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April Autism Youth Sub Committee Meeting Notes
* Our meeting was held on Wednesday April 27, 2010 at the California Auto Association Building on Smith Ranch Road in San Rafael
* Barry Benda from Lifehouse Agency was able to attend
• Karen reviewed the following: Karen had made connection with the Marin County Sheriffs Department, Sergeant Josh Todt and Sergeant Debra D. Barry
• Marin County Sheriff’s Office Professional Standards Unit, 3501 Civic Center Drive, Room 145
San Rafael, CA 94903, Desk 415.499.7836, Fax 415.507.4126
• In regards to the ASD training DVD. Debra shared that the DVD had arrived and was being shared with agencies throughout Marin. Karen asked Debra for more specific information on what agencies and when the DVD had been used for training. Debra will get back to Karen. Karen offered MAC support to attend trainings and answer officers’ questions on ASD.
• Karen shared with Barry that Mike Gardner reported that the MCOE teachers would be going through SCRETS training and at this time did not feel a need for additional training from MAC.
• Karen shared with Barry that the medical practitioner letter and flyer were complete and the next step was to send our resource list out to them. Katrina from MAC will be doing this next step.

The meeting was closed by 9:45 as no other committee members were able to attend this meeting.

Final Meeting of the year is schedule for May 25th at 9:30 am

Karen Kaplan
Autism Youth Sub Committee Chair
karensupportsu@comcast.net
415-497-3751