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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action Agenda <br /> Item No. �} <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: March 8, 1995 <br /> SUBJECT: Report from Community-Based Public Health Initiative (CBPHI) <br /> DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 <br /> 1. Brief Report <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> PURPOSE: , <br /> To present a report of the Community-Based Public Health Initiative <br /> (CBPHI) funded by the Kellogg Foundation. The report will be presented <br /> by residents of the target communities of Efland, Cheeks and Cedar <br /> Grove. <br /> BACKGROUND: <br /> On February 6, 1995, the Board of Commissioners approved the third year <br /> contract between the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the <br /> Orange County Health Department to fund the Community-Based Public <br /> Health Initiative (CBPHI) through a four year grant from the W.K. <br /> Kellogg Foundation. The health department is the fiscal agent for a <br /> coalition representing UNC-CH School of Public Health, the Health <br /> Department, the Joint Orange Chatham Community Action Agency (JOCCA) , <br /> Piedmont Health Services, the Cooperative Extension Service and three <br /> grassroots, community-based organizations, the Efland Development <br /> Association, the Cheeks Homeowners Association and the Low Income <br /> Policy Advisory Council of JOCCA. <br /> The aim of the project is to improve the health of African-American <br /> members of the Efland-Cheeks and Cedar Grove Communities by <br /> strengthening the capacity of community-based groups to assess and <br /> address their own unique health related problems. Using a broad <br /> definition of health including the physical, mental, social, economic <br /> and political health of the community, the coalition has worked with <br />