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13 DOA-733 (Rev. 1/O1) Home and Community Care Block Grant for Older Adults County Funding Plan Methodology to Address Service Needs ofLow-Income Minority Elderly (Older Americans Act, Section 306(a)(5)(A)(ii) Community Service Provider: Orange County Department on Aging County: Orange July 1, 2003 through June 30, 2004 The Older Americans Act requires that the service provider attempt to provide services to low-income minority individuals in accordance to their need for aging services. The community service provider shall specify how the service needs oflow-income minority elderly and rural elderly will be met through the services identified on the Provider Services Summary (DOA-732). This narrative shall address outreach and service delivery methodologies that will ensure that this target population is adequately served and conform with specific objectives established by the Area Agency on Aging, for providing services to low income minority individuals. Additional pages maybe used as necessary. The Orange County Department on Aging, while providing services to any County resident sixty years and older, makes special efforts to reach those individuals who are low-income minority and rural elderly. The Department accomplishes this through the following methods: • Coordinate services through the four JOCCA-operated senior meal sites, providing facility space and access services in these locations. Fixed transportation routes are operated for those who reside outside the municipal bus service area. The Information Specialist makes monthly visits to each of the meal sites to remind participants of the services available and assist individuals in accessing resources to meet their needs. • Provide low and no-cost programs and activities at each of the three senior centers, with scholarships available for those activities that have a fee attached. These offerings are advertised in the free departmental bi-monthly publication, the Senior Times. The Senior Times is distributed at the centers and inserted in the Satuday edition of the Chapel Hill Herald with a distribution of approximately 25,000 households in Orange County. • Work closely with the Department of Social Services to assure that in-home and institutional respite care services are targeted to those low-income individuals who could benefit. • Make presentations to church groups in rural Orange County to inform residents of services for seniors and to promote volunteerism through the Friend-to-Friend Program.