S ORD-2002-009 Budget Amendment #5

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2 this Agreement, social work interns, under the direction of the Department's Master Social Work staff, will visit the complex twice a week to assess residents' needs, as required by HUD, and make referrals to community resources through the Eldercare Division. Manley Estates will reimburse the Department at a rate of $15 per resident per month. Since the facility opened in the latter half of the current fiscal year, staff anticipates revenues for this fiscal year to be about $1,500. This amount is expected to increase next fscal year and the revenues will be included in the department's 2002-03 budget request. This amendment provides for the receipt of these projected funds (S~e attachment 1, Column #3). 4. The Department on Aging has received notification from the National Senior Service Corps of a one-time grant of $1,500 to support attendance by the Director at the National Senior Service Corps Training Conference and the National Conference on Community Volunteering and National Service. This amendment provides for the receipt of these funds (See attachment 1, Column #4). Health Department 5. The Health Department has received notification from the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, a division of North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, of a mini-grant totaling $5,000 for FY 2001-02. These funds will be used to support the implementation of the department's project, "Women to Women". This project will improve the health of Hispanic/Latino women through utilization of a Spanish health booklet and Hispanic/Latino lay health advisors. The project also will improve knowledge and skills of key community women who will share this information with their friends and acquaintances-- --increasing those women's capacity to assess their own health, create a heightened awareness of health and human services available in Orange County, and encourage utilization of needed services. This amendment provides for the receipt of these funds (See attachment 1, column #5). 6. The Orange County Partnership for Young Children has awarded $34,352 in Smart Start funds to the Health Department for FY 2001-02 for the Welcome to the World Program. First funded in 1999, the Welcome to the World program was the primary responsibility of EMS. In July 2000, the Health Department began coordinating the program. The program enables County staff to provide safety-focused home visits to Orange County residents with newborns. Orange County Emergency Management Services (EMS) paramedics conduct visits and perform a variety of safety checks, including the location and security of poisons, the water temperature, crib location and rail spacing, heating appliance location, and drapery cords. Family Home Visitors with the Health Department also make visits and provide families with "Welcome to the World" bags. These bags include a first-aid kit, outlet covers, a healthy child development video, a baby's one-piece sleeper, a toddler book, water temperature tester and other child health and safety literature. If needed, a smoke detector, carbon monoxide detector and fire extinguisher can also be given to the family. While the Partnership was able to fund the Welcome to the World program, it also decreased funding in other programs within the Health Department. One such example is the Health Department's Families in Focus program. This program had three Smart Start funded positions last fiscal year, but for the current year, the Partnership was only able to provide funding for finro positions. To that end, the Partnership has agreed to allow the Health Department to use the new Welcome to the World funds to reassign a currently authorized position from the Families in Focus Program to the new Welcome to the World