VLF Meeting Minutes and a new feature for this site
The Vendor Leadership Forum held it's regular monthly meeting this morning between 9 and, well, a little after 10.
Members present:
Joe, Chair, Alana, Doug and Toni Gonzales representing vendors as well as Liz, Cecilia and Jess representing the Regional Center.
1. Joe described the Supported Living Conference held in April to the group. At the conference Joe co-led a session on person-centered thinking and PATH as an instrument for person-centered planning.
2. Upcoming trainings by other parties were discussed. The California Supported Living Network will be sponsoring a one-day training session on community-building with Jack Pearpoint and Lynda Kahn on either September 18th or 19th in Los Angeles.
July 24-28 in Portland, Oregon there will be a week-long session on person-centered thinking.
3. Upcoming Michael Smull Consulting. VLF is exploring the last week of September as a time to bring Michael back. The concept now is that Michael will be asked to repeat the two-day introductory training for new agencies wishing to use his instruments toward person-centered thinking, as well as a one or two-day session to deepen the understanding of people who have already been trained.
4. Learning community, a new feature to make this blog more compelling for non-members was discussed. Details below.
5. VLF PATH. The PATH (see post of February 9, or Click here to see the PATH. Note: The PATH is our plan to foster short-term system change,) was reviewed to determine whether commitments had been kept and were up to date. In large part, they are with two remaining responsibilities to complete: Contact Matt Pope of Protection and Advocacy to inform him of our activities and complete a commitment to provide Yvette with some information.
6. There was discussion that all people promoting the development of person-centered plans should complete plans on themselves.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:05.
The VLF Learning community will meet on June 2 at 2PM at CHOICESS.
The next VLF meeting is scheduled for 9AM on June 22
New Feature
During the discussion, it was raised that to improve this blog as an instrument of transparency it would be useful to add content of interest beyong the doings of the VLF. To that end, beginning in June, each VLF member will commit to posting a one-paragraph essay with an open question to the community each week. The plan is that this will begin with Doug, the first week of June, with Joe to post once the second week, Alana the third, etc. We look forward to those conversations with all of you.
Members present:
Joe, Chair, Alana, Doug and Toni Gonzales representing vendors as well as Liz, Cecilia and Jess representing the Regional Center.
1. Joe described the Supported Living Conference held in April to the group. At the conference Joe co-led a session on person-centered thinking and PATH as an instrument for person-centered planning.
2. Upcoming trainings by other parties were discussed. The California Supported Living Network will be sponsoring a one-day training session on community-building with Jack Pearpoint and Lynda Kahn on either September 18th or 19th in Los Angeles.
July 24-28 in Portland, Oregon there will be a week-long session on person-centered thinking.
3. Upcoming Michael Smull Consulting. VLF is exploring the last week of September as a time to bring Michael back. The concept now is that Michael will be asked to repeat the two-day introductory training for new agencies wishing to use his instruments toward person-centered thinking, as well as a one or two-day session to deepen the understanding of people who have already been trained.
4. Learning community, a new feature to make this blog more compelling for non-members was discussed. Details below.
5. VLF PATH. The PATH (see post of February 9, or Click here to see the PATH. Note: The PATH is our plan to foster short-term system change,) was reviewed to determine whether commitments had been kept and were up to date. In large part, they are with two remaining responsibilities to complete: Contact Matt Pope of Protection and Advocacy to inform him of our activities and complete a commitment to provide Yvette with some information.
6. There was discussion that all people promoting the development of person-centered plans should complete plans on themselves.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:05.
The VLF Learning community will meet on June 2 at 2PM at CHOICESS.
The next VLF meeting is scheduled for 9AM on June 22
During the discussion, it was raised that to improve this blog as an instrument of transparency it would be useful to add content of interest beyong the doings of the VLF. To that end, beginning in June, each VLF member will commit to posting a one-paragraph essay with an open question to the community each week. The plan is that this will begin with Doug, the first week of June, with Joe to post once the second week, Alana the third, etc. We look forward to those conversations with all of you.
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