“Coming together is a beginning.
Keeping together is progress.
Working together is success.”
— Henry Ford
Planning for Social Needs (Saturday AM)
Facilitator/Scribe: Cheryl Wilfong/Mark Brown
Participants:
Shirley Perkins Sarah Evans Linda Rubinstein Enid Wainwright Jodi Kramer Aisha Pandelaki
Defining Problem and Goals
Transportation
Seniors
Families
Youth
Pre-school
After-school
Info and outreach
Migrants
State and federal programs
Town nurse
Disabled/special needs/addictions
Problems
Yankee independence
Limited daycare
No preschool
No school-based after care
Not a storng elder-care program: just beginning, need younger people
on board
How to combine with Putney (eg., Putney Family Services)
East-West issues
Information and outreach
Transportation for seniors: shopping
We have nothing that involves migrants (Scott Farm – Jamaica; Miller
Farm – Mexico)
-transportation problem
Goal/Mission
working together (preschool, school age, childfree,
seniors and cross-
group, seasonal, migrants
Planning for life cycle (pre-birth through death)
Integrated
How to tap/link the community: how help one another?
How can dependent group of people be saved in emergency?
Enhance and develop integrated services (continuum) to fulfill
varying social/life stages
needs: ; formal/informal/volunteer
Identify Potential Projects/Solutions
(World War II model: wardens/districts/neighborhoods
neighbor buddies
use Community Center: preschool, afterschool, skating rink, adult
daycare, senior center
(private??)
migrant needs assessment
spend-a-day adult services
support group for caretakers; sandwich generation
someone to do referrals
Central point: Council on Aging
Dummerston handbook
Town Clerk
Phone line
Chore services
Bill-paying services
Finding out who’s in town for school
Person resources assessment
Inventory: Dummerston website
New resident packet
What social services are available: inventory, education
Dummerston website, Views of Dummerston monthly
Town activity calendar
More frequent communication
Town van shopping day
Social planning commission
we need preschool (at school?)
we need after-school
Impact/Feasibility Result
(sloppy copy)
social needs board: a social services planning commission: what
services exist? What is
lacking? How implement? Enhance and develop….
People resources assessment for school: linking community and school
- migrant needs assessment too
Community calendar/newsletter: happenings, monthly
Preschool/afterschool programs
FINAL copy
mission: to enhance and develop a continuum of integrated services to fulfill varying
social/lifestage needs
1) Create a social needs/planning commission with the following tasks:
a. Assessment:; what’s in place? What’s needed
i. Childcare/preschool, 0-5
ii. School-age after care
iii. Senior
iv. Special needs
v. Migrants
b. Implementation of projects identified
c. Senior Center/Services
d. After-School
e. Pre-School
2) Enhance communication: community calendar (snail mail/email)
- monthly, in addition to Dummerston Views
- website
3) Town Van