Minutes October 21, 2002

Community Living Coalition - October 21, 2002

Bonsor Community Centre - 1pm

1. Introductions - 40 people in attendance

2. Community Living Transition Steering Committee update and overview regarding recommendations to be signed off on Tuesday, October 22, 2002: Doug Woollard reported that the final report was delivered to the Minister on October 7th and circulated to the TSC members. Over the past 2 weeks, the Joint Budget Working Group has been meeting to work out a plan to get to a budget for 2003-04. There were five community members and five Ministry folk plus a Treasury Board consultant that met many times to develop strategies. Doug read a prepared statement on the outcomes of the committee - full release available here - There is a fundamental shift in the way families and individuals will plan with service providers and the Ministry... Changes must be based on individual and family choice and will take time – they must be done gradually and they must respect people's right to choose. The restructuring fund of approximately $40 to $50 Million will be available to the Authority over the next 12 to 24 months. The focus of all the strategies will be on giving families and individuals choices in services.

3. Communications Committee Update - discussions of strategies for information updates to communities:

	regional contacts will be published from the volunteers that have e-mailed. It was suggested that each regional contact have a TSC Working Group Chair as a buddy for help with answering questions.
	Questions on the report will be collected and distributed to the appropriate Working Group chair for answers.
	The TSC Report has an Executive Summary that will be reviewed for its appropriateness as an overview of the TSC Report - if people feel it is too complex, maybe we'll have to try writing a simplified Overview for mass distribution.
	BCACL will work on a plain language version to help the report be more accessible.
	Service Providers will be requested to share the document with as many people as possible (members, families, people served, and staff)
	Family Groups need to share it with their membership
	Kitchen table discussions are a good way to help a small group review and understand the recommendations
	Send out Bulletin 1 with the report as it talks about strategies for supporting the TSC Report with MLA's and communities

4. Individualized Funding Family Coalition (IFFC) - Community Presentations end of October/early November: There are five presentations being planned around the province to give families a place to discuss the TSC Recommendations.

The five communities where information sessions will be held, along with the dates, venues and speakers are listed below. Unfortunately, funding available to the IFFC is limited, so the public meetings are limited to these sites at this stage.

Community	Date	Location	Presenters
Castlegar	Monday, October 28^th7:00 – 9:00 PM	Columbia Room, Sandman Inn, 1944 Columbia Avenue, Castlegar	Lori Emanuels and Linda Perry from the IFFC
Vernon	Tuesday, October 29th 7:00 – 9:00 PM	Dorothy Alexander Centre, 3602 - 30th Avenue, Vernon.	Lori Emanuels & Linda Perry from the IFFC, and Klaus Linemayr, member of the Community Living Coalition & Joint Budget Group from the CLTSC
Prince George:	Wednesday, October 30^th7:00-9:00 PM.	Focus Centre, 575 Victoria Street, Prince George	Linda Perry from the IFFC, Melinda Heidsma from the Community Living Coalition and Terry Robertson, CLTSC member (Chair, communications committee)
Lower Mainland:	Tuesday, November 5th 7:00-9:00 p.m.	Large Education Centre, Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion, 2702 Norland Avenue, Burnaby	Maria Glaze and Jackie Wittman from the IFFC
Victoria	Wednesday, November 6th 7:00 – 9:00 PM	Emmanuel Baptist Church, 2121 Cedar Hill X Road, Victoria	Susan Whittaker & Brian Salisbury from the IFFC & Ellen Tarshis & Lynn Rolko from the CLTSC

5. A formal vote by families on the recommendations - Bob Kiell said he will give his families a formal vote on the recommendations - Doug suggested that people need to consider the report as a whole although some recommendations are more integral to the new authority than other recommendations.

6. Feedback on Video-conferences: People felt that hearing from people around the province was valuable, but there was great frustration with the lack of detail on the recommendations. People did get some understanding of the process and that there isn't any great detail on future operations of the authority... the recommendations are broad directions.

7. Interim actions: Who will the Minister respond to /negotiate with if he wants to discuss future directions? The Minister will appoint people to board of the interim authority and the coalition wants to ensure effective regional representation and that people have the skills and abilities to guide the implementation process. Al, Linda and Laney were appointed to the nominations committee.

7. Other business

8. Next meetings: November 7 - 10a to 2pm at Bonsor Community Centre

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