Meeting Minutes
DATE: September 11th, 2024
TIME: 12:30 – 1:30 PM
LOCATION: UT Extension – Springfield Office
IN ATTENDANCE
In-person
Camila Rodriguez Coronado, Krystal Knight, Danielle Frazier, Canice Minor, Susan Thurman, Ashley Alexander, Melissa Morse, Tionna Woodson, Amy Lawrence, Denise Routzahn, Trinis Willingham, Pooja Chandelkar, Vinny Black, Anne Marie Bryant, Dana Donaldson, Stephanie Evans, Russette Marcum-Embry, Elizabeth Goncalves, Brad Hartley, Michaela Willbanks, and Donny King
Virtual via Microsoft Teams
Rachel Ellis, Kristi Alary, Maria Smith, Macy Pate, Darla Sampson, Danielle Dessingue, Darrell Bouldin, Naiya Drayton, Wayne Browning, Jennifer Sanchez, Ashley Clinard, Katherine Diaz, and Alexis Dorris
CALL-TO-ORDER
Lauren Patterson called the meeting to order on September 11th, 2024.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
The minutes from the previous meeting (August 14th, 2024) were approved with a motion from Amy Lawrence and seconded by Krystal Knight.
OLD BUSINESS
Community Health Assessment (CHA) Updates
- Camila Rodriguez Coronado reported that 166 English responses and 6 Spanish responses have been collected thus far. Since the council’s previous meeting, 26 additional responses have been collected.
- Lauren reminded the council to continue to collect survey responses and take any CHA materials to their organizations or any events they have coming up.
ESSENCE Subcommittee Updates
- Stephanie Evans provided several updates to the council including:
- United Way has finally received the ESSENCE grant funds. Once the council’s bank account has been opened, we will work on moving the funds to the account so the committee can begin making headway with their suicide prevention efforts.
- Stephanie will be meeting with the school system on Friday (Sept. 13) to discuss what the committee can do to provide suicide prevention resources to the schools.
- The regional leadership team at TDH’s Mid-Cumberland Office was alerted by TSPN’s ESSENCE team on an important trend their data is showing recently. The Mid-Cumberland Region is experiencing the largest increase in the # of suicide related visits to the ED for the age group 5-17 years of age. During August, typical daily ED visits nearly doubled related to this, and the region maintained consistent elevated levels throughout the month.
- If anyone has any ideas of suicide prevention efforts that can be added to the subcommittee’s list or would like their organization’s current efforts to be listed, please send those over to Dr. Evans at stephaniedhevans@gmail.com.
NEW BUSINESS
Robertson County Health Council Website Updates
- Lauren Patterson and Stephanie Evans showcased and walked the council through all of the updates that Stephanie recently made to the council’s website page.
- If there is anything else that needs to be updated or anyone would like included on the council’s page, please send those ideas over to Stephanie and Camila.
COMMUNITY ANNOUNCEMENTS
Robertson County Interfaith Coalition
- Maria Smith shared the following updates with the council:
- Maria thanked everyone who attended the Robertson County Recovery Fest. Around 31 vendor booths and over 300 people attended the Fest.
- Maria reminded the council that September is Suicide Prevention Month and Recovery Month so there will be various events and resources available throughout the month.
- October 25th will be Drug Take Back Day. More details to come.
Robertson County Prevention Coalition
- Tiffany Thomson shared the following updates with the council:
- The coalition has started their planning for Red Ribbon Week & Fall Fest.
- The coalition’s part-time worker that will assist with the coalition’s activities and grant writing should be starting in January.
- The coalition is working on writing a draft of their vision to provide to Mayor Vogle to see if he can assist in finding funding for the group’s future efforts.
- The coalition’s October meeting will be pushed back a week to the 17th instead.
NAMI
- Amy Lawrence shared the following updates with the council:
- A Family-to-Family class will be starting in October on Tuesdays and Thursday evenings. The course will run for 4 weeks, and each class will be 2 hours.
- Support groups are still on hold but can resume if there is enough interest.
- If anyone needs any resources or classes that NAMI can offer, please reach out to NAMI at nami4robertsoncounty@gmail.com.
Making A Difference in Robertson County
- On behalf of Lt. Holmes, Tiffany shared that during the last meeting Stephanie presented on Suicide Prevention and the group will begin planning for Red Ribbon Week.
Robertson County Health Department
- Krystal Knight & Pooja Chandelkar shared the following updates with the council:
- The HD will be holding their Fight Flu event on October 15th from 8 AM to 4:30 PM.
- The HD will be partnering with the Family Resource Center to hold a winter coat drive for October. If an organization wants a donation box to utilize as a collection point for the drive, please reach out to Pooja at Pooja.Chandelkar@tn.gov. The drive will be collecting new items for children K – grade 12.
UT Extension
- Elizabeth Goncalves shared that she was able to partner with the schools in Robertson last month to review immunization records and make sure students were up to date with their needed shots. She helped review over 530 student immunization records at 3 different schools and identified 116 students that needed updated records for the school nurses to follow up with.
TN Kids
- Donny King shared the following updates with the council:
- TN Kids nutrition program is starting to receive requests to assist with the after-school programs that have started back up again.
- If anyone provides after-school programs or adjacent programs and you need snacks for the children, please reach out to Donny at donny.king@tnkids.org.
Mighty Oak Mental Health
- Stephanie Evans shared the following updates with the council:
- Dr. Evans will be hosting a QPR training following the council meeting starting at 1:45 PM.
- She will also be hosting a Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training on September 23rd from 9 AM to 5 PM.
TN Health Disparities Advisory Group
- Katherine Diaz shared more information about the TN Health Disparities Advisory Group. The group meetings virtually on Thursdays from 1 – 2 PM. For a link to the meetings on more information on the group, please reach out to Katherine at Katherine.Diaz@tn.gov.
Blood Assurance
- Brad Hartley joined the council to introduce himself as our point of contact for Blood Assurance. He is interested in partnering with the community to host any future blood drives, so if any organization or group is interested in hosting a drive, please reach out to Brad at BradHartley@bloodassurance.org.
- Michaela Willbanks shared that the library will be partnering to host a blood drive on September 26th from 1 – 7 PM.
Nashville Cares
- Maria shared that Nashville Cares is now in Springfield doing screenings in front of the hospital and out in the community. They will also be helping to do harm reduction in the area.
ADJOURNMENT
- Lauren Patterson adjourned the meeting on September 11th, 2024, with a motion from Denise Routzahn and seconded by Stephanie Evans.
- The council’s next meeting will be held on October 9th, 2024.