Quarterly Meeting Minutes: October 2022

TOPIC

QUESTIONS

ACTION ITEMS

and NOTES

(Celeste) - called to order at 6:35 p.m.

Delaware's Behavioral and Emotional Support Team Activities - Reviewed summary.

Highlights -

• Recruitment: 4 new volunteers
• Purged Volunteers that did not meet volunteer requirements: 14
• Engagement/Participation of 4 hours, and/or
• Respond to Call Down

• DE BEST Volunteers Communications Portal: https://debest.galaxydigital.com/user/dashboard/

• Food Bank
• 6 shifts and 35.7 hours, HopeLine Distributions: 2,200 materials distributed this quarter!
• Family Emergency Preparedness Day
• 5 volunteers, 23 hours, and 1,500 materials distributed

 NOTE: Save email in Contacts:

DEBESTvolunteers@gmail.com

Volunteer Activities

o   Committee Meetings (2): 7/25 & 9/27

o   September Potluck Apprec Event (1): 9/18

Required trainings (to date):

o   Crisis Counseling Program Training: 78 Completions Total

o   PFA: 73 Completions Total

 4) Review Mission Statement / Draft

Discussion ~

DE BEST MISSION [Draft): To serve the state of Delaware by establishing, implementing, and sustaining Delaware's reserve units of volunteer mental health workers and peer supporters to strengthen the substance abuse and mental health response infrastructure, improve preparedness, community disaster/crisis response, and increase resilience throughout Delaware.

o   (Rick) and (Adele) suggested: shortening with concise language for 'Delaware residents'

o   Will need to break down mission statement to supporting "Vision' statements as well

o   DE BEST Committee will work on at next meeting 11/29 (action item)

Mission to be reviewed (for edit suggestions) at the next Committee meeting by Adele Abrams. 11/29 (tentative)

(Celeste) Presented Training Monute: Portal Exploration DEBEST.galaxydigital.com

a.    Presentation takeaway: How to Log In, Update Your Profile and Turn on SMS/Email Alerts in your Profile Settings.

b.    Profile Settings is located at the top right corner of the page where the letter icon is. If it is still a letter icon please upload a picture as soon as possible. (Keep in mind your badge will be created with these profile photos).

c.     The Profile settings tab is where you will be updating your personal information. This tab is also where you will turn on your SMS/Email alerts. Turning on your SMS alert is required for Emergency Deployments. Otherwise email alerts to your personal email is up to you. Emails will be sent to your inbox on our site regardless.

d.    Update their qualifications in Profile Settings. This is very important for deployment. If you have not already please update your qualifications where all of our required training is located.

e.    Report their hours. Keep in mind it is important for you to maintain your profile during your deployments by checking in and out. During that process you are able to let us know how many distributions you contributed during the deployment as well as any feedback you may have.

f.      Volunteers Share benefits of site: ease of use

 6) Reminders

Future Events:

• Annual Hayes Symposium - 11/26 
• Food Banks Distributions: (3) monthly, one in each county
• DE BEST Committee Board Meeting - 11/29, 6:30 p.m. (tentative)
• DE BEST Quarterly Meeting - 1/11

 7) Closing / Adjourn

(Celeste) called for adjournment at 7:30 p.m.