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1 <br /> ORANGE COUNTY <br /> BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br /> Action <br /> Agenda <br /> IterrIeNo. <br /> ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br /> Meeting Date: November 1 , 1994 <br /> SUBJECT: Report - Emergency Family Shelter and Support Task <br /> Force Feasibility Study <br /> DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No <br /> Commission for Women <br /> ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: <br /> . Task Force Feasibility Study Lucy Lewis , ext 2251 <br /> (under separate cover ) <br /> TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br /> Hillsborough - 732-8181 <br /> Chapel Hill - 968-4501 <br /> Durham - 688-7331 <br /> Mebane - 227-2031 <br /> PURPOSE: To receive a report from the Emergency Family <br /> Support and Shelter Task Force and consider the areas for <br /> assistance addressed to the Board of Commissioners . <br /> BACKGROUND: The Orange County Homeless Women and Children <br /> Task Force presented a Community Report and Recommendations <br /> to the County Commissioner in May 1993 , including a <br /> recommendation for a task force to explore the development of <br /> a family shelter in Orange County. On January 4 , 1994 , the <br /> Board of Commissioners passed a resolution establishing an <br /> Orange County Emergency Family Support and Shelter Task <br /> Force . The Task Force was charged with studying the issues <br /> related to emergency family support and shelter, and <br /> developing a proposal to address this need . <br /> Task Force members identified the issues which needed to be <br /> studied, including : demographics and projected need, service <br /> models for addressing this need, construction options, costs , <br /> location, service delivery, organizational and administrative <br /> options , and transportation. Subcommittees were formed to <br /> study each of these issues, and asked to develop options and <br /> assessment criteria for these issues where appropriate. <br /> The Task Force determined that there is a critical need for <br /> shelter and support for homeless families and for battered <br /> women and their children, an overlapping population. In the <br /> first nine months of 1994, the Inter-Faith Council has served <br /> 54 families and 72 children . Given these figures, 72 <br /> families and 100 children are expected to use the IFC <br /> Community House this year, and an equal number of families <br />