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38 <br />• Health — Existing Time Limited Intensive Home Visiting Grant <br />Positions <br />Request: To extend the permanent time - limited status for 3.5 grant funded positions (a <br />Public Health Nurse I, Social Worker II, Social Worker I and 20 hour Office Assistant II) <br />from June 30, 1999 to June 30, 2000. <br />Purpose: To continue the grant funded Intensive Home Visiting program for another <br />year. <br />Job Functions: <br />❑ The Social Worker II and Public Health Nurse I conduct the intensive home visits. <br />❑ The Social Worker I provides screening and intake and referral functions for the <br />program. <br />❑ The Office Assistant II performs scheduling, record keeping, reporting and general <br />office support. <br />Reasons for Request: <br />The Health Department has been advised it will continue to receive Intensive Home <br />Visiting grant funds for at least another year. The Intensive Home program provides <br />assessment, home visiting and case management services to medically fragile and/or <br />psychosocially complicated children (age 0 —5 years) and their families. The purpose of <br />the program is to: <br />❑ Decrease child abuse and neglect. <br />o Improve parent -child interaction. <br />❑ Ensure adequate use of preventive family support services. <br />❑ Improve children's health and development and <br />❑ Improve the service delivery system in Orange County by decreasing fragmentation <br />and duplication. <br />Outcomes: <br />0 If the program continues the Health Department will accomplish the outcomes: <br />