Meeting Agenda

Victor Valley College Child Development Club

Location: Child Development Building Rm. A5 Date: November 14, 2012 Time: 2:00 p.m.

1.0 Call to Order: 2:10 p.m. 2.0 Roll Call: 2.1 Present: Advisor DeeDee Cole, President Tiffany Bellani, Vice-president Sarah Bertelsen, Treasurer Sheila Cooper, Secretary Cynthia Gutierrez, ICC Representative Albert Arredondo. 2.2 Absent: N/A 2.3 Guests: Crystal Case, Erika Elliot, Adam Diaz, Vanessa Gonzales, Leilani Quayson, Renee Biggs, Maria Moreno, Heather Kemp. 3.0 Agenda Approval: Approved by President Bellani & Vice President Bertelsen 4.0 Minute Approval: Approved by President Bellani & Vice President Bertelsen 5.0 Unnished business: 5.1 Workshops: President Bellani says the workshops will be ready by next semester. 5.2 Bulletin Board: President Bellani says there are still membership forms, job opportunities and event sign ups for all members. 5.3 T-shirts President Bellani says, t-shirts will be order the rst day of every month. 5.4 Lending Library Vice-President Bertelsen says the lending library will start next semester. The club will let members check out books so that members can check them out but the books must be turned in on time. 5.5 Victor Valley Rescue Mission: Secretary Gutierrez says that the sorting of the food for November 19 we still need more people to help. They can choose how long they want to volunteer. Any help is greatly appreciated. 5.6 Permit Training: ICC Representative Arredondo says that there will be a permit training on November 16 at 9-11 am. He pointed out yers that were available for anyone interested. The permit training will help those that are child development majors to know what you have to do to get your permits. 5.7 Facebook: Secretary Gutierrez and Treasurer Cooper says there will be advocacy and other volunteer opportunities on facebook. 6.0 New Business 6.1 Rafe Vice-President says that at 100 likes the child development club will rafe out a hoodie. To qualify you must have ASB and be a student at VVC.

6.2 Membership Form: The prices have changed President Bellani says. Because of a miscalculation we did not take into account of tax for sweatshirts and shirts so the prices have gone up by ve dollars. 6.3 Ideas from new members Research paper help, interaction with preschools Advisor Cole responds lots of red tape. There are a lot of requirements i.e nger printing t.b.... other centers we will look for. 6.4 Speaker Lynette Ramirez from Ready4Reading Club: They are afliated the rescue mission. She says that if we are going on to work in a school. We are going to nd that one of the most important times that we spend is circle time. Early emergent learning colors and patterns books are read from left to right and they are learning sequences. We learn sequences when we take medicine we have to know how much to take. We have to know the order take something in. We have to understand that reading and literacy affects every single part of our lives. Someone whom is illiterate has 2/3 chance of getting there medicine right. Now realize that some of them are parents ,she cant read the shots records so she wouldnt know if it was the 2nd or the third and then they have to start all over. Thats 2/3 parents thats 65 percent both state and federal inmates are illiterate. From female infanticide, malaria, infant mortality, preventable infectious diseases. We should think about the number of female circumcision. 74 percent of people on welfare are there because that they can not read. Illiteracy recovery rate are very low. They do not use their time wisely in jail those who get some kind of education is very low. By the time teenagers have got to high school the percentage is about the same. The teen might have a vision problem or they might be dyslexic. 16-19 year old girls have a six time more chance of illiteracy that they can get pregnant. literacy is learned illiteracy is passed down from generations. Shes going to pass out an assessment test. It was greek letters. Its how the kids feel when you show them letters. The people that she reads are not in circle time they are the ones that are at the rescue mission is going up 2.5 million a year are becoming illiterate they are joining the ranks of murder and rape. 2/3 of children that can not read will end up in jail. A child who fails a reading exams a lot of governors are building prisons based on reading exams. The children that she reads to are two times more likely to be illiterate. She has seen children that there skin are starting to turn gray. They are more likely hungry, they are 4 times most likely to go hungry. 20 percent are having mental problems that they have to see a psychiatrist. 47 percent of these children will start suffering from anxiety and will withdraw. 61 percent of children dont even have books when they go home. They went to read to a 2nd grade class and the children really liked it. 77 percent of children will not go to school regularly. They are at the Victorville homeless shelter they see kids come in in car loads. their parents are checking in homeless shelters they can not check on every child, CPS cant do anything about that. The kids are lonely children that are below poverty. The lisa project will be coming back. The child will bring a mobile home each room is what another low poverty molested child will grow up in. The drugs on the table the dirty oor. It starts out from the 911 call from the little girl named lisa whom watched her mom get beaten thats how the lisa project was made. Thats why

they made the organization to raise awareness and so that the children can get help. They have worked with the rescue mission. They set up crafts table they have a lot of crafts. They give out icees. They need craft table for next year. Do something interactive with the kids. Last year they gave out over 2,000 books. They have raised books and delivered over 4,000 books. Molina health care are donating 1000 book drive pirates of the Caribbean. They are looking at 7000 families that will be at the annual thanksgiving banquet. They are guaranteeing that each child will be able to get at least one book. They give out books on easter, thanksgiving, christmas. they take gently used books. Heather says that she can get VV library to donate books. questions? Renee asks how to increase literacy. She is more cognitive art she says make reading fun! their eyes are aligning. You have taking them from print and you make it fun. One of the things they did was they took ve goofy facts. Barbies full name Barbara Millicent Robert. Butteries how do they taste their food, they taste through their feet. They read at the Victor Valley Rescue Mission and homeless shelter. They always speak at the Joseph share parenting class. Part of our big problem is that recess has been taken away. There was no ADHD because we werent tired. We were not trying to get in trouble. Look at cite words. That puts words with an item. Get kids used to reading. Ask questions. What names start with a w. Pick a letter a week. Dont say A is for apple. Go out and pick out an apple. The more you make words interact. Get their hearing checked and their sight checked. They are at the Victorville homeless shelter each week. They read a book and pick a craft. They are preparing crafts 2500 for Christmas toy give away that the Rescue Mission is doing. To volunteer you only commit one hour a month and you pick the day. You can take your own children to the rescue mission not the homeless shelter. To volunteer this is a training. You would have to sign a letter of condentiality. Have to have a nger printing and background check. If you have a copy that you are working with children they will let you. They also want you to have an understanding of different genres. They tend to stick to preschool books. Parents take children to bathrooms we are never one on one with children. 6.5 New sponsor: New sponsor Coreworld. They will pay for all of the lunches for any events we should have. Whether Del taco will sponsor us we are working on that. Member Heather offers to try and get sponsors. Domingo's might offer to sponsor the Club Guest Renee says that she will look into it. 7.0 Financial Report 7.1 Budget: $100.00 8.0 Next Meeting 8.1 First and third week of every month on Wednesdays at 2pm 8.2 Exception for November meetings will be held 2nd and 4th week for the month. 9.0 Meeting Adjourned at 3:20