Wednesday, August 6th, 2025
Guests: Amanda Froeschle
Liz Marino - Presenting
Speaker: Amanda Froeschle
Birthdays - None Reported
Anniversary - None Reported
RotaryAnniv. - None Reported
Attendance - Liz Marino, Nancy Foster, Heather Foster-Provencher, Bill Cunningham, Jack Brown, Karen Brown, Spence Putnam, Mike Kellogg, Mark Friis, John Barstow, Larry Jones, Alex Wolf, Ben Fuller, Jason Larocque, Kevin Newton, Jim Needham, Eric Denu, Fred Kenney,
Neil Mackey, Gary Sarachan, Tim Hollander, Fran Fraga, Maureen Conrad, Kati Larocque
Announcements -
-Thank you notes are coming in from CACO recipients.
-Great turn our at the BBB Social! Great Company & Great Food!
Fines:
Happy Dollars:
- Maureen was happy that Gary is back and that Amanda is here to speak!
- Liz M was happy for a great turnout at the BBB social!
- Larry is happy to be back and was able to visit two clubs in his travels!
- Mike K is happy that they are finally paving middle road!
- Spence is happy about the increase of the air quality today!
- John B is happy about the great BBB social and that Gary is back!
- Heather is happy to have closed on a house and that she didn't cut her finger off, just broke it!
- Kevin is happy that he and his son had the opportunity to play in a golf tournament together!
- Gary is happy to be back and thanks the club for their kindness!
- Eric is happy that he was able to participate in a rotary celebration for his Dad - a Rotary Member of 68 years!
- Jack was happy to announce that his grandson has completed the long trail and is home safe and sound!
Speaker - Amanda Froeschle
Amanda is originally from Missouri, moved to Vermont 7 years ago. She works as a Senior Community Health Liaison through UVM to support Addison County.
Following the completion of the CHNA (Community Health Needs Assessment) for 2025-2027, UVMHNPMC’s Senior Community Health Liaison presented key findings and engaged in dialogue with community organizations about next steps.
Discussions focused on identifying opportunities for addressing the top three health needs identified by the CHNA:
• Healthcare Access
• Housing
• Mental Health & Substance Use
Development of CHIP strategies occurred in close partnership with community partners via CHIP Workgroups. CHIP Workgroups consisted of community partners who are already working on healthcare access, housing, and mental health & substance use efforts in Addison County.
To move CHIP strategies forward over the next three years, most of the CHIP activities can be worked on through existing community meeting structures, instead of developing new meetings or workgroups.
Goal 1: Cultivate resilient communities to support mental and social wellbeing across the lifespan.
Strategy Examples:
- As part of UVMHNwide effort, identify and co-sponsor evidence-informed, accessible mental health trainings that help community members identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental distress in youth and/or adults.
- Collaborate with community partners to plan a provider training on gender diversity and inclusive care.
Goal 2: Advance health and wellbeing through equitable access to timely, responsive, and integrated systems.
Strategy Examples:
- Increase referrals to and raise awareness of new and/or underutilized community resources (eg. CSAC mobile crisis services and Interlude, TPCAC mobile coaching and on-call coaching, Narcan vending machines, My Healthy VT).
- Create strategic plan in collaboration with United Way's Substance Use Prevention Coalition, with focus on health equity across the spectrum of prevention, treatment, recovery, and harm reduction.
Goal 3: Strong cross-organization commitment and engagement to expand opportunities for affordable and quality housing in Addison County.
Strategy Examples:
- Identify ways to support or strengthen existing interagency workgroups that manage care coordination and referral pathways.
- Support effort to establish new supportive housing for medically frail.
- Lead strategic planning process for the Addison County Housing Coalition. The UVMHN-PMC Senior Community Liaison will work in collaboration with the Addison County Housing Coalition’s Strategic Planning Subcommittee.