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NCPEN Minutes
May 19, 1999

The May 19 meeting was an added meeting for those who could attend to plan the May 25 meeting and discuss pressing parenting issues associated with school violence. It was a productive meeting. Two new people were welcomed--Janine Upchurch, a student from Campbell who will be doing an internship and Sally Sloop who is new to the Partnership for Children. Other in attendance included Deborah Williams, Sue Carson, Sharon Reuss, Henry Helms, Sheila Basemore and Karen DeBord

The following was discussed:

• Issue 2 of the NCPEN newsletter is at the printers and should be available for NCPEN partners to take with them on May 25. These should be distributed through existing networks as there is not a mailing budget.



• Karen has applied for a domain name for the NCPEN.ORG web site. No word yet. Plans are to work on the web site, let it be housed at NC STATE and add links and more information. Then we can promote it more fully, particularly with sponsors. The NCCHILD.NCPEN.htm site will stay up but link to the web site as a transition.



• The 1-800-367-2229 hotline was discussed. Sheila Bazemore led this discussion. Stephanie Moore ,the director would like us to provide parent resource training for the phone staff. After much discussion, we decided to collect each network partner's resources and recommendations for web sites. Then we can compile a training notebook for the staff and use the web sites to "beef up" out NCPEN web site. Each person is to bring hard copies to the next meeting. A student intern from Campbell will collect and assemble these resource notebooks and web sites and catogorize them by topic, child age, county. The data from the community surveys will also become a part of this resource. We hope to deliver the training in August.



• Several guests will join us at the May 25 meeting. Several people from the Governor's Office have been invited to attend. The NC State CALS Foundations representative will attend to address funding. In addition, the following agreed to invite others--Deborah Williams (parents and SafeChild), Sharon Reuss (J. Sher and NCSafekids), Sheila Bazemore (Dwight Whitted and Stephanie Moore). Sharon R. Also indicated that the Covenant for NC Children may like tohear more about NCPEN.



• Other agenda items for May 25 are include: Introduction and welcome, Networking and announcements, Powerpoint presentation about NCPEN, Conversation about funding, Conversation about public awareness, Resouce files- training for 1-800 staff.



• A discussion about our role ensued. It appears that what we do best is network, provide a conduit or flow of parenting information, and connect organizations and agencies together for greater efficiency in delivering parenting information and education. Sue Carson suggested that NCPEN should host a networking event for parenting educators in the state.



• An NC State Student intern will be at our next meeting. He job will be to make sense of the community survey data.



• Henry Helms reported that it seems we should partner with Public Instruction/ Public Safety to target an effort toward safety (home and school) related to violence. This discussion led to Henry checking out some leads and three sets of data that people will check on--4-H Congress Town Hall data (Karen), Youth Forum data (Sharon), tally of parenting questions to the 1-800 hotline (Sheila), and the Wake Vendata survey (Phyllis). Another data set may be SOS but it was unclear about the director's name. WE think her last name is Banks.



• Related to the above discussion, we discussed developing a piece on parent's rights. Karen will check with the Extension Specialist/Attorney to see if she is aware of any written piece on this.