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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 24, 2006 <br />Action Agenda. <br />Item No. 5.1 <br />SUBJECT: Renewal Agreement Between Chapel Hill Training and Outreach, Inc. and <br />Health Department for Social Worker II <br />DEPARTMENT: Health PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />2005 Contract Renewal <br />2006 Contract Renewal <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rosemary Summers, 245-2411 <br />PURPOSE: To consider approving an agreement renewal between Chapel Hill Training <br />Outreach Inc. and the Health Department for the support of a Social Worker II position for the <br />Early Head Start Program. <br />BACKGROUND: Since 1999, the Health Department has contracted with Chapel Hill Training <br />and Outreach to provide a Social Worker II to that agency to provide services to Early Head <br />Start children in Chapel Hill. The contract provides for payment for salary, benefits, travel, <br />space, and training costs for a Social Worker II employed by the Health Department to provide <br />child service coordination services to children enrolled in Early Head Start (0-3 year olds). The <br />Social Worker earns some Medicaid revenue that is utilized to defray operational costs of the <br />position and program. This has been one way to coordinate services across agency lines to <br />families that qualify for services. The caseload of the Social Worker is 30 families. Children <br />from 0-3 years of age with development delays receive services from appropriate agencies so <br />that the children can reduce or mitigate the impacts of the delays. Another outcome of the <br />program is to reduce the number of caseworkers assigned to families that qualify for multiple <br />programs (health department and early head start). <br />The contract time period does not correspond to the County fiscal year because the funds to <br />Chapel Hill Training and Outreach are federal funds. Chapel Hill Training and Outreach prefers <br />the contract period to be a calendar year. There are two contracts for signature, one for <br />calendar year 2005 and one for calendar year 2006. In reviewing material for this calendar <br />year, it was discovered that the contract for the previous year had not been signed. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The contract pays for all personnel and operating costs associated with <br />the position itself and Medicaid revenues help defray the administrative costs of supporting the <br />position as well as any operating costs not covered by the contract. The contract amount is <br />adjusted annually to reflect any salary or benefit increases.