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2 <br />AGREEMENT BETWEEN <br />The Orange County Health Department <br />As a part of the County of Orange <br />AND <br />Chapel Hill Training/Outreach Project, Inc.: Orange County Head Start and Early Head Start <br />THIS AGREEMENT, made and entered into this 1st day of July, 2008 by and between The Orange <br />County Health Department hereinafter referred to as "OCHD" for its Dental Health Services Division; and the <br />Orange County Head Start/Early Head Start Program of the Chapel Hill Training/Outreach Project, Inc., <br />hereinafter referred to as " OCHS/EHS". <br />WITNESSETH <br />WHEREAS, OCHS/EHS desires the services of a dentist(s) licensed by the State of North Carolina <br />with experience or training in children's dentistry, and <br />WHEREAS, the Health Coordinator of OCHS/EHS and the Director of Dental Health Services, <br />OCHD shall administer this program and, <br />WHEREAS, OCHD desires to contract with OCHS/EHS to provide a dentist(s) licensed by the State <br />of North Carolina to provide services and to serve as a consultant to OCHS/EHS; <br />NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the following mutual promises, <br />covenants and conditions, OCHD and OCHS/EHS agree as follows: <br />1. OCHD shall provide a dentist(s) licensed to practice in the State of North Carolina to be available to <br />OCHS/EHS to serve as a consultant, and to provide dental services to the children enrolled at OCHS/EHS <br />and determine priority of dental needs for the program/children. Initial screening will be done for all children <br />enrolled as of August 1, 2008, 3-5 years of age, to be screened at the OCHS/EHS Head Start centers. In <br />addition, a full examination is required within 90 days of enrollment; that examination will be conducted at the <br />OCHD Hillsborough dental services site. Enrollees after this date are to be transported by OCHS/EHS to <br />the clinic for examination on the same day with children who have appointments. <br />2. As a result of the initial screening, OCHD will assign children to groups according to the following: <br />A) Those with immediate need <br />B) Those with apparent need <br />C) Those with no apparent need <br />