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2 <br />The Job Partnersprogram, administered by the Community Empowerment Fund, <br />helps people become job-ready and find jobs. <br />The Support Circlesprogram, administered by the Inter-Faith Council for Social <br />Service, oversees teams of volunteers who provide emotional, practical and financial <br />support for peopletransitioning from homelessness to permanent housing. <br />Project Connectis a one-day, one-stop center that connects people experiencing orat <br />risk of homelessness with a broad range of resourcesincluding housing, health, <br />mental health and dental care, and employment, legal, social benefits and other <br />services. <br />The Partnership budget supports the Homeless Programs Coordinator (Coordinator) position, <br />the cost of participating in the national homeless database and miscellaneous expenses. The <br />Coordinatoris responsible for overseeingthe development and implementation of local <br />strategies to end and prevent homelessness including: <br />Building partnership and collaboration among homeless housing and service <br />providers; <br /> Applications for federal funding (approx.$700,000 annually) and pursuing other <br />funding sources; <br />Promoting evidence-based practices; <br />Determining unmet needs of those experiencing or at-risk of homelessnessand <br />developing strategies to fill those needs; and <br />Collecting homelessness data. <br />The evolution of the Partnership reflects theprogress it has made over the past six (6) years as <br />well aschanges in the national approach to ending homelessness. These changes aremirrored <br />inthe updated MOU – specifically,from ending chronic homelessness in 10 years to ending all <br />homelessness on an ongoing basis. <br />The MOU also movessupervision of the Coordinator position tothe County Manager and <br />elected officials on the Leadership Team(from the Housing, Human Rights andCommunity <br />Development Department Director), thereby increasing the position’sindependence and <br />responsiveness to input fromall four local governments. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: <br />The adoption of the updatedMOU will result in the continuation of <br />funding from the County and Townsfor the Partnership budget.In accordance with the 2008 <br />MOU and the proposed updatedMOU, the County and Towns will fund the Partnership’s budget <br />on a pro-rata schedule based on censuspopulation data. The current and last fiscal year <br />funding formulaand contributionsareas follows: <br />Funding ShareFY 2013-2014FY 2014-2015 <br />Orange County39%$39, 205$41,448 <br />Chapel Hill41%$41, 215$43,573 <br />Carrboro15%$15,079$15,942 <br />Hillsborough5%$5,026$5,314 <br /> <br />