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Program Activities Overall Project Administration 6 The County will contract with an independent consultant to provide overall project management. This person will be viewed as the Project Administrator for the TANF Housing Program. The Administrator will have supervisory skills and demonstrated expertise in overseeing innovative community -based programs with multiple agency participants. He or She will be a skillful negotiator, with highly developed oral and written communication skills, expertise in program evaluation, and strong fiscal/contract management experience. He or She will work closely with Orange County staff and staff from other participating organizations and will sit on the Project Evaluation Team. The Project Administrator will oversee all contracts and grant funds awarded under the Program and will be responsible for preparation of all fiscal and program reports. He or She will be the primary spokesperson for the program. (Additional administrative support will be needed for the following program activity. Those needs are indicated in italicized print at the end of the particular section. Educational and Supportive Services Orange County is fortunate to have in place a comprehensive multi - agency self - sufficiency program serving public housing residents entitled ACHIEVE!, conceived of jointly by staff from the Town of Chapel Hill and Orange County. Through the Chapel Hill Department of Housing, a coalition of close to twenty public and private community agencies is working in partnership with residents of public housing and the Residents' Association in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area to provide self - sufficiency services to public housing residents. The initial planning included an expectation that the program would expand at a later date to include TANF and Section 8 program participants. The TANF Housing Program would employ the existing successful ACHIEVE! educational model and agency coalition to expand these comprehensive support services to TANF and TANF eligible participants across the County. Under the Educational and Support Services component of our program we propose to provide family- centered case mana eg ment services for each of the twenty -five (25) participant families in the rental assistance and home ownership components. Through weekly contact with families, case management will include development of tailored action plans to access occupational and skills building training provided under the program and in the community. Program funds will provide support for transportation and childcare needs, when they are required to allow families to participate in program activities. Participants in the ACHIEVE! public housing program in the Chapel Hill/Carrboro area, an estimated 20 TANF and TANF- eligible families, will have access to the skills - building and educational training under this program. A Community Outreach Component will provide monthly educational materials and an annual self - sufficiency resource fair to another 150 Orange County TANF and TANF- eligible families. These educational activities are designed to inform and to encourage families to take actions that will move them closer to economic self - sufficiency.