West Bay Rotary Club Meeting
Posted by Jennifer Bell
on Feb 15, 2015
West Bay Rotary Club Meeting
February 12, 2015
Today’s Speaker
Alex Owre - Development Director of Five Towns Communities That Care
“The mission of Five Town Communities That Care is to promote healthy youth development and to prevent problem adolescent behaviors such as substance abuse, suicide, violence, delinquency, school drop-out, and teen pregnancy. We also seek to foster increased collaboration and cooperation in communities in order to best serve the needs of their youth”.
Five Towns CTC is part of a larger organization called Communities That Care.
Communities That Care (CTC) employs a proven, community-change process for reducing youth violence, alcohol & tobacco use, and delinquency – through tested & effective programs and policies. http://www.communitiesthatcare.net/
The CTC encourages and supports the development of unique local community coalitions to promote healthy youth development. Through research the CTC found that one of the best ways to do this is to have strong community prevention systems in place through..
- Prevention Science – working to open discussions with kids about risk factors.
- Social Development Strategy - giving kids the opportunity to develop a skill under the guidance of an adult.
- Research and results - work with data to determine what risk and protective factors are present and what is working and not working.
Five Towns CTC was part of 12 other communities chosen for the initial CTC study of this approach. It was found that it was highly effective.
Over the last 12 years the Five Towns CTC has good results with alcohol and marijuana use. They have data to show that life time alcohol and marijuana use is dropping in our youth. However, we are still higher than the national average but our numbers are dropping faster than the national average.
Five Towns CTC just received the Drug Free Community (DFC) grant of $125,000 per year for 5 years. This grant is to help increase community collaboration and reduce substance abuse.
Goal One: Increase Community Collaboration
Objective one: Increase sector representation on work groups
Objective two: Increase business sector collaboration
Goal Two: Reduce Youth Substance Abuse
Objective one: Reduce 10th grade 30 day alcohol use from the 2012 rate of 32.6%
to 25% by spring of 2014.
Objective two: Same effort on Marijuana use
The Five Town CTC has three staff and relies heavily on volunteer efforts and donated funds. If you are interested in volunteering or providing a financial donation, please contact them at (207) 236-9800 or go to their website for more information http://www.fivetownctc.org/.
Buckets on the Table for Camden Food Pantry
Skip Day: Food Pantry – Next week is soup and stew week and can always give money
Toboggan Weekend recap: It was a great success despite the cold. Preliminary numbers are in on money netted: Down the Shute: about $1500, Chile Challenge was very successful with possible net of $2200. Winner was Quarry Hill. Parking cars – very successful. No total yet on parking. Pancake Breakfast – was successful as well.
Union Rotary group is growing. These are the following members who want to be inducted. Please let Tim know if there are any concerns or questions about these inductees.
Holly Campbell
Paul Miller
Wes Richardson
Fred Bucklin
Victoria Bucklin
Jay Feyler
Ray Sisk
Paula Sutton
Brittany Dondlinger
West Bay Rotary Inductee - Barbara Fink is to be inducted next week. Please let President Tim know if there are any concerns or questions about this inductee.
Duck Derby: Peter Burke – A kick off meeting will be held this coming Tuesday or Wednesday am at 7:30 at the Bagel Cafe. He will send out an email as to which day. He needs a big group of people, 15-20, for the event. Mostly, needs people to sell tickets!!
Next week’s speaker
Chuck Daigle’s classification talk