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on Drugs and Alcohol
Minutes
November 20, 2000
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JAN 2 2 2001 L/J
CITY OF UAL REL
Persons attending: Dave Ward, Probation Officer; Dr. Joe Floyd, Professor, MSU-B;
Joyce Bratland, Juvenile Justice Coalition; and Task Force members Bud Johnson,
Marvin Carter, Ken Olson, Del Henman, Carolyn Boyd
Reports - Joint meeting with City Council and School Board will be held on Dec. 6.
Information about the Assessment Center in Billings will be put on the web-site and in
the next brochure as these services are available to Laurel residents.
Justice Coalition reported on their projects including game nights at the elementary
school, middle school activities, the Bigs and Little program pairing high school
students with elementary students and the Conference Committee.
Dave Ward reported that he had recently attended a meeting of the International
Chiefs of Police. and left information about current projects and practices to be
distributed to members.
Joe Floyd discussed methods of obtaining input from students. Possibilities were:
a telephone survey, mailed surveys, surveys administered on site, focus groups and
large group meetings. Pros and cons of each method were discussed. Ideally, focus
groups would be held to help identify issues, a survey would be prepared based on
those issues and then focus groups would meet again to hear and discuss survey
results. Price for focus groups, surveys of selected grades, processing the information
and then presenting it at a town meeting would be about $10,000. Utilizing Dr. Floyd
for only part of the process or reducing the steps in the process would reduce the cost.
Possible methods of financing a survey were discussed and included donations from
local businesses and grants form the Board of Crime Control.
Dr.. Floyd also presented information about the Social Norms Project being carried out
by Dr. Jeff Linkenbach of MSU - Bozeman. This is a best practices model which has
been shown to reduce alcohol consumption by giving people information about the
true amounts that others in their community drink. This amount is usually less than is
assumed. Carolyn will contact Dr. Linkenbach to ask for more information about his
project.
Carolyn Boyd
copies to: Henman, Olson, Johnson, Carter, McMilin, Rodgers