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a. ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: August 14, 2001 Action Agenda Item No. -e SUBJECT: Extension of Time-Limited Senior Public Health Educator Position DEPARTMENT: Health PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: "Child Safety in the Kitchen" Fotonovela Rosemary Summers, ext 2411 (Under Separate Cover) TELEPHONE NUMBERS: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill 968-4501 Durham 688-7331 Mebane 336-227-2031 PURPOSE: To extend the time-limited status for a Senior Public Health Educator position in the Health Department through June 30, 2002. The position presently is filled. BACKGROUND: The Senior Public Health Educator position in the Health Department's Community Health Awareness project is a permanent time limited position. Due to an oversight during the budget process, the Health Department did not submit the request for extension of this permanent time limited position for the current fiscal year (2001-2002) and that request now is being presented here. This project is funded by a grant through the Orange County Partnership for Young Children. The Partnership has indicated that the project is being funded for the 2001-2002 fiscal year. The department has received a commitment for the first 90 days of funding with the remainder pending the final approval of the state budget allocation to local Smart Start partnerships. The purpose of the Community Health Awareness Project (CHAP) is to improve the health awareness and behaviors of Orange County families of young children by promoting new and existing health education activities, and linking identified families to community resources. Project efforts target the most disadvantaged, "hard-to-reach" families in Orange County. With collaborating agencies, in the 2001-2002 fiscal year, the CHAP project will implement: 1) A Latino Child Health Promoter program in northern Orange County (lay health advisor model training families to share information through informal community networks); 2) A fotonovela project (low literacy education.material produced by Health Promoters); and 3) Child health/safety information distribution at historically well attended community events.