWARD NOMINATIONS

The group identified and agreed on the following candidates to lend support towards: 

Irvin Rutman Award: Bill Taylor of Advocates
Armin Loeb Award: Chuck Drebing of VA
John Beard Award: Pat Nemec of BU            
Person in Recovery Advocate Award: Lyn Legere of Baycove 

Diane Gould has volunteered to write a nomination essay for Bill Taylor. Bob Schueler will write a letter of support. Deborah Delman volunteered to write a nomination essay for Charles Drebing. Steve LaMaster will ask Moe Armstrong to write a letter of support. Lyn Legere, Maria Restrepo-Toro and Mary Gregorio volunteered to work as a group to create a nomination essay for Pat Nemec.

 TREASURER”S REPORT

$12,450.00 was deposited in receipts from the annual conference, with $560.00 due to us from purchase orders. Next week Holy Cross will receive a payment of $11,306.55 for the 2006 conference. Tunefoolery will receive a payment of $300.00 for their 2006 performance at the conference. Elsevier books will receive payment of $38.93 for shipping and handling for the PSR Curriculum textbooks, plus 30 cents overdue from the original payment. Brian is requesting reimbursement for $14.14 to send the book order payment overnight via US mail. The fund balance is $17,079.29.

 COMMITTEE REPORTS:

 CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

In January it was decided that a tentative date and theme will be set for the 2007 annual conference.  The conference committee will explore when other conferences will be held in the future. The conference committee will continue to discuss and inform board about decisions to change the conference in the future.

 ONLINE ART GALLERY

Brett created an online gallery submission form to ensure artists give permission for their work to be posted. Brett was asked to contact Ralph Reed to discuss details of online submission form and display of art work.  

MEMBERSHIP

A card will be generates with Lyn Legere’s, Marcia Webster’s and/or Brett Poza’s art work which will be used to send welcome cards to new members. Mary Gregorio handed out post it notes to everyone.

Mary informed folks Work Inc. would be becoming members soon. Mary is going to invite Ann Roy, a DMH employee in the North East to a future meeting.

Mary will give the names and dates of the upcoming regional conversations to Margaret so Ralph Reed can post them on the website.

There was discussion about doing something for members 6 months before the conference. David Selman will be a possible organizational member. 

PUBLIC POLICY TRAINING

Steve and Lyn reported student feedback has been positive. HRSI is still interested in working together to collect data on the trainings each week. A representative from HRSI will begin attending the classes.

CPRP WORKBOOKS

A complimentary copy was passed around at the board meeting so everyone could view it. It was decided 150 books would be ordered and sold at $45.00 per person. In order to receive the special pricing for CPRP workbooks MASSpra needs to order workbooks through Laura Mueller. Vinfen will house and act as the distribution center of the CPRP workbooks. Details of this process are not yet defined.

Next Meeting: January 12, 2007