SANTA CRUZ COUNTY

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COMMISSION

RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT/ANNUAL REPORT COMMITTEE

 

MINUTES

 

Meeting Date: September 25, 2002 11 AM– 1 PM

Location: Watsonville PD, Administrative Conference Room (Front Lobby)

215 Union Street

Watsonville

 

  1. Call to Order
    The meeting was called to order at noon. Attending: Kim Austin, Alan Hiromura, David Rabow, and Laurie McWhorter

 

  1. Additions or Deletions to the Agenda
    None.

 

  1. Oral Communications from the Community
    None.

 

  1. Approval of the September 18, 2002 minutes.

Unanimously approved (Rabow/Austin) with 2 changes: 1. We are not asking for the length of time between conviction and enrollment. 2. We are recording both DV incidents and arrests.

 

  1. Review findings regarding computer program/template for data input
    Recommendation: Report back from Hiromura and McWhorter. Take action as appropriate.
    Hiromura talked with a technician at the County who suggested the following:
    Use the computer program Access.
    Put questions into a spreadsheet format for the programmer.
    Create an on-line program to collect data so we don’t have to re-input.
    Hold off on implementing the on-line program until the glitches of the questions are worked out, as it is expensive to change the on-line program. Wait at least one year.
    The on-line program will cost money
    The county probably has someone who can do the Access part.
    McWhorter talked with Nancy Goodman of What Works! and reported:
    If our survey is close enough to the goals of What Works!’s goals we could use their money for our programming costs. Some of the money would come out of money already budgeted towards programming. More money might be needed and come from the “stipend money” (which Austin remarked law enforcement might be counting on in order to calculate the requested data).  Our committee will meet with Erica Wood and Hope Malkum of ASR and Nancy Goodman of What Works! sometime after October 9.
    Rabow stressed the need to be able to pull/sort any combination of data from the computer program in order to make the data useful.
     
  2. Review and revise questions created by committee members. Complete questions Task 2. G and I and any other rising questions.  Recommendation: That committee members edited the questions for the Batterers, Death Review Team, and Victims/Survivors. The writers of those questions will make the changes.

Hiromura showed the spreadsheet template he developed. He will insert the final set of questions into the spreadsheet.

 

Continue implementing plan of Action. 
Recommendation: delegate, set meetings.

  1. Announcements
    None.

 

  1. Schedule next meeting
    October 1, 11-1

 

  1. Closing
    Closed.

 

  1. Official adjournment
    Meeting adjourned at 1:15 PM.