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Connect to Care is a new approach to providing support for Airmen, Guardians, and their families in which all providers, regardless of area of responsibility, will personally guide each individual or group to the support services they need. This new approach is in response to the 2021 Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military and its recommendation to prioritize the needs of individuals seeking care and support by ensuring seamless coordination between helping agencies known as a warm handoff within the IRC.
The Pacific Air Forces Integrated Resilience team was among the first to receive training in Connect to Care. Drew Kadokowa, PACAFs Community Support Program Manager and Community Action Team Chair, said the new approach formalizes a process that was, for the most part, already being carried out.
I feel like most of our providers and supervisors are already doing this. This [Connect to Care] is a utilization reporting system and training to make sure we are doing it right and in the most efficient way possible, Kadokawa said.
The utilization reporting system will capture the total number of referrals and the specific agencies that receive those referrals. Service provider offices, squadrons, and First Sergeants will capture data from their respective encounters with an individual or group, and the agency to which they were referred.
Kadokawas team was one of the first to take the Connect to Care training, which is the beginning of a months-long, but thorough process to train DAF personnel. This training will assist those who may be able to give referrals to Airmen and Guardians for other helping agencies.
Its a four-phased approach and the first phase was to train the trainer, which Air Force Personnel Center conducted. The next phase of it, parts two and three, is the rollout to the installation command teams and the service providers, Kadokawa said.
In the final phase, training facilitators will educate all front-line supervisors. Each phase of the training is slightly different with direct providers, such as Chaplains, or Sexual Assault Response Coordinators (SARC), having longer, more detailed instruction. Kadokawa said that is because the providers are more likely to have Airmen, Guardians, and family members come to them directly for help with an issue.So, we need to make sure they understand what each agency does and how to account for referrals through Connect to Care, and that were sending them to the right places to get the help they need, Kadokawa said.The Connect to Care approach is the foundation of a one-stop shop concept. For example, if a spouse who was the victim of domestic violence sought help from a SARC, they would then guide the spouse to a Domestic Abuse Victim Advocate (DAVA) by contacting the DAVA directly, with the spouses permission. Kadokawa said that creates a reliable and person-centered experience for Airmen, Guardians and DAF family members who choose to explore support options.
Kadokawa said, For someone who is requesting serious, immediate assistance, if you refer them to the wrong agency, or just give them the information and send them out the door, they may not reach out again.
Connect to Care aims to ensure no individual or group encounters an obstacle to the support they need, and to provide seamless coordination among helping resources.
Kadokawa said providers can make a referral three different ways: by picking up the phone and calling the next provider, personally walking the individual(s) to another providers location, or contacting the other provider virtually from a computer.
Referrals are up to the individual(s) seeking information or support and only with their consent. Progress and success of the Connect to Care approach will be measured by feedback from the individuals served, and through installation commanders who will capture the total number of connections and agencies that receive the referrals. The metrics will not include any personal identifiable information.
The intention of the Connect to Care approach is the same as the Co-Location pilot, which places helping agencies within the same location. Both prioritize the needs of Airmen, Guardians, and their family members by ensuring providers refer those requesting help are personally directed to the support they need. Connect to Care makes it possible to guide them to the right resource regardless of where the helping agency or provider is located.
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The wait is over. On Thursday, December 8, Isla & Co. officially opened its doors to the city of Atlanta. This Buckhead restaurant from NYC-based Parched Hospitality Group has brunch, a unique variety of coffee, cocktails, and dinner, mixing Australian-inspired cuisine with the flavors of Southeast Asia and the Mediterranean and seating up to 110 people in its intimate, greenery-forward dining room, front bar, and cozy outdoor patio.
Atlanta has an amazing culinary and bar scene, and we are so excited for Isla & Co. to become a part of that hospitality community and to bring our culture to the city, says PHG president and co-owner, David Orr. We wanted to find a neighborhood that would embrace the Australian experience and where we would feel at home delivering it, and Buckhead gave us just what we were looking for. With a second lease just signed in the Midtown neighborhood, Isla & Co. is looking forward to making our home in Atlanta and growing our presence in the years to come.
Helmed by executive chef Matthew Foley and local Atlanta chef Kate Huang, the menu features excellent cuts of meat paired with bright flavors, alongside vegetable-focused dishes filled with fresh, local produce. In another nod to Australian caf culture, a carefully curated specialty coffee program features PHG coffee brand Hole In The Wall with two signature house blends originating from the Americas and Ethiopia.
For the brunch enthusiasts out there, breakfast is served until 4 pm, with menu options such as the Brekkie Roll, Brioche French Toast, or the Sambal Scramble, which is soft-beaten eggs, a house-made chili sambal sauce, green harissa, and parmesan with sourdough and choice of bacon or avocado. Lunch is spearheaded by Fish & Chips, and the dinner list includes the Braised Lamb Shoulder, Spicy Thai Green Curry, or the sharable oysters for the table.
Isla & Co.s has a comprehensive list of wines, craft beers, and creative cocktails, including a Buckhead exclusive: the What the Buck, featuring rye whiskey, mint, lemon, maple, and ginger beer.
Isla & Co is open Tuesday - Sunday from 9 am to 4 pm for brunch, and 5 pm to 10 pm for dinner. Dine-in is extended an extra hour on Fridays and Saturdays; with the restaurant closing its doors at 11 pm. Walk-ins are welcome, and reservations are now open through Resy.
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Goose Island Beer moving brewpub to Salt Shed
CHICAGO (CBS) -- Goose Island Beer Co. is moving its original Lincoln Park brewpub to the new Salt Shed music venue along the Chicago River.
The new location in the former Morton Salt shed at Elston and Magnolia avenues is just across the river from the brewery's namesake, Goose Island.
The Goose Island Beer Company was founded by John Hall in 1988, as one of the first small breweries in the Midwest. The Lincoln Park brewery and brewpub opened that year in an old industrial complex at 1800 N. Clybourn Ave., and became an anchor of the 1800 Clybourn mall. The mall also housed the Remains Theatre stage company, Muddler's Pool Room, the ArtGolf indoor miniature golf course, and an assortment of specialty and boutique stores and restaurants.
The mall closed in 1994 and most of it was demolished, but the Goose Island brewpub remained as a new shopping center anchored by a Bed, Bath and Beyond store rose around it. A Goose Island brewery and taproom at 1800 W. Fulton St. went on to open in 1995.
Goose Island also operates the Barrel House space for private events at 603 N. Sacramento Blvd. on the city's West Side, where the brewery also ages its Bourbon County Brand Stout. International Goose Island brewpub locations have also opened over the past several years.
Goose Island operated a second brewpub at 3535 N. Clark St. just south of Wrigley Field from 1999 until 2015. The building where it was located has since been torn down for a new development.
The Clybourn Avenue brewpub nearly closed in 2008, on account of rising rents in the neighborhood. But last-minute negotiations with the landlord kept it open. The brewpubnearly closed again in 2014, but that too was averted.
The bar notes that the Clybourn Avenue location is the longest continuously operating craft brewery in Chicago.
Goose Island was sold to Anheuser-Busch InBev in 2011.
You still have time to enjoy the original Clybourn Avenue location where the company got its start. The move isn't anticipated until the end of next year.
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In a not-that-surprising twist of events, San Francisco-founded tea chain Boba Guys has closed the doors on its original location. Co-founders Andrew Chau and Bin Chen confirmed the closure to the San Francisco Chronicle, telling the paper they offered the laid-off staff roles at other Boba Guys locations. The co-founders also announced the Newport Beach Boba Guys location will shut down, too.
Its an unsurprising choice given the spate of backlash the company received in late October when the company pushed back on its staff after they announced hopes to unionize. Then, more backlash followed when SFGATE reported the company allegedly recorded employees in its shop without prior consent, a violation of California state law. Boba Guys began its empire from this original location in the Mission when it opened in 2011. Thankfully, there are lots of other boba shops in the city worth a visit.
Sithas Authentic Khmer Food, the San Bruno pop-up from owner Sitha Yim, will vacate its current home at Pho de Nguyen after December 18. Worry not, though: the Peninsula Foodist reports the business will move to two new (currently undisclosed) locations in the new year. Yims business became paramount to the Bays Cambodian American community for her loving recreations of staple dishes including garlic noodles and Cambodian beef jerky.
Bernal Heights chef Greg Lutes, the owner and operator of Michelin-recognized 3rd Cousin, is joining the Sprouts Chef Training program in auctioning off a cooking class and brunch. Bids are open online until December 18 and start at $150.
As of December 21, Canyon Market at 2815 Diamond Street will become a new Guss Community Market. According to a press release, the full 90-person staff will stay on, and operations will carry on as usual under the new ownership. Janet and Richard Tarlov opened Canyon Market in 2006.
The Sage and Drifter, the Inner Sunsets cocktail and neighborhood bar, is turning one on December 17. But theyre not alone: Potrero Hills go-to wine bar Ruby is celebrating its 11th birthday on December 16 with help from fellow neighborhood merchant Alimentari Aurora. Both bars are hosting shindigs with DJs, special food offerings, and plenty of good vibes.
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AGAWAM When Michele Urbinatis grandfather, a 20-year Air Force veteran, died several years ago, she began raising money in his honor for Wreaths Across America. It hosts a wreath-laying event every December at the Massachusetts Veterans Cemetery in Agawam as part of National Wreaths Across America Day.
The Robinson Park School preschool teacher started raising money in 2016. Urbinati makes crafts to sell at fairs and farmers markets, gets donations from local businesses, sells 50-50 raffles at Agawam Youth Football games and organizes a district dress-down day for Agawam school staff that this year raised $2,000.
People support me because its such a good cause and because many have family members at the cemetery, she said. They also appreciate that what I raise stays local.
As the spouse of a veteran, Urbinatis grandmother is also interred at the cemetery. Every year at Christmas, her grandfather placed a wreath on his wifes grave. That personal family tradition continues today as part of Wreaths Across America. Urbinati will be among 1,500 people expected at this years wreath-laying on Dec. 17.
Paul Barabani is president of Friends of the Massachusetts Veterans Memorial Cemetery at Agawam and a co-location coordinator for Wreaths Across America. He said efforts by Urbinati and many other wreath sponsors raised enough money for more than 9,000 wreaths which cost $15 each to ensure every Christian headstone will have a wreath.
When this program began at the Agawam cemetery in 2011, we estimate there were only 150 wreaths, he said. That number has increased each year, with full coverage reached in 2017 and every year since.
The purpose of the event is not to decorate the cemetery, he explained, but to remember every veteran at rest at Agawam.
The collective result of individual acts of remembrance creates a memorable visual demonstration of our respect for veterans much like the iconic image of wreaths placed at Arlington National Cemetery, where this tradition started.
What became Wreaths Across America began in 1992 when Morrill Worcester, owner of Worcester Wreath Company in Maine, realized his company had a surplus of wreaths near the end of the holiday season. He arranged for those wreaths to be placed at Arlington National Cemetery, starting what is now an annual tribute to veterans.
This homage to veterans was largely unnoticed until 2005 when a photo of the Arlington headstones adorned with wreaths and covered in snow gained nationwide attention. National and state cemeteries soon began replicating what had been done at Arlington.
Wreaths Across America is important to families of veterans who are buried at the cemetery, said Barabani.
Families with members in the service have an empty seat at the table that is always more impactful during the holiday season, he said. For Gold Star families, that seat will forever be vacant. Other families throughout the region also have loved ones at rest in the cemetery.
Barabani said families come together for this day of remembrance to pay respects to their loved ones service, and take strength in being joined by others from the community.
Its a powerful, emotional, uplifting experience to see such a response while realizing that the same thing is happening at more than 3,400 locations across our nation and overseas, he said.
He said wreath sponsorships at the Agawam cemetery extend beyond the town, with numerous out-of-state sponsors. Some local groups that sponsored wreaths this year include Doering School, Veterans Dragon Boat USA, Massachusetts Combat Wounded Veterans, Southwick Regional School and Friends of the Agawam Veterans Cemetery.
So many volunteers have showed up to lay wreaths that in 2019 organizers had to begin a shuttle service between the cemetery and off-site parking at Six Flags New England.
Event attendance outgrew the cemetery as well as its Main Street entrance, Barabani said. The year before, cars were parked for a mile in either direction from the entrance.
Barabani said Six Flags officials immediately agreed to let the event use their parking lot at 1623 Main St., Agawam, and have been a strong supporter of WAA ever since. Dennis King, an Agawam resident, Coast Guard veteran and owner of King-Gray Coach Lines, provided his companys coach buses.
The parking and shuttle service has contributed to the growth in popularity of our annual event, said Barabani. He added that using buses also allows bus ambassadors to make administrative announcements during the ride to the cemetery so the ceremonys focus is on remembering veterans. Shuttles begin running after the parking lot opens at 8 a.m.
Local television newscaster Dave Madsen will host the opening ceremony, which starts at 10 a.m. Barabani said the ceremony will be a professional and emotional tribute to our nation and those who served to preserve our freedom.
The ceremony will begin with a Vietnam veteran singing the national anthem, followed by placing wreaths in tribute to current members of the six military branches, the nearly 94,000 POW or MIA service members, and Gold Star families.
There will be a rife salute by the cemeterys volunteer firing detail while two Agawam brothers, Gabe and Christian Rua, will sound taps. The ceremony will conclude with three sixth graders from Doering School singing a traditional patriotic song.
Wreaths will be distributed at five locations throughout the cemetery about 1,800 wreaths at each site. Two teams each from Barnes Air National Guard Base and Westover Air Reserve Base, and one team from the Eversource Veterans Association will distribute wreaths to volunteers, who will be asked to place them respectfully at all headstones displaying a Christian symbol.
To provide community input into the event, Barabani works with an advisory board. Members include Mike Brunetti, co-location coordinator; Jennifer Gannett, chief of staff from the mayors office; Kathy Goyette-Jediny, Doering School teacher; Dennis King from King-Gray Coach Lines; Chris Lanski, director of veteran services for the district that includes Agawam; Aldo Mancini, chair of the Agawam Veteran Council; and Les Tingley, Agawams cable access television and media manager.
Barabani said Wreaths Across America is driven by grateful Americans who give freely of their time and resources, sponsor wreaths and gather to express their appreciation for those who preserved freedom.
Motivated by love of family and freedom, the event at the Agawam veterans cemetery is the most meaningful patriotic event in the region, he said.
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A wireless communications tower took three steps last Wednesday, allowing up to three new service providers serving the Webster area.
In a meeting at Southwestern Community College last Wednesday, Webster leaders approved unanimously three motions to allow Vogue Tower Partners, LLC, based out of Chattanooga, Tennessee, to erect a cell tower near a water tank in wooded land on the SCC campus.
The proposed towers address is 336 College Drive, a back road that loops around behind the main campus and comes out on Webster Road beside the National Guard Armory.
The company plans to raise a wireless communication tower 195 feet in total height (190 feet of tower and 5 feet of lightning rod) on a low rise on SCC property.
At a public hearing last Wednesday, Webster leaders invited the public to speak on the proposal and voted unanimously to pass all three motions.
Vogue was asking for three waivers, Webster Mayor Tracy Rodes said in a Monday interview. The first motion waived the special use permit.
If we had opted to go that route it would have been a lengthier proceeding and they would have needed to submit some engineering reports to our board, Rodes said. Nobody really felt like we needed to do that, because (Jackson County Senior Planner) John Jeleniewski is the expert who knew if they met the specifications.
The second motion had to do with height.
The countys height restriction is 180 feet, and they wanted 195 feet, she said. The extra 15 feet allows co-location of multiple providers, and thats the best use of that tower, rather than having to build more towers.
The third waiver had to do with keeping a maintenance log for the road to the tower onsite. The board voted to waive the requirement and Vogue will keep the log digitally, Rodes said.
About 10 members of the public attended the meeting, Rodes said.
We heard nothing negative, she said.
Prior to the meeting, a developer of an adjacent property had contacted county officials about the aesthetics of the tower, but the man had not followed up further and did not attend the meeting, Rodes said.
Letters of support came in from five entities, including the Jackson County Rescue Squad and Sheriffs Office, Western Carolina University and SCC.
Reasons for the tower included safety, education, increased communication, telehealth are things that are important to Webster, Rodes said. Its hard to say I am excited, because I will have a view of that from my home, but it doesnt require lights because it is not 200 feet.
Rodes is willing to trade the view of the tower for improved cell service.
When it rains, the mayor and vice mayor cant even talk on their cell phones without the call dropping three times, she said. We sure hope to increase the signal strength in our town, too. ... just the good outweighs the bad.
Verizon Wireless is listed as the wireless communications provider, with Vogue as the facility owner on the Wireless Communication Facility Application filed with the planning department.
There will be space for three providers, with Verizon the first to place equipment atop the tower.
The tower and supporting facilities will be located on the east side of the property, near an existing Tuckaseigee Water and Sewer Authority tank and contained within a 2,343 square foot secured compound.
The compound will contain the lattice tower, meter rack, provider equipment building, backup generator and equipment shelter areas for future providers.
An 8-foot secured chain-link fence will surround the equipment. Three sides of the parcel, a very irregular pentagon shape, will feature a 5-foot wide landscape buffer to be planted with evergreen trees. The other sides face into the woods and would not be visible from any roadway.
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