1. Form the Regional Chapter Committee

• Josephine Cilluffo (SF/NP) volunteered as interim Coordinator with help from Christy Berger (Sacto)
• Christy has sign up of those wanting to be on committee
• Need to confirm people's interest and commitment to the Regional Committee
• Possibly could have Regional Elections
  • Would need to form Regional Nominations Committee

2. Form Regional Chapter

• Don't need to pay fee. Find out from National how to do it.
• Get Every Interested Chapter/Branch on E-mail
  • so that can work over long distances. Not every person has to be on e-mail to be on the committee, but someone on their branch has to be responsible to forward messages.

3. Prepare Proposal for Coordinators to present to their Chapters/Branches for Ratification

• Some chapters like SF/North Peninsula will just automatically become Branches when it is set up.
• Meeting before Sacto? (in Bay Area), When? Or just May 1 in Sacto ?
• See Proposal link for a beginning

4. Form Committee Structure

• ...including sub committees on the areas where we will cooperate, e.g., Regional Newsletter Committee
• See following suggested Committees

5. Suggested Boundary of Northern California.

• An easy way to divide the state is by Counties. There is a natural divide North of the Southern cities San Luis Obispo, Bakersfield and Barstow
• Take a look at the Map of Counties
  • North: Monterey County, Kings County, Tulare County and Inyo County
  • South: San Luis Obispo County, Kern County and San Bernadino Countiy
• I don't think that we are infringing on any counties in the Southern California Plan. We are including Central Valley (Fresno) and Tulare if they are interested.
• Chapters can exist in Northern California without becoming branches. Members can belong to other chapters/branches or simply to the Northern California Regional Chapter.
• List of potential Branches. We should be sure to have contacted all of these:
  
  • ALAMEDA/CONTRA COSTA
  • BUTTE COUNTY
  • CAMERON PARK
  • CENTRAL VALLEY (Fresno)
  • CH.A.D.D. CRUZERS (Santa Cruz)
  • CLEAR LAKE AREA
  • DELTA VALLEY (Tracy)
  • GOLD COUNTRY (Grass Valley)
  • GREATER SACRAMENTO
  • MARIN COUNTY
  • MID-PENINSULA
  • MONTEREY COUNTY
  • NAPA COUNTY
  • SAN BENITO COUNTY
  • SAN FRANCISCO-NO.PENINSULA
  • SOLANO COUNTY
  • SONOMA COUNTY
  • STANISLAUS COUNTY
  • TULARE COUNTY
  • TUOLUMNE COUNTY
  • YOLO COUNTY
    
• Bold indicates that attended Regional Chapter Meeting. All but Gold Country are on ncregion list

6. Research/Decide on the Money Issue

• Will Branches keep funds that they have now? How will Regional Chapter start-up be funded?
• Or pool all resources and budget to Branches...

7. VAN lobby trip to Sacto April 30

• Lynn Heidelberg, Christy Berger.

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Proposed Committees

Decided that These were Focused in Regional Chapter

• Newsletter
  • Add local insert?
  • Localized or Centralized on Distribution?
• Fund Development
• Treasury
• Paid Staff for Clerical, Accounting?
• Regional Coordination
  • Include Nominations Committee
• VAN Reps (Maybe same committee as State VAN Committee. Based in Sacramento)
• Web Site
  • Certainly could use Web for chats, discussion, local interest links
  • Could become a completely virtual branch on the web for Northern Californians not yet in the catchment of any Chapter, Branch or Satellite.
• Professional Advisory Board
• Resource Management
  • Share any LD or ADHD related information, events
  • Professional Resource list
• Membership
  • Development / Outreach
  • Especially in Schools
  • Interface with National Database so that all of our Chapter's members aren't attributed to DesMoines.
  • Local or Cross-Branch database, or at least inter-exchangeable? TBD
  • Put on the Web with password access for Branch coordinators
• Educational Meetings Developed
  • Shared names, topics, booking
• Support Group Developed
  • Develop "ADHD 101" Curriculum for Group and Web Page
• School Outreach Supported Regionally

Decided that These were Focused in Local Branches

• Educational Meetings Delivered Locally
• Support Groups Delivered Locally
  • Lew's opinion: Weekly Support Groups are a good candidate to privatize: Once we deliver ADHD 101, ongoing support is too costly and may be better delivered by Bay Area's many private resources. CHADD's strength is in "ADHD 101" information.
  • Mandated for Adults and Children separately. Cross chapter curriculum could be integrated.
• Run ADHD 101 group locally
• School Outreach Delivered locally
• Critical interfaces with membership outreach.

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