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3 Executive Summary PROJECT GREEN BANANAS (PROJECT) is one of three FY 1994-95 Orange County supported initiatives (along with the Automated Information and Referral System and the Youth Forum) to enhance collaboration among human service resources. The PROJECT is a "Community Building Collaborative" between County Government, the Public Private Partnership, and the UNC School of Social Work (see Attachment A). Working as a team with the County Manager's Office, the Project has engaged a wide representation of the County in exploring how human service organizations, programs, and professionals are working together - and possibly could work together - to serve the community. To accomplish this end, the PROJECT has also attempted to work with and through existing structures and practices. One obvious success of the PROJECT has been the engagement of key stakeholders in a community dialog of "collaboration" as a desired behavior. Another success has been an understanding of the community's strong capacity for working together, and an increased understanding of what currently "works" for Orange County. A desired outcome of the PROJECT is to find acceptable ways of using resources more effectively and efficiently. This PROJECT, along with others, should help develop a "community readiness" for the many changes that are expected to impact human services in the near future. The following Interim Report is a summary of activities toward achieving the three PROJECT goals. 1. Community Definition of Collaboration Many human service funding sources are requiring agencies and programs to give evidence of their unique and non - duplicative role in contributing to a "Community Outcome". This evidence is generally measured by assessing the kind and quantity of collaborative activity of a given agency or program. An examination of . 1