Okay. Okay. Excellent. Okay. I will move to all the words. 35. Second. Okay. So first on the agenda. We've got the approval of the meeting minutes from last week. Before we do that, I just want to make just let Jessica introduce herself a little bit to you and tell you about her background. She's been here two weeks and she has hit the brown running and been working with Rachel and we're just really thrilled that she's bringing new energy and work-life balance which is something we haven't really discussed before. Yes, so I'm really excited to have her. So you want to tell me a little bit about you back home? Well, hi, everyone's nice to meet you all. Nice to meet you all virtually. My name is Jessica Moeek and I'm the new program group home manager. We're a house. I have extensive experience in child welfare. I started my career working at the intensive in-home, working with kids, almost at risk of being in foster care, then transition to working with adolescents, aging out of foster care, providing the living support services. And then I started my 11 plus years in child welfare as a CPS Invested University of Manazza. And I was with them for just about 11 and a half years. I was also the family services program manager there. So I oversaw foster care, adoption, prevention, child care services, adult care services, adult services, the whole gamut. I know the City of False Church is 2.5 square miles, so when I say city, I'm gonna have to beat by 10, but still I've loved working in a small locality. The level of collaboration and partnership was vital to being able to serve literally the same citizens that work with all the different community agencies that we had. After that, I've worked at the National Governors Association as a senior policy analyst. And so my role there was working in the center for best practice supporting governors and their policy advisors within the states to enhance and move into best practice with human services just across the home board from safety net programs to wake and communicate, child welfare, those that are dealing with homelessness. So just the whole gamut and I got to see it from a national level, which was somewhat comforting because the things that I was seeing on the hunt local level, I was now realizing every state is impacted by what we're seeing here in Northern Virginia. After that time, I transitioned to the program manager role overseeing the CPF's program in Loudoun County. And a big part of my work there was addressing some of the backlog that we had and compliance issues, assessment cases, but also our huge push for workforce, and increasing our staff, our personnel. So I come and they create the wealth of knowledge. Residential is a new space for me. My career professions, I'm very excited to be here. Rachel is on phenomenal job with Aurora House. You know, joining an amazing team. And I really look forward to working with you guys and bringing wonderful updates on everything we have going on at Aurora. Awesome. Great. Thank you. Thank you so much. We want to introduce ourselves. Yes. Well. Yeah. So we want to introduce ourselves. Yes. So. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. I'm not sure. volunteering with this team for some downstairs and the vision. Unters, we're still doing some things that are excited. Rick, we heard you. Would you say, Rick, what do you say? Oh, nothing, I'm excusing you. Someone, I, one of them closed the doors because And we came to Aaron May and one of my passion projects is fundraising that recently, well you're not date about that, but I've been in this position um in the CAC for three and a half years now, I believe, three years? You do? You do? You can't believe it. Um, it's been wonderful. Um, different types of activities, love to use, what I bring. I am a full-time employee of Marshall County companies. I'm a global executive for CHUB. I consult with them. I travel a lot globally, but I make time for this on my calendar, and I love supporting the girls and the city. I'm very clear and the newest member, I guess, is it almost two years? Okay, I can't to keep that to the end. And this is a passion project for me just in general. So we help in the girls and then one of the things I'm passionate about is the book club. And hopefully we'll get that rescheduled. We can talk about that offline, but yeah, just. Happy to be involved and to help grow forever. We can. Well, and then doing interest on the things. Sure. I already know how to go first. You know, I know. And on the city council liaison is great to have you on board as the group manager. So welcome. And yeah, also new to the group. I just became the liaison in January when I started my City Council term, but an important cause to me because of work kind of that I do in the civil rights space professionally, but also having done work in the New York City foster care system. Kind of was in Bronx Family Court for three years working with court involved youth. And then kind of working with teams teams when I was in Philadelphia for law school. So that's it. Yeah. Yeah, so I'm Rick Strohbuck. I'm the deputy director of court services at the court services unit. I'm kind of a new remember to the team myself although not I am a resident of Arlington but not in the capacity as a resident commission member. So I oversee the group homes after school based programs and the safe havens supervised custody exchange program as well as the budget for the juvenile court. the group homes, the after school based programs, and the Safe Havens Supervised Custom Exchange Program, as well as the budget for the juvenile court. And I'm a former relief counselor at a warehouse and very proud of it. And Lauren, I know you're a guest tonight in listening. And we would like to say hi and introduce you to the hall. Hi. Happy to introduce myself. My name is Lauren Moore. I am a mother of two and a resident of Arlington. I am an attorney at the Federal Scrares and Exchange Commission. And I've been doing that for about nine years now. Erin and I went to law school together. So many moons ago. And she just thought I might be interested in what you all do, which was actually great timing because I was recently talked with my husband about how I needed to get back into giving a bit more to the community now that my kids are slightly older and I feel like I can breathe. So I was very excited to hear about what you all do and it seemed very interesting to me. I actually did a lot of work with low income and at-risk kids in college and law school. And so I'm very excited to be here. Excellent. Welcome. I have got any questions about anything. We'll be going along. You can have Phil here. These are in. Thank you. And Lauren, are you a resident of our home to the Falls Church? Our home? And, Lauren, are you a resident of Arlington? Right on the border, I live very close to Falls Church. But, I'm an excellent. Well, I was making sense we don't have a need for an early exit. Maybe we just get the minutes out of the way. And I think it was a group manager who told me before we do scholarship applications. Sorry, you're about that. Oh, no, I don't know. It just allows us to go back to our previous plan. So the meeting minutes, thank you for preparing those. I took a read through and everything looked good. The one that actually I thought of this morning, Laura also mentioned earlier is that when Dave was here, he mentioned a potential domination from, we're still a sister via Dartmouth that I didn't see captured as part of this, but also, when we can talk about it, when we were talking about the business, but it would be great if there's any kind of update if you heard anything further on that. The Dartmouth, yes. It was received. I don't know. Wow. Because it was scholarship fund? So we went back and forth on that a lot because I kind of insisted here to the scholarship. However, the letter was very general and stated a rural house. So I tried to connect with her sister and I tried to connect with the folks at Dartmouth and they kept sort of pushing the a rural house side. So I asked our fans department because they were anxious to get a deposit and not just have a sit out there. So I did end up going to the a because they were anxious to get a deposit and not just have a sit out there, so I did end up going to the Aurora House. So that will still go towards activities for the residents. And that was over 10,000. Well, 500. Oh, it was 1000. I thought it was 200. Oh, maybe I'd be a future person. That's great. I mean, I thought it was 1000s. Great. Okay. That's great. I thought it was thousands. Great. Okay. Okay. Okay. I started. I was. I started. I started. Right. I saw. I asked Push try on a gender. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Anything else. You all know this? I didn't see anything else missing on that item. Oh, right there. What's the time? We didn't know. I thought maybe you left it out because it was a big question. I'm not. Excellent. So I want to make a motion to adopt with that one edit. So seconds. Thank you. Thank you. So let's move on to the proponent. Oh, I'm sorry. I don't want to do that. Okay. Sorry. I think since Aaron has to leave early for the council, maybe I just want to see if you're still good. Yeah, she still has to go to council meeting. I'm just not going. Yeah. Oh, that's a good point. OK. OK. Never mind. I like the color of what's going on with the house or my job. Applications but please sure do a scholarship. Yeah. Do we have one or two? This one. Richell did say that there may be another one coming in two weeks. So she would like to send that one. We. Yeah. Now. I think we've seen this down with you before. These are returning. And tiny is this for fall? For. Was it fall to. What does that fall turn to? What is that work in terms of paying for the school for registration? Registration ended. It's already. And August 9. for registration and registration and it is ready. And on this night. Great before we review this, can you mention what you sent about opportunity to potentially leverage not that we don't have enough funds in our scholarship plan to consider this, but just something for us to all think of as well as we're reviewing. Yes, there's been there's a new law in Virginia, beginning July 1st, that allows for kids who were ever in foster care. I think after the age of 14 to get free room and board and tuition in Virginia public universities. Wow. Wow. Well, that is, it's a huge, you know, it's a huge moon to get some of that a lot. So I received that from Tabitha Kelly, the, you know, Child and Family Service Division manager at DHS. So that I don't have more information about it exactly how it's done but I'm sure you could reach we could reach out to anyone who is at a warehouse in foster care and if there's a need and an interest maybe advocate on their behalf and learn about this new process. And Rick is that Jake July this year? 24? Yes. 2024. It seems like it opens up lots of possibilities, really. Although many kids don't end up in foster care. Thank goodness. So it is an arrow group. But I mean enough, I know the population in the group, I'm just for anyone who isn't aware, has over the years, trended to have trending to have a lot more foster care kids rather than court referred kids. But not always right. It used to be in the foster care children, right? Did they begin? It used to not have any foster care girls. The girls were like, well they would have foster care kids but they would kids who were like referred from the court and probation rather than you know what they take the record for us from foster care now. As you remember during COVID during COVID, we had, you know, the program stayed open during the darkest, darkest days of COVID because there were nowhere for these girls. To go. We couldn't have no home. I'm proud of you, Tim. I don't want to see be like, oh, we can give them less because they can get in this program, but they may not. We don't know if they're actual foster places. We have to do the work. We have to find that out. We also have to find out more about the program and how. Yes. How long will it last? I think that's, um, so this is me, since my primary student, especially since he's a high-risk student. Um, I just think, um, why? Because I have children's pictures. I know. You just have to keep on the camera. Yes. Not mentioning? Yeah. Um, do we, do we have the, as we're getting these applications or the growth of the growth of our school, doing the right kind of foster people. You know, how many are foster care? I guess there is there a population that we can actually should find out about this now that people might actually be people to use this. We do have some residents that are currently in foster care. And so definitely wanting to explore it's likely fostering futures is what Rick is residents that are currently in foster care. And so definitely wanting to explore is likely fostering futures is what Rick is referring to. That's for the youth that are either aging out of foster care with the passing of the new law, age 14 in foster care or for a time of period they were in foster care. They more than likely need to open up a fostering future's case, which can sometimes be a deterrent for our youth to want to participate in the program. So it's definitely something we can explore and look into so that we can incorporate that in the service plans for the residents that are in foster care and ensuring just provide that additional backup support for the actual foster care worker. Definitely don't want to overstep, but we want to make sure that our residents do know what resources are out there for them outside of and what we can offer in-house. What's the deterrent? You said the deterrent? So with a lot of you that have been involved in foster care, the last thing they want to do is continue to work with ourselves. They want to be done. They want to close out that chapter. Oftentimes there are requirements that, you know, most teenagers just in general, like I have to do that. I have to be very close. Yes, I have to be very close. They have to comply with certain regulations. And so it's more about the presentation and providing all of the information to the youth so they understand what is involved with fostering futures. Because for some, they also have an opportunity to go into cuts of money that can help find independent living or provide financial support to live on their own. So there are many avenues, it's just making sure what did they actually qualify for, who's eligible for it, and what are the requirements for their income in the program. And so that has to be something to be like, I don't want to do foster care anymore. I don't want to go talk to a judge anymore. I don't want social work very much when you're done, which is understandable because children shouldn't remain a care that should be in the community with their families when it's safe. Sure. So it's just making sure that they're well informed about the opportunity to participate in the program. I've worked with some of you and said, yes, you're still the social worker, but it's a great point of contact if you need additional support. It's one more professional person that you can always have in your back pocket to call if you need help with getting an ID, getting your university or your social security card. You can go to that person that can support them. Even though those are positives, it seems like foster care for whatever the program name was. Foster,ing maybe, yeah, thank you. Maybe associated with a negative versus something like that program could be so positive in the future. Well, this is likely an expansion of the fostering future of the initiative. Yeah. Oftentimes some agencies larger agencies will contract out with private organizations like foster club, which is a national organization that can kind of allow those that have aged out of foster fear. I think within the ages of 18, I mean, maybe like out to 30, I believe, with providing just resources and opportunities, but also the speakers for lived experience and time with being, you know, what their life was like while they were in foster fear and being able to speak to policies and general center that type of thing. Thank you. So let's assume, I mean, I have so many questions about Caitlin. I think, did we, what happened? Did we approve her? I think the last time, it was very new semester. But we're past the date. So what does this mean? She goes, I think the last time we approved her was for spring and this is for fall. So yes, I don't know what she's doing about registering. and we proved to have us for spring and this is for fall. So yes, I don't know what she's doing but registering, I was gonna say, I'm really proud of her grades, her grades, her, amazing. And then how did you fall semester 24? Yes, she does for me for now. I think we didn't get to see this in July this year. No, no. So I think when we saw her last time we were supposed to spring semester. Right. Was that the one that we awarded and then she didn't end up? So that was a nail. That was a nail. No, that was a check out. No, because I was out for that meeting. I'm thinking to find it. Oh no that's something. Um so I don't know if she maybe she paid for herself or what do you think? I mean I guess you could find that. Yeah that makes work exploring. Um I don't have any correspondence from her indicating how she was able to cover for the call. That's something we're exploring right now because she's still made that assistance. Is it now assistance for the Supreme semester? We send the checks to the school, aren't we? Right. That's the thing. We have a policy around sending a direct- it directly to the institution and not the individual, so we don't reimburse as part of this. But that does bring up the question of, because I did ask Rachel, with there were any applications, and if we needed to adopt on anything, and she suggested that we should, and I asked about what we need to do in order to get this virtually and to have received a response. So I want to make sure that we know what is our process for when this happens in the future. Yeah, because we can get together virtually, we just need to know what needs to happen in order. I think part of the problem that Rachel was, first of all, we just got Jessica. Rachel's been working 20 hours a week. Technically she's not supposed to be working more than 20 hours a week. And she wasn't on call. And so we've been a really short staff to over there. So I don't think this will happen again. I think that it's because over the summer, we've short-staffed. You know what I mean? And we didn't have to staff any everybody wouldn't do when we did. To me. I think it's an anomaly. Well, but I do still think that we should have a process. Yeah, I would hate to miss an opportunity, definitely. Especially because signing up for the next spring semester will happen soon and will be on the heels of our next meeting. When's the last time we met? It was two years ago. Yeah, or two months ago. Two months ago. I know, we don't have to be mad. But that's why every other time. But that's why we're saying there's a situation like this. We're happy to have an extra meeting so that we can make sure that. So can we make a talk about that right now? So we've got, let's say we've got somebody needs to have a patient and that we need to discuss it. Can we just have a virtual meeting and what do we need to do in terms of scheduling and of notice of having everybody on or do we have to come we had to figure out I don't know if I can make a motion virtually. I think they may be bridging a first something it's been discussed and I thought it has them so we could do that. Yeah I think and we can check and see I think in the last legislative session. So for like boards and commissions. This state expanded the electronic use policy so that. You know, you can meet virtually or have these all electronic meetings. And so we can look at it more closely and then Celeste would be able to tell you what the notice requirements. You know, would be to the extent that you have to notice a special meeting, even if you want to do it as an all virtual meeting for the purposes of reviewing a scholarship application that's time sensitive. Okay. I mean, if it can't be virtual, I'm happy for some of the time sensitive to trying to find a way to come in because there's people who of people who have a meeting either, you know, it's just right. I think just being like, like you're saying, is important that we do this discussion. That these girls don't miss an opportunity for assistance because of our unique schedule. Yeah. We can even do this for work that's put it for you. We're just going to be great. I'll do it. I'll do it. I'm not traveling, I don't have a job. I work 24-7. Okay, so it sounds like if we do have somebody who, and you would really be in the best position, to tell us the best of that case, we've got somebody who needs to be in this college of application and it's something that's timesensitive that can't wait for our next meeting. We'll as a first step we'll try to come together virtually and if we can't do that timely then we'll do a particular in-person we'll try to first come together in person and if we can't do that timely mouth the most scheduled virtual meeting and then timely, then we'll schedule a virtual meeting and then it sounds like we'll need to go through and just do the same mega-special meetings specifically for scholarship, but we just need to do our notice. Is that sound right? That sounds pretty. I think that sounds very... I do want to talk about people and is there a way to find out? Let's talk about K.M. I'm sorry, sorry. As I'm pointing out other things. Is there something way that we can approve an amount of contingent on finding out if she still owes money to the school because we can't reimburse or she probably can't. Right. She's going to be able to register. I don't even understand this amount trying to add it up just to what actually means. I'm not getting to the $7,300 moment. I'm not going to be interested. Yeah, I know. But I mean, she says she and six months up to school and that was in New England, $1.00. So this is the last semester. Wait, so shall I see the fall semester fall practice on 400 class, the 455, the 4462 and the 4800? Those are the four times five 22. Well, the student teaching is eight, right? It's eight times five 22. Oh, no, no, no. Oh, I see it's a cost. I see. I see. That's work. That's the cost. That's the cost. The cost per grade. That's actually the 8 credits. Okay. I see it does it up. I'm sorry. I wasn't looking at it right. Thank you for the time. Oh, you know. Okay. That's. Okay. Thank you for the time. Oh, you know. It's easy. Thank you. Okay, that's what you're not okay. I said 5.2, 1.566. Okay, so the courses are all listed. There's four courses and the student teaching is the biggest. And I think that's what we have to figure out because we can't reimburse. I'm going to say you want to this provided that. There's still not sitting balance. But we didn't. We didn't. Um, we do. We need to be. Remember college. We're looking to roll through the outstanding rounds. I don't know. Depends upon I think every college is a little bit. Yeah. And it's probably they have a special program for people that need assistance. Yeah. Because you can pay like a minimal amount. You can have a plan. But the right thing is for the panel. The score just gets applied to that. That's what I think we need to ask routine. And I think what I'm wondering is this company say, we yes, we decide to give a good amount of contingent on receive information that is right. We need that we don't have to come back again and do all of this. Because when we were in agreement to give her money when we give her money to spring. Yes. We all... How much did we... Director? That's also to start keeping back up, especially for these breaks that come to you know. I'll just start keeping a record of that. Maybe I don't know if there's a way to assign a an ID to a synonym I was writing and keep it. And that's not going to keep us fresh to you. Yeah, you just can't keep it under your name. But you can synonymize it. Like you have to have some kind of tracker. Will you assign a 19 number to an application. Because I mean, this isn't this big of a pool. We all obviously recognize this name, we know it's the same person. But in terms of record keeping, could you use the student ID and the fact that it was James Madison? Because this is our form. No, it's because then you can, so the whole point is that then you can still trace up. Right. Well, I'm following GGR rules and we're not in the last one. We're not. We're not. We're not. We're not. We're not. We're not. We're not. We're not. We're not. We're not. We're not. We're not. obligation and that we have a six digit code that's the semifinals right then to fight them with the last time that they will never not always be their code. During the first time in the first application you mean and then in the spreadsheet and we're identifying that this is their second submission and we're asking them we can have them retracting the signatures for running database and then that will be our house member. Oh, okay so in that we don't and we get time in our house number. Oh, okay. So in that case, I don't want to just do another house number. I didn't think it goes back. Maybe not the very beginning, but I thought it was several years ago. I can check on the credit card. She has fantastic grades that are in most cases losing their job helping her. Let's assume we can get money to her and it works going directly to the university, even because that's our requirement, right? Right. Right. That is how much would we be wanting? But we just because it could, we have to still show that just now, saying balance, because if we send the university money, there's a possibility that they would just refund it to her if there was no balance. And so, well, of course, of course. Yeah, yeah. I think, let's talk about an out. But yes, if you all could find out when the current situation is with this, it gets more information that would be helpful. And is this the last semester? That's your letter says that she's going to be showing her six months away from graduating. So I can't say my talk. So the letter's been June 15th and she's going to six months away from graduating. So this would be the last semester. I'm going to let you go as her master, but we can't project that. So. I'm not sure if you're keeping. Because you started listening to things. So. I wonder. Excuse me. Wonder if maybe our process is a little too much at arms length. Seems like we get these applications and there's. there's not really a sense of, you know, oh my gosh, I'm not sure exactly what they're doing or what are they thinking rather than, you know, saying, okay, submit the application and then somebody, one of us will have a Teams meeting, go through it, make sure that all the eyes are dotted and the teases are crossed. Now, just to make it clear, this is what we're doing. And then we have like a process where it gets forwarded to the next stage. Because you know, so many times, I mean, young people, they're unfamiliar with processes and it doesn't make sense sometimes, wide way to do things in certain way. We helpful for them to have sort of a guide or a mentor, a scholarship, a sharp path to take them over little bit of peak. Yes, that's a good point. And, correct, that that's something that racial had just work really done. And, it just got that something that you would be comfortable to do it as you, I mean, don't expect it right now, cause you just started a month ago. But as we go, as we have these in the future, racial is always, she's always created an advocate at educating the girls on the process, encouraging me by kind of having a sense of when they were going to need it and you know what might outflow us, maybe kind of on the paper. That's also for us, we have so much in terms of funds, so it's helpful for us if we have so much in terms of funds. So it's helpful for us to know if there's five more coming around than versus we might not see any one for a while. Kind of thing. It's also helpful for us if you find any information about what your experience was like. It was just kind of a, just some helpful, a little bit of background, but it can be brief, but Rachel is able to tell us that, you know, you know, struggled for a little bit at first and then really not in the groove, she could create, she could create this school. I'm just that kind of information, it's not helpful for us out of a little bit of color on to this. So, right now, continuing to, to historically have that, but just in transition on with different today. But so 70, I don't know why my mouth is kind of not to 78, 30, not to make any of that. I think that's a 70, 3, only. But data side, it's still, it's a significant amount. And I am comfortable going a little bit more than we had usually done a lot of like more in the, if we certainly, 1,500, 2,500, some more around there. And I'm comfortable going a little bit more. I don't know about this $7,000 or not. I know this $78,000 is a typo. OK. So especially as we make sure that we have enough for other girls who might need help by being as she is doing great with grades and just kind of closing out, I would be comfortable with something around 3500 even 4,000 if you might. I was gonna suggest we cover the 480 class, which is a 4,176, it's one class, it's a stage changing. Now that's a good idea, let's get it. I just put a little bit, you know, the other ones are smaller bites, just thinking out loud. Is that the right number for that one in the car, 22 times eight? Well, no, that's just four, yes, it is five hundred two times eight is four, one seventy six, you have to do that again. Just say that there was something. Yeah, that's right. It is the addition of what we're all not. She got 70, 80, 30, not 70. I think that's a great idea. Just a thought. I would be comfortable with that amount. I really like that she's coming back and finishing and she's almost done. Kind of the board for making it all the way through. Yeah. That's one. Yeah. That's one step. So let's, if we could just put that, as long as there's still a need in the bill here to the school. And that's what it is, yeah. It says in any stipulation. Well, so the stipulation is that there hasn't been going to the school. It hasn't been going to the schools. It hasn't been going to the university. Not a reimbursement, right? And then there's the official one. I know. I need to buy a gattle. 4176 for the student teaching class 480. Of course, 480. I'm going to take this back. I'm sure. Yes. Well, not the next question. Fine. Don't check this on. Oh, yeah. So, make a motion to prove 4,176 dollars to cover the student teaching class on the condition that we get more information and confirm that the need is still there to pay with the second promotion. I can mention this before but we need to put the social security number on the application. It's not necessary. It's like we're passing around the child's social security number and all of us. You could probably put the last part in. I just put the last one in. I don't know. We don't need it for our purposes. I don't know if, oh, I need to somehow start thinking. Identification? Like, to identify who you're talking to. I just want to not pass it around. Oh, that issue of the solo and people is the child. But she gave the student ID number. Right, I just don't on my name. But now it's like yeah I Can you just mark it out in the one you are signing the middle stripping? Well don't mark it out yet because we don't know if there's a reason for it and then they need it. It's okay. Have we always had two scholarship funds? Yes. I don't remember the two bank accounts for getting, I guess. One is a long-term. How I believe that it just takes a few more, a little longer to get money out of it. And then the other one ones with their access like Okay. Yes. Okay. So this is a song for us. I'm sorry. So you're going to have to do this. So you're going to have to do this. So these are. Oh. Yeah. It's a little bit of a natural breaking point. I'm going to jump in just to say goodbye to all of you. Always been to CL, but I got to head across the street and upstairs. So this meeting, but thanks again, and I'll touch base with Lauren separately afterwards. Thank you. Thank you. Good to see you. Good meeting. Thank you. Jessica, could you please find out, Michael, about this scholarship foundation or application that we're planning to go on board? But yeah, so I can tell you some of the former residents, she is still finalizing the plan for the spring semester, so she doesn't have the information that we need in order for it to be application. That's what I wanted to ask. That's actually one of my questions. Just getting me to try that time. Great. Great. Okay. So next on the agenda, the curriculum management support. I'm going to go. So the first item we've already got this guy from the Scalars Club Fund and also the second item being the returning recipient from the A.S. semester and the education of another application to your present virtually if it is time sensitive to our meeting for improvement. new hires. We also had two new residential counselors join us about two and having to go. Bobby Brown is joining us at her experience in background is working in family shelters to us the family of shelters and Darius Mitchell Mitchell and thank you. Is joining us he also has experienced working in residential facilities in Fairfax County and also background working with adolescents and children boxes among the spectrum. Right? We do the math in between the three of us plus crystal. We have 39 years of experience working in the child welfare residential space. So we're in good shape. Not only food and crystal, we still have a Rocio and Rukia because she's our our evening staff person. Sarah Smith lead. Yes. So we are currently recruiting for a residential supervisor. There you go. It has been the posting like live this week, I believe. Right now it has a deadline for September 30th. Do you have access to her email? Or just someone? Do I have access to her email? There was a lot of information sent in her and the work that she did, our team did, and getting... Oh, I can get them to send it. We have sent it to the agency. They were. Anything Dana was talking a little bit. I don't know. You know what I mean? You've got to send a lot of things and I just assume that they're all handling it. So I need to pull it up. Yeah, the thing is that her archive obviously speeded on all of it, then all of it. It may have been for the volunteers specifically. It may have just been a scenario with a copy to Rachel. I can't remember that I can't remember the email but we agreed on how the process was going to be when things came in and they made me. But there were only like four because you had a big one with the people I had on board student, Rick, former, you know, several individual ones. If you're just about able to hear said, or said, or we're not completely, but also the state of COVID-19 to see if you can get her email, so I can be forward to you as an archived email address and I can also sort through it. That way, good. You are more than welcome to, and we can ask for. I mean I think that's the kind of thing you said. Can you get your email? If you have just asked in the when you're 40, if you could put the subject behind the fourth thing else, CAC because I'm trying to create rules in my inbox. I'm in a very unwielding and so I'm trying to bridge structure to my inbox and I don't want to miss your emails. So, Amy Liner's is Jay and Moe's, Emma's and Mary OISE at falsechurchvae.gov. If you do not hear from me please, please let's vote the email back up. Fly to for me, I need those sometimes. So, I'm definitely not. What was the service last night? Smith Smith. I looked at my limit and it was Sarah Rachel Dayham. Okay. So, I don't know. There's the thing that is time sensitive, that you want to go out and put that in your air. Please feel free to go ahead and just, because I don't know, IT may take a minute or two. So please, everyone has a date to support this. So those are our three new hires. I said we currently have the posting up for the residential supervisor and hoping that we can raise them on board some heaven on October. That is where we stand. We are other per pilots. We have the largest population in the warehouse. Since the pandemic, we have eight residents. With weekly and monthly inquiries for folks wanting to utilize our services in place that grows on our home. So very excited, the staff is very excited, especially being fully staffed with residential counselors. As you heard at the end of the event, you mentioned with being sure it's staffed. That sounds very hard. So now to have four residential counselors with even schedules. It will really help support things that I would like to instill in the team in terms of self-care and work like balance. It's hard to balance when you're short-stacked. Limited intervention. But it's very excited that we have a full team. Bobby and Derrius should be fully trained by the end of the speech, the meeting of next week. So, very excited. Are you just shadowing the different shifts and meeting the other staff along with the opening staff as well? Summer, I joined the tail end of it. I was excited for my kids to go to school. So I think the staff kind of echo that as well. Actually, small children are so very excited. But the girls not so much, but they have transitioned well into the new school year. Transportation is going well. They are doing what they're supposed to be doing in terms of restraining to a rural warehouse, doing their homework, looking forward to bringing our tutors back into a rural warehouse to provide that support for them and let me know what any other additional support the girls may need in their academic needs. Staff continues you to go out and do business at the school to maintain contact with the, whether it's a school social worker or teachers, counselors, just to ensure that we are all up to date and in what is needed for our residents. That is what I have for program highlights. I do see on the item for discussion is the data kind of past that part to you. Before you draw me questions for me with items I'm just here and I think that I miss things like me to touch on. I'm gonna assume both of those kicks are crazy. Sarah maybe whatever but I was really disappointed because two of the girls were really into it and I felt like I was disappointing them and I feel like both of those girls are disappointed all the time and I didn't want them to think that I have backed them down. So moving forward if we can get something going again, I'm not even aware of those two girls who are still there. I hope they're not as big graduate as you move on, but you know they really seem to enjoy it. And it's really been a week old, so they want to put the different book for the next time. The few times you've been able to get this together, it really has been really great to have the conversations, just the conversations that go on. And so, you know, I understand the things happen, but I didn't feel like I didn't want those girls to feel like, I forgot to get that on them. So, you know, brush them off. So, I would like to discuss one, you can get another book club going. We would have to see, I guess there's all those new girls who have to pick the people and so kind of start that process over. Like, it's nice for them to see someone that's like not there at the house. Absolutely. Absolutely. Absolutely. I would agree. And I also, I also really appreciate wanting to have consistency with the girls with their incidents because I think that's kind of what brought them to our attention is the lack of consistency in the community and their whole environment. And so it's something that we're instilling upon them. So if we are not consistent with them, we're not afraid to share with them a community, with them there's gonna be like a one point. We can provide them that assurance, we can establish trust with them, we can't go before them, it's kind of the links that makes these us all in the program. So yes, I would love to bring back book club and make sure, you know, I would make sure that I'm connected with that and in the loop and then if I can, you know, delegate that to one of the residential counters as well to be able to kind of step in because I know what would happen when I'm not necessarily there. So I just wanna make sure that, you know, I think we can't just someone want to make sure that I think we can do someone who could make sure that we do the things we say we're going to do. And so before we move on, I think it might be the by-tun, just give you some explanation as to what we were talking about about the emails that went to Sarah. We know that the girls like volunteer, or people like to have volunteer opportunities to work with the girls, we also want to make sure it's also managing the need to do background checks if people consistently come. So we did reach out to advocates to make sure we understood their interests and there was several. And I do think it would be nice for the girls to have things besides tutoring and school things. That's the school year. There's an opportunity. So I am so interested in doing a hike and helping the girls get some fresh air and the fall. That's something they're interested in, but we'll send those things to you. So it was really more about there are several people. Just make sure you understood the context of all the emails that went to Sarah and the purpose of them was to just give life to the girls on the things besides their counseling and the things they need to do. Yeah I had told the team I was like you know I want the girls to be out in the community as much as possible. I want them engaged with the community. I want them to have experiences that made it unnecessary, I've been afforded to be prepared to go into a room or a house. And having that exposure with other folks outside of just the staff here at a room or a house, because I want them to also be able to utilize the new skills that we're instilling with them on how to develop healthy relationships with people and being able to communicate and work together individually. But also in a group setting amongst other girls and all of it is all interconnected. So important to have that holistic approach with these girls because it's not a one-size-fits-all. It's not a, this is a string of things everyone's going to be successful with. We can be able to have options for them on base to participate on. And I know that Orange Theory, I've heard Argus House has a contract with their Orange Theory. What? And so, Harvard's theory is already a mystery. What happened? What happened? Did anyone talk to them? No, I just thought they had a contract or they had, they worked something out. Like a partnership. Two degree, yes. Yeah. One just had 40 works there and she's a lot of slow worker. I would just love for the girls to be able to have opportunities. I don't want every activity to be a incentive. There are some things that I feel personal like to you should not always be inside of the shirt or something that she should just have access to and help and wellness you know and help be eating but possibly being able to explore different types of like physical activities. Hiding is a wonderful idea. I love that. But there's an opportunity for the girls to go to the first date and like a consistent thing at Orange Theory or somewhere else when they were relaxing. So my trainer had been going there for some weeks on every Friday afternoon and she said that there was a bit of a break and trying to do like the background check and everything. But is that going to be kicking back up? Was doing background check and everything, but is that gonna be kicking back up? Was doing background check? So that we're having her, we'll complete the background check and having her go back. We have to start beginning and bring her in front interview and go back to the whole process. So I did receive her application and I'll talk to you about this. I had a couple other people that have submitted applications to volunteer. So I'm grateful to all of them. And I, I still like to apologize to you all about that, you know, Sarah's not with us anymore, but I, you know, like I said, we have this staffing situation. And I assumed that Sarah was following up on those, you know, the volunteer information that you sent her because Rachel's not here, you know, she's doing 20 hours. Right. And I can't really do it. And so I assume that was getting taken care of as I apologize. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I think we just maybe reset it. It's been a few hours with the fact that it changes and things are important. Exactly. So, but thank you. Appreciate that. And just for, as actually, also going to give a little bit of context for when you get those. But one is, so there were three things, specifically three areas that we talked about for supporting the roles. One was baking with them. So you see some volunteers for that. Another was gardening with them. And then the third was doing it was art or doing some other sort of craft. So when we send the volunteer emails that they're gonna be right loose three, if there's anything else that comes up, I know in the past we've found, well, we've got the exercise, we had somebody once, who's interested in guitar, and we found somebody to teach them that, we've found some an artist that to work with, also, whatever the needs are, the desire to either for somebody who can help with all of the girls or the particular girl who has any, who's let us know, and we've got a great network and community, people who are very interested in helping out. Perfect. Thank you. And my daughter's gonna do, you know, she's a yoga instructor. Oh, sorry, great. It's kind of, and she's young. You know, she's talented to go to the class for the games. Oh, that's true. The other thing that came up as part of that whole exchange is that what if the, what somebody who has donated for our auction items before and actually did a class is one of the owners of balance female fitness and she was doing a anniversary class and as part of that they usually do a free class and then they ask people to donate something to a nonprofit and so she had suggested that we do a wish list and we did pull that together and I think you all received items at the house. When they wanted to ask is is it okay is there interest in posting that wish list on the warehouse website and just you know you can keep adding to it as as girls needs change and whatever the case might be in that way in the future if somebody's interested in and supporting they'll find that they are along with the information. And I was thinking like where talks about the information and the volunteer and stuff, because there's still items on there and you can keep that in the way to it as needs to change, is that something that would make sense? Yeah, absolutely. Okay. Because we do have growth that they all come in with different needs and sometimes we always look to the family. So to meet those needs and rehearsal people are very cared. But sometimes it's like, oh, it's 6 p.m. on a Friday and she needs sex. So it'd be great if there were gift cards available to go out and purchase the things and things. But yes, the wish list that we're able to kind of adjust based on the needs of the girls in the home of that time to be great. Great. So who manages people or has website that how do we guess? I think I can do most of it. I think there are portions of it that communications doesn't allow. Yeah. I changed without them. I think something like that should be able to do well if I can touch raise with. Okay. Okay. I'll send you the wish list. Okay. Could we also put in the vacancy announcement for? So I did email that today and I think that fell through me that got by me. I did email communications today and they told me I need to go through the city clerk. So, this one is the city clerk's lap right now. So, she, the thing that she already do, kind of the pieces that she can clutch and came back to us and said, city clerk. I thought we saw her. She just did that list in the false church news press, like that. Right. She said that they should should have liars but she said that to actually add type something to like a different process separate from her. I taught us what she had said in her church she's been upstairs we can corner her but we can okay we can revisit that in a malice you work as we have this in his lane you're going like I think that you remember standing you know from her saw and look at that and what Armton because we wrote that one too right you were going to see him and he submitted that into Rick is that on site and that it is on the Arlington site for the close-room you know I was looking in that today and I was not seeing it but you know the person the person who I'm in contact with is like underneath another person who's on the county board. We're talking about filling the position for the CAC right? Yes we are. We just be sure. Yeah so I sent her a message. It seems like there are a lot of vacancies on the commissions at the moment, so there must be something, you know, something that's not connecting, but let me, with the idea that they're going to get back with me because they had some ideas or whatever. So I would rather have it advertised and then they call us and what we think we could use rather than someone sort of appointing a person who may have ideas that are great but they're not in sync with what we're doing. Yeah, of course. Do you think that's a possibility of a route they're considering? I don't think so. I don't think people are paying sufficient attention to it. This is the first time I've ever had to do this, so I don't quite know the ins and outs. Got it. Okay. Got it. Sorry, I took us off our agenda a little bit since we were talking about the website, and I thought it was coming up. But okay, I will get you the wish list and we can follow up by email about posting through the false church line at base. Great. You've sent a wind alarm yeah that's what I say guys Even more fun and first. Yeah, and look, maybe pop with. I mean, you had me at book club. I'm getting it. I'm like ready to volunteer for all of them. Well, isn't there some fun activity next week, honoring all of the board members and everything of picnic? It's next Wednesday, I believe, right? I'll be in field. I was, if I can come, we end up. Yeah. I'll be happy if I can come read any though. Yeah, I'll be there early. I can only go there for like 20 minutes because that's the other media I gotta go to. But there's no way I'm gonna miss out on all that. I don't want to go by myself. Okay. Any other questions for medical police manager or practical police? The ones in the park? Sorry, we get a little. Thank you so much. That's all right. Okay, park let. Okay. Before I get to that, I was going to tell you that the new residential council or Bobbie Brown is from all search. She went to George Mason. Oh, I hate you. I'm scared. I'm scared. It's not a makeup. She. Oh, I hate you. I'm just scared. It's not a makeup. She. Yeah, not makeup. The singer. The he and who be the singer. I'm not sure that you're right. But the makeup would be fun. Yeah, sure. It's an example of the stars. Yeah, you're running to many people from unfolds to you. Yes. I love the way that it's a dream. I'm just getting used to the teachers right now that all really come back and talk. I consider these people who are educated and folks are so happy it's not my mouth. Yeah, that's lovely. That says a lot of things for our kids. Yeah, that's lovely. Including the principal. You allow, is it? Yeah. Sorry, you can go again. OK, so hard update, I was gonna try to pull it up on the screen and I can't, so I'm just gonna show you guys on my phone. So, was it last week or the week before? Aimee and I, you can look at this past that around. We, so the heart flip, that's right next to a room. We met with David and, and, and David son. Great. Great. Because tomorrow he's doing another walk through a weekday. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He was level. And I was. So we all met there with Marie from Public Works and walked the site to see like what would be a good location. And we didn't even realize that that walkway and all that was back there. I've never been back there before. So we decided that like right at the entrance, it's a nice spot you can see where the tree is. And so David is going to do, he's going to purchase a stone memory bench and then buildings were gonna install it. And then we're gonna have the girls plant wildflowers around the bench. And so Christine's favorite wild, grant home and her favorite flower was that, that one that gets the butterflies and the purple stem under there. Butterfly bush. No purple stem, butterfly bush. No, butterfly bush. I can't think of it. He called it a butterfly bush, I think. Oh, it is. It's like the purple, like you. Yeah. And the shirt goes with yeah. Yeah, he said that was her favorite. So one that definitely makes you. Definitely love that. And so it was really nice. Some wonderful location. It's gorgeous. Really pretty. We're gonna have the girls there. What about the 75th tree? So we decided not to do the 75th tree because Marie used from other works. She knows about roots and stuff like that. And she said that the tree would need to be planted a weight room thing. Oh, that the roots, I'm not a tree person. We don't know that we haven't. This, at first, I think it's a lot of this. And David said he was good with this flower. So I think we're going to pour gold at tree. If we had done the tree, we would have arborist, Charlestown, you would have had to plan it either in the backyard or way in the front because the roots or whatever would you do good in front of the house or whatever. We would have had to do that in any way. So everybody was good with this. So we're looking at did they give a time long? They're working on it now. Talking with the with public works They're doing work all the plans for installation Yes We do we know a week are long enough in the planning that we can start to kind of pinpoint a date for ceremony and all that. No, because he has to identify the worries ordering it from and then they have to make arrangements for installation with public works and then they were talking something about a semen something base based, a pad has to be done and all this. So I don't think we're there yet. Humanity, it looks like we're going to be ready by the end of the year, doesn't mean we have to have to have to have to get everybody in that year. Oh, you would do it, you'd turn down the end of the year. I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking, I'm thinking of that new side and I'm not and you know what we're not even in it anymore David is working directly He probably knows more than I do Tomorrow so yeah, I'll be talking to him Yeah, I just think, maybe to have a good one. I don't want to get a chance to plan anything. So we, but you know, he's very convinced. No, I don't think works is going to plan a little plan. Oh, essentially. Oh, essentially. Yeah. So I think what's going to happen is public works are going to do the planting. And then they're going to save some flowers for the girls to plant nice. I don't know if they're gonna do it that day, or at some point, and then everybody will come for the ceremonies. Okay. But the only request that Grant had was that we plant some of her salvia, I think is what it is. Yeah. So it's gonna be really, they grant us just lovely to talk with, and I think it's gonna to be really, the grant was just lovely to talk with and I think it's going to be really nice. And he got a great job. Did he start that? Yeah, he started that. That's great. He's graduated from the Gini Tech or something. Yeah. So if you could get somewhere between, I'm now. I have more than the day before. For sure. Yeah. It's our template. Yeah. It's gonna be great. I really liked Aaron's idea to do a, um, a tie a fundraiser sort of reception at like, uh, local businesses. I have yours for some of them. Yeah. So, um, I, I can start, uh, kind of, can make some feel or not for that. Yeah. And then we can, I mean, and I don't understand, like it'll be some date by being a member or whatever we determine. But I think that I think if we could, it would be with all the end of years, that if we could do something in November, where to work, and create Thanksgiving, and that would be great time after that we'll figure out what looks fast with families and the travel will move back if it gets later into December. But they get some sort of sense of that. And I'll start. They have actually had organizations in the 60s and you'll remember. But yeah. OK. Do you know when the other, when Grant's brother was going to be back in town, the zoo would be nice. Well, thanks. Give me a break. Thanks. Give me a bow. He didn't come around last time, but then he came just Christmas. Yeah. Yeah. I'm just very sick. Seattle. I'm not sure. We can have a decent trip. Well, he's a job. He's a job. Yeah. He's He's in CCL. He goes to school and see out. So I'll ask Dan. How long have you been in the school? Oh, they also took Amy took Dave, David inside so he could see all the flowers and paint. He must have wore some. And then we're in that we think. Yeah. Yeah. Awesome. That's great. Thank you for that. Thank you for that. It's very exciting. Really wonderful. Taking our be great. Yeah. It is going great. We I feel like we talked about the posting where you're going to be great. Yeah, it is going great. I don't know. We, I feel like we talked about the posting where you're going to check on the Arlington one, we'll connect on false church and any other questions or anything from a CSE, you can see post in San Juan. I guess we're staring at him. We were supposed to sound alright. I can't push. Is this a position you're pushing? I'm going to be on a big one. Okay. Okay. Any other new business? No, I have one. We're going to talk about it. So we can put our emails and follow, stuff like that around and figure out how. We still have to post the books from last time. And then the girls have to see if I don't still on my paper. The two girls have been sitting. There was a given book up before we had sent that they wanted to do next time. So it was interesting because they both were like, oh, we didn't like this book. And then once we started talking, really? They were had a lot to say. There was some, there was some of the reason we chose it because there was just so much correlation. Yeah, what was on there? Yeah, that's a lot. Yeah, that's a lot. It was not really a sponsor, I didn't care. Yeah, so I do have an announcement to make to probably nobody you have you haven't heard but Earl Conklin is going to be retiring. Oh, I'm not sure who all knows Earl Conklin, but he's the director of court services for Arlington Falls Church. So it's January 3rd. Oh, yeah. And because the holidays and all that, I don't know what exactly. Usually we like to have a big shabang for someone like in his position so long, we make sure to definitely invite everyone, but I'm not sure how grandiose it's going to be because of all the holidays. And he doesn't want to stay on extra just to have a party three weeks after he leaves. Okay. He was such an important founding member with, you know, Rachel and Lauren else back in the day, right? He worked there too. Yes, he was the first group home manager. And he was very involved in the CAC too for years. I mean, when I came in, it was because he had to leave it behind to do other things. So, will they start researching for placement for him or? No, it's a mystery. I mean, what is going to become of everything? I think the counties, at that level, it's like selling a really expensive house. It's just a whole other process. And thanks much longer. And I've never sold other process and thanks much longer and I've ever told the house like that before but I see ones on the street like that. So we'll see yeah I'm sure an announcement will come out. Speaking of that so with Rachel so you say that you are Oh no, no. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. We're all done. in December 30 and then our, oh, she's going to have everything. We have three audits. They've all been pushed to November. So we're hoping that maybe we can, she'd be available to come back on the audit days to assist Jessica with the audits. So, but I say all I had to say, she's officially retiring. So now we got to get busy doing something. She said she you know I said would it be okay if you plan a party or something like that she said we could do something small for an hour. She wants to be able to invite some former girls to the show. So we just have to, I guess, I hadn't even had a chance to talk to you to figure out what we're going to play in something. Of course we'll play in the show. Yes, I love that. It's a mysterious fourth audit that just... I'm sorry. Yeah. I just think I'm like, I'm... Because I want to... I might not have been able in Asia and in the UK so we'll figure that out. I have a very, November 12th at Ampere. It's on the calendar. That's our next meeting. Yeah. November 12th for our next one. I have a bad interview with the name before. Okay. That's our next maybe good? Yeah. Oh, okay. Is there a barbershop for our next one? Yeah, I think that's the truth of the day before. Well, I know it's on our own day for everybody, so I know. But there is no other questions that's being added. And again, I'm sorry about making it welcome. Sure. And then, you know, and then not the needs. No worries. It won't help. No worries, it will come up. Okay, we're all good, then I'm gonna make a look. What did you just write? Oh, just these coming audits has period time period in November. How did you guys do that? Whatever we can to support Jessica, because you know, it's really hard to do an audit, especially for a time program, so you weren't even there. Yeah. So we're gonna be with you Jessica whatever we can do if it's like a massage day or whatever we'll see what we can do. Yes that's great. No, yeah, I do them anytime myself That calendar day Okay, then I'm gonna make a motion to Right so nice to see everyone. Thank you, Lauren. You're welcome. Nice to meet you. Nice to meet you. Lauren, do you have any questions? I don't know if you can say it. Oh, that's good. Was that for me? Yeah, yes. I am sure, I have plenty of questions, but I thought this was great. great and it was really interesting to see what you guys were doing. It was like you have some great programs. Feel free to shop any of this will be more than happy to answer all of you. Absolutely. It doesn't mean you want to talk to one of us in our shop. The other things to be lady, yes. Yeah, I'm sorry. Yes, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Absolutely. Have a good season. All right. Thank you. Please, relax. So that I would choose a more interesting question. Please relax, it's your lesson in the evening. All right. Oh. Oh, we're going to start. Yeah. Get this evening's. What? The evening. Oh, one to the. because it's what we do, we go into the same session, and some guide next week, it's with the post-dumbells, I just put some of those departments.