MARRCH Committees

MARRCH Committees work to keep the association moving forward on its mission and goals. To volunteer to help on a committee, please contact the chair or the MARRCH office (651-290-7462) or billm@marrch.org for more information.

Committee schedule
All meetings are held at the MARRCH office unless otherwise noted.

Committees and Chairs

Communications

Bill Monn
(651) 290-6295

Education

Kevin Spading
(763) 427-5310

Ethics

Lance Egley
(218) 679-3995

Joycene Maroney Ryan
(763) 786-8067

Request an Ethics Consultation

Membership/Fellowship

Tiffany Swenson
(651) 265-7851

Public Policy

Bob Melson
(612) 527-1763

Sections

School Section Co-chairs

Elizabeth Eaton

or

Lorry Day

MARRCH Committee Goals

Set by Board of Governors

Ethics Committee

1. Create a model organizational ethics code.
   
2. Continue consultation as requested on ethical issues.
3. Produce a quarterly ethics article for the paper editions of One Voice.
4. Offer at least one ethics workshop.
5. Continue developing the educational format as well as the Synthetic Ethics Process developed for and presented at the last Fall Conference
6. Develop an Ethics Section on the MARRCH Website.
7. Create a library of key ethics information
   This is the goals as approved by the MARRCH Board of Governors' Retreat, Nov. 2, 2006.

Education Committee

1. The Education Committee will handle all CEU training and educational offerings for MARRCH
   • Continue developing annual calendar of training
   • Utilize educational priority list of topics
   • Incorporate member feedback from surveys
   • Market all training events
2. Explore partnering opportunities with other conferences, educational providers and agency members
   
   • Work with established conferences on partnering opportunities to increase MARRCH's visibility and member benefit (corrections, women's, program sharing, ATTC)
   • Investigate collaborating with agency members to co-host training throughout state
   • Discuss opportunities to incorporate more prevention-focused training for MARRCH members (Annual Conference, co-sponsoring existing trainings
3. Make MARRCH Annual Conference a regional conference (15 percent attendees are from outside MN)
   • Cultivate partnerships with other associations to market our conference to their audiences (ATTC, WAAODA, ICRC, NAADAC, Green Book providers)
   • Continue to schedule speakers with national recognition
   • Market the conference effectively (part of PR effort)

Membership/Fellowship

1. Increase membership's involvement in MARRCH
   • Ask governors to cover regions with Powerpoint presentation about MARRCH. ID chemical health meetings in their regions.
   • Governors provide stories of recognition, accomplishment in their regions for the newsletter
   • Invite members to participate in committees
     • Ask members to respond to legislative issues
     • Increase involvement with fellowship activities, especially at the spring and fall conferences
2. Increase membership in MARRCH
   • Identify and target potential individual and agency members (counties, schools)

Communications

Objective

Leverage communications to reinforce MARRCH's vision and goals

Strategy

1. Influence positive public policy
   • Communicate MARRCH initiatives to Minnesota Legislature, County Commissioners and other statewide policy makers.
   • Distribute MARRCH legislative initiative magazine to attendees at annual day at the Capitol.
2. Establish MARRCH as the authoritative voice on chemical dependency.
   • Continue quarterly journal insert into printed newsletters
   • Focus newsletter on timely and topical issues
   • Develop and implement an editorial production schedule
   • Identify an active editor/reporter and propose funding this function
   • Continue to develop new and timely content for the website
   • Add fresh photos of MARRCH events to website and newsletter
3. Communicate effectively with MARRCH members
   • Board and Public Policy minutes available online
   • Keep listserve updated
   • Online reports of actions at committee meetings
   • Email blasts on timely issues
   • Meeting notices online
   • Speaker’s bureau — to present MARRCH message and to engage MARRCH members directly on topics of interest.
4. Deepen relationships with important stakeholders
   • Reconnaissance — develop map of access points to various interest groups

Public Policy

1. Develop additional pathways to licensure and examine workforce development issues
   • Engage the BBHT and invite them to public policy committee meeting to discuss alternative pathways to licensure
   • Coordinate education from BBHT
   • Engage in legislative action on licensure if needed
2. Be actively involved in the transition to the new rule 25
   • Be influential in the change process
   • Understand the changes and hold provider meetings to educate about rule 25 billing process
3. Engage members and stakeholders in political action
   • Create a grassroots network by identifying willing participants.
   • Use the MARRCH website as a tool for political action.
   • Secure funding for a Public Relations campaign on "dime a drink" proposal, which will raise MARRCH's profile and get members involved.