Joint Meeting of the
Birth-to-Five Members of various Roundtables

March 11, 2010

AAA-California Automobile Association
99 Smith Ranch Road, San Rafael 94903

Subcommittee Members in Attendance: Susanne Kreuzer, Easter Seals, Stephanie Stein, MATRIX; Meghan Johnson, Easter Seals, Phyllis Ring, Easter Seals, Gail Cavello, Blind Babies, Doug Lipinski, SLP, Alyea Sandovar, MA, JFCS, Diana Hill, FSA, Gloria Droquett, CAM; Joan Troppmann, Headstart, Kathy Truax, FSA, Linda Mariscal, Health and Human Services, Pam Doer, CPS, Linda Cimoli, MCOE; Katrina Ferreyra,Coordinator MAC; Minal Doshi, GGRC, Wyoming Irwin, Early Start MCOE, .

Member updates:
• Katrina and Susanne spoke of about the MAC Annual meeting to be held March 6, 2010 at Hollis Hall. Key note speaker was David Amaral, PhD from the M.I.N.D. Institute. Approximately 60 individuals were in attendance

Minutes from Last Meeting:

Susanne shared information explaining the various birth to 5 Roundtables that meet in Marin and what their purposes are information was distributed about the various activities that each roundtable has been working on.

Early Start Roundtable: Presented a Speaker series in the fall on various topics related to Early Intervention. The program was held at the Wellness Center in San Rafael. Some of the presentation were videotaped. Spoke about he history of the Early Start Roundtable

Special Needs/Mental Health Roundtable: Presented the history of the Special Needs/Mental Health Initiative funded by First 5 Marin. Spoke about funded partners and distributed information regarding the program.

MAC Early Years Subcommittee: Presented information on how the MAC was established and the subcommittees developed. Information regarding the vision and goals of the Early Years Subcommittee was distributed as well as information on the MAC Website.

After some discussion it appears that it would be helpful for the joint groups to meet on a quarterly basis and work more closely together in doing outreach coordination and presentations in the community.

The group felt that first priority was to share information and be better at linking ourselves together. Consensus determined that we would focus on two areas first
1. Stephanie from MATRIX suggested that a Tab for the Early Intervention programs could be put on their website to link families who have young children with special needs to each other and programs.
2. Explore the process of developing a yahoo email group for the professionals to share information. Katrina and Susanne would investigate

Next Joint Meeting: June 10, 2010 12-1:30
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