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7 <br /> B. Work Plan Activities and Accomplishments <br /> <br /> 1. Focus: All Older Adults <br /> Goal A: Information/Access - Enhance information & assistance options for all older <br /> persons and their families who need access to services, especially those most in need. <br /> Obiective A-1: Improve marketing and evaluation of existing Information and <br /> assistance services. (Broadly defined) <br /> Lead Organization (s): Department on Aging with Triangle United Way 211 <br /> Activities. Accomplishments and Recommendations: <br /> 1. Orange County has worked in 2007-08 with NC CareLink in providing local resource/service <br /> information for the creation of a statewide database for agency and individual citizen access. <br /> 2. Orange and Chatham Counties prepared a joint grant in 2007-08 to simplify access to <br /> information and services for seniors and adults with disabilities. The three-year grant was funded <br /> and is called Community Resource Connections (CRC). More CRC description is under Goal D: <br /> Transitional Care. <br /> Recommendation for 2008-09: To continue the database improvement project with NC CareLink <br /> by promoting local agencies' participation and begin the CRC joint project with Chatham County. <br /> Objective A-2: Improve access to printed and website information to older persons, <br /> families, and service providers. <br /> Lead Organization (s): Department on Aging with County Information Systems <br /> Activities, Accomplishments and Recommendations: <br /> 1. The Department on Aging printed the Community Resource Guide for 2007-08, a valuable <br /> desk resource for agency personnel assisting older adults. The updated guide is available on the <br /> County Department on Aging website. (www.co.orange.nc.us./aging) <br /> 2. Due to budget reductions, the Senior Times was reduced from a bi-monthly publication to a <br /> quarterly one. The Senior Times was redesigned to make it more user-friendly and also an effort <br /> to extend its shelve life. A new full-page column in the Herald Sun was negotiated and is printed <br /> the months that the Senior Times does not print in order to keep the public better informed of <br /> senior activities and services. A direct link from the Department on Aging Website to the Herald <br /> Sun website has been established for easier public access to the current Senior Times on the <br /> web. <br /> 4 <br />