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