Meeting Agenda

Date: Tuesday, December 8th

Time: 11:00-12:00

Location: El Mezcal

Attended: Amber France (WCHD-WIC, Leah Meidl (WCHD), Mai (WCHD), Andrea Wagner, Rachel Rademan (SJH), Brooke DesRivers (SJH and Leadership Marshfield, and Kristin Glass (SJH).

  • Fall Family Fun Event at Altenburg’s!
  • Event was successful. Suggestion for next time was to post the times for face painting. We also discussed more signage for the pictures etc and having Jenna Jakel acknowledge the coalition in e-mails etc. to those who had pictures taken.
  • MommyFest and 5K Updates (Rachel and Amber)
  • MommyFest
  • Rachel reports that she has been getting donations.
  • There will be a charge to use the Bounce House from Hiller’s but it should fit in the childcare room.
  • Still looking for volunteers for the children’s area, Leah Meidl will oversee.
  • Cost for the large banner (8’ x 2 ½’) is $54.99 from Staples
  • Discussed looking into a banner from Design Monkey
  • Festival Food to donate $20.00 for fruits.
  • Lunch for vendors is $5 for subs at Subways. Brooke volunteered to help with lunch.
  • Milky Miles
  • Brochure is completedand can be downloaded from our website. Leah will post it on Facebook also.
  • Tortoise & Hare Race Management will take care of all the online registrations.
  • We are going with Creative Design for our T-shirts.
  • Hiller’s will donate the Bounce House for us to use that day.
  • Breastfeeding Friendly Businesses (Amber)
  • Amber will develop the award and have it ready to present to Prevention Genetics as our Breastfeeding Friendly Business in Marshfield.
  • The 2016 MCH Grant statewide will be focusing on breastfeeding objective for Breastfeeding Friendly Businesses. Amber developed materials that will be used statewide and will be available by January. We will use the same materials.
  • Circle of Moms Expansion (Leah and Amber)
  • Leah did a Facebook poll for a Circle of Moms group in the evening. We had a total of 71 votes. Most popular vote was for once a month, on Monday nights, and for 6 pm. Amber suggested that we if we were to proceed with this we should consider doing it on the 1st Monday when we have late WIC clinic so there would be other staff around.
  • Leah suggested to encourage new moms to come during pregnancy too because we have a lot of the same breastfeeding moms attending weekly in Wisconsin Rapids.
  • Tong Tie Workshop (Amber)
  • It is still set for Wisconsin Rapids. No word on Marshfield yet unfortunately. Will take place on April 20th and 21st. Designed to do an in depth training on types of tongue tie and recognizing tongue tie for healthcare providers.
  • Banner ups etc. (Leah and All)
  • We will be getting a banner of a breastfeeding mom and babyalong with a breastfeeding quote to use at events. Leah will design and order.
  • Coalition year video (Leah)
  • Leah will be compiling a video of our events we did throughout the year. If you have video or pictures of events, please send them to her! Next year we need to remember more pictures and videos of highlights! Brooke said that her husband can help! 
  • Discuss 2016 meeting dates/times
  • The Doodle poll is split. More details to come.