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Power of We Consortium

Monthly Meeting 

February 16, 2024 

Attendees: Tom Moore (CADL), Rebecca Kasen (Women’s Resource Center), Alexis Hagerty (Ingham County), Cheyenne Porzondek (Eaton RESA), Rebecca Meszaros (Ingham County), Rashmi Travis (Eaton RESA), Celaina Boylan-Castilla (UWSCMI), Misty Vankampen (CACS), Maha Gabayre (IRRC), Michele Strasz(UWSCMI), Charles Roltsch (City of Lansing Financial Empowerment Center), Amanda Darche (Ingham County),  Martin Uchendu (Samaritas), Andy Bourgeois (CADL), Alexis Hagerty (Ingham County), Jeffrey Spangler (DNCAP), Karrie Dunn (Northwest Initiatives), Oliviah Brown, Kara Trimbach (Ingham County Health Dept., Stephanie Manning(Samaritas), Kristina Schmidgall,(Lansing Area Aids Network), Shavonne Shaw (BCBSMI), Maha Gabayre, Ashley Medes, Dana Watson(Health Dept), Norma Bauer (Nation Outside), Quenton Lerma (CFC), Ashley Medes, MDHHS Environmental Health 

Agenda Item	Discussion	Action Items
Call to Order	Call to Order: 2:00 PM
Meeting Purpose	Northwest Initiatives Presentation:  Karrie Dunn, NWI, Food Systems Program Manager and Interim Outreach Coordinator, Nutrition Education, Mobile Farmers Market, Food distribution to supplement commodities with fresh produce, bread.  Meet with client to see what else they need assistance, ie. Medicaid. Food boxes. Personal care needs boxes. Don’t have resource navigators anymore. ARROW program for men who are reentering after a jail or prison sentence. Includes a diversion and recidivism component.  Northwest Lansing- 48933, 48906, 48917, 48915.  Address:
Action Team Breakout Rooms	Action Team meetings: Ease of Access (Facilitator Michele): 211 Coordination, Gathering Resource Directories  Coordination of Resources (Facilitator Pennie):  Translation Support, Shared Services model
Action Team Report-Outs	Action Team meetings  Ease of Access:  211 Coordination, Coordination of Resources:  Translation Support, Shared Services model Reviewed purpose of translation survey. What languages?  Where is support provided?  Paid or free.  Does your organization offer translation support? Explore joint contract.  Other recommendations to make this more robust. Get the survey to the right person in your organization.	211: Host 211 update party on March 15- noon to 2pm.   Translation survey: Distribute now. Open for 3 weeks.
Announcements	Community Health Improvement Plan from ICHD.  Convening stakeholder group Feb. 28th.  Reach out to Kara if you are interested. [email protected]. Women’s Resource Center:  Out of hygiene supplies, working on human trafficking.  WE Laugh Comedy Night.  Repelling down Boji Tower on 517 day. CACS:  Rent Assistance in City of Lansing and Ingham County.  Call CACS.  Utility funding available.  Providing Tax Services VITA:  Free Taxes for under $64,000.  Call 211 to schedule Refugee Awareness Week:  Contract Veronica at St. Vincent Catholic Charities.  [email protected]    Power of We has a new website:  pwclansing,org	Everyone –
Adjourn	3: PM

Power of We Consortium  

Monthly Meeting Notes

January 19, 2024 

Attendees: Tom Moore (CADL), Rebecca Kasen (Women’s Resource Center), Gregg Todd (Ingham County Broadband Task Force), Alexis Hagerty (Ingham County), Cheyenne Porzondek (Eaton RESA), Rebecca Meszaros (Ingham County), Rashmi Travis (Eaton RESA), Feliz Rodriguez (Ingham County), Celaina Boylan-Castilla (UWSCMI), Amber Paxton(City of Lansing Financial empowerment Center), Misty Vankampen (CACS), Maha Gabayre (IRRC), Wendi Lahti (Habitat for Humanity), Irene Gonzales (BCBS), Emma Gilbert (TriCounty Regional Planning), Sheryl Knox (CADL), Michele Strasz(UWSCMI), Pennie-Foster-Fishman (Consultant), Charles Roltsch (City of Lansing Financial Empowerment Center), Jerry Norris (the Fledge), Spriha Sharma (ICHD), Jim Dell (RSVP), Amanda Darche (Ingham County), Norma, Martin Uchendu (Samaritas), Mariah Shafer (RDC), Jen Cronkite, (CMHCEI), Andy Bourgeois (CADL), Alexis Hagerty (Ingham County) 

Agenda Item	Discussion	Action Items
Call to Order	Call to Order: 2:00 PM
Meeting Purpose	Broadband Access Barriers:  Cost, Rural, Language, Knowledge of resources Opportunity:  State funding to service new areas, Competitive grant process, Digital Equity Access Funding from the feds.
Action Team Breakout Rooms	Action Team meetings: Ease of Access (Facilitator Michele): 211 Coordination, Gathering Resource Directories  Coordination of Resources (Facilitator Pennie):  Translation Support, Shared Services model
Action Team Report-Outs	Action Team meetings  Ease of Access:  Gathering Resource Directories:  Create an online Hub to house the resource directories. No access at CADL, Community Connections page 211 Coordination, Coordination of Resources:  Translation Support, Shared Services model Reviewed purpose of translation survey. Distribute Jan. 26. What languages?  Where is support provided?  Paid or free.  Does your organization offer translation support? Explore joint contract.  Other recommendations to make this more robust. Get the survey to the right person.	Ask 211:   Is there an app to make real-time, dynamic updates 24-7 for nonprofit users. (Like Get Connected.)  Do they do focus groups Can we see a Process Flow chart?    Host 211 update party on March 15- noon to 2pm.  Translation survey: Distribute Jan. 26.  Open for 3 weeks.
Announcements	Nation Outside, 3rd Thursday, 5-6:30pm.  Neighborhood Empowerment Center.  Women’s Resource Center repelling down Boji Tower on May 18th for a fundraiser.  RDC programming at new community center at Unitarian Universalist Church, Free tax prep site.  Eaton RESA drug endangered child training Jan. 30th.  Volunteer with VITA to provide FREE Tax completion	Everyone –
Adjourn	3:40 PM