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Outside Agency Descriptions -continued <br />23. Family Violence Prevention Center • <br />The Family Violence Prevention Center seeks to prevent and end family violence through <br />community education and provision of direct services including emergency assistance, case <br />management and court advocacy. <br />24. Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina <br />This agency provides regularly scheduled distribution and delivery of nutritious food, including <br />fresh produce and high-quality high-protein meats, to seven Food Bank partner agencies in <br />Orange County serving low-income individuals. <br />25. Freedom House Recovery Center <br />This agency provides extended care and transitional living in order to promote recovery from the <br />disease of addiction. The goal of the Freedom House is to help alcoholics and drug addicts by <br />providing the tools necessary to lead a life of recovery and to become productive members of <br />society. <br />26. Habitat for Humanity of Orange County <br />Habitat for Humanity of Orange County (HHOC) provides decent affordable housing for families <br />earning less than half of the area median income and who live in substandard housing. HHOC <br />constructs simple but well-built homes that are then sold to qualifying families at affordable <br />prices. <br />27. Hillsborough Youth Athletic Association (HYAA) <br />This agency provides youth baseball programs for Orange County children, ages 5 through 17, • <br />in a supervised and structured environment. HYAA provides playing facilities, supplies and <br />equipment, and organizes players, parents, volunteers, coaches and umpires. <br />28. Historic Hillsborough Commission <br />The Commission owns and maintains the Burwell School located on Churton Street in <br />Hillsborough, which is on the National Register of Historic Buildings. The two-acre site consists <br />of the main house (ca 1821, 1846), a brick classroom building (ca 1837), a rare brick necessary <br />(ca. 1837), and the Carrie Waitte Spurgeon Garden. The site is open to the public year round <br />and there is no charge for tours of the school. <br />29. Historical Foundation of Hillsborough and Orange County (Formerly the Historical <br />Museum) <br />The Orange County Historical Museum, located in Hillsborough, preserves the past and <br />encourages interest in local history through the exhibition of the economic, political, social, and <br />cultural aspects of Orange County's 18th and 19th century history. The Museum is open to the <br />public, free of charge, 6 days per week. <br />• <br />Page 4 of 8 <br />