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9 <br />I <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: December 15, 1998 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. 9-n <br />SUBJECT: Contract with the Chapel Hill Training- Outreach Project, Inc. for Family Coordination <br />Services to the Early Head Start Program and Establishment of two New Positions <br />DEPARTMENT: Health PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />BUDGET AMENDMENT: (Y/N) Yes <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Contract Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rosemary L. Summers, Health Director <br />Extension 2412 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968 -4501 <br />Durham 688 -7331 <br />Mebane 227 -2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider: <br />• Approving a contract with the Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project to provide family <br />coordination services to the Early Head Start Program. <br />• Establishing two new permanent full -time Social Worker H positions at salary grade 67 <br />($28,603 - $45,480). <br />BACKGROUND:: At the Commissioners' meeting on November 4, 1998, the Board authorized <br />the Health Department to proceed with the development of a contract with Chapel Hill Training - <br />Outreach Project, Inc. ( CHTOP) for two social worker H positions for the Early Head Start <br />Program. CHTOP has received a 5 -year Federal grant to develop an Early Head Start Program <br />(EHS) in Orange County. Renewable annually, the total period of the agreement is for four years <br />and four months. The positions would be Orange County Health Department employees supported <br />by funds from the EHS grant. They would receive formal supervision from the Health Department <br />and on -site supervision from EHS staff. They would be based at the EHS facility in Chapel Hill. <br />Central to the overall EHS proposal is full collaboration with all appropriate resource providers in <br />the community. These social worker II positions will function just like the Health Department's <br />child service coordinators and intensive home visitors do now. These positions would be fully <br />supported by grant funds from CHTOP. There is no county funding involved. <br />Outcomes for these positions are addressed in Item # 9 in the contract. They are to: <br />a. Improve parent -child interaction -90 percent of families in the program will <br />demonstrate improved scores on a post test of parenting knowledge and skills, <br />b. Ensure adequate use of preventive health and family support services -90 percent of <br />children served in the program will be up to date on well child care examinations and <br />immunizations, and <br />