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LINC Commission Meeting May 21, 2018 Thirteen LINC Site Coordinators and staff attended the 2018 Coalition for Community Schools conference in Baltimore, Maryland from May 1-4. Marty Blank (top center), former director of the Institute for Educational Leadership and the Coalition for Community Schools, spoke with LINC staff about the history and the importance of community partnerships in schools. Mr. Blank was a key partner in the formation of LINC Caring Communities in Kansas City. Photo: Christy Harrison, Kansas City Public Schools Roscoe Jones, civil rights activist and former student leader LINC puts its mark on the Community Schools timeline as in Mississippi, leads the closing panel of youth leaders. one of the first Caring Communities sites in the nation. Local Investment Commission (LINC) Vision Our Shared Vision A caring community that builds on its strengths to provide meaningful opportunities for children, families and individuals to achieve self-sufficiency, attain their highest potential, and contribute to the public good. Our Mission To provide leadership and influence to engage the Kansas City Community in creating the best service delivery system to support and strengthen children, families and individuals, holding that system accountable, and changing public attitudes towards the system. Our Guiding Principles 1. COMPREHENSIVENESS: Provide ready access to a full array of effective services. 2. PREVENTION: Emphasize “front-end” services that enhance development and prevent problems, rather than “back-end” crisis intervention. 3. OUTCOMES: Measure system performance by improved outcomes for children and families, not simply by the number and kind of services delivered. 4. INTENSITY: Offering services to the needed degree and in the appropriate time. 5. PARTICIPANT INVOLVEMENT: Use the needs, concerns, and opinions of individuals who use the service delivery system to drive improvements in the operation of the system. 6. NEIGHBORHOODS: Decentralize services to the places where people live, wherever appropriate, and utilize services to strengthen neighborhood capacity. 7. FLEXIBILITY AND RESPONSIVENESS: Create a delivery system, including programs and reimbursement mechanisms, that are sufficiently flexible and adaptable to respond to the full spectrum of child, family and individual needs. 8. COLLABORATION: Connect public, private and community resources to create an integrated service delivery system. 9. STRONG FAMILIES: Work to strengthen families, especially the capacity of parents to support and nurture the development of their children. 10. RESPECT AND DIGNITY: Treat families, and the staff who work with them, in a respectful and dignified manner. 11. INTERDEPENDENCE/MUTUAL RESPONSIBILITY: Balance the need for individuals to be accountable and responsible with the obligation of community to enhance the welfare of all citizens. 12. CULTURAL COMPETENCY: Demonstrate the belief that diversity in the historical, cultural, religious and spiritual values of different groups is a source of great strength. 13. CREATIVITY: Encourage and allow participants and staff to think and act innovatively, to take risks, and to learn from their experiences and mistakes. 14. COMPASSION: Display an unconditional regard and a caring, non-judgmental attitude toward, participants that recognizes their strengths and empowers them to meet their own needs. 15. HONESTY: Encourage and allow honesty among all people in the system. Monday, May 21, 2018 | 4 – 6 pm Kauffman Foundation 4801 Rockhill Rd. Kansas City, Mo. 64110 Agenda I. Welcome and Announcements II. Approvals a. Approval April minutes (motion) III. Superintendent Reports IV. LINC Updates a. Center Eviction Workshop b. LINC Chess V. LINC Summer Programs a. LINC Programs b. Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer (SEBT) VI. LINC Finances a. Approval New 401(k) Advisor VII. LINC Advocacy a. Coalition for Community Schools National Forum b. Trailwoods Elementary – Legislative Visit c. Missouri Kids Count & Child Advocacy Day VIII. Adjournment THE LOCAL INVESTMENT COMMISSION – APRIL 16, 2018 The Local Investment Commission met at the Kauffman Foundation, 4801 Rockhill Rd., Kansas City, Mo. Co-chair Bailus Tate presided. Commissioners attending were: Bert Berkley Herb Freeman Sharon Cheers Anita Gorman Jack Craft Rosemary Lowe Tom Davis Mary Kay McPhee Aaron Deacon Ken Powell David Disney David Ross Mark Flaherty Minutes of the Feb. 26, 2018, LINC Commission meeting were approved. Superintendent Reports Steve Morgan, Asst. Superintendent (Fort Osage School District), reported Indian Trails Elementary principal Emily Cross was named Missouri superintendent of the year. MAP testing began today. The district will provide free meals for children this summer. Kenny Rodrequez, Superintendent (Grandview School District), reported Grandview Middle School was designated a distinguished school in Project Lead the Way. Five district teachers were selected to participate in STEM camp this summer. Grandview High School won the boys’ basketball state championship. Yolanda Cargile, Superintendent (Hickman Mills School District), reported the LINC Before and After School program will return to a five-day-a-week schedule next fall. Bond issue construction projects have been completed. Several students received internships at Cerner or Honeywell scholarships. Christy Harrison, Director of Extended Learning Opportunities (Kansas City Public Schools), reported the district will be graduating 10 students through its credit recovery program. Mark Bedell was named new superintendent of the year by the Missouri Association of School Administrators. The district will reopen Lincoln Middle School. Dan Clemens, Superintendent (North Kansas City School District), reported both a male and a female basketball player have been recruited to play college ball. The district held a ribbon cutting for the Kansas City Construction Career Academy and is hoping to enroll 40 students in the program next fall. North Kansas City had the most presentations of any district at the recent National School Boards convention. Terry Ward reported there were presentations on the extended school year pilot schools and on smart financing from energy efficiency improvements. Sharon Nibbelink, Superintendent (Center School District), reported the district is preparing for the planned student walkout on April 20 protesting gun violence so that students can have a positive voice. Each kindergarten student receives a copy of the book “Kindergarten Rocks” during the first week of school to encourage student literacy. Students were recognized by the Fifth Congressional District office for their artwork. Kevin Foster, Executive Director (Genesis Middle School), reported Genesis is one of nine schools participating in the SchoolSmartKC Kansas City Family and Community Engagement Fellowship. Home visits to school families have a positive effect on engagement. Genesis faces the challenge of a mobile population; many families are moving beyond school district 2 boundaries. Over the weekend 20 early childhood educators received credits for participating in a read-aloud. Bob Bartman, Coordinator (Education Policy Fellowship Program), reported the next EPFP session will focus on diversity. EPFP fellows DeWayne Bright and Renee Asher reported on their experiences of the Washington, D.C., EPFP policy conference in March. LINC Site Coordinator Carl Wade introduced Ingels Elementary School (Hickman Mills School District) principal Sabrina Tillman Winfrey, who reported on a recent school event, a balloon release to honor Dominic Young Jr., the Ingels student who was killed in a shooting while he was a passenger in his father’s car. A video of the event was shown. The meeting was adjourned. Margo Quiriconi, Director of Community Health Initiatives, reported on Children’s Mercy Hospital’s food insecurity efforts. Children’s Mercy organized the Hunger-Free Hospital Task Force in response to food insecurity and insufficiency being identified as children’s health priorities in a community needs assessment. The task force has developed several initiatives including a partnership with the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture to serve free summer meals for children; last summer 4,836 meals were served across three Children’s Mercy campuses. Other initiatives include Food Prescriptions for families completing a food insecurity/insufficiency self-assessment and a community garden being built this summer at 22nd and Gillham. Discussion followed. Kimberley Sprenger, Mo. Dept. of Health and Senior Services, gave a presentation on the rise in deaths of Missourians from opioid overdose including the problem’s roots in the increase of prescriptions of opioids in the mid-1990s. She outlined state level strategies and local initiatives to reduce opioid overdose deaths. Todd Hixson, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, reported opioid trafficking in Missouri, sources of opioids, and investigation of deaths by opioid overdose. LINC Deputy Director-Community Engagement Brent Schondelmeyer introduced a discussion of the partnership between LINC and KCUR to collect and reprint reporting on student mobility in the Hickman Mills School District. Reporter Barbara Shelly and KCUR Director of Content Strategy Donna Vestal reported that LINC produced a booklet of the original articles, and KCUR is developing a single-narrative version of the reporting. LINC Founder Bert Berkley gave a presentation on the career of Robin Gierer, including his involvement in the creation of LINC, who