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history - women's commission page 3 As a suppliment to its referral activity, the Commission has sponsored numerous informational programs, with substantial emphasis on offering programs in the less populated areas of the County. In Hillsborough in the summer of 1978, a series of eight meetings covered child care, • parenting education, non-traditional employment, legal issues, financial management, and teen pregnancy. A H.C. Humanities Grant to fund programs on health issues for women of all ages was presented in Hillsborough and Efland in the Fall. of '78. In 1980-81 the Commission co-sponsored a series on issues in childbirth in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill with the Women's Health Counselling Service. In September, 1979, the Orange County Commissioners sponsored a county-wide conference on information and referral. The conference was organized and staffed by the Women's Commission. More than 80 representatives; of human services, environmental organizations, and media resources attended to discuss and affirm the need for a coordinated system of information gathering and dispersal in the community. Advocacy for women has taken two forms. Perhaps the Commission's proudest moment was its recommendation for funding of three women's voluntary service agencies to the County Commissioners in 1979. The Commission followed up support of these agencies with contract review during the first year of funding, by staff assignment to a Human Service Advisory Commission study of the role of these agencies, and by sharing office space so that services available in the southern portion of the county would be offered to all Orange County residents. Another way the Women's Commission has advocated for women has been ...through leadership training. From its earliest days when most Commission members had no idea about how County government works, Commission members