Orange County NC Website
history - women's commission page 2 <br /> with the Orange County Mental Health Association of the first Orange County <br /> Guide to Family Resources, a highly regarded booklet of information about <br /> _ <br /> more than a hundred human service resources available to Orange County residents. <br /> The Women's Commission was sole publisher of the 1980-81 revised edition <br /> of the Resource Guide which was distributed in quantity to all county-funded <br /> schools and human service agencies and sold at cost to individuals and other , <br /> service providers. Both books were published with an enormous donation of <br /> volunteer time from Commission members. <br /> In the summer of 1979, the Commission directed the publication of <br /> the Teen Guide for Orange County, a project that utilized staff and volunteers <br /> from many human service agencies in the county and employed eight Orange <br /> County teenagers in a project that encompassed experience in every step of <br /> the publishing process. <br /> The Women's Commission has published several; newsletters, mcist'-: :-- - <br /> recently "Women Aware", a joint publication with the Women's Center. It <br /> is also a co-publisher of a brochure on Orange County Day Care, has suppt orted <br /> "Children's: Services News", and assigned staff to work on the publication <br /> of the "Triangle Women's Resource List, 1981". . . <br /> Ever since the opening of its office in November, 1977, the Commission <br /> has served as a referral resource for individual women who have called or <br /> come in to our office. The Commission has also been a resource for professionals <br /> looking for resources not available within their own agencies. The Commission <br /> has served as the convener of a number of interagency committees and projects. <br /> It has used its staff to exceptional value by making it possible for service <br /> delivery staff who have not been able to give time to organizational details <br /> ” - <br /> to be able to come together to share information and develop structures for <br /> coordination of services. <br /> .,.-- <br />