LGBTT Seniors Housing Notes at SAGE – November 25, 2013
Attendees: Thais McKee, Sherry McKibben, Michael Phair, Jan Schmitz, Robert Smith, Eric Story
Regrets: Julian Daly, Larry Jewell, David Ushko
- Welcome to Robert Smith
- Updates
Mission Statement
– Complete and inserted in funding report
York U senior services results
– Waiting for response
U of A Survey
– Dr. Kyle Whitfield uses a senor’s survey. One of the questions asks if interest in LGBTQ support. Eric will continue discussions with Dr. Whitfield and will forward the study to the group
Ottawa Senior Pride
– Larry forwarded email from Marie Robertson outlining their success. Ms Robertson is a good candidate for a guest speaker.
- Affiliations
Pride Centre
- Sherry to follow up. Eric may be able to assist with contacting Mickey.
Womanspace
– Jan and Sherry to follow up.
- Funding
Edmonton Seniors Coordinating Council:
– Michael will meet with funding committee on Wednesday.
– Informal application – 2-4 pages
– unique projects are encouraged to submit.
– Thais discussed that the work on the street is that they are entertaining proposals in January. – age friendly city is a dominant theme
– lots of senior’s publication material already available, may only need to add GLBTQ brochure
Proposal
– Sherry discussed the California GLBT facility previously distributed by email.
Sherry created and distributed 1st draft of the funding application.
– GREAT JOB everybody…and on time!!!
– use GLBTQ language
– symposium rather than conference
– demonstrate volunteer hours
– increase consultant hours for data analysis
– demonstrate contributions from other sources
– survey rather than needs assessment
– mission statement could be two sentences
- General Discussion:
– Name of Group is Pride Seniors Project
– All members to create a one sentence statement of who they are for the membership list and email it to Jan
– Expect project to be funded in January.
– David Ushko needs to be added to the email list (with apology)
– Sage may need to provide a formal letter of support.
– Symposium may be 60 – 80. Invitees may include: all surveyed, affiliate groups, social workers, ismas (u of a), affirming churches etc.
– Potential consultants were discussed, wait until funding is secure
– Sherry will be leaving committee (snowbird) returning in April. She is available by email.
Next Meeting – Monday January 21, 2014
Follow Up
Sherry – Revise draft of funding application and distribute by email to be reviewed by all.
Michael – Support letter from Sage (if required)
Michael – Cover letter for funding application
Jan – Prepare notes from meeting
Julian – create a one or two sentence statement of who they are for the membership list for the funding proposal and email it to Jan by Dec 24.
Larry – create a one or two sentence statement of who they are for the membership list for the funding proposal and email it to Jan by Dec 24.
Thais – create a one or two sentence statement of who they are for the membership list for the funding proposal and email it to Jan by Dec 24.
Sherry – create a one or two sentence statement of who they are for the membership list for the funding proposal and email it to Jan by Dec 24.
Michael – create a one or two sentence statement of who they are for the membership list for the funding proposal and email it to Jan by Dec 24.
Jan – create a one or two sentence statement of who they are for the membership list for the funding proposal and email it to Jan by Dec 24.
Robert – create a one or two sentence statement of who they are for the membership list for the funding proposal and email it to Jan by Dec 24.
Eric – create a one or two sentence statement of who they are for the membership list for the funding proposal and email it to Jan by Dec 24.
David – create a one or two sentence statement of who they are for the membership list for the funding proposal and email it to Jan by Dec 24.
Jan – Prepare membership section for funding proposal
Jerry – World Pride Conference in Toronto in 2014
Julian – explore international options.
Larry – Ottawa Senior Pride Network
Eric – York U – obtain survey information
Eric – U of A survey – obtain survey information
Sherry – Pride Centre potential affiliation
Jan/Sherry – Womonspace potential affiliation
Notes prepared by Jan Schmitz