3/20/2014 HUMAN SERVICES Minutes

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Domestic ViolencelAddiction. Gail Wilson reported an increase in cor ple c domestic violence cases in the last month. Also, there has been an increase in family members reeding help with addiction problems. Gail Wilson stated-that Gosnold has ars Intervention phone number to call for help with families faced with addiction crises. Mary Scanlan recommended the name of a contact at Independence House for future reference: Robin Trainer, a former professor who has had a lot of interest in domestic violence and is on the Partnership committee with Habitat. * Contract Budgets. The committee agreed that discussion of contract budget decisions for F 2016 should commence much sooner rather than later. Gail Wilson will prepare a draft of criteria for contract requests for review at the next meeting. November 2014 is the Town Managers s deadline i for decisions on proposed contract budgets. Mashpee Community Health Center. Director Karen Gardner will be invited to attend the April 24th Human services Committee meeting, with south Bay Mental Health a backup up invitee should Ms. Gardner be unavailable. B. Multi-Searle center sub-committee Exploratory Report -Janice Walford Janice Walford prefaced her remarks by stressing the point that this sub-committee is engaged in the process of exploring the possibility-of establishing a Mashpee Multi-Service Center. The committee is in no way making any decisions as to the establishment of such a center. When talking to anyone outside this committee about the issue, it needs to be rade clear that it is an exploratory group: we are having initial exploratory conversations with St. Vincent de Paul and with the Falmouth Service Center. It is also important for the committee to gain the support of the Board of selectmen, the Finance Committee and the Town Adiministr tion for the project. Janice Walford distributed a packet of information to each committee member that included the following: *Mashpee Human services MHS Multi-Service Center Talking Points 'dotes from the Joint Meeting with St. Vincent DePaul SVdeP February 27, 2014 *Tallying Points for the MHS Meeting with SVdeP on February 27, 201 * Christ the Ding Mission statement * Falmouth service Center FSC Mission statement * FSC Food Distribution statistics * FSC Budget for 2012 and 2013 * Dotes from FSC Site Visit on ( larch 17, 2014 * FSC 2013 Director's Report *SVdeP Food Pantry statistics from 2007-201 Janice Walford reviewed with the HSC the sub-committee site meetings with both St. Vincent DePaul and the Falmouth Service Center, and their plan to meet again next Thursday with SVdeP to get their thoughts as to how they would envision working together with MHS in the operation of a Mashpee food pantry. Brenda swain advised that one person should be hired to oversee the day-to-day operation of the building, and also shared valuable insight as to how to raise funds to pay for the building in a short period of time. Janice Walford has investigated the possibility of building a pre-fabricated structure, which would represent a significant savings in building costs. Lynne Waterman suggested the idea of researching ai different name for a service center other than "Mashpee service center"to avoid confusion with a Mashpee senior Center group already established with a similar name. 2