CPALS General Membership Meeting

October 11th, 2012

Kudos!• Young-Nan Kim for stepping up to work the

football game last weekend. You are the best!• Leighann Wessells for sending in pictures for

the website! • Camielle Romac-Gullo for volunteering to stay until the 4th quarter at the football game

What has CPALS accomplished?• 2 staff breakfasts delivered by 9 CPALS

members• 60 kids with 1:1 pals ; 28 newly assigned this

semester• 68 new officially registered members• 51 members participated in 3 football

fundraising events for a total of $1530 raised!• 9 members helped out at Teen Retreat• 57 members attended Pedal for Peds• 60 members signed up for Get Heeled 5k

What have you accomplished?

• PLEASE SHARE!• Your academic accomplishments this

semester• Meeting a new 1:1 pal/family• Fun times in the clinic • New friends?

Pedal for Peds!

Website

• CPALS has a website now! cpals.web.unc.edu

• I’ll walk you through it… now!

• Any feedback? Something you want on it that isn’t there now? Email me!

IV Pole Decorating

• Sign ups online!

• New kit…should be lots of fun

• Theme: celebrity decorating

• Talk to Jordan if you want to help out

Staff Breakfasts

• Thank you to everyone who came and helped!

• The staff were SO appreciative

• Next staff breakfast in early November…be on the look out!

Fundraising• THANK YOU to everyone who has

participated!• South gate winners• Those who worked the first and second game

please see Sherilynn and Aaron after the meeting for your prizes!

• Next game: 10/27• Last game: 11/10• Fundraising is a SEMESTER requirement for

CPALS

Those who HAVE participated:Candyce AdkinsAnkita AnekalTaylor BattenNelly BellamyKatelyn BlanchardKelly BoydLindsay CannonLaura CartwrightCasey CollinsHaley CookAnna DeFrancescoItohowo EyoLaura FulbrightAakansha GorThomas GoreRonnell GreenKelsey GustavesonStephanie JerniganKatelyn JonesKristina KerrYoung-Nan KimKatie KnappJay LomaxBen MartinezDaniela Matallana

Ashley McGeeMichelle MooreMax NagleShirin NegmadjanovaGia-Binh (Bianca) NguyenCourtney O'ConnorRachel OlsenMarisa OrbeaSherilynn PhenKaitlin QuallenNabila RataniMelissa ReynoldsCamille Romac-GulloEmily SaloLauren SchmittleEmily SengerKelly ShannonMeghan SheaKyle SmithLauren SomloiLauren Swords SwordsChuchitra Thanigaivasan Kate WilsonJaclyn WuMaria Wynn

T-Shirt

• Still working on the design

• Design will be submitted by the end of fall break

• Preference on navy blue/Carolina blue?

CPALS Bead of Courage

• Beads are on their way!!!!!• Will be distributed in pairs: one for CPALS and

one for kid• Be excited!• Likely to use same design for t-shirt!

Halloween Activities

• We’ll have games and various activities planned for the clinic on Halloween

• Any fun ideas? Let us know!• Will need a handful of volunteers to prepare

the activities and help in clinic on Halloween• Stay tuned for signups!

Get Heeled 5k!• This Saturday 10/13 at the Friday Center (100 Friday Center

Drive, Chapel Hill)!!• Assignments: Route monitors, Cheering Stations, Water

Station, and CPALS Activity Table• Activity Table members arrive at 7:30 AM (Kyle, Rachel,

Kristina Kerr)• Wear your Get Heeled T-shirt and any fun/playful

accessories! We will have a few costume things, but bring whatever you have!

• SIGN IN and SIGN OUT (at Volunteer tent)• Everyone else arrive at 8:00 AM• Event will be over by 12 PM• Is your pal coming??• CALL if you need ANYTHING!

Carpooling• Drivers: Let us know TONIGHT if you cannot

drive and/or cannot fit 3 people in your car!• Nelly Bellamy, Emily Senger, Morgan Jeffreys, Laura Fulbright, William

Bennett, Jay Lomax, Melissa Reynolds, Lauren Schmittle, Kristen Rosano, Taylor Batten, Stephanie Jernigan, Candyce Adkins

• You are in charge of coordinating pick-up with your group. We will send the list and contact info out tonight!

• Any extra drivers??

Parking

• We park in the BLUE STAR lot!• For those whose positions are further into the

route, there may be parking at your assignment so that you can drive there. There will also be golf carts to shuttle people to spots!

• Plan to meet us in the parking lot at the volunteer tent then go from there!

• Map on next slide

1:1s

• Please consider dropping your shift and getting a 1:1! It is a priceless experience

• Orientations:– After this meeting– October 15th – Sign up on websit (cpals.web.unc.edu)

• 1:1/CPALS dinner 10/25…stay tuned• Questions??

What’s next?

• Comments from Jess• Remember important dates:– 10/13 Get Heeled 5k– 10/25 1:1/CPALS dinner– 10/27 Football game– 11/10 Football game

• Next meeting: 11/8 in conference room!• THANK YOU ALL FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO!