In person meeting at Chocolate Church Annex
Attendees: Karin, Susan, Joel, Allison, Deirdra, Michele, Jim, Polly, Tommy, Barbara, Kelly, Carolyn, Janet
● Plan for a social gathering at Bath Tech, Culinary Cafe on January 15th or 29th. Located at the Morse / Bath Tech building. Which date works best for you? Stay tuned
● AFCLK is making connections in the community including
○ meeting with Declan and Morse Interact Club
○ Molly Ellis - works with Morse honors students
○ Still looking for contest entries for a photo contest - Susan and Janet will share out at the December meeting.
● Drivers needed
○ Karin and team finalized forms for drivers. She feels they are complete with all comments that came in. Learning about background checks is next.
○ Law passed - volunteer drivers must take mandated reporter training. Adult Protective Services has free training. https://www.maine.gov/dhhs/oads/get-support/aps/mandated-reporters
○ Patricia Oh recommends background checks every 2 years for VTPs.
○ Catholic Charities has background checks every 5 years.
○ An article in The Arrowsic Arrow will advertise / ask for drivers in Arrowsic and Georgetown.
○ Arrowsic may have a need for 10 drivers, based on experiences in Bowdoinham, 3000 residents, 60 drivers, a very active program. We are looking for 1 driver per rider. AFCLK will be one community (6 towns) with several admin for their programs.
● Deirdra is volunteering to be the West Bath administrator.
● What are the steps to bring the driver program to reality, what are we doing in our town? What will marketing look like? How does one step up and step in?
○ Recruit an admin, recruit drivers, riders - connection to peoples plus, develop paperwork, procedure, protocols.
○ Working league, historical society, community center - help connect people.
○ Umbrella insurance through AARP Maine.
○ Arrowsic first connection was that the town admin needed rides. Family, friends stepped up and rides started.
○ Sign up as a driver for Peoples Plus to get experience and learn if you like it. Community connector, there are different ways people can be involved / get out in your community to take care of people.
○ Reach out to Jim and Karin if you’d like to learn more about what this driver program means and how to get involved.
○ Arrowsic & Georgetown are our pilot projects.
○ create a press release sharing that we are trying to pull a community driver program together. Focus is recruiting drivers, advertise for drivers - press release, everyone is isolated
○ Talk to Laura, new reporter at Times Record - good way to get out the need for drivers
**Goals: everyone talk to someone in the community
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