Representatives from Bath School District, as well as from the Departments of Social Services and Probation, Steuben County Community Mental Health Center (SCCMHC), and Steuben County Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (SCASAS) will be available for a panel discussion concerning local services and linkages. A portion of this session will be specifically dedicated to open discussion of community awareness and outreach for school-based mental health and related services, training priorities for staff, and grant-related events. School and County leaders will also be seeking volunteers to serve on a community panel that will meet quarterly to evaluate and discuss grant activity.

Refreshments and door prizes will be offered. Following the event, participants will also have the opportunity to hear a presentation entitled ‘Single Parenting Seminar’ by Christine Waters, Mental Health Therapist at Family Service Society. This presentation will focus on topics of concern to single parents (e.g., typical stresses of single parenting, resources available to help). No RSVP is needed to attend. Child Care is available for the event. Please phone Maria at the Bath Area Family Resource Center, 776-4123 x5650, to register your child.

For additional information, please contact Dr. Pamela Paine, Grant Program Manager, at (607) 776-3301 x. 5628.

(Source:  Bath Central School District press release)

“We’ve broken some important ground for the Rural Resources Commission over the past several years.  I’m glad for this opportunity to stay focused on rural job creation, broadband development, local property tax relief, and other priorities for rural, upstate New York,” said Winner, who was appointed by Senate Republican Leader Dean Skelos as one of two Republican senators, along with western New York Senator Cathy Young, who will serve on the 10-member commission.  The commission is comprised of five senators and five members of the Assembly.

Winner served as the commission’s chairman from 2005 until earlier this year when a new chairman was named following a change in the Senate's leadership.  As chairman, Winner spearheaded the development and enactment of legislation to expand the availability of high-speed Internet service to unserved and underserved rural regions, encourage local government cooperation and efficiency as a way to hold down local property tax increases, and jump-start rural economic development, among many others.  Last year Winner sponsored a new law creating the nation’s first legislatively established Center for Rural Schools at Cornell University.

Under Winner’s tenure, the commission has built a strong partnership with Cornell University, a nationally renowned leader in rural affairs.  Together, beginning in 2006, they embarked on a statewide rural listening tour as the first step in the development of a comprehensive “Vision for Rural New York.”

Winner said, “The partnership between the Rural Resources Commission and Cornell University has been productive and worthwhile. We’ve worked to identify many of the short- and long-term challenges, and now we need to keep working at it.  The Rural Resources Commission is one of the last voices for rural, upstate communities in a government now dominated by downstate, big city influences.”