Membership meeting 2-7-2022

Substance Abuse Council Agenda

February 7, 2022, 1:30 p.m.

Central Library, Browning Room B

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1. Call to Order

 

2. Welcome and Introductions

 

3. Approval of January 2022 minutes. (please check the attendance list for corrections)

 

4. Treasurer’s Report

 

4. Committee Reports
5. Prevention
6. Law Enforcement
7. Treatment

 

4. Director’s Report

 

5. Old Business/Projects
6. Requests for Proposals for 2022 grant cycle available today, due Feb. 28

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6. New Business:
7. Rough draft of 2022 CCP

 

7. Presentations:
8. Boom Squad
9. EPD

 

8. Agency Announcements: In addition to agency announcements being made here, please email flyers to Dan that can be forwarded early tomorrow.

 

9. Adjournment

 

NEXT MEETING: The next meeting of the Substance Abuse Council will be held on Monday,  March 7, at 1:30 pm, at the Evansville Central Library, Browning Room A or B.

The SAC Executive Committee will meet February 14, at noon, by Microsoft Teams.

Treatment Committee:  March 7, 2022, at 12:30 pm., Evansville Central Library, Browning Room

 

 

SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNCIL OF VANDERBURGH COUNTY

MINUTES OF THE MEMBERSHIP MEETING

10 January 2022

Members present:  Dee Lewis – President, Wally Paynter – TSA, Bri Bolin – Transgender Action, John Montgomery – EPD; Hannah Duckworth – Counseling for Change, Jill Hoskins – Brentwood, Daren Harmon – Prosecutor’s Office, Dan Miller – Director, Crystal Sisson – Holly’s House, Jacob Mothershed – United Caring Shelter, Kevin Groves – Southwestern, Micah Boyd – DADS, Courtney Horning – Smokefree Evansville, Kathryn Kornblum-Zelle – Parenting Time, Ginny France – Anthem, Heather Woods – Vice President, James Akin – Treasurer, Leslie Jackson – Misd. Probation, Shay Wood – Now Counseling, Stacey Kuder – Deaconess Cross Pointe, Beth Greenwell – Adult Probation

Dee Lewis, Vice-President,  called the meeting to order at 1:31 pm. The meeting was held in person at the Central Library, Browning Room B, and via Microsoft Teams.

Minutes of the December 6, 2021, meeting had been emailed in advance of the meeting. Wally Paynter made the following revision to the paragraph describing the presentation by TSA:

Wally Paynter, President, and Julie Robinson, Vice-President, presented.  Wally Paynter has been their president since 1989.  Many of the volunteers are in recovery. The Youth Group meets in their offices at 501 John Street Suite 5. The Youth Group used to be an under 21 group, but with more and more parents bringing middle school students…the group is now for middle and high school students only. They use 3 different SAMHSA approved prevention programs for at-risk youth that are designed for youth who may already be using, plus one US Centers for Disease Control program with the same goal. The programs are also used to decrease suicide and keep young people in school. Julie Robinson is the Youth Group Director, and she reported on her experiences with TSA as a youth and then as a youth group adult facilitator. During the pandemic, the group used Zoom and Discord social media platforms. They only used Discord for 2 weeks, and had 8 students each week they used Discord since many students could not download or access this platform. The group averages 20 members per week at in-person meetings, and between 500 and 1200 students at their alcohol and drug free dances.

Wally also noted that Bri Bolin had been present but had been left off the attendance list.  Wally moved the minutes be approved as corrected.  Heather Woods seconded the motion, and the motion passed.

Treasurer’s Report:  James Akin presented the Treasurer’s report, which is attached.  The report noted the transfer of profit from both fundraisers into the separate fundraising account.  That left a year-end balance in the checking account of $18,815.00.  The report also included the operating budge for the council for 2022.  Wally Paynter asked about sustainability plans in view of dwindling contributions from the drug free communities fund.  He suggested seeking grants for the Council from the Welborn Foundation and/or the Community Foundation.  Dan Miller responded that the budget forecasts having about $9,000.00 in carryover funds at the end of 2022, that the decline in drug free communities funds is due mainly to the pandemic, that the drug free communities fund deposits were healthy in 2019 and prior, and that he would expect them to increase once the pandemic and its challenges to court congestion and collection of fees came to an end.  He is optimistic that council will have enough funding in 2022 and 2023, if it is careful with its spending.  He indicated that very few grants, if any, exist for operating expenses, that most of the grants he has seen through ICJI are programmatic and would be best applied for by member agencies of the council, and that he would always explore funding opportunities.

Committee Reports:

Prevention Committee.  Chairman Laura Wathen was not present and did have a report.

Law Enforcement Committee.  Chairman Daren Harmon sent felony statistics reports for 2020 and 2021.  Those reports are attached.  Narcotics overdoses are up.  Already in 2022, there have been 6 or 7 narcotics overdose runs by law enforcement, two of them fatal.

Treatment Committee:  Chairman Jackie Hughes reported that the committee will meet at 12:30 on February 7, prior to the council meeting.

Director’s Report:  Dan Miller reported on the director’s activities since the last meeting.  His written report is attached to these minutes.

Previous Business:

6-month grant reports:  Dan reported that all grantees had submitted their 6-month grant reports by the deadline on December 31.  He has not read all of them yet.

New Business:

Problem Statements and SMART goal revisions for 2022 CCP:  Dan sent the proposed revisions via email to the membership prior to the meeting.  He explained that he does not have the revisions for the entire CCP ready for the council yet, and he expects there will be many revisions to his revisions before the CCP is required to be submitted to ICJI.  He also explained that executive committee had seen the SMART goal revisions and had approved them at their December meeting.  Dan wanted approval on the SMART goals so that that the would be ready when the 2022 grant cycle began.  An application for SAC funds would need to list one or more SMART goals to qualify for a SAC grant.  There was some discussion of the SMART goals.  After the discussion,  Harmon moved to approve the SMART goals; Wally Paynter seconded the motion.  The motion passed.

2022 Grant Cycle:  Dan reported that Requests for Proposal would go out on February 7, both electronically and with paper pre-applications at the council meeting.  Pre-applications would be due February 28.  They would be screened on or before March 21.  Invitations to apply for a grant and applications would be sent on March 28.  Grant applications will be due April 30.  Council approval of the grants would take place at the council meeting on June 6.

Presentations:

Holly’s House:  Crystal Sisson gave the report on her grant.  Holly’s goes into area grade schools to deliver a child abuse prevention program.  Part of the program includes a substance abuse awareness and resistance training.  In 2021, Holly’s House was able to serve just under 14,000 students; a quarter of those were in Vanderburgh County.  Some the 2021 funding rolled over into 2022, and Holly’s House is hoping to use that funding to increase the numbers of Vanderburgh County youth reached.

YWCA:  Dee Lewis reported on the Court Services and Client Services grants received by YWCA for 2021-22.  YWCA started in Evansville in 1911 and have been in their building at 2^nd and Vine since 1924.  In 1979, they started their first domestic violence shelter for women.  In 1992, they started the Live Y’ers program to at-risk young women and girls who were students at Glenwood and Lodge Schools and at Bosse High School.  This program also gives grants to high school girls to enter and/or stay in college or other education post high school.  In 2001, the YWCA began its Transitional Housing Recovery Program for women needing to recover from substance use disorder.  In 2016 that program was renamed to YWCA Embracing Sobriety (YES), and it still provides transitional housing for women in recovery.

In June through December, 2021, the resident support services grant served 23 women in Vanderburgh County with case management, bus tokens, personal care items, AA/NA materials, B/A and U/A testing services.  From June to December 2021, the court services grant provided Court Liaison services for 44 women – 22 of whom were from Vanderburgh County probation, parole and treatment courts.

Announcements:

The next meeting meeting is scheduled Monday, February 7, 2022, at 1:30, at Central Library, Browning Room B.

Prevention Committee will meet today after February 7, at 12:30, before the general membership meeting.

The next Executive Committee Meeting is Monday, February 14, at noon, via Microsoft Teams.

Wally Paynter moved to adjourn the meeting; the motion was seconded by Jill Hoskins.  The motion passed, and President Dee Lewis adjourned the meeting.

Submitted by Dan Miller

 

Treasurer’s Report

January 10, 2022

Account                                           Checking                           Taste                                 CD

 

Beginning Balance 11-1-21          34,418.51                         2550.54                            20,000+

Ending Balance 12-31-21             18,815.37                         8270.68                            20,155.73

 

November/December Expenditures:

 

Fall Festival                                                   5557.55

Fall Festival groups 2673.09

Payroll                                                            3717.57

Transfer Taste Account                               5720.14

Rent                                                                  235.13

Phone, Internet:                                             211.80

Office Supplies                                               116.60

Vehicle Registration                                         44.35

 

Total                                                               15,603.14

 

 

Budget for 2022
Expenses	Insurance	$      2,050.00
	Professional Fee	$      2,000.00
	Vehicle Registr.	$           45.00
	Office supplies	$      1,000.00
	Computer Expense	$         750.00
	Rent	$      2,821.56
	Telephone/internet	$      1,278.72
	Payroll	$    19,237.50
Total Expense			$   29,182.78
Bank Balance			$ (18,562.76)
Expected DFC			$ (20,000.00)
Surplus		$    (9,379.98)
Assumptions:  1.  Expenses will remain stable.  2.  We will not need to make any significant repairs or replacements.  3.  No pay raises.

 

Felony Statistics Summary Report
01/01/2021 – 12/31/2021
Drugs
Total: 2458
Causing Serious Bodily Injury when Operating Vehicle with a Schedule I or II Substance in Blood: 5
Dealing in a Narcotic Drug: 62
Dealing in a Schedule I Controlled Substance: 40
Dealing in a Schedule III Controlled Substance: 1
Dealing in a Schedule IV Controlled Substance: 6
Dealing in Cocaine: 2
Dealing in Marijuana: 64
Dealing in Methamphetamine: 131
Maintaining a Common Nuisance – Controlled Substances: 4
Manufacturing Methamphetamine: 6
Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud or Deceit: 4
Possession of a Controlled Substance: 316
Possession of a Narcotic Drug: 185
Possession of a Substance Represented to be a Controlled Substance: 2
Possession of Cocaine: 2
Possession of Marijuana: 502
Possession of Methamphetamine: 830
Possession of Paraphernalia: 177
Unlawful Possession of Syringe: 115
Visiting a Common Nuisance – Controlled Substances: 4

 

 

Felony Statistics Summary Report
01/01/2020 – 12/31/2020
Drugs
Total: 2188
Causing Serious Bodily Injury when Operating a Vehicle with a Schedule I or II Substance in Blood: 2
Dealing in a Look-a-like Substance: 5
Dealing in a Narcotic Drug: 32
Dealing in a Schedule I Controlled Substance: 53
Dealing in a Schedule II Controlled Substance: 1
Dealing in a Schedule IV Controlled Substance: 2
Dealing in Cocaine: 8
Dealing in Marijuana: 54
Dealing in Methamphetamine: 120
Maintaining a Common Nuisance – Controlled Substances: 13
Obtaining a Controlled Substance by Fraud or Deceit: 7
Possessing a Look-a-like Substance: 8
Possession of a Controlled Substance: 234
Possession of a Narcotic Drug: 146
Possession of a Schedule V Controlled Substance: 2
Possession of a Substance Represented to be a Controlled Substance: 4
Possession of Cocaine: 10
Possession of Hash Oil: 1
Possession of Marijuana: 489
Possession of Methamphetamine: 582
Possession of Paraphernalia: 194
Unlawful Possession of Syringe: 215
Visiting a Common Nuisance – Controlled Substances: 6

 

 

DIRECTOR’S REPORT

6 December 2021

Meetings:

• Vanderburgh County Client Consultation Board, December 10
• December 17, Youth and Cannabis Disorder Webinar
• Indiana Coalitions Network, December 15

Financial Review:

• Paid Vehicle Registration Fee for food trailer

Projects:

• Worked on 2022 CCP
• Contacted vendors for web-site hosting
• Coordinated migration drugfreecounty.org website to Regent Promotions

 

 

 

Consider the resources/assets and limitations/gaps that were identified for each risk factor, and list what actions can be taken for each identified problem statement.

Problem Statements	What can be done (action)?
1. Alcohol, tobacco and other drug use continues to be a problem among youth and adult citizens of Vanderburgh County.  New drugs like fentanyl and its analogs and synthetic drugs have become widely available. Substance abuse crimes, such as Operating While Intoxicated, dealing in a controlled substance, and possession of a controlled substance continue to occur in high numbers.  Drug overdose deaths have increased.	1.   2.   3.
2.  Poverty, lack of transportation, stigma and other barriers deter access to services that address substance use disorders for youth, adults and families in Vanderburgh County.	1.   2.   3.
3. Innovation in treatment modalities and practices, such as medically assisted treatment, require continuing education and training for substance use treatment, prevention and court professionals, as well as community leaders and the general public.	1.   2.   3.

 

 

Step 4: Develop SMART Goal Statements

For each problem statement, prioritize your list of what can be done. Choose your top two actions for each. Then, develop goal statements that demonstrate what change you hope to achieve and by when you hope to achieve it.

Problem Statement #1

Goal 1 Seventy-five (75%) percent of youth and adult participants in programs supported with SAC funds in 2022 will report or demonstrate positive change in knowledge, skills, or attitudes as measured by pre- and post-evaluations after participation in the program.

Goal 2 Twenty-five percent (25%) of youth and adult participants of programs supported by the SAC in 2022 will report or demonstrate a decrease in use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs after participation in the program.

Goal 3  Vanderburgh County will increase the prosecutions of Dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death (I.C. 35-42-1-1.5) by 10% in 2022.

Problem Statement #2

Goal 1  In 2022, the number of persons served by mental health and addiction treatment will increase by 5% by decreasing barriers to treatment, such as transportation and financial resources.

Goal 2

Problem Statement #3

Goal 1  The SAC will provide trainings for at least 50 community professionals on trends in addiction / co-occurring disorders through community educational events or training opportunities.

Goal 2

 

 

Step 5: Plans to Achieve Goals

For each goal, list the steps required to achieve each

	Problem Statement #1		Steps
Goal 1 Seventy-five (75%) percent of youth and adult participants in programs supported with SAC funds in 2022 will report or demonstrate positive change in knowledge, skills, or attitudes as measured by pre- and post-evaluations after participation in the program.		1.     SAC will fund and evaluate programs that serve youth who are at-risk for substance use and abuse. 2.     SAC will fund and evaluate programs that serve adults who are at-risk for substance use disorder. 3.     SAC will fund and evaluate programs that serve persons who are at risk of relapse. 4.     SAC will fund and evaluate programs that support families whose members are at-risk for substance abuse or substance use disorder. 5.     SAC funded programs will collect demographic and performance data on participants in their programs. 6.     SAC funded programs will compare their outcomes with data from outcomes on evidence-based programs. 7.     SAC will have each of the funded agencies give a report during the year to the entire council, and answer questions about their programs. 8.     SAC will evaluate each program at the 6 and 12 month mark to evaluate their progress on the goals and to also review the financial expenditures.
	Goal 2  Twenty-five percent (25%) of youth and adult participants of programs supported by the SAC in 2022 will report or demonstrate a decrease in use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs after participation in the program.		1.     SAC will fund and evaluate programs that serve adults and youth who are involved in substance use and abuse. 2.     SAC will fund and evaluate programs, including court programs, that serve youth and adults who have a substance use disorder. 3.     SAC will fund court, probation, community corrections or diversion program staff training; items that remove financial barriers; and drug tests to assist with rehabilitation of juvenile and adult offenders with a substance use disorder. 4.     SAC funded programs will collect demographic and performance data on participants in their programs. 5.     SAC funded court programs will collect recidivism data on offender participants in court drug and alcohol programs. 6.     SAC funded programs will compare their outcomes with data from outcomes from evidence-based programs. 7.     SAC will have each of the funded agencies give a report during the year to the entire council, and answer questions about their programs. 8.     SAC will evaluate each program at the 6 and 12 month mark to evaluate their progress on the goals and to also review the financial expenditures.
	Goal 3  Vanderburgh County will increase the prosecutions of Dealing in a controlled substance resulting in death (I.C. 35-42-1-1.5) by 10% in 2022.		1.     SAC will fund equipment and other needs for law enforcement to enhance their law enforcement activities as it relates to drug arrests and the prosecution of I.C. 35-42-1-1.5. 2.     SAC will fund training for law enforcement personnel to enhance skills and expertise in the investigation and prosecution of controlled substance offenses and overdose death investigation. 3.     SAC funded law enforcement programs will record data on specific metrics, including but not limited to, arrests, crimes charged, amounts of drugs seized, etc. 4.     SAC funded law enforcement programs will compare data with data collected in previous years and statewide data. 5.     SAC will have each of the funded agencies give a report during the year to the entire council, and answer questions about their programs. 6.     SAC will evaluate each program at the 6 and 12 month mark to evaluate their progress on the goals and to also review the financial expenditures.
	Problem Statement #2		Steps
	Goal 1  In 2022, the number of persons served by mental health and addiction treatment will increase by 5% by decreasing barriers to treatment, such as transportation and financial resources.		1.     SAC will fund treatment agencies that help eliminate barriers to treatment by assisting with transportation and other financial costs incurred by the clients, to impact the number of people who access treatment services. 2.     SAC funded programs will collect demographic and performance data on participants in their programs. 3.     SAC funded programs will compare their outcomes with data from outcomes on evidence-based programs. 4.     SAC will have each of the funded agencies give a report during the year to the entire council, and answer questions about their programs. 5.     SAC will evaluate each program at the 6 and 12 month mark to evaluate their progress on the goals and to also review the financial expenditures.
	Goal 2		1.   2.   3.
	Problem Statement #3		Steps
	Goal 1 The SAC will provide trainings for at least 50 community professionals on trends in addiction / co-occurring disorders through community educational events or training opportunities.		1.     SAC Treatment Committee will assess the professional educational need in Vanderburgh County. 2.     The SAC Treatment Committee will identify professionals to conduct the training. 3.     The SAC Event Chairperson and Executive Director will secure meeting space, event sponsors and lunch and refreshments for the training event and enter into contracts with the training professionals. 4.     The SAC Event Chairperson and Executive Director will facilitate the awarding of continuing education credits to program participants. 5.     The SAC Event Chairperson and Executive Director will set the participant price for the educational program and disseminate enrollment information to prospective participants. 6.     SAC will gather feedback from attendees about the quality and usefulness of the program through surveys and focus groups. 7.     SAC will evaluate the program at the 12 month mark to evaluate the effectiveness of the training.
	Goal 2		1.   2.   3.