 Okay, so so we're going to go ahead and get started. So if I could have the volunteer from the education group Come up here. The person who's going to just give us the one two quick things that to take away from the group education we had a great group and talked about a number of issues the information issue the need for training for volunteers was an issue, but where what we decided to do was to organize an email exchange where one school starts and information becomes available will exchange that and then as people have ideas They're going to continue to chime in on that on that discussion So that's where we're headed and we look forward to the meeting in three weeks And by that time we'll have most of the solutions to all the problems And if other folks want to plug in what that group is there a contact person a point person for the education group You'll be the person so please get in touch with him and share contact information if someone from another group wants to get involved So then the advocacy group the larger one. Do we have someone who's going to come up and represent that group? I'm Jorge Montiel and I Tried to facilitate the big group We we had a lot of ideas and we got to the what not so much to the how So that's the work that we have in front of us Number one meet with our elected officials primarily our congressman especially since they are in recess That's one one important step We talked about doing advocacy to the greater community and we broke that up in in two levels one The face-to-face kind of advocacy with community groups Primarily through our churches because we already connected that way to bring the message That we've been learning here to them And and that includes other any other community groups that we may be part of and Then finally that the second part of that advocacy is that more of the public more the media approach to it More of the public displace of welcoming somebody called it Whether that be a rally whether that is going to city council and asking them to pass a resolution etc, so meeting with elected officials Number two having face-to-face conversations with groups for people primarily in our churches number three the the media strategy the the public displace of welcoming and And again, how are we gonna do that? Who knows but if you want to be part of this? I'm sure we'll find a way to do it Okay, so for the detention visitation folks that met Okay, and Halina Ryan and we formed three Main people who are going to be in charge of our detention Visits and and other aspects within the detention Center as well, and they are John Donahoe who is a pastor at Karn's What is your church? Presbyterian church Paul Pfeiffer who is already involved with the detention center at Karn's and Matt Russell who has come all the way from Houston, and he is also involved and Matt is going to take over the hospitality for lawyers pro bono volunteer lawyers Who need someplace to stay when they come in? So the four Points that we've put together our first job is to contact American Gateway and build up our relationship with them with our group and Paul has already a Relationship which will be a great help. It's already begun for us The second point we're going to do is identify individuals that we know Who want to come and visit? to the detention center and The third point we're going to have an orientation for those visitors You know with discussing the language and culture and Make sure that they're proficient in their visitation and And the fourth point is we will implement all this and We and within that implementation. We are Thinking of having a vigil outside the detention center to show Support for those within Have I left anything out? Okay, okay, and I think pastor John Donahue And Paul Pfeiffer they're going to Coordinate this effort together. They are co-chairs Very good report back Now saving the best group for last the community integration one who wants to present Yeah, kitty knows I love public speaking Our group is very enthusiastic and we are looking at basically three points to work on One is gathering the various foster families who have these kids in their homes to gather for potluck and Find out what they need for us to do to support them to help them out The second one is to reach out to put La Posada Guadalupe Where the aged out kids are to reach out to them to see what we can provide them with? Teaching English helping them with their schoolwork or getting their GED Whatever kind of help we'll have to reach out to them to to find out what they need for us to do to support and then following up with the third item is La Trinidad Has quite a few events throughout the year and they're a very Hispanic cultured church And that will be inviting the foster families and the kids to different church events Where they will be in a culture of Spanish speakers and get to know people and get to know some of the people from the Other churches around so that they may reach out to any of those churches. I know who I am I'm Susan trawl. I'm with St. Andrew Presbyterian Church We really didn't get there but I guess since I have a microphone in my hand I will be glad to I am publicly agreeing to that yes Thanksgiving potluck that the church is already having and Inviting the different foster families of the kids and the aged-out kids to attend So that they'll get to know some of the church members as well as members from other churches So they'll be inviting, you know people from all the different various areas because we don't know where these guys live I think somebody was asking what church was that answered Okay Is there another group or other folks from the health or other folks that have anything to add do we cover everyone? They were Okay, so I'm gonna pass it back to I believe Harvey to wrap up Education we did that first that was Eugene Heilman Okay, that was I think the first report Okay Looking at the clock. It's already well after no that clock this Well, we're actually doing very well on time. So once again, thank all of you for your punctualness, you know, I am chronically Non-punctual so yes, I see a question Good question I was about to say yes I don't have a email so what I need from you is a mailing address so that I can mail it to you with a stick Okay, and so we'll capture that before you leave Alyssa may still Alyssa right here with her hand up the young lady in the back would love to get your mailing address So so while that's happening What I was gonna say is what we're gonna do is update the attendance roster and again That's designed to be emailed to the entire group So hopefully I have your email address if we don't and or if you don't have one and want to have a posted stamped version Get get with Alyssa and we'll make that happen We think communicating what we do is vital to this community effort And so we think the most important thing we can do is to report who was here and and and advise You know when the next one is coming up and and keep everybody posted and we do that mostly nowadays through email So that's why that the second part is we're gonna try and get Not a set of minutes necessarily but notes and maybe you got those last time and we talked a lot last time So we're gonna try and keep to the bullet points you just heard So we're gonna ask each of the I don't want to call you committee chairs But the points the shepherds the points of contact We've just established to be able to get with me so that we can put into a report format a Summary of what each group has done and if your group has agreed to meet next week or tomorrow or later this afternoon Whenever before the september 20th September 11th time We would like to hear once again the report out of what that happened so that we can send it out Quickly to the group so we don't all have to wait to come to September 11th and then spend the entire time hearing What's old news effectively so lots of activity lots of action and thank you once again I know you were very patient last time to hear a lot of things now We are talking together very important and and what will be happening in the next days and weeks is we are gonna start moving and Actually doing some things so thank this community for that effort Eugene Hyman is gonna close us in prayer here in just a minute. Are there any questions at this point? Any questions about where we are and what we're doing? So to repeat the detention subgroup is gonna hear later this afternoon an invitation to when your next Gathering will happen So look for that by email this afternoon Now do you have all of your group's email addresses? Okay, so so they're good to go. Yes, ma'am The picture If we get this digitally we can distribute it to everyone digitally and So if you want to send it to is let's see flora actually I think on all of the information the communicator in my office is flora and you're welcome to send anything you want To be distributed to the group to her She has the distribution list and we'll be able to do some forwarding Until such time as this group becomes maybe a bit more formal and we actually have Someone who could be the secretary in serve in the capacity of information sharing as we've heard That's gonna be a very important role for this group as we move forward So once again this group right now is just a collective of 50 churches a number of Non-profit community orgs and maybe we do want to get a little more formal as time goes by see a question And I see the mic No, I just wanted to ask the group if you felt okay like it for our Organizing committee to be the one that can talk to the press and different things like that because like today channel four was here W. O. A. I and I asked the man, you know some questions. He says I don't know who to talk to here I said well the people that are up here giving the information so I said to To you that are organized it. I mean can you be the spokespersons in a sense when we see the media coming? Because we did get a good article in the paper last time, but some of the coverage You know on the television stations was more about it's about 20 people that were Down at the Mexican consulate protesting So, you know just some way for you to feel empowered that you know when the press comes that we have someone to say You know Yes, exactly, okay, so that was a suggestion and not yes The lady in the front and then the gentleman in the back. Oh Okay, I see an agreement here that I like quick answers the gentleman in the back All right, so so are we to the point where we would like to do that? Because we need to wrap up so it'll be a real quick so what we talked about earlier was that maybe we call this the community coalition for immigrant children and families Which would be CCICF if you're into that Do I just want to see a quick show of hands? Do we like that name? Do we want to call ourselves that show of hands? Say it again, por favor We want to use the word No So so how about a show of hands for those who are opposed to this name anybody opposed see one Okay, we do want to be all-inclusive, but that's two We're just We've heard there was a there was an issue here with media and a concern that maybe the group needed to be somehow Empowered to speak and Okay, I think I think that was one one possibility that the So the question so the question so is there room for us is the question and and the suggestion was to add that name And I see and I see a hand over here And the word refugee So there's been so just to repeat there's been a suggestion To the original suggestion that maybe the word immigrant be be changed to refugee And so so if we have any more discussion, then we're gonna have to move this to the next meeting Okay, so and I'm willing to talk about this as long as we need to but if there was a consensus to do it now I would say yes, but I see maybe we want to talk about this further So I so I hear that we would like to talk about this further and I think that's appropriate So we'll table that for right now To get back to your question the conveners of this once again were Presbyterian disaster assistance, and I'm that spokesperson Harvey Howell and the San Antonio area Voluntary organizations active in disaster and the acting president right now is Eugene Hylman Who is also a Methodist and with umcor and so those were the two conveners? But the sort of working staff has been Kelly Allen whom you've heard from several times who's been involved in the Presbyterian Immigration Task Force for several years now She's been working on this for some time and our very special Workaholic Jonathan who is still in the room in the very back resting right now Jonathan with Raisi's who has been sort of the lead organization and has so much Information and has been really on the front line And so that was the last pitch before Jean came up Which was to say we we talked very briefly about a subgroup down here that might be involved in fundraising and donations And so you know from my viewpoint if someone in the room is just dying to write a check to something or someplace Raisi's looks like a pretty good place to me, and I'm gonna so recommend to the Presbyterian Funding piece of this that that perhaps that's a great destination for some funding They've been doing this pro bono for several several months, and as you just heard the forecast is he's gonna have a busy 2015 So, you know if you're looking for a place to send money. That's that's probably The best bang for the buck that I can think of right now Obviously more things will be emerging as time goes by