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10 At the October 5, 1994 BOCC meeting, the Board received the Manager's recommendation of the process for developing an action plan. The action plan for implementation will establish a coordinated and empowered function designed to provide the coordination of youth and family services. The outcome, which was discussed and agreed upon at the recent PPP meeting, will be a service delivery system that will be proactive for positive youth development assured by measurement and evaluation. (See Attachment 1) To facilitate this process, the Manager recommended the use of two graduate interns, a Master of Public Adminis- tration (MPA) and a Master of Social Work (MSW) , to work cooperatively to develop an action plan. The MPA intern would concentrate on the automation component of the recommendations; while the MSW intern would focus on an outcome of empowered collaboration in the youth and family service delivery system in Orange County. STATUS: Effective October 24, 1994, Loretta Harper, an MPA student, was hired as an intern by the Manager's Office to work on the automation efforts. She is being paid from the Manager' s operating budget. The County is also in the process of negotiating a contract for services with the UNC School of Social Work-- (See Attachment 2) that would focus on collaboration in the service delivery system. This contract for services will provide for selected School faculty and staff to engage key family and children services stakeholders of Orange County in a process of consensus-building and decision-making concerning an appropriate community-empowered definition of, structure for, and agreed-upon protocol for collaboration. These services will be paid from the $30, 000 budgeted in the non- departmental funds. The Manager's Office, in conjunction with the Human Services Coordinating- Council of orange County, has scheduled a meeting on November 16, 1994 to discuss the strategies for implementation. The Coordinating Council was established in 1991 to develop a mechanism to coordinate the delivery of human services in the county. Members of the Council include representation from Orange County, Chapel Hill, Carrboro, the United Way, the Association of Community Agencies, and the UNC School of Social Work. Because of their charge and membership, this group is the natural source to serve as convener of the planning and development process for the coordination of youth and family services.