MADDSA MEETING MINUTES

6/14/07

 

DD Coordinator Report 

• Reviewing Purchase of Service for 2008
• County pulling together outcomes from '06 to see what they can review for '07. 
• Recognize importance of looking at contract funded clients that are not on waiver and figure out how they will be impacted by FC.  This is a concern especially those that do not qualify for T19 and are part of SLO.  The county will look at ways to make them eligible for T19.
• We will begin to hear more about the county resource center and the direction that it is moving in.
• Continuing to move forward on the state center movement.  For the first ½ of the year the county was one person short of its goal of 12 people placed outside of the center.  The annual goal is 25.  Discussed a meeting held at ARC for guardians and loved ones that addressed moving their loved one out of the centers.  There were more attendees then normal. 
• There will be a residential meeting after MADDSA today and then quarterly after that. 

 

General Issues

• Announcement of Health Disparities Annual All Group Meeting today at Goodwill Vogel.  Encouraged people to attend. 
• Sandra Butts commended Martha DeGraw and the other people from Health Disparities on what a great job that have done in this region. 
• Health Log is completed and ready to use. 
• Planning Council holding Listening Sessions.  Next one is on June 21^st at ARC on 73^rd and Center.  Contact Lonna Kruse at 224-0404 if interested in this or future sessions.
• Email Mary Schinkowitch at mschinkowitch@ucpsew.org to have your name added to the MADDSA email list. 

 

Treasure's Report - Tom Nowak

• $2878.54 balance
• Checks for McTab and Web Design cleared

 

Milwaukee Training Initiative -

·         June 2007 - Recognizing Signs and Symptoms for Non Professionals

·         August 2007 - Dual Diagnosis

·         October 2007 Behavioral Signs of Medical Conditions

 

SE WI Training Group -

• Upcoming Trainings

-          June 27, 2007 - Practical Approaches to Prevention of Behavioral Problems, UW Waukesha, 8:30am-3:00pm, $20.00, three speakers

-          August 2007 - End of life issues

-          September 2007 - Sexuality in Racine

-          November 2007 - Aging and DD

 

Transition Committee- Hope Lloyd

• Spring Open House went very well. 
• Next meeting August 14^th, 2007.   
• Will then focus on the Fall Parent forum. 
• MCTAB meets on the 2^nd Tuesday of the month at 1pm at UCP.  If interested contact Hope Lloyd at 329-4500.

 

Transit Committee - Lori P(Health Span)

• Meeting after the MADDSA meeting.
• Looking for positive and problematic situations to bring to the Transit liaison.
• Looking to update transit list. 
• Mary Schinkowitch gave six transportation providers that take T19 and new clients.  It came from a list of 64 providers given by a case manager.

1.      E & D Transportation 228-9306

2.      Carters TP 449-5205

3.      Johnny Walker 445-3373

4.      Oxford Care 464-9016

5.      Phase II - 933-3900

6.      Tru Med 466-7898

 

Health Disparities -Martha DeGraw

• Discussed meeting this afternoon.  Encouraged people to come.  
• Health Log Complete.  Encouraged people to make use of this tool. 

 

PCW Report - Lois Degner (not present)

 

• Working on making voting areas more accessible. 
• In August hoping to have county representative to discuss the budget for '08
• Group is continuing to discuss FC and encouraging participants to participate in listening sessions.
• No meeting in July. 
• People disappointed at the number of legislators that showed up at the breakfast at the end of May. 

 

Membership

• Caregiver Recognition Event - want to bring back.  A free hall has been located.  Interested members volunteered to assist with planning.  Looking to have in October. 
• Discussed having vendors come speak to MADDSA group in exchange for sponsorship at the Caregiver Recognition event. 

 

 

Other Business -

• Issue of ER Visits and Protocol Discussed
• Different agencies gave their protocol for when a client is taken to the ER and there is not enough staff. 
• Health Span - sends staff until the client is in the room and stable or until the family or guardian is present.  A supervisor on call that is familiar with the client will also be notified. 
• CCLS - Struggles with this with their day program.  The day Program believes it is the group home responsibility and that is not always possible. 
• LSS - Stated their nurse is the primary contact for all client medical issues.  They have agreement with Goodwill that they will send a staff until the Group home staff arrives to take over. 
• Discussed visiting physicians programs. 
• County view point - Per Sandra Butts, there needs to be further discussion about this issue to set expectations as this is an ongoing problem. 
• Chris Jankowski, Support Solutions stated her husband would be open to suggestions as he serves on the EMS council. 

 

 

Future Guest Speakers

• Maria Ledger MCDA-CMO July 12^th, 2008
• Chris Hribal  Kenosha County TBA

 

 

Prepared by Connie Miller