BEBA Board Report 6/18/01

 

Report on Grants - $9000 coming this month

SB Foundation turned us down, reasons shared with Dorothy Adler

Board not meeting often enough

Not enough community support

Veneco applied to for capital equipment

Turned down. BEBA not familiar to them, no one at Veneco going to bat for us. They listen to their employees. Anyone know someone at Veneco whom they would like to approach? [DA voluteered to talk to Mike Edwards after SB Treasures which Veneco is one of the sponsors of this. Veneco's budget this year was $800,000. Gas and oil company, should be flush]

Karuna Foundation

Granted $5000 June 2001 toward program.

BEBA's first local grant!

This was their highest possible amount

Small local foundation, in 1999, $22,000 given biannually

Head of foundation, Christiane Walt, known Ray for many years,

Christiane knows Dorothy who has talked about BEBA a lot to her

Site visit, before arriving BEBA their favorite, after visit even stronger

Szekely Family Foundation Ð thanks Michael

$4000 granted June, 2001

Michael Brightwood's wife's family's Foundation

2nd year, last year, end of 1999, gave BEBA $5000

Doesn't need an application or report

 

v    Report on BEBA's program

¯    Seeing 10-12 families/week on Tuesday and Wednesday + phone support + new baby at home support.

¯    Ray developing new structures for working with families: seeing parents by themselves, seeing father only with child as well as mom-child and parent-child.

¯    Jean and Nancy about to finish with one family seeing together, seeing one other family each with Ray, all the rest of families see Ray.

¯    Current videotaping staff:

¤       Philippa Dinnen, graduate of UK training, taking summer off

¤       Tanis Marble, SBGI student, not in Ray's training

¯    New staff coming Ð all will start as videotapers part time

¤       Tara Blasco, graduate of Foundation Training, craniosacral therapist, polarity therapist, psychologist from Spain coming to SB for 3 years to study at SBGI, coming in July. On student visa, cannot be paid anything.

¤       Cheriona Menzam, O.T., finishing Ph.D. degree in Pre and Perinatal Psychology, on faculty at SBGI, will take Foundation Training starting April, 2001, moving to SB and starting in September. Taking c/s therapy course.

¤       Brita Egg-Henrikson, craniosacral therapist, graduate of Foundation Training, from UK, coming for several months in January.

¯    BEBA to be featured in SB Treasures. We postponed until next year since we didn't have the brochure ready which they asked for.

¯    Ray, Jean, Nancy giving 3 hour presentation June 26th at Great Beginnings, staff meeting. Great Beginnings, a parent support program including weekly home visits, part of CALM (Child Abuse Listening Mediation).

¯    Ray and Nancy went to a Mamatoto group early June. One family called about coming. The money is stopping them.

¯    Supporting 2 families where parents are splitting up.

 

v    Families' Payments

¯    Great Beginnings talk may result is referrals of families with minimal income.

¯    Some families who call don't start because of the cost.

¯    Most who start at BEBA at the amount we ask for decide it is worth it and continue. Sometimes they come less often than therapeutically ideal.

 

v    Financial Report Ð see Budget

¯    Budget Review Ð see year to date budget, income and expenses

¤       With the $9000, BEBA closer to being able to meet its goals.

¤       Before $9000, BEBA owed Castellinos about $5500 for camcorders, tapes, plus Sandra's May and June work, phone, copies, etc.

¤       $3500 [$9000 - $5500) will go toward new UPS ($350-$400 backup for computer power failures), $1000 Filemaker consult [to be done on Sandra's computer], tapes for sessions ($600-900 bought in bulk to save money) having $800 in account so don't incur service charge, leaves about $1000 toward other program expenses. It is not enough to buy a computer, camera or printer/scanner.

Sandra submitted revised budget submitted to Karuna, slightly different than approved at last meeting, asking for ok of this budget.