2011-12-16 Committee on the Status of Women Minutes

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K. Peters offered to check with the manager at Target for donations of gift cards as prizes for the winners and teachers. C. Kitaoka will look into writing a grant to Target for the following year. N. Kelly moved that CSW budget $3,000 from miscellaneous contract services for the essay contest. D. Pung seconded the motion. The motion was passed. B. Hawaii County Women’s Hall of Fame – Committee D. Downs volunteered to chair the women’s hall of fame next year. C. Teen Dating Violence Prevention (DVD) – N. Kelly/C. Kitaoka C. Kitaoka stated that she recently connected with Rae Spence, a former victim of teen dating violence. She was a guest speaker who CSW brought over to go to the schools and talk about her experience. C. Kitaoka reported that the Prosecutor’s Office has funding to bring back Dr. Jill Murray. Her cost is $3,800 a day plus airfare and per diem. Dr. J. Murray is willing to go to the schools and also do an evening presentation. C. Kitaoka mentioned that Sherry Bracken has offered to rebroadcast on January 8, 2012 Dr. J. Murray’s segment that she recorded. K. Nova said she would like to distribute the leftover books and DVDs when Dr. J. Murray is here. N. Kelly mentioned that Dr. J. Murray has not been to the Kohala and Hilo schools. However, she went to schools in Keaau, Honokaa, Kau, Pahoa, and Kona. K. Nova stated that K. Peters pointed out many times that it would be nice if CSW would be able to do a follow up with young women from here who has had a horrible experience and talk to the students. K. Peters stated that it’s just finding that local source and bringing them over to speak at the schools. She suggested Cyd Hoffeld, last year’s winner of the women’s hall of fame, as a potential speaker. C. Kitaoka said she would like to schedule the presentations at the end of April and beginning of May 2012. A date should be determined at the February meeting. D. Mentoring – K. Peters K. Peters reported that she and K. Nova discussed mentoring. The original plan was to get people in specific professions, but the logistics of it is you have to match people up. Therefore, they came up with a better idea and more general. They would like to focus on post high school education. They would like to get people from colleges, community colleges, and local girls who graduated from local high schools. It’s just people who went to different types of post high school education. They will also focus on helping them with their application. The target date would be the beginning of school in August. K. Peters said they need to catch the high school seniors before they apply. The students will be recruited from the schools via a letter. 3