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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 15, 2008 <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. ~-_~ <br />SUBJECT: Receipt of Additional Funds from Orange County Partnership for Young <br />Children for Child Care Health Consultant Projects <br />DEPARTMENT: Health PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Project Description Summary Rosemary Summers, 245-2411 <br />PURPOSE: To accept additional funds from Orange County Partnership for Young Children for <br />Child Care Health Consultant Projects. <br />BACKGROUND: The Orange County Partnership for Young Children has funded the Child <br />Care Health Consultant (CCHC) Project for over 10 years in Orange County. For the past two <br />years, this project has been implemented by an Orange County Health Department Public <br />Health Nurse II who has been trained as a NC Child Care Health Consultant. The Child_Care <br />Health Consultant works closely with childcare programs to provide safe and healthy <br />environments for children birth to five by offering trainings and on site consultation services to <br />caregivers and families. Examples of services include performing health and safety <br />assessments, developing improvement plans, supporting development of health and safety <br />related policies, planning for inclusion of children with special health needs, screening for <br />access to insurance and preventive health care, and referring to community health and safety <br />resources. Recent statistics show that children in Orange County are overweight -21.7% of <br />children ages 0-5 years old are greater than the 95th% for Body Mass Index for their age. The <br />CCHC had prioritized basic nutrition as an area of focus this year; however, grant funding for the <br />project only covered .85 FTE of personnel costs for the CCHC and did not allow for purchases <br />necessary to support the current program or additional curriculum/supplies. <br />In October, the Orange Partnership for Young Children was awarded atwo-year grant from the <br />NC Partnership for Children to implement an evidenced-based nutrition curriculum, "Nutrition <br />and Physical Activity Self Assessment for Child Care" (NAP SACC). By allocating this <br />grant money to the existing CCHC Project, the Orange County Partnership was able to <br />supplement the project with additional financial resources to purchase supplies needed to <br />improve the quality of health and hygiene practices in Orange County childcare programs. The <br />NAP SACC grant allocation for FY2007-2008 increases the CCHC budget by $27,120 allowing <br />the Health Department to initiate the program, purchase additional resources, establish <br />