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1 Commissioner Jacobs said Health in All Policies could be wedded to social justice, and 2 he would rather see social justice as the larger heading and make Health in All Policies a 3 smaller heading. 5 3. Family Success Alliance Update 6 Meredith Stewart said one of the catalysts for the initiative was seeing that the number of 7 children living in poverty was increasing in Orange County. She said this also reflected statewide 8 trends. She reiterated the importance of early childhood to future success in all areas of life. She 9 said brain formation during early years has implications for years to come. She said a particular 10 area of influence are Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) that can change the way the brain is 11 built in early childhood. 12 She said those facts combined to create a desire to mitigate the effects of poverty on 13 children and families in Orange County. She said the Harlem Children's Zone, which presents the 14 idea of a pipeline from cradle to college /career, was considered as a potential model to adapt to 15 Orange County. She said the pipeline idea presents a seamless set of services, programs and 16 policies that provide for the success of children and families. She said a slightly modified version 17 of the pipeline idea is being created in Orange County. She said it has four large goals: 18 19 1.) Children are healthy and prepared for school 20 2.) Children and Youth are healthy and succeed in school 21 3.) Youth graduate from High School and go on to college or a career 22 4.) Families and neighborhoods are supporting the healthy development of children 23 24 She said in the Fall of 2014, an initial six zones, where the largest number of children and 25 families were struggling to make ends meet, were narrowed down to two. She said the process 26 included community input in writing and in- person presentations by each zone. She said zone 27 four and zone six are the final two zones and will ultimately receive a different name. She said 28 zone four is in the northern part of the County near New Hope Elementary and A.L. Stanback 29 Middle School. She said zone six is in western Chapel Hill /Carrboro area. She commented that 30 the two zones are extremely different in many ways. She said a gap analysis was started to see 31 where the gaps in the pipeline were in the two zones. She said the analysis was completed via 32 door to door interviews with community members, one on one interviews with service providers 33 and organizations, focus groups, and an online survey. She said the information gathered 34 through this process was just presented to the two zones last week. She said there was a great 35 response and feedback from both communities. She said the information presented to the two 36 zones were both qualitative and quantitative. She said the community feedback will be presented 37 to the Family Success Alliance Advisory Council on Monday, April 20t . 38 Meredith Stewart said the next part of the process is to identify short term and long term 39 ambitious ideas that can fill the gaps in the pipeline. She said additional goals are to create a 40 robust evaluation plan, increasing data available to do the evaluation, and continuing with strong 41 community engagement. She said a group will be traveling to the Harlem Children's Zone to visit 42 the practitioners institute and see how the pipeline works in person versus theory. 43 Chair McKee expressed thanks for the efforts of all working on this project and agreed 44 with the crucial timing of working with children in need as early as possible in order to secure 45 future success. 46 47 4. Dental Clinic Update 48 Colleen Bridger distributed and reviewed a hand out. She said the first graph shows that 49 before closing the Southern Human Services Center clinic the average annual revenues were 50 $300,000. She said after closing the dental clinic these numbers dropped off and have taken a