UI-ARCA Minutes for February 23, 2005

Present: Jason, Lori, Michael, Tony, Nicole, Gillian

Call to order 11.04

Discussed the change of executive meeting times and modifying minutes to focus on Robert’s Rules of voting.

President’s Report-Tony proposed a countdown to ACA on the bulletin board and possibly having ACA application sessions. It was suggested that UI-ARCA talk to Betting Hedgeman in a phone conference about her views on the mission and goals of the group. Also, we would talk to her about UI-ARCA’s role and function as a student organization. Tony asked for specific feedback on the agendas for the meetings so that everyone can have input. There is money for the ACA Conference; however, it needs to be requested and applied for soon. Nicole will draft a letter of thanks to the speakers last Tuesday.

Vice-President’s Report-Michael talked about 3^rd party billing in order to get reimbursed for services. There is legislation that will be coming forward about the process of mental health professionals getting reimbursed for services by third parties. Keep this in awareness as it will affect future counselors.

Master’s Rep-Contact Gillian Fox if you are interested in helping to design a t-shirt for next year’s Rehab program. She had a few ideas about getting involved in the community like Bowling for Kids’ Sake and movie nights. We also talked about pairing up 2^nd year students with 1^st year incoming students to do a mentoring program with them to help orient the new students. We talked about moving the summer party up so that the students can get to know each other sooner. Tony also asked about putting student bios up on the website and we decided against that.

Committee Reports

Website committee-The website is up and running. If you get a chance, look at it and send any feedback to Jason or Mike.

Accessibility committee-Tony and Teresa began auditing EPB and will do a more formal audit next month.

Research committee-Nicole presented research about the working alliance between counselors and clients with severe mental health issues and working with gay and lesbian clients in career development. Mike also talked about research at NCRE about measuring quality of life, Ticket To Work, the consolidation of VR and its future.

Policy committee-touched on cutbacks in RSA.

Community outreach-Gillian offered to help out with community resources and we talked about having PWD’s come in and talk to students about their experiences.

There was no information about the colloquia as Sara wasn’t able to attend the meeting.

We elected a new treasurer who will now be Lori Kessel.

Further discussion-We discussed having UI-ARCA sponsor a new students orientation in the summer where all the students would meet and talk about the course plan, materials, UI-ARCA info, and the program in general.

The CRDS Party has been cancelled for this winter.

The next executive meeting will be at 10:30 on Wednesday, March 9.

The next general meeting will be at 11:00 on Wednesday, March 30.

The next brown bag lunch will be at 12:00 on Tuesday, March 29^th. Location TBA.