Next Placer Collaborative Meeting
May 17, 2012
Topic: Veterans Services and Support
Time: 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Place: Auburn Veterans Memorial Hall
100 East Street
Auburn, CA 95603
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2nd Annual Resource Sharing Meeting Recap
Placer Community Leaders Share Resources to Improve Services and Quality of Life for County Residents
The Placer Collaborative Network (PCN) convened health and human service organizations at the 2nd Annual Resource Sharing Meeting Thursday, April 19 in Roseville. Over 100 attendees representing 50 organizations shared materials, up-dated each other on current projects and discovered partnership opportunities to improve coordination of services to Placer County residents. Attendees also learned how to create or modify their Placer County Network of Care directory listings and even were able to live-update them on site!
The meeting was moderated by PCN co-chairs Janice LeRoux, Executive Director, First Five Placer and Maureen Bauman, Director, Placer County HHS Adult System of Care. The agenda included a moving performance by Kyle Lutkemuller of the Auburn Hip Hop Congress, demonstrating the importance and value of connecting story to a cause. Kyle created the original composition for a senior project to raise funds to prevent child abuse. In addition to the performance, the Resource Sharing Meeting included a presentation on the Placer County Network of Care website, and the Give Local Now Street Team spread the word about how organizations can be involved in the movement to increase philanthropy in the region. Attendees then spent over an hour networking in the display area.
Placer County First 5 Director Janice LeRoux had the following to say about the resource sharing meeting: “The Placer Collaborative Network is dedicated to providing opportunities to connect and collaborate among and between area agencies in order to better serve the health and human service needs of our citizens. The Resource Sharing Meeting was a real time demonstration of the power of dialogue and information sharing between organizations.”
The Placer Collaborative Network is a unique organization that facilitates communitywide collaboration to address health and human services. PCN helps local agencies gain a better understanding of the services available, discover funding and partnering opportunities for projects, increase funding opportunities through collaborative relationships, and approach com-munity issues with collaborative partners. The Nonprofit Resource Center provides administrative support for PCN. ~ PLACER CARES Newsletter (May 2012)
What is the Placer Collaborative Network?
The Placer Collaborative Network (PCN) brings community leaders together to develop creative solutions for change. Change that brings about a better quality of life for those living in Placer County.
Values of collaboration, creativity, and service drive the work at Placer Collaborative because we believe TOGETHER we really are BETTER.
Over 40 members comprise the army of service providers at Placer Collaborative Network. Through on the ground projects, leadership development, and linking, solutions are forged for our most pressing community issues.
Purpose
We are a creative, results-driven organization striving to improve the lives of children, adults and families by collaborating and building the resources of the organizations that serve them.
Core Values
- Belief in and commitment to the collaborative process
- Respect; integrity; honesty
- Strength-based and family-centered approaches
- Diversity
- Holistic view of children, adults, and family
Placer Community Foundation
The Placer Collaborative Network is a project of the Placer Community Foundation. The Placer Community Foundation's mission is to encourage philanthropy for the betterment of communities in our region. It works with donors to create charitable endowments and distributes grants to nonprofit organizations residing throughout the Western Slope of Placer County.
2012 PCN Co-Chairs/Fiscal Agents:
Janice LeRoux, First Five Commission
Maureen Bauman, Placer County Adult System of Care, HHS
Janna Jones, Placer County Adult System of Care, HHS
Veronica Blake, Placer Community Foundation
