October 8, 2010

10am -1:30pm

Palatine, IL

Welcome and Introductions:  Bob Cohen and Shana Bean, North and South Co Chairs

Attendees:

North :Bob Cohen, Liz Hackett, Dan Martin, Kelly Finnerty, Rick McDonough, Jennifer Jaquez, Chet Cplitt, Linda Blair, Carol Lively, Crystal Geris, David Robb, Bruce Ahlmann, Linda Kielas, Tom Smith, Jim Hughs, Michael Loesch, Jan-nita Caine, Dawn Davis, Kevin Sullivan, Charles Elliott, Roy Dames, Diana Trinidad, David Cowan

South: Shana Bean, Cathy Paone, Dolores Wheelhouse, Randy Teoford, Les Grant, David Hopper, Shay Drummond, Diana Wade, Matt Ringenberg, September McAdoo, Bev Roberts, Ashley Hoener, Shay Simmons, Jim Dallmeyer, Ashley Underhill, Terry Everett, Jason Marks, Melissa Watt Henderson, Laurie Schierer, John Dwyer, Ian McVey

Terry Davies- Rock Island County by remote

Speaker	Subject		Comments
Bob Cohen- MRCIL  North Chair	Intro and welcome	Agenda Handouts, many topics to cover Chicago Marathon
Dawn Davis- State Coordinator	Moses Lee, Director of IMERT update	Wants to update in regard to conversations with MRCs regarding training with IMERT, will do at a later date
Dawn Davis	Social Media	Please forward any info regarding social media to Dawn so that she can forward to Wyoming
Dawn Davis	email	If you haven’t been receiving email from Dawn please contact her so that she can update her email address book
Melissa Watt Henderson Region V MRC Coordinator	New resources	·         New resources on national MRC site with H1N1 information- published report.  You will be sent a printed copy. ·         Letter from Rob Tosatto to download ·         WIMBY- What’s in My Backyard- GIS mapping tool, resources	WIMBY: Do not share downloaded materials with others.
Melissa Watt Henderson	Chicago Marathon	Thank you for the MRC participation
Melissa Watt Henderson	TA’s	181 TA’s completed.  If you are still waiting to be ‘processed’ let me know so that I can complete the TA or at least have a discussion to see where you are with your MRC unit.  Make sure you are updating your profile regularly- national looks at these profiles – they query the profile info so keep updated on individual unit activities.
Melissa Watt Henderson		Oct 27th- 29th- Regional Meeting May 1-5- National meeting, Grapevine Texas	Not a mandatory meeting- but a great meeting for learning. Budgets being what they are I understand if you cannot attend.
Bob Cohen	Tom Smith, Emergency Mgr Palatine	Tom was presented with a certificate of appreciation for all of his work with the MRC and the Palatine MRC
Dawn Davis- State  MRC and ESAR VHP Coordinator	ESAR VHP	Jan-Nita Caine : Chicago MRC and ESAR VHP Coordinator   We have been working with an advisory panel to work on the Illinois Helps system.  Looking to April or May for a final rollout to local MRC units
Dawn Davis	IDFPR and IDPH communications	IDFPR- Illinois Department for Professional Regulation- IDPH has been attempting to get IDFPR to put a link on their registration for license renewals to ask the question if the professional renewing would like to join an MRC unit.	40 thousand nurses just renewed their licenses through the site- so this should help in recruiting volunteers down the line.   IDFPR lawyers and IDPH lawyers are working on the papers to have the link on IDFPR website by 2012
Dawn Davis	In response to background checks with IlllinoisHelps question posed by Melissa Watt Henderson	Background check process will probably change from grant year to grant year- so far we will have to play that part by ear	The original plan was to only do background checks upon activation of applicant- however we recognize we need the checks to be done earlier in the process.  Right now we will do the criminal background check at the outset- the expense adds up quickly and that is one of the things we still need to figure out for the future
Shana Bean	Round Robin on activities	Disaster Mental Health Conference- awaiting confirmation of CEs to be awarded.  12 MRC scholarships are available for the $10 fee. Mickey Sharma is guest speaker- student counselor at NIU will address the shooting event and aftermath.	Information will be posted on MRCIL website
Bob Cohen	Chi-MRC/CCOAD                   Chicagoland Community Organizations Active in Disaster	Faithbased and community based mini coalition of volunteers doing the same kinds of activities focusing on public health initiatives.  We have about 10 units so far working together- just wanted you to be aware that it exists.  These church groups have sister churches and satellites outlying- so we may see movement work from the city out to the suburban sites.  Have asked them to contact the local MRC to form a partnership.     Wanted you to know of its existence-  Mission: To coordinate planning efforts by all of the many organizations to small scale disasters. Coordinating prior to the incident. Do we want to become a part of it, either as individual units or as MRCIl?  MOU’s would be useful and could be a valuable resource.	We need more information. Bob will send out a link and then a follow up survey to see how unit leaders feel.
Bob Cohen	Chicago Marathon 10-10-2010	Stats: Over 45,000 runners 1.5 million spectators 12,000 volunteers 2 medical tents, 100 beds each, AEDS with monitors Field ICU 28 stations 16 Spotter towers Finish line Medical tent	Immense undertaking. Chicago marathon has most sophisticated response anywhere in the world at this point.   They will start working on the 2011 marathon plans in December 2010.  I highly encourage any MRC to volunteer- they will be treated as medical volunteers with accommodations for the day, food and the after party.  RACES will be there this year and some MRC members from Illinois units. This is a really unique experience, let’s get in on next years race.  Bob will update hopefully in January.
Bob Cohen	Northwestern Simulation Lab	Simulation training at Northwestern Med center this past week- Bob attended- met medical director- had never heard of the MRC and was excited to work with the MRC. The Medical Director has offered the MRC the use of the sim lab after January 1 to run through the lab free of charge for training.  They will invite MRC input and try to have online training available as well.
Bob Cohen	NACCHO resource	Check out a training disc you can order from NACCHO- “toolbox for MRC Volunteers Corps Training”.  You can order up to 25 discs and they can be a useful tool for training with videos on various MRC related subjects.
	IEMA/ESDA Oath		Follow up through MRCIL website
	MRC University Overview handouts	Conceptual program- trainings that we can present – shared on a rotation to new units starting out. There are logistics to figure out- but what do you think of the concept?	Follow up through survey and MRCIL website
Tom Smith	Palatine Fire Rehab Team-	Have created with Linda Kielas a Fire Rehab Team program that has been in use now in Palatine and the FF are definitely seeing the benefit.  For more information contact Tom Smith, Palatine
	MRCIL shirts	Bob brought in a sample of a MRCIl shirt he had made: $21.95 per shirt small-XL polo, long sleeve, short sleeve 23.95 for 2XL 24.95 for 3XL	Order shirts via Bob