2010-04-16 Committee on the Status of Women Minutes

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community about coming together and getting the students back in school because the school serves breakfast and lunch. School is a stable environment for students from th kindergarten to 12 grade. She suggested doing an educational campaign/event just to tell the community what is going on. J. Balberde-Kamalii mentioned that Hilo High School’s profile shows that 30 percent of the students live in single family, female headed household. Also, a majority of the students are on free or reduced lunch. She was looking for support for these families in terms of resources that are available as well as trying to find counseling/support services that can be offered at a reduced rate. Funding is needed to create information packets of numbers for people to call. K. Nova felt that CSW is not allowed to provide money to individual families. C. Ka-ipo suggested that CSW do a factual, hard hitting awareness spot on the radio and in the newspaper to get attention. J. Balberde-Kamalii said that CSW should generate some kind of “talk story” interview or radio spot that highlight this community issue. K. Schneider said people want to help, but how would we know how to get to certain groups or families to help them? How can community groups help people in the community because people want to do that, but they don’t know how? There are many church groups that really want to help. E. Cabatu mentioned that Women’s Health Week is coming up in May. Women also make the health care decisions of the family. C. Kitaoka expressed concern that printing of a booklet will not be completed by the end of the school year. In addition, approval is needed with the Complex Area Superintendents in order to send information home from the schools. She didn’t feel that this project will happen this fiscal year. C. Ka-ipo felt that awareness should be done first before sending any type of information home. CSW decided to focus on Women’s Health Week in May by doing radio spots. C. Ka-ipo and E. Cabatu will work on the script. The cost of the radio spots will be approximately $1,600 which will be aired on all the major radio stations. The committee would like Kat from KWXX to do the spot and C. Ka-ipo would like prominent women in the community to do different spots relating to health. C. Ka-ipo moved to accept the treasurer’s report. C. Kitaoka seconded the motion. The motion was passed. STATEMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC None. 2