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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. V77T- D ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: January 19, 1993 SUBJECT: Community Health Advocacy Program (CHAP) Kellogg Grant Award DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 1. Award letter from UNC-SPH 2. Award letter from Kellogg to UNC (with Attachments) TELEPHONE NUMBER: 3. Year-1 Budget Projection Hillsborough -732-8181 4. 4-Year Budget Projection Chapel Hill -968-4501 Mebane -227-2031 Durham -688-7331 PURPOSE: To accept.a four-year grant from the Kellogg Foundation through the UNC School of Public Health to develop a Community Health Advocacy Program (CHAP) for the purpose of improving the health of minority populations in targeted communities. BACKGROUND: At the Board of Commissioners meeting of April 21, 1992, the Health Department was authorized to seek funding for the CHAP Program through the school of Public Health's Kellogg Foundation Grant Application. Enclosed is the notice of award from Kellogg to the UNC School of Public Health and the notice of a contractual award from UNC to the Orange County Health Department as fiscal agent for a coalition. This coalition includes the Health Department, the Joint Orange Chatham Community Action Agency (JOCCA) , the Orange Chatham Comprehensive Health Service (OCCHS) , the Cooperative Extension service (CES) , the UNC School of Public Health (UNC-SPH) and two community based organizations from the Efland community. The Orange County Coalition is part of a four-county consortium funded by Kellogg. The other counties are Chatham, Lee and Wake. The coalition agencies each have representatives on a steering committee charged with governing the Orange county project. The proposal outlines a method of encouraging communities to organize for the identification and solution of community health problems with the support and assistance of the coalition agencies.