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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda Item No. 777-*B ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: November 16, 1993 SUBJECT: Orange County Teen Clinic Expansion and Renewal, a Project Grant Application. DEPARTMENT: HEALTH PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2412 1. The Grant Proposal TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough 732-8181 Chapel Hill - 968-4501 Mebane 227-2031 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 relate significantly to adolescent health care issues. These problems are a high number of unwanted pregnancies, poor pregnancy outcomes, increasing numbers of communicable diseases, increasing numbers of injuries due to motor vehicle accidents and increasing use of drugs and alcohol. The Adolescent-in-Need project began working in Northern orange county in 1981. The project provides medical and social work services to students in the school system who are identified as being at risk for dropout, pregnancy, and other health problems. In 1988 the orange County Health Department and the Adolescent- in-Need project worked cooperatively to open a Comprehensive Health Care Teen Clinic in Northern Orange County at the Hillsborough office of the Health Department. On February 1, 1993, the Board of Commissioners authorized the Health Department to submit an application to the Division of Maternal and Child Health within the Department of Environment, Health and Natural Resources to expand the Teen Clinic to Southern Orange. The initial application was not successful. However, indications are that the application would be well received in the second round of funding. 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. A key to the success of the Northern orange Clinic has been the relationship among the schools, the Adolescent-in-Need Program, and the Health Department, with the Health Department School Health Nurses providing continuity.