Family Support Services Committee Meeting Minutes – 2/14/17

Announcements: Flyers Distributed @ the Meeting

1. Claudia Vidal, Sinergia, Inc. announced vacancies: MFSC Feb 14 2017 Documents Distributed at Meeting

• Family Support Educational Advocacy for Manhattan families only

For Education Advocacy, contact Cruzmery Javier at 212-643-2840 x319.

 

2. Claudia Vidal, Sinergia, Inc. announced vacancies:

• Family Support Case Management availability for Manhattan families
• Non-Medicaid Evaluations for Manhattan individuals. Evaluation done at home & on weekends. There is no waiting list. It’s for ages 3 and up. The individual must be living with their parents.

For more information, contact Doris Rodriguez at 212-643-2840 x 325.

 

3. Urszula Kowalcszyk, Family Connect of UCP announced:

• Free workshops for February 2017 and early March 2017. The workshops are for all parents, professionals, and caregivers. Spanish translation available. Please see the attached calendar of free workshops.

To register for a workshop, please contact 718-436-7979, ext. 704 or email familyconnect@ucpnyc.org.

• Free Workshop Autism Series called Using Social Stories and Visual Supports to Build Coping Skills in Children with ASD scheduled for Tuesday, February 28, 2017 from 10:00am to 12:00pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Please see attached flyer.

For more information, please contact Family Connect Team at 718-436-7979, ext. 704 or email familyconnect@ucpnyc.org.

• Free workshop Autism series called Organizational Skills for Children with ASD scheduled for Tuesday, March 21 at 10:00am – 12:00pm at The Graduate Center, CUNY 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016. Please see attached flyer.

For more information, please contact Family Connect Team at 718-436-7979, ext. 704 or email familyconnect@ucpnyc.org.

 

• Save the Date for the Annual Family Summit on Wednesday, April 26 at the New York Academy of Medicine from 9am – 1 pm.

For more information, please contact Family Connect Team at 718-436-7979, ext. 704 or email familyconnect@ucpnyc.org.

 

4. Caroline Dunn, YAI announced vacancies:

• Crisis intervention
• Emergency and Family Reimbursement
• Free psychological and psychosocial
• Parent Training (behavior & sexuality)
• Parent’s with special needs group
• Transition to independence programs (Kitchen skills, yoga, life skills)
• Manhattan social skills (ages 9-19)

For more information, contact LINK at 212-273-6182.

 

5. Myra Mayo, Public Health Solutions announced vacancies:

• Facilitated Enrollment program. Assist individuals enroll into Medicaid (health insurance) and help with Medicaid renewals.

For more information, contact Myra Mayo at 646-619-6759.

 

6. Myra Mayo, Public Health Solutions announced vacancies:

• SNAP (Food Stamp) enrollment

For more information, contact Ailin Liu at aliu@healthsolutions.org.

 

7. Wendy De Leon, UCP NYC announced:

• Manhattan DD Council monthly meeting will take place on Thursday, February 16 at the Interagency Council at 9:30 am – 12:00 pm. The NY State budget will be discussed and how it relates to families.
• The Manhattan Legislative Breakfast will take place on March 3 from 8am –

10am at the Barnes & Noble at Union Square.

• Considering changing the date of the Manhattan Family & Professional Resource Fair to sometime in January and suggestions for new venues.

 

 

An Overview of the CQL’s Personal Outcome Measures

A tool for improvement of the quality and consistency in services

Presented by Lore Barcelona from Sinergia, Inc.

1. What is CQL? The Council on Quality & Leadership is a non-profit organization dedicated to the measurement and improvement of personal quality of life.
2. CQL assists organizations to help people discover and define their own quality of life, measure personal quality of life for individuals, organizations and systems and improve the quality of life for people with disabilities, people with mental illness and the people, organizations and communities that support them.
3. It involves person centered planning, personal account measures, and the need to work from the person’s point of view.
4. There are 21 questions, but they must be molded to the person’s capability or situation.
5. Personal Outcome measures focuses on the person, actions are based on person’s criteria, and the program is designed for the person.
6. Personal Outcome is different in that there are meetings and conversations with people served, interaction with the person in different environments, visits with family, friends, and staff.
7. The outcome for the person is increasing the quality of life.
8. Outcomes require listening, observing, asking, discovering, and almost everything, but telling.

 

 

The next meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 14, 2017 at 2082 Lexington Avenue, 4^th Floor. The topic for the presentation is currently being worked on.