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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. .Zi-B ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: February 1, 1993 SUBJECT: Comprehensive Adolescent Health Care Project Grant Application DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S) : INFORMATION CONTACT: HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2412 1. Letter from the coalition for Healthy North Carolina Youth TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough - 732-8181 2. Request for Proposals Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane - 227-2031 3. The Grant Proposal Durham - 688-7331 PURPOSE: To authorize the Orange County Health Department to submit, on behalf of the Orange County Coalition for Healthy North Carolina Youth, a grant application for a comprehensive adolescent health care project. BACKGROUND: In the most recent Orange County Health Department Community Diagnosis, five of the eight top health problems, high number of unwanted pregnancies, poor pregnancy outcomes, increasing numbers of communicable diseases, increasing number of injuries due to motor vehicle accidents and increasing use of drugs and alcohol relate significantly to adolescent health care issues. The overall goal of the project is to: Enhance the physical, mental and social health of adolescents in Orange County by increasing access to and utilization of comprehensive health services. The objectives are the following: 1. Establish a primary health care clinic in the Carrboro (Southern Orange County) branch of the Orange County Health Department to serve 250 adolescents the first year by September 20, 1993. 2. Increase utilization of existing adolescent clinic in Hillsborough by twenty percent by June 30, 1994. 3. Develop an interagency network system to insure comprehensive care for adolescents in Southern orange County. 4. Establish a follow up record at both clinical sites.