FROM JUDITH’S DESK
Hawaii Youth Services Network is working with PHOCUSED to gather
information on what you view as the key issues in health and human
services to share with the Governor and his staff. Several other
coalitions are involved in this effort including domestic violence,
mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities.
On September 27, HYSN convened a conference call to discuss ideas for
Governor Abercrombie’s administration to consider. Participants
agreed on two issues:
State contracting – Need for better communication between state
government and service providers during the contracting process.
Need to pay nonprofit contractors more promptly – An electronic
payment system similar to the federal system would alleviate cash
flow issues and reduce costs (on printing supplies, postage, etc.).
Even in difficult time, it is essential to sustain youth prevention
programs in areas such as teen pregnancy, crime, drug use, and sexual
violence.
We need more people to weigh in with their responses to the 3
questions below. Please e-mail your ideas to me by Wednesday,
October 5 jclark@hysn.org or join in our second issues and answers
conference call on Tuesday, October 4 at 2:00 p.m. (To join the call,
dial 1-866-740-1260; access code: 5312198).
I. What do each of you think are the most significant problems
facing the youth services sector?
II. What are your recommendations for solving these problems and
please identify which of these would be cost-neutral (or even save
money)?
III. What do you see as the impending “train wrecks” that the
Administration needs to know about/deal with soon? [define train
wreck]
According to Alex Santiago, PHOCUSED Executive Director, “I have
never seen a better time for our sector to take advantage of an
Administration that has opened their doors to our input.”
Please take a few minutes to share your mana`o with HYSN and the
Governor.
INSIDE HYSN
HYSN’S NEW PRESIDENT
The HYSN Board of Directors elected Daryl Selman of Maui Youth and
Family Services to serve as President for 2011-2012, succeeding Alan
Shinn of Coalition for a Drug Free Hawaii. She has served on the
Board for more than four years.
Ms. Selman has been with MYFS for 12 years. She has worked in the
Social Services field for more than 30 years. Daryl earned her
Master’s degrees in Mental Health Counseling from University of South
Florida and Social Work from University of Hawaii. She is licensed in
Hawaii as a marriage and family therapist (LMFT) and clinical social
worker (LCSW). Her goal for this year is to provide whatever support
Judy needs to continue her excellent work.
RESOURCES
Standing Up, Not Standing By: A Free Cyberbullying Toolkit for
Educators
Every day, you see how cyberbullying hurts students, disrupts
classrooms, and impacts your school’s culture. So how should you
handle it? What are the right things to do and say? What can you do
today that will help your students avoid this pitfall of our digital
world? Common Sense Media created this free tooklit to help you take
on those questions and take an effective stand against cyberbullying. http://www.commonsensemedia.org/educators/cyberbullying-toolkit
CDC Urges All Americans to Get Flu Vaccine
There’s plenty to go around, and four different ways to administer it
There’s been a steady rise in the number of Americans getting an
annual flu vaccination, the National Foundation for Infectious
Diseases announced this week. Last flu season, about 130.9 million
Americans, or 43 percent of the U.S. population, received a flu shot.
That’s about 8 million more than the previous season. Last year, the
CDC expanded its recommendation of who should get the flu shot to
include everyone 6 months old and older.
Complying with the Americans With Disabilities Act Training
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
677 Ala Moana Blvd., Conference room 716
Honolulu, HI 96813
Free!
Limited to 20 participants
Is your organization compliant with the Americans With Disabilities
Act (ADA)?
What is a “reasonable accommodation?
What can you do to make your agency more disability friendly?
How do you:
- Find a sign language interpreter?
- Get materials translated into braille?
- Determine if your facility is wheelchair accessible?
- Ensure that an employee with a disability is able to perform the essential functions of the job?
Speaker: Francine Wai
Executive Director
Disability and Communication Access Board
Sorry – no airfare scholarships for Neighbor Island members. We are
working with the Disability and Communication Access Board to
schedule training on other islands in the first half of 2012.
If registration is full and you are unable to attend, please send
e-mail to jclark@hysn.org . We may be able to schedule a second Oahu
training if there is sufficient interest.
HYSN will provide parking validation for participants.
For more information, call 531-2198, ext. 1.
Compassion Capital Nonprofit Capacity Building Resource Library
Between 2002 and 2009, the Compassion Capital Fund (CCF),
administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,
awarded over 1,000 grants to nonprofit organizations nationwide, HYSN
included. Their goal was to strengthen nonprofit’s role in providing
social services to low-income individuals. All CCF grantees received
training and technical assistance from the National Resource Center.
As a result of the knowledge gained from the experience, the National
Resource Center has developed Strengthening Nonprofits: A Capacity
Builder’s Resource Library, a free set of 38 eLearning modules and 18
guidebooks that nonprofit and capacity building trainers and
consultants can use in their work, to share and continue the legacy
of CCF’s capacity building work. In addition, blended learning
techniques are included in the training and technical assistance
portion of the website.
Topics include: conducting a community assessment, delivering
training and technical assistance, designing and managing a subaward
program, going virtual, identifying and promoting effective
practices, leading a nonprofit, managing crisis, managing public
grants, measuring outcomes, partnerships, sustainability, and working
with consultants.
To visit the website, go to: http://www.strengtheningnonprofits.org/
Nonprofit Rates at Risk in Postal Service Overhaul
A House committee is scheduled to consider legislation by early
October that would overhaul the U.S. Postal Service by, among other
ways, phasing out the 40-percent discount rate – http://e2ma.net/go/7204487160/208674455/224731157/1406755/goto:http:/thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c112:H.R.2309: for mass mailings by nonprofit organizations. The USPS is proposing
to close nearly 4,000 post offices and lay off more than 100,000
employees to close a $10 billion deficit in its finances. Similar
reform legislation in the Senate does not include the proposed
phase-out.
Casting Call for Missing Child Center-Hawaii
The Missing Child Center-Hawaii is creating a Runaway Prevention
video and is looking for a young male who was a former runaway to be
interviewed. Stories from other former runaway children will be in
the video, as well as contributions from Rachel Lloyd of GEMS and
Carissa Phelps, a child runaway and survivor of forced prostitution.
This video will be distributed to schools and social service agencies
as a tool to present real-life stories of living as a runaway and to
demonstrate to children that there are alternatives to running from
home. The video will be created by KGMB.
Please contact CharleneTakeno at 586-1449 if you would like to refer
a client or get more information.
“Learn It, Grow It, Share It”
Bring your passions and proposals to Hawaii’s
18th Annual Children and Youth Summit
Thursday, October 13, 2011
8:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
State Capitol
Children, youth and adults are invited.
Please call 586-6130 or 586-6050 for more information.
TEEN DATING VIOLENCE PREVENTION TRAINING
The Asian/Pacific Islander Youth Violence Prevention Center has been
funded by the State Department of Health, Maternal & Child Health
Branch to develop a science-based training to prevent teen dating
violence (TDV).
The ultimate goal is to train direct service staff who work with
adolescents via youth and family serving organizations in the State
of Hawai`i. We are targeting organizations that are supported in
part through drug prevention and treatment funds due to the
relationship between substance use and violence, in particular teen
dating violence.
Drs. Susana Helm and Charlene Baker are the Principal Investigators
for this project. Together with a multidisciplinary team of graduate
and undergraduate students, the train-the trainer curriculum has been
developed.
The training will be facilitated by Drs. Helm and Baker, and their
graduate and undergraduate students.
The workshop is limited to 45 participants so hurry and register by
Oct 14 for the lower fee.
WHO Should Register: Youth and Family Service Organizations
WHERE: Kapiolani Community College (Ka’Ikena Dining Room, Ohelo
Bldg.)
DATE: Wednesday, November 16, 2011
TIME: 9:00 am – 3:30pm (see schedule at-a-glance)
COST: $20 before October 14 and $30 afterwards until November 15
PARKING: Free (Available on a first come first serve basis)
LUNCH: Provided (also continental breakfast)
Registration Link http – http://www.123signup.com/register?id=cmkgr
Emergency Preparedness Fair
The members of the Kahalu’u Ward, and its Ward Council, would like to
invite you to our first Community Based EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS FAIR,
in Commemoration of The 75th Anniversary of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints Welfare Program.
Date:Saturday November 5, 2011
Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 Noon
Location: KEY PROJECT
45-200 Waihee Rd
Kaneohe, HI 96744
We will be sharing life changing emergency preparedness ideas,
information, demonstrations, products and more. We will also be
joined by Key Project, Hawaii’s Red Cross, Hawaii State Civil
Defense, Honolulu Police Department, Honolulu Fire Department, NOAA
and Hawaii’s own KGMB/KHNL Severe Weather Man-Guy Hagi.
For more information please contact James A. Mainaaupo
jmainaaupo731@yahoo.com
Booth space is limited, please inquire if interested.
Please join us as we all learn to be better prepared to tackle the
storms before they hit.
RESULTS FROM THE HYSN ROUNDTABLES
At the Hawaii Youth Services Network Annual Meeting on July 21st, we
held roundtable discussions on five topics. Following those thoughts
reported in the last two issues, we continue with the ideas and
suggestions from the Building a Green Non-Profit Organization
roundtable. Topics to be featured in future issues include:
- Creative Ways to Build Youth Leadership
- Building a Healthy and Happy Staff
Building a Green Non-Profit Organization,
Carol Feinga, table hostess
Participant Comments:
- Getting started and lack of motivation are some of the reasons for not having a “green non-profit”.
- Sonia from PPHI stated that she has a recycle bin available in her office and she uses the proceeds as a reward to staff by taking them out to lunch monthly.
Table Hostess Suggestions:
- Educate your staff on recycling and reusing resources that are in your office
- Create a recycling policy for your organization
- Make recycling bins available and use proceeds to reward staff
- Find local recycling center for paper, bottles, etc.
- If office is nicely ventilated, turn off AC
- Try to use natural light, if possible
- Use filtered pitchers or tap water instead of bottled water
- Start carpool for staff living closely together
- Try to reuse paper for notepads
- Try to create a green environment and atmosphere that is sustainable and links to your mission
HYSN AUW Donor Designation Number: 75030
HYSN CFC Donor Designation Number: 60247
Contact Information: 677 Ala Moana Blvd, Ste 702, Honolulu, Hawaii USA 96813 | 808-531-2198
