Joint Outreach/Curriculum Committee Meeting

September 12, 2005

(Approved March 13, 2006)

In attendance: Sarah Miller, Kathryn Greenlief, Richard Meckstroth, Kathleen Bors, April Vestal, David Bowyer, Ralph Utzman, Carla See, Dan Brody, Crystal Welch, Patricia Crawford, Haylee Heinsberg

1. Community Service Requirement – The committee discussed the community service requirement and how some sites are using reflection and healthy People 2010 objectives to develop projects that link with student curricular objectives. April will discuss this later in the agenda.

New Business

2. Report from Joint Schools/JOCC Meeting – April discussed the meeting in February 2005 in Charleston was held to develop community service projects into projects that linked with students’ curricular objectives. Several projects were developed at that meeting and then this information was discussed at the July joint meeting of the partnership. April passed out a DRAFT module for service learning on bicycle safety that is a model for other community service projects. These will be placed on the WVRHEP website so that students could go in and do the module that applies to the project they will be participating in and develop a learning contract by picking objectives they hope to learn, etc. It is still very much in the development stage and April asked for feedback to make the module better. The idea would be to have a module for every project students participate in. There was discussion that this would be a time-consuming activity for students and that they might just want to do it with one project instead of all the projects they participate in during a rotation.

3. Visions Update – there was a discussion of how the committee plans to get the annual update to the visions recommendations. The November meeting will be dedicated to Strategic Planning for RHEP/AHEC and committees will not be meeting. It was suggested that we set another date to review information and mention it at the Advisory Panel meeting in November. We could also circulate the current visions report before the meeting in November.

4. Future Agenda – Next Step for JOCC – Kathleen discussed the next steps for the committee and the projects the committee might work on for 2006 and beyond. The committee decided to see what transpires at the Strategic Planning meeting in November and then discuss the committee assignments after that.

With no further business, the meeting was adjourned.