2021-11-04 Board of Health Minutes

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Town of Reading i Meeting Minutes Board - committee - Commission - Council: Board of Health Date: 2021-11-04 Time: 7:00 PM Building: Location: Address: Session: Open Session Purpose: Open Session - Remote Meeting Version: Final Attendees: Members - Present: RECEIVED TOWN CLERK READING, MA. 2021 DEC -6 AM 9:25 Chair Richard Lopez, Vice Chair Kerry Dunnell, Paula Curren; Associate Members: Geri Cramer, Kevin Sexton Members - Not Present: Others Present: Assistant Town Manager lean Cellos, Public Health Nurse Shuang Shen, Director of the Coalition for Prevention and Support Erica McNamara, Outreach Coordinator Krystal Mellonakos-Garay, Mark Fine - MAPC, Barry Keppard - MAPC, Pat Maloney - MAPC Consultant Minutes Respectfully Submitted By: Jacquelyn LaVerde Topics of Discussion: This meeting was held remotely via Zoom. Chair Richard Lopez called the meeting to order at 7:00 pm and provided an overview of the evening's agenda. Kevin Sexton introduced Coalition for Prevention and Support Director, Erica McNamara, to present the results for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) conducted with Middle School and High School students. Ms. McNamara thanked the Board for their support in creating the Public Safety Clinical position approved by Town Meeting, and introduced Outreach Coordinator, Krystal Mellonakos-Garay. Next steps for the Clinician position are to have the Select Board approve the position on the grade and classification charts, then the position can be posted. Ms. McNamara provided an overview of the process to conduct the behavioral survey. John Snow, Inc. was the survey consultant, who conducted the survey in conjunction with ten partner communities with the Middlesex League. The core survey was based on CDC risk behaviors, which cause injury and concern, and protective behaviors, which scaffold and protect against risk behaviors. The data was collected in March and April of 2021. John Snow, Inc. provided data validation and analysis, and created two reports: a 30 -page report on Reading's local data, and a 38 -page report on Middlesex League data. The respondents included 980/a -990/a of Middle School and High School students, and after data cleaning, about 85% of the sample was included in the final data set. All survey answers and results are anonymous and there is no identifying information collected. Information collected includes data by race and gender. Questions were asked about ethnicity, to help guide how to serve students in the most culturally supportive way Page 1 1