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Process Outcomes
- Meet with community and existing task force to form permanent Council infrastructure, chair positions, committees and way of work.
- Survey community agencies, determine reasonable partnerships and encourage same.
- Yearly retreats to review progress and set agenda for the coming year.
- Generate logo to identify the Chief Judge’s Children’s Council.
- Assist in analysis of teacher survey on safe and drug free programs their schools offer and what they still need
- Worked with Success by 6, the first initiative of the Council, to disseminate the booklet Children Do come With Instructions: A Guide For Parents - providing information about community resources for children and families.
- Worked with the Early Childhood Interagency Council to get the brain research information out through train-the-trainer trainings and reproducing the manual.
- Wrote for and received the Healthy Kids project; approached businesses for donations of match money and distributed application forms to daycare centers.
- Received through collaborative efforts a $25,000 basic health grant to provide a nurse to rotate between the six schools in the rural North end of the county.
- Also received a $150,000 primary health grant to provide a physician, nurse, case manager, and clerical staff in Century for 3 days and Molino for 2 days a week.
- Encourage SSN Executive Committee to develop a plan for continuation of project - one possible way through Escambia County Health Department and approaching City Council to use some of current tax base or add to support nurses in schools and the Chief Judge’s Children’s Council.
- The Council supported the Health Department in getting our local utility authority to put fluoride in the water.
- Ongoing effort to raise awareness of the Chief Judge’s Children’s Council.
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