BOARD MEETING
JANUARY 17, 2003

Location: UW Hospital-Madison
Present: S. Winter, D. Feldman, A. Passow, L. Rasmussen, C. Koehn, M.J. Walsh, D. Hupf,

1. Welcome to new board members and introductions to their outgoing counterparts.

2. Overview of WI and National Organization relationship. We will continue our current affiliation with our national SSWLHC group as we explore other affiliation options. There has been some initial discussion with a representative of ACMA regarding possible association with them.

3. Lobby Day is March 12, 2003. Everyone encouraged letting Social Work colleagues know and attend.

4. NASW WI Conference will be in Madison May 7-9. Mary Jo Walsh will be the moderator of a break- out session on health care issues.

NASW UPDATE: Sharon and Mary Jo met with Marc Herstand to discuss becoming a separate "section" with NASW. This would involve a significant financial obligation. There would also be some other requirements and commitments with such a relationship. Board made decision not to formally affiliate with NASW but to continue an informal collaborative relationship. Marc Herstand will continue to attend SSWLHC chapter meetings.

5. National SSWLHC Conference will be April 3-5 in Atlanta, Georgia. Sharon Winter and her staff will be going to present on their palliative care program. She will have free registration because she is presenting. Last year our chapter gave $750.00 stipend to President and President-Elect. Board decided to do this again. Sharon will check with Cindy S. to see if she is planning to attend. If she is not we will support another WI SSWLHC member's attendance. Deb Hupf is interested in attending.

Sharon will also be attending the Chapter President's meeting in Atlanta. Anyone who has questions/issues that they want brought up should let her know.

6. Website Update was provided by Amy Passow and Neil O'Conner. Amy shared results of the survey. There were 22 questionnaires returned. The majority of respondents said they would use the site for on-line registration for meetings. The summary of results can be reviewed by looking at the chapter secretary's resource binder.

Neil reported that within 60 days a decision would need to be made about keeping our same ISP (Internet Service Provider). Board discussed the idea of contacting a professional web site developer to work on designing a new SSWLHC Logo and assisting with expanding our capabilities. Issues to explore included Link to National, Online Registration for Meetings, and consultation availability. Amy and Neil will contact Mike Passow to discuss our needs and his charges for these services. They will communicate findings to Board members through email for a group decision.

PLAN: Web site will be used to: Post minutes from chapter meetings.
Send e-mail reminder to members about upcoming chapter meetings
& education programs (for members without e-mail postal mail
reminders will continue).
Dates and location of Board Meetings-they are open

7. 2003 Educational Offerings were discussed at great length. Amy presented a summary of ideas from membership applications. The following dates and topics were determined.

March 21, 2003: Personality Disorders in Health Care…Axis I Diagnosis
June 5, 2003: Advance Directives (include different forms and documents, Christian Health Care POA, Jehovah Witness patients, the Ulysses contract, etc.)
September 12: Cultural Diversity Issues (look at different ethnic groups, such as Native American, Hispanic, Amish, and Hmong)
November 14, 2003: Case Management- this will be our big fall conference. Consider doing something with ACMA representative/group.

Ideas for possible presenters were generated.
Follow-Up: Dean will contact Linda Briggs regarding advance directives program
Amy will contact Health Psychologist at UW regarding personality disorders
Mary Jo will contact Dave McGaffigan and George Gilman
Kevin Corrado from UW was also discussed for the Advance Directives Program

Mary Jo as Past-President is Chair of Programming. Brenda Nelson will assist.

Feedback from November 2002 conference was positive. There was a negative comment about acoustics.

8. Ideas about ways to promote our organization and social work were generated: putting together a pamphlet about our organization and having them ready and out at the NASW state conference, looking at the cost of placing an "ad" in the WI NASW publication, members talking about SSWLHC to their co-workers, having a table at NASW conference. FOLLOW-UP: We will revisit this agenda item.

9. Legislative Group Update: No members were present to give a report. Brian and Cindy will give an update at next meeting.

10. Board Meeting Dates will be April 25, August 1, September 11 and January 16, 2004. They will be held at UW Hospital and Clinics in Madison. Organizational Meeting Dates are March 21, June 5, September 12 and November 14, There was some requests from the membership that Fridays were not always an easy day to be away from the office. We will offer the June 5 meeting on a Thursday.

11. ACMA Project: There has been some discussion with the Illinois Chapter of ACMA about a partnership. Discussions will continue.

12. Amy reported that our budget is currently $7593.23. We talked about possibly using some of our funds to purchase a laptop for the secretary to take meeting notes. We also discussed buying the members a gift to distribute at the March meeting as a way of celebrating Social Work Month. Possible ideas were letter openers, key chains, and computer page markers…. Cindy will check prices and availability and e-mail members for a decision. Amy will obtain a Relaxation AudioTape for the door prize.

13. Membership committee reported that there were some new members who signed up after the November meeting. Amy distributed an updated membership directory. Calls will be made to members that have not renewed their memberships. Memberships are not pro-rated.

14. There was no report about WHA.

15. Mary Jo asked that members write letters of support for her appointment to the Social Work section of the Examining Board. Governor Doyle is not going to honor those appointments made in the last quarter and will making new appointments.

NEXT BOARD MEETING WILL BE APRIL 25, 2003.
Respectfully submitted by Linda Rasmussen LCSW, QCSW, Chapter Secretary