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Outside Agency Descriptions -continued <br />36. Mental Health Association • <br />The Mental Health Association in Orange County promotes positive mental health through <br />advocacy, education, collaboration and service. The Association supports activities to improve <br />services to citizens who have a mental illness or emotional disturbance. This grant will be used <br />to support the Compeer Program, which coordinates friendship matches between volunteers <br />and mentally ill adults to address the social isolation that is often prevalent in mental illness. <br />37. Middle School After School Program-Communities in Schools <br />The Middle School After School Program (MBAs) provides educational, social and recreational <br />activities for middle school students during the after school hours from 3:OOpm to 6:OOpm. This <br />program is offered at all middle schools in the Orange County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro City <br />School Districts. <br />38. Orange-Chatham Alternative Sentencing <br />Orange-Chatham Alternative Sentencing (OCAS) provides critical information to the judiciary <br />and probations officers, magistrates, jailers, and other judicial officials so that they may make <br />more informed decisions regarding the rehabilitation or release of Pretrial inmates in the 15-B <br />County Jails. <br />39. Orange Congregations in Mission (OCIM) <br />This agency provides services to economically challenged and homebound northern Orange <br />County residents through volunteer efforts of diverse congregations and individuals. <br />40. Orange County Partnership for Young Children • <br />The mission of the Partnership is to ensure that all young children arrive at school healthy and <br />ready to succeed. The Partnership serves as the administrator for the Smart Start Early <br />Childhood Initiative and the More at Four Program in Orange County. <br />41. Orange Enterprises <br />Orange Enterprises provides vocational training and sheltered employment programs for <br />Orange County citizens who have employment barriers. <br />42. Piedmont Health Services <br />Piedmont Health Services has served the health care needs of the citizens of central North <br />Carolina since 1970. They operate six community health centers and provide high quality, <br />comprehensive family health care services to all patients needing access to those services. To <br />meet their mission, they offer payment on a sliding fee scale for those who qualify. <br />The agency also provides bilingual care to a growing Spanish-speaking population. <br />43. Piedmont Wildlife Center <br />This agency's mission is to support native North American wildlife and its habitat through <br />rehabilitation, education, and scientific study, with emphasis given to wildlife and wilderness of <br />the North Carolina Piedmont. Piedmont Wildlife Center takes in sick, injured, and orphaned <br />native North American wildlife with the intent of returning them in a healthy condition to their <br />original habitat. Additionally, PWC teaches wildlife rehabilitation and restoration while stressing <br />the importance of preserving tracts of wilderness needed to support wildlife populations. • <br />Page 6 of 8 <br />