Board of County Commissioners - Regular Meeting

Morning. It is 09:30, so we are gonna go ahead and get started. We did move the regular scheduled meeting up a week because we all know that graduations, end of school are happening. So we do tend to have less turnout for the May meeting but we are looking pretty good this morning. So we are gonna start with our introductions. I'm Lee McElroy. I am with Ecker Connects, the Director of Prevention Services.

Good morning. My name is Omar Bolan. I'm the Chief Probation Officer for Circuit eighteen, Department of Juvenile Justice.

Good morning. My name is Caroline Joseph Paul, Career Source Brevard Flaglovolucha, Senior Managing Director. Morning. Lisa Bradley, Brevard Community Corrections.

Morning. Juanita Jackson, Director Housing and Human Services.

Rebecca T. Bear from the city of Melbourne.

Mimi Haley, East Coast League of Cities.

Danielle Kratz, city of Palm Bay.

Sarah Sloan for Vargas.

Pamper Patrick, Quota Guardian, United Office.

Wallace, Vargas County Sheriff's Office.

Laura McCarthy, Vargas Recovery Test.

Good morning and thanks for joining us. We are going to move to our board action. This is for the approval of the TIP meeting minutes for 03/30/2020. We are going to get an update on the ad hoc meeting from Juanita. Thank you.

Good morning, thank you so much. Good morning again. I just wanted to give everyone an update on the hoc, the TIP ad hoc meeting that we had last week Wednesday. It was a great meeting and thank you to all who attended and so just to update the direction that we're going to be moving after last TIP meeting and hearing the feedback, the ad hoc, meeting with county manager and assistant county manager, the direction we're going to be moving is that we're going to create a separate opioid misuse abatement advisory committee. And so this will be a separate committee from TIP.

It will not be a subcommittee or ad hoc committee. It will be just a separate committee, stand alone committees to separate it from TIP so that TIP can move in a direction that TIP needs to and opioids can move in a direction that opioids needs to. The way the committee and it's still in draft form, but the way we're looking to set it up is that the membership will consist of a representative from City of Melbourne, Palm Bay, Space Coast League of Cities, Brevard County Government and the Sheriff's Department and then those will be the standing member seats and we will have four at large seats. Those seats will be available to citizens just like the rest of the advisory boards. We're making this board look like the rest of the advisory boards that the county has.

All of those advisory boards, depending on the seat, and we're going to work on the criteria for those four remaining at large seats to make sure that the citizens that are in those seats or apply for those seats, that they have some type of experience with opioids just like the rest of our advisory boards. It will run through the county system called Granicus, which is open to everyone. Those appointments will then go to Board of County Commissioners to be on that seat. Also with this, to make it an easier structure, also looking at operating under the sunshine and to alleviate any confusion, it will just be one committee. So that committee will make the recommendations for the RFAs and that will be the same committee that then listens to the RFAs and makes the funding decision.

It won't be this separate review recommendation, who's on this, who's on that, it's the same members. It will also separate from TIP and the concerns that we've had here at the Assistant County Attorney King, you know, are we operating under the sunshine, are we not, not clear who's on first, what's on second has caused some confusion and so this will alleviate all of that. I am looking to, I've been working with, like I said, with the county attorney's office, county manager, assistant county manager. The plan is to take this resolution to the BOCC in July because the month of June, the BOCC takes a break as we finalize our budgets and our departments and then we are going to schedule another ad hoc meeting of TIP to make sure we have those appropriate members of the community alliance together as we move forward to see the direction of TIP. And I think that covers all of the updates concerning that.

Are there any questions?

Any questions from the board?

I just have one

quick question. Are you going be able to send something out with that notes or something that we can get of the I think there were minutes or something somebody was going to send?

Yes, Phoebe will be taking Phoebe will be doing the minutes from the ad hoc.

I think Laura

has a question. I think

just a point of clarity, you said it would be a separate MIDI but a separate, in other words it's not going to report to TIFF.

No. It's going

to be its own separate committee of the county correct?

Correct. Thank you.

Any other questions? Okay. Thank you for the update and that movement forward. It's much appreciated.

You're welcome. Now

we are going to shift into our presentation. Do we have Christina Mansett? Perfect.

Hi everyone.

Good morning. Good

morning. This is my first time at this meeting, so I'm really happy to be here with you all. I don't want to give anyone my back. It's okay if I kind

of Yeah, that's fine.

Shift? Okay, great. So I'm here with Better Together. We are a fully non profit organization and our main mission is to keep families together by keeping kids out of the foster care system, okay? So we've been around for about ten years and have helped over 12,000 children with a ninety eight percent success rate. So we're really proud of that. Ninety eight percent of the children and families that we work with stay together. We are fully non profit and fully privately funded and so we have two support programs. We have mentorship and hosting. I'll start with hosting.

Hosting is really our more unique program that we have and we have level two background checked families that are able to temporarily step in and help families that are undergoing some type of emergency to care for their children. So this can range from any amount of time to a day host all the way up to ninety days. And some of those emergencies that our families are facing, job loss, homelessness, incarceration, short term incarceration, medical emergencies, mental health emergencies. Anything like that that would constitute needing a little bit of time to get back on their feet and kind of not having that support is something that we can step into with our host families. So we sign a power of attorney, I think this is really important because the parents never lose custody of their children.

We sign the power of attorney that has a start date and an end date and can be revoked at any time. And so I think that's really important when we're talking to our parents to let them know that we are just stepping into care for the kiddos temporarily and then once they get back on their feet they get them right back. I'll give you an example, we recently had a mom who was two months postpartum and she had a relapse as we know as part of recovery and the journey of recovery and so she didn't have anyone in the world. Herself and asked for help and DCF reached out to us, which we're really lucky. You know we have that working relationship with DCF that when there is no abuse or neglect and just a parent needing help, that they do turn to us.

So we were able to step in for mom. She was accepted into a detox residential program, mommy and me, but baby was not allowed to go with her to the detox program because it was in a hospital. And so we were able to step in for those five days that mom needed instead of her baby going into the system, which we know is an average about five hundred days for the family to be reunited. So we were able to do that in five days. So one story we're really proud of.

We also have mentorship. Our mentorship program is where we have volunteer mentors that help to walk alongside a family who's struggling. So that can look like anywhere from helping them navigate resources, make phone calls. A lot of times we get families who are like, I have this long list of resources to call and I have no time and no help and I have five kiddos and I don't know where to start. And so we're really kind of building that community for them in that mentor.

It's someone who lives in their community, someone who is also a parent and maybe has gone through some of the same struggles so it can really be there for them. I'll give you an example of a mentorship that we recently had, dad lost his wife. And so now dad is a single dad of three kiddos. He works full time. Mom was the one that was taking care of the children full time and he did not know where to turn and what to do and so we were able to pair him up with one of our male mentors and together they really build that relationship and was able to help dad kind of transition into his new role.

So that's just one example of many. We really can operate in gray when it comes to mentorship, which is really special. So we're equipping these families with the tools that they need, community support and just not feeling like they're alone. We also have our better jobs program, which helps with job coaching. We have volunteer job coaches who can help with resume building, interview prep and also connection to our employer partners.

We do host job fairs nationwide and so sometimes people can't wait for a job fair, so we have our job coaches that can help in the interim. So a couple of things to note important for the mentorship and the hosting programs is that you do have to have a minor child in your care to participate in either one of those programs. We also operate in gray in that, if you sometimes parents are unavailable and grandparents have the children and so we have been able to step in sometimes for respite care for grandparents, sometimes they need a weekend, a break, they weren't expecting to be parents again at you know their age and so we're able to kind of be really creative with how we help families stay together. A couple of cases that we wouldn't be able to accept, we are temporary so the parents do have to want to have their children back with them. And we also operate in gray when it comes to disabilities or medical needs.

So we would just ask a lot of questions, make sure that that's something we can step into. When it comes to physical aggression or sexual tendencies of the kiddos we would not be able to step in because a lot of our host families have children of their own and aren't equipped to keep all the kids safe, right? And then mental health and substance use is usually our biggest risk, but we are willing to take that risk if they're willing to get help. So I'm the clinical specialist at Better Together, I assess the families, make sure if they need a higher level of care that I'm referring and kind of connecting them to those resources. But as long as the parents are willing to get help, we're willing to step in with them. Any questions? I know it was a lot.

How do we reach you?

Yes. So I left my for

you today. Oh, perfect.

I left my cards in the back. I'm also going to send an email to Ms. Phoebe with the link to refer a family or have them refer themselves. Either way would work. We do ask that if you are an organization working with a family, if you want an update and you kind of want to share, you know, just kind of how they're doing and if we're working together, to go ahead and do the referral so that we can have your information and know where they came from. But there's a phone number, there's a link, and my card is in the back as well. Awesome, thank you.

I have a question as well. Location, do you have a physical location here?

That's a great question and something I forgot. So we are in 48 counties in Florida. So we do not service Broward, Dade, or the Panhandle, but everywhere in between. And we do not have a physical location, we are boots on the ground. So our team, our family support managers, which is like our case managers, they are in all the different counties in Florida.

Ready to get out How do people find out about you? We do a lot of so we work simultaneously with DCF. We have staff members in a lot of the counties that go once a week to the DCF office. We also work a lot with hospitals. So we're going to hospitals, we're presenting to the nurses, we're presenting to the case managers, we're in a lot of the schools as well, so we try to really get those strategic partners that are with families every day, kind of like they're getting the reports of needing this help.

And then we also work a lot with churches for volunteers or for families that are in need. So those are kind of our bigger organizations that we try to get with. And then obviously with my position, mental health and substance use, I'm trying to like get to everyone, 48 counties is a lot. But yeah, just these kind of presentations to get everyone talking and then if you know anyone that needs help, let them know we exist, talk about it

and yeah.

Excellent. Hope that answered. Thank you. You're welcome.

I do have a quick question. And the family can self refer or does it have to come Yes, from an

we can. On the website and on the link in the email it'll have how they can self refer. Maybe they're thinking about it and are not like ready to do the referral yet. They can call, we can talk, like that happens a lot where they'll have a lot of questions because it's kind of niche of a program and you know, you're giving your kids for someone to take care of. So have them call us and we can answer that.

Late last week, our staff, discovered that you were having a job fair and so they were asking me whether I was familiar with your agency and I told them no. So happy to meet you. Is your job fair open to anyone?

Yeah, that's a great question. It is. Anyone 18 plus. 18 plus looking for work. Our job fairs are really cool you guys. We have the hiring managers there. A lot of people get hired at the job fair and we have people in the back that are helping to provide clothing if you don't have interview ready clothing, haircuts, things like that. So, it's really fun, it's really interactive.

Thank you. And stick around at the end because I think there are several of us that would like to connect with you even more. Absolutely. I'll

be here.

Thank you.

Okay. Just before we move into the members report, I just wanted to remind everybody that if you want to speak during the public comment or announcements, just make sure you fill out the speaking card and hand it to Phoebe because we will do that, following the agenda items. And your question on the agenda,

as a new at large member, would I be added under members' reports, or do I need to go fill out a card?

So these are very specific for the members' reports. Those are established, I believe, by our bylaws. Correct?

Yes. All at large members that I could be wrong.

That's why I don't think it's at large members. It's not. I think it's what's the other type of it's standing. I think it's the standing members and not the at large members. I could be wrong though Laura. Too many members at this point.

Okay. So we're going to get started with our members report. First, have the family strengthening infant mental health.

Good morning, everyone. The group met on May 4. Jennifer Floyd with the Healthy Start Coalition presented our five year service delivery plan. It is a 50 page document so I will not go over all of it today. Suffice it to say, and you all previously we provided the needs assessment information a few months ago.

But the two focal areas for the next five years that Healthy Start will be focusing on are maternal morbidity and access to maternal healthcare. I will follow-up after this meeting and send all of you a copy of the presentation so you can review it if you're interested. And if you want the full document or the needs assessment or any of the other information, please feel free to just reach out and we will send it to you. We're happy to share. All of the home visiting programs are fully staffed and accepting referrals across the various organizations.

And I do also want to make note Healthy Families is going to be bringing a period of purple crying training to Brevard County in I believe August, Mackenzie correct, okay, August. It's a really terrific program to assist caregivers, in dealing with infants, two to six months? McKenzie is with healthy families. It's a terrific training. If you, your organization, or your staff might be interested in participating, when I send out the service delivery plan, I'll also send out contact information, just let us know. And that's all for infant mental health.

Thank you. Any questions? Okay, we're going to move to the Child Abuse Prevention Task Force who are coming off of a very busy month. Yes.

Good morning, everyone. Devine Vincent, I'm the current chair for the Child Abuse Prevention Task Force. And yes, April was a very busy month for us. We were so fortunate to have support from several leadership in our county. We had proclamation readings with Commissioner Altman, with Superintendent Rendell, with Judge McKibbin at the Vera Courthouse, Judge Serrano at the Melbourne Courthouse.

And in addition to that, for Child Abuse Prevention Month, we had over 25 pinwheel plantings done with different agencies and representatives throughout the county. So with all of them jumping on board for the Pinwheels for Prevention Campaign, our community really came together in solidarity and showed, yes, this is a mission we can all get behind. And then so for those of you who are interested in attending the general captive meetings, we do have our May meeting this week on Thursday morning at nine a. M. If you are interested, please let me know and I can make sure you get the link.

And one of the things that our task force is going to be working on this coming fiscal year is having more of a presence within the community rather than just waiting until April. So that's to be discussed and to be shared as we get more information. But thank you all for your support, your different agencies for the month of April.

Thank you. Next is the report from Uplift.

Good morning, everyone. So, a large update that I wanted to mention was on May 5, had a Spanish language medication assisted treatment training, so that's medications for opioid use disorder, and it went very well. We did it in Titusville in connection with their opioid settlement funds that we had received. We had partnerships with Parish, Space Coast Health Centers, it was hosted at Recovery Connections, new Titusville location. Doctor.

Piado from Space Coast Health Centers and from Titusville from Parish, pardon me, did a great job presenting. I started off with my limited Spanish as an introduction, which they put up with. But it was really, really good. It really underscored the need to have more done in Spanish language when it comes to the addiction crisis, especially opioids. There's information that is going out, a lot of it, of course, of it in English.

There are places and pockets of people that are doing it in Spanish, but we're trying to help them coalesce. The energy in that room was very palpable, that there was now this movement to get that done. And not just resources, we do want that, obviously, and we are going to look into doing some of media campaign to get more of that message out in Spanish, but educational opportunities in their language. It's a large segment of Brevard County. We got assistance from I think Maya.

Maya came from the Florida Department of Health. She brought up a great idea about perhaps doing another educational event there. This one was targeted for professionals that speak Spanish. We were gonna just have the general community try to come, but because of the stigma and the lack of information about MAT, that wasn't necessarily going to bring in the people we wanted to bring in. So we felt if the professionals understood it, then they can explain it to their clients who speak Spanish, and get that information out first.

So we'll probably do another professional event, and have that be another catalyst for getting more movement in the community. So I wanted to bring that out for sure. Was really great. There'll probably be some subcommittee or sub Spanish language coalition that uplift gets going up for the providers. We have people there from Echo Connect's family support services as well that came out to help us and medical students that were bilingual that came, that Doctor.

Piato brought. Also, tomorrow, the nineteenth at ten a. M, we have our Uplift Drug Free Coalition meeting, it'll be virtual. We'll send out another reminder, most of you are on that list, and then I'll get it to Phoebe as well to make sure that any who are not still get that. At 10AM, we'll be giving some updates there.

And for those of you working in Brevard, Osceola, and Seminole Counties, please let us know about connecting. We are operating the coalitions for those other two counties as well, and I'll be getting out to those meetings. I saw you Omar at the meeting that we had last week over there. And I want to make sure that any resources or gaps that are needed in those areas we're told about, so we can help fill in any of those, and partner with agencies. We'll be presenting at Osceola's Opioid Task Force meeting this month, and mentioning some of that, and also doing a needs assessment.

And along with what Juanita brought it up as well, so we were also kind of double as the coalition for the county and opioid task force in the very beginning. And so with all of the work that you all have done to formalize that process, there's no need for us to have that moniker as opioid task force in Brevard County. So our coalition meetings will be coalition meetings for our agency, for our prevention work, but also we still support treatment recovery and obviously anything addiction related we feel it's all interconnected. Those meetings will probably be quarterly instead of every other month. We had it every other month to coincide with TIP because of everything kind of being incestuously connected.

So we'll be sending out more information about when those meetings will be and it'll give us time to have some larger presentations that will be prepared. I know the one we have tomorrow will be Tobacco Free Brevard, it's gonna be talking about point of sale, so that'll be really interesting to see how youths are still being caught up in the tactics of the tobacco and also the industry with vaping and how they've got data behind that. And then lastly, we still will be tracking trends. There's so much out there beyond fentanyl now where we'll be providing that information. We talked last time about metatomidine, we talked about, the THC products and the ones that will still test positive for THC that are kind of flying under the radar.

I know we also talked about salvia divinorm and all the names of things that are floating out there that are still making its way into our youths, you know, atmospheres and into their areas and their parties and into their social things. So, we'll be tracking that and providing info to you. That is it. Thank

you.

The next update is the Brevard Homeless Coalition. Good morning. Good morning. Thank

you for the time this morning. I wanted to share that, on May 6 we released our twenty twenty six point in time count numbers. I've got the, info graphic that we produce every year on the back table. This is really helpful for agencies who are one just need the data for their own agencies and for grant funding and just to get an overall picture of what homelessness looks like in our community. We've done this for the past I believe four years and so this is just that trend data that you can that you can see.

So I'd encourage you just to to kind of take a look at that. We did, as we did our 2026, point in time count, you know we surveyed those that were sheltered, sheltered in emergency shelter programs, transitional housing, and other shelter programs. And then, we do always do our unsheltered count, meaning, you know, we go into the woods, we've connected with those providers who are hosting outreach or access events like Providence Connects and LifePoint Ministries Matthews Hope some of our day shelters that are are bringing folks in. That we saw a 2% decline in homelessness that doesn't sound like a lot. So this year we we counted ten thirty nine.

Individuals experiencing homelessness. So that's a total of those that were unsheltered and sheltered. So that again was a slight decline. It still represents over a thousand of our neighbors that are living homeless. But it's been a very challenging year, so one of the things we did when we, presented these numbers to the community at our annual meeting was to do a three year look back and we've got that information on our website as well.

So if you wanna look at trends over the the last three years, we found that to be really helpful. It also coincided with the, will say kind of wrap up of our three year strategic plan, although we're going to continue with Housing and Healthy Brevard, that's our long term strategic plan. And I just, I want to point out a statistic that we looked at. First of all, our strategic plan, and I say our, I mean our continuum of care, so our 200 plus membership body that's involved in our strategic plan, we partially met or met 90 of our goals. And we're really just proud of that work.

It it's it takes all of us. It was all of us doing that together. And when we really looked at what that meant in terms of impact, when we look at all of the things that happened with our housing market, our job market, the systemic pressures that we have these days, and the housing interventions that we offer as a continuum of care, and the coordination of systems that we have in the partnerships, homelessness could have easily increased up to forty percent without all of us doing this work. So I think it's important to say that because sometimes we can look at these numbers and think, gosh, we're not seeing huge improvements, but we are seeing improvements. We are seeing how much worse it could be without this continuum of care.

So thank you to everybody who is a part of that and who is doing that work. That's really kind of the quick and dirty overview of what we saw with point in time count. Again, I just encourage everybody to take a look at the infographic. There's a lot of really good information from, what we're seeing with aging. We know anecdotally our, unsheltered population or homeless population is getting older. So that's, you know, that's

kind of

slowly ticking along the same. You know, we did see an increase in chronic homelessness. That's again a really good indicator of our systemic pressures that while we do have many in shelter, about fifty one percent of our, chronically homeless population is still living really rough. And that's obviously an area of focus. So again, encourage you to check out that.

The other thing I wanted to mention really briefly is that along with, my co partner Caroline, we are hosting our second annual agency resource fair on August 5. That's really like an agency to agency resource fair. We did that, last year. We just kind of said, let's do it. And it was really great. We had a lot of agencies learning about one another. Things like Better Together, which I hadn't heard of before, that would be an incredible resource for our continuum. So we're gonna do that again. We're planning for it now. We're gonna have a bigger space and do a couple of updates, but that will be on August 5.

So please be on the lookout for more information for that. Any questions? We are no. We need to find our space. So We've had a couple of ideas. Okay. Alright. Thank you. Okay. We will definitely do that.

We're doing the same thing. We're searching for that space. Gotcha.

Yeah. Yeah. That was one of the biggest things we heard last year was it was great. We didn't really know how many people would attend last year and it turns out a lot of people attended. And so our space was very tight last year and we just want to make sure we're in a better space this year.

Just a quick question. Does that cover you for your call?

Sorry. Wasn't Thank you.

No, that's great. And I look forward to having the one pager because it's always very helpful, especially sharing with our staff.

Yes. Yes. It's online as well. So you can access it online as well.

Okay, thank you so much.

All right, thank you.

One question in the back. The

agency resource fair, we really want

to stay focused on those that are working within the vulnerable population space. So those who are homeless, at risk of homelessness, experiencing homelessness. I think

we wanna stay kind

of in that

Thank you. Next we have Family Partnership of Central Florida.

Good morning. Phil just asked me to come talk about a project that we're recently working on. I'm hopefully a little bit shorter than he is in regards to, so I think you'll appreciate that a

little

bit. A little over a year ago, we were approached by a community agency Wings of Grace, you might have heard about them. They do a lot of stuff with helping youth learn how to fly like that was one of his main big projects. As he was working on that he learned about a lot of kids who were aging out of foster care and he was kind of praying about what the next thing looked like. He was led by God to create what was called Comfort in Place, and so about a year it's been in process.

The facility is completely built now, it's 24 units, one bedroom apartments that are for youth that are aging out of housing. So they also work with Brevard Housing Coalition and Ways for Life, and we've been able to get the voucher specifically for them. Just about a month ago, he was also able to get this 24 unit to be project based, which is really amazing because then that opens the door for it to also be community kits. So just recently, Ways for Life was able to move 15 community kits. So what happens with community kits sometimes is when a kid ages out, they have to decide whether they're gonna do extended foster care or not, and a lot of them, because by 18 they're done with those kind of rules about what that looks like, because you have to work or you have to be in school, or any of those kinds of other things that we say they have to do.

Right? So, we've had a little bit of a struggle filling some of those spaces with kids that have been formally enrolled. So this was a great opportunity for it to move to have community kids. So it is now full with 24 individuals. But the amazing thing about what Dwight with Wings for Grace has done also is that he has land and he wants to continue to do this.

And so he's already begun phase two, which is another 50 units, like right across the street. And his other dream, which I think is really amazing about this is he likes to also have some of those units set aside for seniors and start to bridge that gap between mentoring for senior adults and youth because of housing and homelessness issues. And so, when all of this was happening, Phil was obviously very excited about what it looked like, but it was still kind of missing a little bit of a piece because we had Ways for Life that's helping with things, FPOCF with what we're required to do, and then Dwight with what he wants to do, which is like the housing piece of it. So we started talking a little bit and we decided, or we talked about what we have with the Brevard Behavioral Health Expansion Grant and we're able to be able to offer a care coordinator that will be on-site. And they will then bring wraparound to all of the kids and then also as we grow.

So this is a really exciting opportunity to do that because that was part of it was missing is when all these things happen, we were missing some of the pieces about making sure that the youth were included in what that looks like and making sure that all the partners were connected and that we weren't just offering services, we were truly meeting the needs of what that youth needs to be successful.

So some of the great

things that Ways for Life has also done through this process is they've learned how to leverage the housing so while they're in these units they're able to put money aside for them to help them so as they transition out so they can help find permanent housing for them. So it's just a really cool exciting project. I think you may see I think the date is beginning June, there's an open house where you can come see the units. The amazing thing about what Dwight has really prioritized as a part of the units is to make sure that all the furniture that's there is brand new, and they're allowed to take it with them. Because he didn't want them to feel like, oh we're just getting stuff from kind of thrift store, what that looks like.

So part of his mission about it is to raise the funding that helps support that, and again, the youth can take it with them. And just the way that he built out what it looks like with appliances, with all of the things to make it look like a really nice place that you wanna live in and kind of set that expectation that we really are putting a lot of value into your trajectory moving forward. So, just wanted to share a little bit about that. You If you have community youth, I'm looking at Tracy a little bit. You can contact us or also like again, some of it's coming through Waze but we're building kind of the connection.

So we'll house NCFIEFPOCF, we'll house the care coordinator that will be the person that's on-site for that. So they'll have a better pulse of like what availability we potentially have but we really want to help build the pipeline in that prevention space as well, which the project base helps us do that a little bit better with the housing vouchers.

Yeah. Sure. How long are they

there for? It's not it's it's based on their so unfortunately, again, the housing kind of drives that, right? So it is a housing voucher. So there are some restrictions with that like we have with other housing section eight, all of those things, you can't have visitors for so long, you can't be doing drugs. There are some things that limit the time Gotcha. That they could be there. But typically, it's age based. So the housing voucher goes until 25.

Oh,

okay. Which is amazing because that's really that gap, right, is that '18 to '25. That housing voucher does go to '25, but by '25, we're really hoping to have a plan for it to be somewhere else that can be a little more permanent.

That's great. Excellent.

Yeah. Great update.

Amazing. Awesome.

Any other

questions? To your party? No. Senior helping seniors. Your best connection for getting those senior mentors and senior housing fees amazing in the senior world in Brevard County. Awesome. I have this number.

Happy to share. Thank you. CareerSource Brevard, Flagler and Volusia.

All right. Good morning again everyone. We continue to provide employees to get connected. We offer career workshops and other learning events, special training programs, job fairs and hiring events. The unemployment rate for Brevard County as of March is 4.7.

In February, it was 5.1 and in March, it was 3.6. So we're still on the high side of things. Our unemployment rate now matches the state's unemployment rate, so we're trying our best to engage our customers. I just wanted to mention a couple things. Aerospace and manufacturing job fair, that is being planned for May from 10AM to 1PM.

It's at the Aerospace and Defense Training Center and that is at 1415 Chaffee Drive in Titusville. So there are quite a few employers that are already signed up. Most employees are trying to fill jobs in aerospace assembly and production, advanced manufacturing and machining, aircraft maintenance and support, and quality control, logistics and technical operations. In terms of special training programs, I wanted to highlight, this, certified nursing assistant. That program is anywhere from six to nine weeks.

It's very short, but it's intended for individuals who truly want to work in that occupation. It's a very demanding occupation and so we find people who are coming to us because of the shortness of the program. They want to work in it. No, they want to get trained in it, but after they find out what's it it's involved, they don't want to work in it. So, as you continue to refer individuals to us, let's do some additional screening to let people know what that job actually entails and staff are trying to do the same as well.

Non custodial parent, that is still a program that we're going to continue offering and I also want to continue to highlight, the funding that we have for dislocated workers. Again, because the unemployment rate is hovering on the high side, we have gotten funding to help retrain So there might be people who, just need something else so they can get back into, into the world of work or people who completely need to change their occupation, to get into something that's more in demand. Thank you.

Questions?

Story. Made a referral last week, Caroline. He got connected. This was a man that had committed vehicular homicide at a very young age at 19 years old. Ended up in prison for thirty years because of his substance use. Found recovery in prison. He was never supposed to be released. He got released. And he came out, he's been out two years unable to find work and because of the recovery care grant he's now been able to work through their program to find placement and, very encouraged at the services that your organization has provided him so far. Thank you. Thank you.

You. Great story. The next update is from the Domestic Violence Task Force. Florida Department of Children and Families.

Okay. Good morning. Okay. So I just wanna give a couple updates what we're working on in Brevard with our, our DCF team and our our partners with our substance exposed newborns. So we have had specialized units working through investigations, case management and our providers like Healthy Start Healthy Families on those babies that come to the department's attention because they were exposed in utero to substances.

So we are implementing a new not a new, it's another training for our teams specific to that population. So it's something that we're just kind of working on. It's going to be over several months but different modules just for them to kind of understand what they're looking for, like drug identification, what should they look for for the families, their services, information, and also just assessment, how do we assess the families because the goal is to keep the families together in a safe setting. So really how do we keep those babies with their parents and or if they cannot, how do we reunify them quicker? So that's really our goal.

So we're working on that training this year. It'll be implemented hopefully this month. And just to give you some data for April, so I did pull our numbers. We had 31 children that did enter out of home care in April. There was six fifty two investigations that actually came into the county and of those, primary reason for removal was the drug abuse, parents' drug abuse, which is about sixty two percent of them, and the second highest reason for removal was domestic violence, which was about twenty six percent.

What we do see though is it's not one maltreatment, so we may get the substance misuse by the parent, but there could be domestic violence, inadequate supervision, there's usually typically more than just the one maltreatment. So anyway, but we had 15 exits out of home care, so through our case management, those children that did come into care over the past probably one to two years, they did exit out of home care. We do like to see those numbers higher than the entries, obviously, so we're working on permanency. I know family partnerships and family allies is always working on how do we get those children reunified quicker, safely, and then that's, you know, that obviously is the goal. And we do have our in Brevard early childhood court which is focuses on those cases that can hopefully be reunified, you know, quicker as the case plan progresses and just to give you an idea.

So, since January, so 2026, we've had three fatalities called into the hotline. One was the child unfortunately died due to medical causes. There's one that is currently open, it sounds like it was a developmental, the child essentially passed right at birth. And there was one that's sleep related, so the reason I want to share that with you is because the department gets those reports when there's an unexplained death. We don't get them if there's a medical that the doctor anticipating the child might pass, that kind of thing. It's more so if there's some reason usually we get all the drownings, safe sleep, those kind of things. So just wanted to kind of share that with you. I mean, is from May is good. I mean, I don't mean that in a bad way. It's just that we usually we have high numbers for water drownings and unsafe sleep.

So we're hopefully, know, keeping those initiatives and education out there to really get out to the families like we have kids cribs for kids and we have water safety resources. So hopefully we're catching those families and I know our team whenever they go out investigations, they're always talking to the families about the safe sleep environments and checking to make sure barriers are up or supervision in place for water safety. So just kind of wanted to share that with you if you have any questions. Well, actually, we're also working on a crossover youth training. Forgot about working on that with our DJJ partner. So we're going to do that in June as well for our teams, really, again, just to kind of help them understand what all our agencies do, keeping these children from entering either DJJ or DCF care further, so that's what

we're working on now. Any questions for Tracy? Okay, we will move to the Department of Juvenile Justice.

Good morning again. Just a couple of numbers. Looking at our numbers that we pulled, currently we have in Brevard, we have 130 kids that are on active probation. We have two twenty two that are intake cases that are not disposed of. We have seven kids that are currently on electronic monitoring.

And we have 16 kids that are considered intensive supervision probation kids, meaning that these kids are the kids that are on a higher spectrum. These are the kids that require additional supervision based on the statutory rules that assign that. And those include sex offense, firearm charges, and gang relations. So that number has kind of stayed consistent, but that's a lot of our work as far as our staff going out to see those kids, making contact with their referral sources, and also making contact with the schools. There's mandatory contacts related to that as well.

Our diversion numbers stay pretty regular as well. I would say as far as our diversion, one of the concerning things is the lack of diversion numbers, meaning we have enough kids that are being arrested, but not being referred to diversion. Meaning those kids that are misdemeanor that qualify, they're being arrested instead of going to diversion. The concern about that is that those kids the success rate for those kids are higher. Meaning if those kids get involved in diversion, which means they have accountability, but they don't have to wait for that court process to go on.

So what that means is, those kids within twenty four hours are in services, and they don't have to wait for that court process, which normally takes anywhere six to nine, and sometimes in some cases, a year for that to be resolved. The concern there is that kids can get additional charges. There's no services, not only with them, but as Department of Children and Family, Family Partnership of Central Florida will tell you, is that the absence of services mean that other things can happen. Additional charges, relationship with the family. So we try to get those diversion services in place as soon as possible.

So we're really working to get those diversion numbers up. We're having conversations with the judges, public defenders, state attorneys, and even our community providers that would refer them, our law enforcement partners that would refer them to ensure that these kids get that opportunity. Because again, those kids that get involved, they have above well above 90% chance of not seeing those kids again. Absent of that, then the recidivism rate, the rate to reoffend, drastically goes up. So really our push, I would say, in 2026, 2027 is to work those numbers where we're getting higher diversion numbers.

And our Juvenile Justice Circuit Advisory Board meeting, the next one that's a quarterly meeting, the next one is July 16. As the Cab Chair, one of our subcommittees is pre arrest delinquency citation, which is that diversion piece that I shared with you. And then we have our student achievement subcommittee with that as well. And with that, I'll take any questions.

Hearing none, Madam Chair. Thank you. We are

moving to the National Center for Innovation and Excellence.

Good morning, everyone. My name is Ruby Washington with the National Center for Innovation and Excellence. We are an arm of family partnerships with Central Florida where we manage the SAMHSA grant, Brevard Behavior Health Expansion grant, and also do high fidelity wraparound training. I do have some numbers to report for our year two, quarter two of the grant. And this is a report from our system of care, and this is the individuals who received services.

We have two thirty two people who received care coordination or case management. We have one hundred and fifty five individuals who were referred to mental health or related services this quarter. We have 12 individuals who received diagnostic and evaluation services. For outpatient services, we have thirty five individuals. For our twenty four hour mental health crisis emergency services, we have 10 individuals.

For intensive home based services that was 55 individuals. We have 67 individuals for respite care, seven for therapeutic foster care, and three transition to adult services. As far as our impact on the community, we had 23 who were wraparound practitioners who participated in high fidelity wraparound training during this quarter. Two zero five care coordinators participated in wraparound principles and values training. We also attended the BPS Community Career Resource Fair and the Child Welfare Professional Resource Fair.

Last week, we also did a wrap around, four day wrap around training which we just wrapped up last Thursday which we will continue to do wraparound training. If anyone is interested in that, you can either contact myself or Catherine. And that's all.

Thank you.

Any questions? Thank you.

And our final member's report is the Brevard County Sheriff's Office.

Happy Monday. Happy Monday. I

apologize, had to step out for a minute so I don't know if anybody brought it up but was there any comments about the governor being in town last week about the opiate? Well, were blessed. The governor attended Brevard County to speak on our efforts and the statewide efforts on the decline and addiction of opiate abuse. And it was kind of a really good feeling. Came to ground zero, and I don't want to call Brevard County ground zero, but were, he was here to speak about the passion in Brevard County for the prevention efforts.

I thought it was really incredible that he chose Brevard County to come speak to. I can't thank you all enough for everything that you do to make that the point of why the governor came here to speak. On behalf of the Brevard County Sheriff's Office, thank you very much. I have no other reports unless there's any comments or questions.

Thank you, sir.

Yeah. Did did anybody know he was coming?

I didn't know about it until Monday morning.

That's off that's often how it is. And that's one

Didn't know about it. Didn't hear anything about it.

Yes. Report. Yeah. That in writing or if somebody taped it or.

So, you open up a can of worms, sir.

I I will just say that

I read more about the release in the Florida today than I actually was released at the meeting. The meeting was very well. He he came here to praise. We got to speak to him beforehand and a little bit afterwards. The comments that were stated were were well taken. I mean, he's very proud about everything that's occurring in Brevard. I mean, one death, and not just Brevard, it's statewide. One death is too many. But the opportunity to say, hey, we're getting a little bit of a foothold here, and we're being able to drop some numbers, I thought was very important. I will be more than happy to try to research some of the other comments of any reports that he may have released and I will send it to the board.

Thank you.

Thank you.

That would be very nice. We rarely hear positive comments, so it's good when they come out, especially from the state level. That would be amazing.

Moving from our members report, we do have one item for unfinished business. That's gonna be the approval of the tip meeting minutes from January 26. Were there any changes or do we have a motion?

Chairman,

ask for approval of the minutes for the 01/26/2026 meeting.

I'll second that motion. Okay.

All those in favor of approval?

Aye. Those

opposed? Okay. We have the minutes approved. All right. Our next item is to put forward a vote for Melissa Brandt from Recovery Connections of Central Florida.

Since you've now approved your January minutes, you have some unfinished business which would help with this next agenda item.

Currently, I'm following our agenda, so I am going to stay on track and move to our new business.

But you have old business outstanding.

Okay.

It's it's noted in your minutes under the new business, which would now become our old business, which you just approved, the board discussion did create the ad hoc committee. They were to review the TIP resolution and review the membership of all of these current organizations and come up with a recommendation to the board today that would have happened from your ad hoc committee if that had been their primary task from your minutes. So we need to know if membership and the reason I bring this up is because being also a previous employee of RCC they pretty much deal with adults and my understanding is that your committee now here that is focused back on its tip agenda is children and so that would not be an appropriate at large membership request at this time. It would be more appropriate for the new committee that the Ad Hoc Committee just added which is your opioid I don't know what the name of it is. Does it have a name?

So that was part of the update that Juanita gave at the beginning of the is to separate the two functions.

Exactly.

Yeah. So if we could proceed with this item, we'll this next item, we'll talk about that a little bit.

Would this person even still be eligible for that's my question.

Yes. This is an open membership for those that are involved in community needs. So we're gonna, right.

So it'd still be relevant as an adult to be.

So we're gonna move forward with our new business, which is to vote on Melissa Brant from Recovery Connections of Central Florida as a tip at large member.

So chair, my position at this point is that we should not be adding any additional members at this time until the decision of the ad hoc committee on the future of the TIP committee. Because at that ad hoc meeting, and I know that they're going to continue to meet, but there is potentially the determination of whether the TIP in its current format will continue. And so I think until that decision is made, we should not be adding additional members at this point. Nothing against Recovery Connections, nothing against Melissa, I think they're both doing excellent work in the community, but part of my comments have been for some time now is the size of this group, and if we're talking about the future of the TIP committee, I don't think we should be adding additional members until we know what the future of the committee or group or whatever we want to call it is going to be. So I don't think we should be adding any additional members.

Do we need to take a motion to delay that for a future meeting?

I'd be interested in anybody else's comments or feedbacks if there is any or not. Have a comment. My

position is as long as the tip is still the tip, it should move forward like the tip. So that would be new membership under the current bylaws. So that would be my only thing because we don't know when that will happen. And I'm just concerned that just waiting for that to happen would create a delay in any decision. Whatever decision that we make related to the tip, whether it be next month, the following month, that's then. But right now, we're operating as the tip.

Can I don't know if I don't want to put Stephanie on the spot, but is Melissa asking on behalf of Recovery Connections in part because of the community alliance portion of the tip or is she asking because of the opioid connection?

Very good question. Okay.

That may be answered through how she, provided her request for consideration, whether she provided that as the individual or as the representative of Recovery Connections?

For that, I'm not sure, but I think she wants to be a representative for Recovery Connections.

Yeah, she's definitely representing Recovery Connections but to Laura's point, is she trying to be part of the community alliance or is she trying to be part of the opioid? Would she be both? If they're gonna be separate? If they're gonna be, but well I do have concerns about her sitting on the opioid portion because she is an applicant, she then has a conflict of interest.

So I believe there's separation between the at large member for TIP and then the function of what we're moving forward with with the ad hoc for the abatement funds, but we're waiting on that to be formally recognized, correct?

Well, there's two parts based on that ad hoc meeting. So my understanding, and correct me if I'm wrong Anita, since Juanita's not here, my understanding is for sure the advisory committee related to the opioids is moving forward.

Correct, yes.

So the opioid advisory committee, that is being pulled out of the TIP. That will completely be a separate entity.

Correct.

So that portion, that is separated. The next discussion that the Ad Hoc Committee is going to have, and we really need the input from DCF, that's kind of why it wasn't resolved at the meeting last week, is if the TIP Committee, the way it stands at this point, what does that committee look like going forward? The discussion that was was had during the Ad Hoc Committee is it really doesn't seem at this point that the function of this group really falls under Brevard County government, that this is a Brevard County government meeting. It doesn't seem to me as a government employee, to some of your Brevard County Staff, that this really is a Brevard County government function. They don't need to be creating agendas, they don't need to be taking minutes at these meetings.

This meeting could occur without Brevard County government's involvement. So that was the discussion during that meeting. Without Brevard County government being involved, you all as community partners have much more flexibility to be able to have your meetings and have your discussions because you lose your sunshine law compliance, all of that. You can talk about whatever you want with

each other.

Well, not fully because it is still in statute, the alliance.

The alliance, yes, the alliance is in the statute, but the discussion at the meeting was, and not to get too far into it at this meeting again, but the discussion was what it what is right now the role of the alliance? That that's why you guys need to talk about it Right. Again. So I'm just saying the opioid part, that is going that is becoming separate. That resolution is gonna go to the the Brevard County Commission, I think we said in July. July. July. Because they don't meet in June. So we are gonna pull that apart. That's gonna be separate. I just think until we've resolved what is gonna happen with the future of the tip, we should put a pause on adding new members to the group.

Other comments?

I need to just add, the remark I

gave the health expansion grant

is actually required and written into the SAMHSA grant that is monitored by Brevard County's office. So that would be one of the other main functions that TIP has had was also required to provide behavioral health. Monitored by who?

By this group, by TIP.

How is this group monitoring it now?

By the report out and by our direct communication with

So is your county staff monitoring that or this just you coming and reporting is monitoring it?

At this point it's us coming and reporting this. Okay.

So in in my opinion and not having read your grant, that can still be an informal meeting, a stakeholders group, whatever that needs to be without the involvement of Brevard County government is is what we're saying. Right. So, right.

We will have an regardless of the Brevard County government

because they're doing

it right statutorily. Will have that so but right now it's still under the resolution until 2027. My understanding, so I guess that's why we're trying to meet again so we can figure out when that will change because my understanding this was good till the 2027 date but.

Not for

the water. Monday.

Yes. Please do.

When our organization was added to the standing agenda, the primary purpose was the opioid task force report. So as I mentioned earlier since we've opened that in this new business section which was just going to be about that, I don't think we need to be on the agenda, I mean unless we're put back on it for another purpose as a coalition but to have uplift reporting just on what we do as much as I enjoy doing that and I think we shared good information, that was the main reason for us to be on the

agenda. Okay.

If we're considering all of that, that probably should be also

the one Well, to Laura's point earlier, was my understanding that these member reports were the standing members, but they're not.

They're not. So

I think we do need to look at some point as we go forward, and and we may not meet again prior to that resolution. Yeah. But we probably need to look at the or or the rest of you because maybe I won't be here. The format of this agenda, but that 's for you guys.

You were all outstanding members.

Correct. Correct. And I'm not on here. I don't give a report. Pompeii doesn't give a report. This makes host leave the cities doesn't give a report. Madam Chair, she

has her hand up. So you brought new language into this and if this is a one on one conversation I'm happy to have you mentor me through it. But you mentioned alliance versus the TIP resolution and that the TIP resolution is good. I think I heard you say until 2027 which is sitting under the alliance. So is this one and the same? Is this this something greater than the tip? Help me understand Yeah,

this is so tip's been in place longer than me have been around here. When the statute first came out through DCF that said every county needs to have a community alliance which is the alliance, It's actually in statute all these members are listed. Before I ever heard of the tip, they had come together, the county said yep we want to partner, we're going create this tip, they just call it a That's just the name of it. Everywhere else, every other county, it's called the Children's Community Alliance or Children's Alliance, whatever. It's but it serves that purpose, right?

So years ago, they decided they I mean, it's always been under the county as far as I've known. It's always been under the county as as a resolution. So when we created the bylaws and the resolution several years ago, we just added that language saying these are the people we need because this is per statute, but you can have other members. It clearly says in statute, you can have whoever. This group can be as big as you want it to be, and it does it is for children and families, so it's not just child focus.

We're talking about parents, right, too. So caregivers, our elderly grandparents who are taking care of children, all those people play a part the alliance. So that's really so it will exist regardless of how it but like in Seminole, Omar and I, we do we have a chair, we have co chair, we have secretary, we meet regularly, so it still exists in all of our counties. It just looks different county. In each county.

Yeah. And then

community alliance continued.

That's what I'm hearing. What we're discussing. That's what they're proposing. Correct.

So really hearing kind of two pieces of feedback, those that would like to delay that approval because there are, decision points coming for what TIP will look like and whether serves specifically as an alliance and that full separation from abatement and those that see that tip, is still in structure right now. Are there any other comments regarding those two views? To move this forward, do we need to put forth a vote to delay the discussion pending additional information from ad hoc pending?

I can make a motion to delay the appointment of a representative from recovery connections until the outcome of the ad hoc committee discussion.

When

is

the ad hoc committee meeting?

I believe they're working on coordinating the schedules for them to meet again.

Yeah, we're trying to schedule now for next meeting.

So it would be before our meeting in July?

Hopefully it will be, yes.

Okay, so by our July meeting we would maybe have

a report.

Yes. A report with a specific understanding that this is shifting more for that alliance. Right. Okay. With that information at hand, do we want to just go ahead and put put forth that motion then To delay.

Yeah, made a motion. Okay.

So I don't

know if there's a second.

Is there a second to

I'll second. Okay.

All in favor? Aye. All of those opposed? Okay. We have met that to delay until the July meeting.

Can I also, madam chair, before we get into public comments, Anita, I think we also said at the last meeting that we were gonna get a viewing of the space for recovery video? Could we get that on the next?

We'll I will get

it on

the next

one. Okay. Thank you.

And now we will move to public comments. Okay. We will go in order of how they were received. Elizabeth Fierce with Ecker Connects speaking on the yellow card update.

Hello, I am Elizabeth with Ecker Connects. And we just wanted to give everybody an update that we are in the final stages of updates and reviews this week on the yellow card. We got a very, very good response on new agencies to be added to the card. Because of that, because we only have limited space, we have the digital one and so that will be a full extensive list of the agencies. And we are also providing a QR code on that yellow card so that whoever has a yellow card and they just need more than what's on there, they can go ahead and scan that and then they'll have access to the full list.

And like I said, we're in the final stages this week before it goes to the printers and we will keep everybody updated as soon as they get printed and they're ready to be passed out.

And will you remind them what's on the card?

What

its purpose is? Go ahead.

Have your question.

It's the substance use and mental health resource card. So mean, we all know about the blue card, which has like a full list of a variety of different resources. This one is specific to mental health and substance abuse misuse for youth and adults.

My question, I don't if maybe if you don't know or Sarah or maybe somebody else in the room will know. What is the difference between the yellow card and the blue card and the asset mapping that is going on? Does anyone know?

Go ahead.

Just because I there's this huge effort for the asset mapping, but then we always hear about the yellow card and the blue card, and I just I'm wondering, like, is there a duplication there or are they different things?

No. So asset mapping is really an output of our regional work groups. Okay. So the regional group work groups take a really hyper local approach to, building connections, building trusted partnerships, strengthening referrals. So, people in the work group are working on asset mapping as an output to that, to visual representation. Okay. Right now, it's provider to provider, so it's internal. Okay. It's not public facing at the moment. And, and it's really it's really, a matter of I know you and you know me.

I can look you in the eye and say, is this a valid referral? Okay. Is your information current? So some of the the these regional work groups are working on asset mapping, meet monthly, and they update their resources monthly. Okay. Because we know how quickly things change in terms of, like, grant funding and what you can offer and whether maybe you've met your capacity and you can't take any more clients. Those are the kinds of conversations that happened during those meetings. So it's a it's a near real time look

Okay. At assets. But the yellow card and the blue card is public facing. They are public facing.

Okay. That's They're wonderful resources, and great places for people to call. There are also things that we talk about during the meetings too. Okay. So the the the regional work groups are the asset mapping and Okay. Got it. So they're a bigger, broader mission. Okay. Thank you. But there's near near real time resources, things are constantly updated. They're visually mapped is really the goal.

Okay. But internal? Right now, internal. Perfect. Got it. Thank you very much guys.

Thank you. Questions about the yellow

card? Okay.

Just I would one is to answer the other part of Rebecca's question So too, the yellow card was designed more for substance abuse and mental health services. The blue card has been around longer. That was really a captive created child abuse prevention task force. Know, child abuse prevention resource. Yeah.

Is like, there

are asset mapping tags that can be everything from housing to animal services to senior services to justice involvement. That we're looking, it's organized around the 10 root causes of child poverty through

the border prosperity project. So it's really more encompassing than our specific. Okay.

Thank you. Sorry for that sidebar. No, that's a

good point.

Yeah. Just to give, you know, experience to what happens when you're working with somebody that's kind of in crisis in that moment, the beauty of the blue card is you can look to see if there's a food pantry, maybe an agency to help with childcare, maybe an agency to help with job placement. It's broken out into all of those kind of wraparound areas. And then when you hit on substance use and mental health, if we only have one section, we all know that there are so many differences between outpatient and inpatient and youth services and adult services, and then crisis hotlines. And so we put those on a separate card so that that was part of the need, we could provide enhanced opportunity to determine, like, what are they looking for, so how quickly can we get them making phone calls or calling a crisis line.

The other piece of history is that this was an action item that came out of the Brevard Opioid Misuse Task Force from the Treatment and Recovery Subcommittee because

Education Prevention the Education Committee.

Law enforcement was asking us for resources and we knew we wanted to beef up 02:11 at our healthcare and treatment and recovery subcommittee meeting. We talked about resources for law enforcement and for other agencies in the community and so those tasks, This is an action item that came out of the task force. And I believe the blue card if you're still publishing it is coming from Family Partnerships of Central Florida, I believe.

From captive. Yes. It's from who? The child abuse prevention. Child abuse prevention. Captive. Who

who okay. That's who publishes it. Where do we get copies of it? Because I recently had a request for more copies of this. Yeah. So as far as copies, we can give on the agency like 50 per quarter. And where did they pick them up from you? From the Ganny Marsh's office on Realmar. Realmar, actually. 450 Realmar.

You, Elizabeth. Alright, I'm gonna keep moving, we have two more, Laura McCarthy for the Brevard Recovery Fest.

So I'm wearing green for National Mental Health Month. Yes. Everyone's celebrating National Mental Health Month. Our mental health event was huge success on Tuesday at the Melbourne Auditorium. We had 44 vendors and we are so appreciative of all the community support that happened. We had over 200 attendees, three presentations in the morning with free CEUs for nurses and all licensed practitioners, CAPS, and peers, which was awesome. We we did it at the Melbourne Auditorium. We're looking to move it to the Aison Center next year. There's a tip for you. Aison Center is just a fantastic price, but also allows us to bring our outside food back.

So I've already got Squid Lips and Chris Kinneen from the pizza gallery giving me bids to bring us back to having some food to be able to provide, because we weren't able to provide that this year. I have a question for you guys. Of course, you know, the fest is coming in September. If you haven't registered, now is the time to do it. Brevard Recovery Fest, we still have plenty of space for, vendors and sponsors for the event. So thank you for all of you that have already registered. We appreciate you. The county committee that's looking to add the new committee to make sure I'm I just aware it was for The Fest.

I've got another card. I just want to make sure

I just have a real quick question.

I think she's allowed to speak

can from whatever speak even

off top off I believe whatever her allotted time is, she

Okay. So it doesn't have to be on the I

just want to know it'll be open to the public. That's it. I'll just drop that. Will it be open to the public? The second question, who's managing the website? Because one of the promises of the website is that it will provide services, and it would be really nice to have a resource page. People could click on it. Organizations like you, the Fest, Coalitions, all that you do could have a logo that when you click on the logo, it would open up to the site. So if we could create that right now the website Is this a county run site? Who's managing the website? Space For for recovery.

We're working with our IT department to get that up and running. We were looking at it last week. So it's our we will be running it, but we have IT looking into it right now as far as setting up stuff.

Okay. So just want to make that recommendation of having a resource page, then how could our resources could you send out a link that they could send in information so they could be added as a resource to the

Once we get everything set up, we will work on doing that.

Thank you. That's it. Okay.

And I have one more speaker card. Stanley for a future tip agenda with Uplift.

You actually already covered it in the last piece really for the most part. So I will just use part of my time to also thank Florida Healthy Start for helping the Spanish language MAT training, Central Florida Cares as well for supporting that and Central Florida Treatment Center. The piece that I had written the card on was for this yeah, if we need to be on future TIP agenda since our original purpose for being on it no longer really is needed. That was it. So and if we need to speak to that, we can always do a comment card too until TIP figures out what it's doing and use this moment to report on coalition things. Thank you all.

Thank Sam.

Thank you,

Thank you.

Okay. Those are the final announcement that I have. I think we are going to move to adjournment. Do I have a motion?

You have a motion, Chair.

Okay. A second? Second. All in favor of adjournment? Aye. Okay. We are adjourned.

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