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04 b ORANGE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS <br /> 106 EAsr MARGARET LANE <br /> HILLSBOROUGH, N. C. <br /> 27278 <br /> MOSES CAREY.1R <br /> STEPHEN H-HALKIOTIS <br /> JOHN HARTWELL <br /> SIIIRLEY E.MARSHALL <br /> DON WILLHOIT <br /> December 11, 1986 <br /> Ms. Betty Compton, FNP <br /> Clinical Assistant Professor <br /> Box 4, Wing C, 208H <br /> Division of Community Pediatrics <br /> UNC School of Medicine <br /> Chapel Hill, NC 27514 <br /> Dear Betty: <br /> As Chair of the Orange County Board of Commissioners, I am pleased <br /> to give strong endorsement to the proposed expanded Adolescent Program <br /> for Positive Parenting and Life Enrichment (APPLE) as well as to <br /> recommit the Orange County Board of Commissioners to continuing support <br /> of the Adolescents-In-Need-Project. Monies spent in County support of <br /> this project and of the Adolescent Parenting Program come back to us <br /> many-fold -- not only in dollars saved from Human Services programs, <br /> but also in the improved quality of life of those families directly <br /> reached and in the stimulation of broad community interest in and <br /> involvement with the needs of teenagers with emphasis on lessening the <br /> incidence of children having children, improved parenting skills, and <br /> increased educational job-related opportunities. <br /> The Adolescents-in-Need and Adolescent Parenting programs were the <br /> direct stimuli for the remarkable broad grassroots effort that has <br /> evolved in this County since March to provide a network of citizens, <br /> County Commissioners, and public and private agencies, ready to unite <br /> and devoted to bringing additional support and opportunities to teens. <br /> Citizens have worked along with County advisory board members. County <br /> staff members have given unlimited hours of their own time from our <br /> Health, Social Services, Agricultural Extension, Economic Development <br /> and Recreation and Parks Department. We, as a Board, have supported <br /> the grass-roots effort financially this year from our contingency fund <br /> and will be looking to support it further throughout our departments in <br /> the FY 1987/1988 budget. <br /> As the direct programs have provided the stimuli for the broad <br /> effort, a continuing effort needs the base resources of the expanded <br /> Adolescent Program for Positive Parenting and Life Enrichment to be <br /> effective and to grow. <br />