Notes from 12-10-2010 Meeting on our Health Initiative

Stanislaus Solutions:

As Debbie said, today's meeting was sort of a back up and start over again meeting, but I think it was very productive. We firmed up our intentions and now we move on to involve more participants in the next meeting that we will hold on a still-to-be-determined Friday at 12:30 meeting (in January?). Our list of groups/people to contact, and who will do each:

• Amanda will contact Linus and select a date to gather at Richard's home, 916 Melinda Lane, 529-5182 on a good Friday noon. (Linus has contacts with people such as Interfaith Ministries.)
• Karl will contact Public Health.
• Pam will contact the (something with a name like) Central Valley Obesity Prevention Coalition, and
• Pam will contact Linda Smith, also a dietitian
• Michael will contact someone in Ag about the status of the Ag Truck, and
• Michael will contact Habitat For Humanity, possibly through Dan Onorato
• Richard will contact local Food Banks, and
• Richard will contact George Boodrookas, who was quite helpful at the start of the Employment symposium.
• Debbie will contact "Weed and Seed" (City of Modesto)
• Debbie will contact Kaiser about their Outreach and Education program.

For each of the above, the concept is to gather a group of idea-people who know who we should invite to move us to our next stage.

Each of us will explain to the people we contact something like this:

- Our Stanislaus Solutions Committee is exploring local health, wellness, and nutritional issues. We are in a fact-finding phase, to see how MJC can engage the community on these issues.

As we identify people who can help in this project, we will Email their contact information to the whole SS group.

Then we will schedule a Friday noon meeting for the larger group to gather to make our master plan. (in January?)