Start Time: 10:32am 
End Time: 11:06am 
Date: 08/10/24 
Participants: Allison James, Rin Ferraro, Ami Frost, Monnica Gavin, Tia Dickerson 
Combination of Youth & Family Divisions –  
• Approached by The Youth Group and they pitched combining family.  

• Family has low membership 

• Agreeance within the group about the merger. o Administratively –  




• Effective 2025  o Taking suggestions, taken to the board… not an instant change.  




• Combined co-chair  

• Send an email to all division leaders (survey, poll, etc.) to get who is interested in merging o See if there is significant overlap.  





Increase engagement within division 
• A lot of people are not coming to conferences.  

• Try video conference (Zoom) to increase attendance 

• Need online presence throughout year  

• Social Media presence?  o Consider workload. Perhaps LinkedIn? . Pay for someone to manage 

. Include in budget (will this be shared with new merger?) 




o Virtual division meeting this fall.  . Easier to communicate face to face. 








Times for the virtual division meeting: 
• Late September? 

• Before the end of October 

• Make sure to pick a date. Don’t ask, tell 

• 10-14 is class time 

• Tuesday/Thursday has a 12:30 – 14:00 EDT break 

• Third week of September 

• Tuesday 17 September 2024. 13:00 EDT 


Division meeting –  
• Discuss the new name.  o The focus of the group.  

o Reading list.  





o Engagement . Check to see engagement in a Facebook group.  

. Propose a virtual meeting to see if more people would attend.   

. Ask other divisions for tips on increasing attendance • Drinking & Drugs has good attendance 




. Some divisions have 200 members.  




o Zoom raffle to boost attendance--$10 (Amazon?) . Talk to Michele  

. Send digitally 






Budget –  
• $600 Annual 

• Last year used money to have runner ups for student papers 

• Maybe only have 1 runner-up. Cash > Plaque 

• Cardstock certificate + money. Make it look nice so it would look good to put in an office  

• $200 for the student paper (100/75/25).  

• Budget will probably take effect next year