Burlington County Coalition for Healthy Communities

Burlington County Coalition for Healthy Communities Monthly Meeting Minutes Tuesday September 20, 2016

Meeting was held at The Pinelands Family Success Center in Browns Mills, NJ Meeting called to order at 2:00 PM

Afternoon Refreshments provided by Prevention Plus

Attendance/Sectors & Agencies Represented

Law Enforcement: Det. Michael Lynch (Sheriff's Dept), Lt Ron Ritter (Evesham PD)

Govt Agency: Kim Mattson(BCHD) Lily Britton (NJ DMHAS) Jennifer Wright (Burlington County Human Services)

School: Cynthia Sosnowski (Wilmington University) Heather Hackl (Northern Burlington Regional HS)

Youth Serving: Michelle Martin (Burlington County Library)

Healthcare: Donna McCardle (Deborah Hospital) Cristina Martins (SNJPC)

Parent: Jenn Rizzo, Jennifer Myers

Youth: N/A

Faith Based:

Business: Anne Dulcio (Pinelands FSC)

Media:

Civic:

Other: Laura Fitzgerald (CASA), Kim Burns (TFHNJ)

Staff: Marc Romano, Joe Conlin

1 Total: 17

Guest Speaker:

Cynthia Sosnowski, MFT, EdD, Asst. Chair Psychology spoke about placement of interns for Wilmington University into Non-profit agencies in Burlington County. She also discussed Coalition sustainability, resource development and strategic planning to ensure members address the planning process with a high level of cultural awareness and sensitivity, including issues related to the youth LGBTQ community.

Awards

Drug Free Communities Report Coordinator Joe Conlin reported on the plans for Red Ribbon Week. There will be a county wide poster contest for students from 3rd to 12th grades, using the Above the Influence theme. The coalition will be partnering with the County Human Services to create and distribute a flyer. Judging of the posters will take place on Friday October 28th at the Moorestown Mall.

Joe announced that there will be a meeting on October 6th with the county Municipal Alliances to set up a Town Hall meeting on Underage Drinking for all of Burlington County.

There was a brief discussion about the PRIDE survey for 2016-17

Joe announced that the coalition will be holding a free beverage server training to be held at the Burlington County Library in November.

Regional Coalition

Marc Romano announced the addition of 2 Rx drop boxes at the Municipal Buildings in Maple Shade and Moorestown.

Marc also discuss the summer coalition project of providing addiction Hotline cards to police. The cards were created in both English and Spanish and were provided to ALL county law enforcement agencies.

Kim Burns from Tobacco Free NJ gave a report on the status of smoke free parks ordinances and showed off the new signs.

2 Partnership Grant

Marc Romano reported that Beth Mayers resigned to take a position with Blue Cross.

He said that he helped her over the summer with a project to contact county funeral home directors to discuss sharing information drop box materials and safe medication disposal with their clients. This information was also provided to retirement communities.

New Business

Old Business

Open Discussion

A round table discussion took place where all participants were given the opportunity to announce their upcoming events.

Upcoming Meeting

Tuesday October 18, 2016 1030 AM, BC Health Dept.