BUILDING WELLNES GROUP

SUMMARY OF MINUTES

DECEMBER 12, 2003

Members Present: Patricia J. Barnes, Charla Franklin, Rev. Johnson, Felica Jones, Michael Rodriquez, Monica Sanders, Sarah Starks, Stella Bishop/Tilghman, Kellii Tronibacco, Ken Wells, and Pluscedia Williams “Plus”.

The meeting opened with Ken Wells’ guidance. He reminded us the purpose of our group and the order of the beginning of the meeting was to elect, an academic chairperson, community chairperson, co-chairpersons and co-community chairpersons as well as a recording person. A roll sheet was passed around.

ELECTIONS:

Ken explained the responsibilities of each chairperson and then lead the process of elections of chairpersons. They are:

Academic Chairperson:

Assistant to Academic Chairperson

Kellii Tronibacco

Community Chairperson:

Monica Sanders

Co-Community Chairperson

Charla Franklin

Recorder

Pluscedia Williams

After elections Monica formally introduced herself and ask each of us to introduce ourselves.

Group Scribe – Assigned to us

Sarah Starks

GROUP/COMPONENT NAME:

“BUILDING WELLNESS”

PURPOSE:

Our group purpose is to “reach out and provide quality services (intervention strategy)” and our goal is: to reach out to the community in need and assure access to effective, qualitative services as per the Informed Consent Form information sheet.

The Witness for Wellness is a research project developed by and for our community to develop approaches to mental wellness that can help overcome the emotional problem of Depression. We in this group represent the community at large. We must not be afraid to speak up, ask questions, to share with others, seek input from others (outside in the community) and bring the information back to the group to take in as information gathered.

ACTION PLAN:

Monica reinforced our purpose. It was explained that we are to create an action plan with timelines; we will decide if we want to use the Action Plan presented to us. There was extensive discussion on the Action Plan provided to us from the previous Orientation Meeting held on November 7, 2003. The consensus of the group was for each member to select an Action Plan and give feedback to the group, at the next meeting. There will be presentations made by each regarding the methodology and timeline for the plan chosen. At that time we will decide where we want to focus our efforts. Copies were provided to each member.

The plans were assigned numbers with a member or members responsible to bring information for the methodology and timelines back as follows ( see attached Action Plans):

1- Monica and Rev. Johnson

2- Kellii and Stella

3- Felica

4- Pluscedia

5- Ken Wells

6- Michael Rodriquez

7- Monica

8- Vikki

9- Monica, Felica, and Rev. Johnson

10- Patricia

11- Charla

12- Charla

13- Stella

14- Patricia and Kelly

WEBSITE/EMAIL:

There is a website established for Depression, it is HAAFII.org To communicate through email, for now, send your email to HAAF3856@hotmail.com and Aretha Crawford, office secretary, will forward information. Information from our Building Wellness group can be via our personal emails. All of our information will be posted on the Depression site.

MEETINGS:

Our group decided that we would meet twice a month until we are established. The first meeting of the month will be mandatory and the second meeting will be optional for members but officers will meet. We will meet at the HAAF office 3856 Martin Luther King Blvd., LA, Ca. The phone number to the office is (323) 292-2002.

The meeting days and time:

1^st Friday each month – Mandatory for all

10:00 A.M. – 12 Noon

3^rd Friday each month – Officers

10:00 A.M. – 12 Noon

If you are unable to attend the meeting, please call Plus Williams (562) 633-7728. The pager number is (562) 683-7007.

THANK YOU PAYMENT:

As per our Informed Consent Form each community member will receive a thank-you payment for participating in the work group… Per Ms. Jones (Loretta) the thank-you amount will be:

2hrs. -$25

4 hrs. - $50

6hr + - $100

No one cannot receive more than $100 in one day.

GROUP MEMBERS INFORMATION:

Plus will provide a typed list of all members’ information with email and phone numbers. Those with out email will be provided phone calls regarding meeting dates and information.

RESOURCES:

Dr. Ken Wells shared resource information, books, journals, and etc. He also gave everyone a copy of his book titled, Beating Depression The Journey To Hope

NEXT MEETING:

Friday, December 19, 2003

10:00 A.M.

Meeting adjourned at 12:00 Noon

Submitted

Pluscedia Williams

Recorder