Community Action Forum December 8th, 2008

Over 32 Deer Park community members met at the Senior Center for the Horizons Action Forum.

Pizza from West Side Pizza was served and several ideas on how to make Deer Park a better community were talked about. Most of the participants have been involved with the study circles and contributed to the large lists which included social services, family resources, business resources and many other community resources to help improve poverty in the area. Voted on from the study circle lists and other suggestions of the group were action projects that could be done feasibly in a short length of time.

#1. Start and maintain a Deer Park Youth Help training program. Example- Babysitting Class.

#2. Gather records of community resources and activities.

#3. Get a community Bulletin Board to post the Deer Park Activities and Resource List.


The Horizons Deer Park Blog was talked about by Sidney Coyle and Dusty Finafrock and cards were given out to encourage the people to visit and participate on the blogspot.

PR and Blog Training in Spokane

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Public Relations and Blog Training in Spokane

What we learned at Horizons PR Advanced Training

This photo is from a communications training session held in Spokane, Washington at WSU. We learned a lot at this session, including how to:

• Insert photos
• Create 72 resolution photo headers with text on them
• Access free photo editing software online
• Organize our posts with labels that show on
• the sidebar
• Create links by highlighting text and using the link tool
• Use gadgets and widgets
• Understand differences between Content
• Management Systems and Blog Systems
• Use blogger.com for organizing large amounts of information
• Create horizontal links on blogger.com
• Use Wordpress.com for a home base environment, especially to load documents/pdfs

OUR PRESENTATION COMING MAY19, Deer Park City Council Meeting

Deer Park City Hall
May 19, 7:00PM
All Board Members Please Attend.
Agenda will be discussed at May board meeting.

Deer Park In Progress Board of Directors Meetings

Wednesday April 28
5:30 pm,
Deer Park In Progress Board of Directors will meet with WSU Extension Horizons Community Coach Krisan LeHewat at the Deer Park Library .
Please bring a brown bag dinner with you.
Please provide written reports.
Agenda?

HOW WE CAME TO BE! Deer Park In Progress Nonprofit

Deer Park in Progress started because of Horizons.

HORIZONS IS ABOUT MOVEMENT AND CHANGE: From waiting to leading…from talk to action…from poverty to prosperity…from a few to many…from despair to hope…from indifference to pride. Horizons is a community leadership program aimed at reducing poverty in small rural and reservation communities. By providing locally delivered training, skill building and coaching, Horizons helps communities understand poverty and commit to action so they can bring about lasting change. WSU Extension is proud to have delivered this program to 40 communities including Deer Park across Washington state since 2004.
Horizons, an eight-state initiative of the Northwest Area Foundation.
Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota. More information:http://www.horizons.wsu.edu/

Now, Deer Park In Progress Nonprofit Organization, not just renamed, but is a nonprofit organization that has formed a Board of Directors, Incorporation and 501(C) (3), with help from Horizons 10,000 grant for completion of the 18 month program.

Deer Park In Progress is founded on much of the same mission and principals as Horizons but has added some of its own touch to reflect and encompass our specific community of Deer Park and surrounding area, to partner with other community organizations to work towards the mission which is always ongoing.

Our goal and mission statement is "Exploring and finding solutions to reduce poverty in the Deer Park and surrounding area with the help and involvement of the community, so all may thrive."

We will keep the blog going as an information source. Visit the blog often, updated information is posted when it becomes available. We welcome your comments. We are curently seeking people from the community who are passionate about the goal of Deer Park In Progress to serve on our Board Of Directors. If interested, contact any board member.

Board of Directors for Deer Park In Progress Nonprofit Organization:
Chairwoman, Dusty Finafrock
Vice-Chair, Robert Schlein
Secretary/Treasure, Cordelia Jeffery
Director of Partnerships, Christine Clark


Deer Park In Progress Nonprofit Organization
PO Box1584
Deer Park ,WA 99006
1-866-898-2768

Board Meeting

Deer Park In Progress Board of Directors Meeting
Monday June 14, 5:30PM
Deer Park Library
(Small meeting room)

Board Meeting

Monday, May 10th
Deer Park Library
5:30pm