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®rungr &flinty ilepurhnnnt of *oriel *nukes 098 300 W. TRYON STREET HILLSBOROUGH, NORTH CAROLINA 27278 BOARD: 410 CALDWELL STREET r T"""� °'�""' CHAPEL HILL, NORTH CAROLINA 27514 TELEPHONE: ^DR.TH HILLSBOROUGH OFFICE 968-4501.967-9251 DR.THOMAS DENTON CHRIS NUTTER - HILLSBOROUGH OFFICE 732-9361,7324181 SHIRLEY MARSHALL RICHARD SMYTH CHAPEL HILL OFFICE 92940446 BONNIE DAVIS DIRECTOR:THOMAS M.WARD - • MEMORANDUM TO: Orange County Social Services Board FROM: Thomas M. Ward, Director Date: November 20, 1986 - RE: Requests for Two Intake Workers As you are aware, we have included a request for two intake workers with our county budget for the last three or four years: For this year's budget request, these two position requests were dropped to adhere to the 3"ttaffing study recommendations. As a result, we are now using Helen Lee in our Hillsborough office and Barbara McPherson in our Northside office to handle intake cases. We have recently had to discontinue the transportation services which Helen and Barbara were providing, which averaged two to two and one-half days per week, .in order to meet the demand for intake. In addition we are now required by the state to offer a new Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Emergency Assistance program. This program began as of November 1, 1986 and provides emergency assistance to households having children under age 21 who meet income and reserve limits and have a qualified emergency. The manual for this program consists of 52 pages of policies and is fairly complex. We currently are administering this program thru a mixed application process in which Helen and Barbara take applications for those clients who wish to apply for emergency assistance and who are not applying for AFDC at the same time. We are.using the two AFDC intake workers, Deborah Ricks and Natalie Young, to take emergency applications for those also apply- ing for AFDC. We have seen approximately 20 applications for this program in the first three weeks of its existence without any advertisement of this program by the state. We anticipate that word of mouth will cause a continued increase in applications for this program. Since the program is funded at a 50 percent Federal, 25 percent State and 25 percent County.level the possibility for payback does exist should applications be approved incorrectly. We will be audited in the spring of 1987 on this program. The addition of this AFDC-EA program now means that we must provide intake service for the following 1) General Assistance Fund 2) Saratoga Mills General Assistance Fund 3) Crisis Intervention Program (CIF) 4) National Food and Shelter Board Program 5) AFDC-EA program In addition we still refer applicants to other assistance programs such as the �. Samaritan Relief Fund, Travelers Aid, and other services offered by agencies such as Orange Congregations in Missions after screening these applicants in intake. 0