January Meeting
January 26, 2010
The CAC met on January 8. As one of their new responsibilities, the Nevada CAC has the responsibility of distributing the Community Partner Fund for the NCED. NCED staff assisted with sending out the first CAC-approved mini-grant Request For Proposal and at the January meeting, CAC members reviewed the submissions and awarded three of the five submissions. Approved were: $1,000 to RAGE (Rebuilding All Goals Efficiently) to support the development of a vocational training center for people with disabilities in southern Nevada; $1,000 to PBS (Positive Behavior Support Nevada) for toilet training classes and in home support to families of children with developmental disabilities and $1,000 to the Note-Ables for their 2010 Evening of Romance community concert & fundraiser.
CAC members also had constructive feedback on ways to improve the grant process in the future. This exercise was a great example of the diversity of the CAC membership assisting in its work. A member of the CAC from Vocational Rehabilitation, who has extensive experience with grants, was able to offer ideas to the other members about using a grading matrix in the future to rate grants. CAC members remarked at the most recent meeting that they felt they were doing important work.
CAC orientation training has been planned. Using the AUCD’s CAC Orientation Curriculum, the Nevada CAC will be presented with one module per meeting. NCED staff had adapted Module 1 with Nevada-specific information with a plan to present it at the January 8, 2010 CAC meeting. The co-chairs, in planning the agenda, placed it last on the agenda. With a full agenda, and the extensive review required by the Community Partner Fund mini-grants, there was only 30 minutes left for the training. The co-chairs felt that the CAC members were too tired and that the training was too important to rush through, so they moved the training to the next meeting and promised to place it first on the agenda.
