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• 2 Orange County Child Poverty Council Planning Members Civic/Government Education & Early Childhood Non-Profit • Board of County • Orange County School • Triangle United Way Commissioners (2) Board • El Futuro • Board of Health • Chapel Hill/Carrboro City • Interfaith Council • Orange County School Board • Literacy Council Departments: • Head Start/Early Head • Compass Center o Health Start o DSS • Orange County o Housing and Partnership for Young Healthcare • Human Rights Children UNC Health Care o Sheriff's • OPC/Cardinal Department Innovations • Town Managers (3) As the collaboration progresses and specific goals are determined, the OCCPC will include engagement/formation of Advisory Work Groups to work on specific community-level outcomes identified. These Advisory Work Groups may include topical experts to provide expertise on policy or programming, as well as individuals and organizations directly working in participating neighborhoods. Throughout the process, the OCCPC will continually engage Community Partners through Advisory Work Groups and communications. BOCC approval is necessary to move forward with planning and implementation of the project proposed by the Health Department to mitigate the effects of generational poverty in specific geographic "zones" in Orange County. A full time coordinator for the project was included in the Health Department budget for FY 2014-2015. The success of this type of work relies on long-term collaborative partnerships. The Orange County Child Poverty Council (OCCPC) is one aspect of the beginning of this multi-year process. As outlined in the draft charter of the OCCPC (Attachment 2), the OCCPC will advise and make non-binding advisory recommendations on resource allocations, program planning, and policy changes to ensure a pipeline of high-quality services to reduce the detrimental effects of poverty for children and families living in the County, including: • Identify geographically defined priority areas of high-need to pilot a focused collective impact approach to provide a pipeline of success from birth to college/career for children and families in the County; • Serve as a convening body, known as a backbone organization, to catalyze and coordinate partnerships among government agencies, non-profits, and individuals around the pipeline to success in the County; • Assist in the development of a shared set of goals and standard set of quantitative and qualitative indicators to target activities and evaluate progress; • Recommend specific, evidence-based programs and policies to fill gaps in the pipeline through coordination of existing services or development of new initiatives; and • Pursue funding and development opportunities to meet identified needs that cannot be addressed by coordination of existing policies, programs, or services.