December 13, 2018 Video Conference Notes

Thursday, December 13, 2018Zoom Call Recording

In Attendance: Jan Booher (UU Justice Florida), Crystal Johnson (Community Forum Foundation, Inc.), Shirley Burns (local Pan-Hellenic Council, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church), Joan Marshall (All Faiths Unitarian Congregation of Ft. Myers Climate Action Team), Dr. Darryl Clare (Community Connection Service, Inc.), Pastor Velma Black Smith (Apostolic House of God)  

No one had updates.

AGENDA

1. Technical Support Phase Work Product: The grant that we did not get from the EPA would have paid for FGCU to do curriculum development and for an independent academic evaluator. Since we did not obtain the grant, UUJF has been providing technical support to get the project to the point where there’s a framework. The elements of that framework are work product from the technical support portion of the grant.  See below.

A webpage: Youth Resilience Corps

This is the project webpage on the Florida Council of Churches website. 

• Joan Marshall (All Faiths Unitarian Congregation of Ft. Myers Climate Action Team) commented that there isn’t any indication on the site that the Youth Resilience Corps will be an ongoing group. It won’t just be the Spring Break Program.
• Shirley Burns (local Pan-Hellenic Council, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church) comments that 8:30 am to 5:30pmis a really long day. It is probably too long for a Spring Break program.
• Jan Booher (UU Justice Florida) says that if the community comes up with a narrative about the program it is easy to substitute it on the webpage now that the page is set up. There is a link to the Application from the webpage.
• There was a departure from the Agenda to look at the schedules for the proposed classses that included all the suggested programming, with the time the different classes require.

Curriculum: Proposed Schedules and Room Use5 Worksheets at that link: 

• Sheet 1: Curriculum Content

• Sheet 2: TEAM A: Communications

• Sheet 3: TEAM B: Food Management

• Sheet 4: TEAMS C & D: Mapping

• Sheet 5: Classroom Use

Joan Marshall (All Faiths Unitarian Congregation of Ft. Myers Climate Action Team) says she is the only one who can see the screen. She explains how half the students take CERT Training in the moring 4 days of the week followed by Red Cross First Aid Classes, whereas the other 2 teams take the CERT and Red Cross training in the afternoon. The other classes are scheduled around the core requirements that have been discussed on the calls. 

The consensus was that It just seems like too much programming.

The Applicationis a Google Form that can be printed out. If the applicants fill it out online their information comes out on a spreadsheet that you can see at this linkApplication Response Spreadsheet.

• Jan Booher (UU Justice Florida) says that as a process to edit the Application and other documents either people could email me a list of edits or I could share people in on editing privileges and they could make modifications themselves.
• Shirley Burns (local Pan-Hellenic Council, Friendship Missionary Baptist Church) says she would be willing to email me edits and copy Crystal on the email. 

The pre and post Assessments are required by the UU Fund for Social Responsibility Grant.

The Pre-Assessmentis like the Application. It’s a Google Form that can be printed out. If the applicants fill it out online their information comes out on a spreadsheet that you can see at this linkPre-Assessment Response Spreadsheet

The Post-Assessmentis the same. It’s a Google Form that can be printed out. If the applicants fill it out online their information comes out on a spreadsheet that you can see at this linkPost-Assessment Response Spreadsheet

Curriculum Compilation

Jan: This draft is a start. Each time that someone mentioned a type of training on the call, I looked up what I could find in the way of a curriculum outline. This is where the topic lists for CERT, Food Handlers, Food Managers, Red Cross First Aid and HAM radio certification and license trainings and the POD training came from. All of thiese should be confirmed with whoever the local instructor will be and/or the certifying agency.  Dr. Darryl Clare (Community Connection Service, Inc.) supplied the curriculum for the GIS STEM curriculum.  I will continue to work on the Neighborhood Outreach and Neighborhood Point of Distribution/Resilience Hub development because we have 30+ other communities working on Resilience Hubs and organizing their neighborhoods for hurricane preparedness.

1. Requirements for the Implementation Phase (See grant Outputs and Outcomes at the bottom of the page.) If you take pictures of students in classes, here is a link to an Englishphoto & video release form.

Joan Marshall (All Faiths Unitarian Congregation of Ft. Myers Climate Action Team) asked about the grant requirements. Jan said the EPA EE grant had many requirements, and the current grant has fewer responsibilities. Here are the Objectives with required Outputs and Outcomes for the current Fund for UU Responsibility grant.

Objectives: Details of measurable results you expect to see from the organization’s work towards its goal(s).