2017-477-E Finance - Community Empowerment Fund - Outside Agency Performance Agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: 5D25D6E0-716B-4244-AEA3-02E6A45FD852 EXHIBIT A PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION Based on our successful outcomes and unique model, CEF's programs have been evaluated and highlighted by several national organizations, including publications by the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), the Center for Advanced Hindsight at Duke University, FIELD at the Aspen Institute, and a peer-reviewed journal article published in the Journal of Poverty Special Issue on Housing the Homeless. CEF is rooted in a collaborative approach that connects the supportive service networks of Orange and Durham Counties, the two communities in which we work and have offices. We are welcoming connectors, and are committed to cultivating an open network of people and organizations to holistically serve members' goals. Our history and our success in providing these services is based firmly in these connections and partnerships all across our community, and in developing unique services or new collaborations that strive to fill the gaps that emerge in our local support system for individuals transitioning out of homelessness and poverty. e) Other Pertinent Agency Information (Ex. Has the agency experienced any major changes in the past year? Is there a new Executive Director?Are there new initiatives?) Launch of Orange Community Hub: CEF launched a partnership through our Chapel Hill office to collaborate with private agency, public, and government resources to facilitate integrated service delivery. We relocated our main office to an expanded and more amenable space in order to accommodate a formal co-location of services and build an integrated service delivery model with partners - specifically incorporating the services of partners who provide legal services, mental health services, housing support, and veterans services. Beyond co-location in the physical space, the opportunity for discursive, collaborative, person-centered service delivery that leverages the strengths and capacities of all partners is extraordinarily exciting. Importantly, agencies are not co-locating their primary offices or staff to this shared space, but are providing varying degrees of co-located services depending on the agency and its desired outcomes. For example, an agency might host two regularly scheduled hours for intake or outpatient services on-site at this location, or an agency might simply utilize the shared space on an ad-hoc or as-needed basis. The benefit to CEF members— and more broadly, to the homeless and at-risk community in Orange County— is the opportunity to access critical supports in a streamlined, convenient manner, and to receive better coordinated services across a wide variety of social service systems. Volunteer Training now an Academic Course at UNC School of Social Work: This year we developed a partnership with the UNC School of Social Work and APPLES Service- Learning to offer an academic course that trains our volunteers in financial coaching through a course for academic credit at UNC. This course replaced our current training offering in financial coaching for Chapel Hill advocates, which was not previously available for academic credit. The curriculum is now facilitated by and developed in collaboration with a faculty member in the School of Social Work, and the training series is now significantly longer, with more opportunities for written reflection, reading requirements, and additional content. The course was offered for the first time on the UNC registrar in Fall 2016. This adapts our model at Duke University, in which our overall volunteer training has already been an academic course for two years. f) Schedule of Positions (For Entire Agency) • Full Time Equivalent(FTE) staff will be noted as 1.00; half time as .50; quarter time as .25, etc. Agency Information 1/31/2017 11:04:24 AM Page ar 2