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APPROVED 4J3J95 MINUTES <br />ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />SPECIAL MEETING <br />FEBRUARY 6, 1995 <br />A special meeting was scheduled for February 6, 1995 at 5:30 in the <br />Planning/Cooperative Extension Building on Revere Road in Hillsborough, <br />North Carolina for the purpose of meeting with the Community Child <br />Protection Team Members to discuss "Placement Issues and Difficult <br />Children". <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PRESENT: Chair Moses Carey, Jr., and William L. <br />Crowther <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS ABSENT: Commissioners Alice M. Gordon, Stephen H. <br />Halkiotis and Don Willhoit <br />COUNTY STAFF PRESENT: County Manager John M. Link, Jr., Budget <br />Director Sally Kost, Social Services Director Marti Pryor-Cook and Clerk to <br />the Board Beverly A. Blythe <br />COMMUNITY CHILD PROTECTION TEAM MEMBERS PRESENT: Co-Chair Joyce Moore <br />and members Sandy Fletcher, Eileen Kugler, Gloria Williams, Ralph Wenger, <br />John Turner, Donnie Phillips, Bonnie Davis, Chris Nutter, Gretchen Aylsworth <br />and DSS Team Members Marti Pryor-Cook, Denise Shaffer, Patricia Clarke, <br />Sharon Lee, and Gloria Taylor <br />NOTE: SINCE THIS WAS NOT AN OFFICIAL MEETING, THESE MINUTES WILL BE <br />PLACED IN THE PERMANENT AGENDA FILE AND NOT IN THE OFFICIAL MINUTE <br />BOOK. A report from the Community Child Protection Team is in the <br />permanent agenda file. <br />AGENDA <br />INTRODUCTION <br />Joyce Brown, Co-chair of the Community Child Protection Team, said <br />that they were created in 1991 by Executive Order. It was required that all <br />counties established a team. This committee has been meeting since January, <br />1992. They have three purposes: <br />1. look at specific cases of children in the County where there <br />are issues of abuse, neglect and dependency, <br />2. look at any deaths which are contributed to abuse, neglect <br />and dependency, and <br />3. look at gaps in services, needs and where things do not fit <br />together for these children <br />BEHAVIORAL CATEGORIES OF HARD TO PLACE CHILDREN (33 in Orange County) <br />Sharron Lee, DSS Supervisor for Child Protective Services, talked <br />about the hard-to-place children. She noted that most of these children <br />have problems which are chronic and longlasting. She talked about the five <br />categories for hard-to-place children. <br />1. Chronic running away behavior <br />leaving school <br />leaving home - several hours to several weeks <br />2. Aggressive behaviors to self and others -- homes are <br />resistant to taking in these children because of the <br />