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~~~~~ Orange County Master Aging Plan Update: 2006-10 M.A.P. Steering Committee Minutes February 2, 2006 Introductions The meeting was called to order by Pat Sprigg, co-chair for the Master Aging Plan i.Jpdate, at 8:00 a.m, at Cazol Woods Retirement Community, Lookout Room, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Everyone introduced themselves, Pat Sprigg gave introductory remazks and the project timeline with projected meetings dates were distributed. Co-chair Florence Soltys updated everyone on the mission and development of M.A,P. and purpose of the vazious the subcommittees, Florence Soltys indicated that we used the Guiding Principles of the United Nations as the background in preparing the M,A.P. report. (See manual, section 1), Jerry Passmore indicated that the meeting ground rules were in their manual (section 8) and included try to attend all meetings, be on time, only one person speak at a time, everyone has input value, follow a preset agenda and begin and end on time, Everyone agreed to the ground rules. Review Past M.A.P. Accomplishments and Unmet Obiectives -2000-OS Florence Soltys highlighted the report distributed on the MAP goals and the accomplishments and the unmet objectives that have been achieved during these past five yeazs, The Goal One (lA) was to improve access to services information assistance and social activities for all older persons in Orange County. She feels that they have done fairly well with these objectives, However, this is an ongoing process that will never stop because we need to provide information on a consistent and long-term basis. One of the areas that we did not achieve which she feels is very important and one that they will take a serious look at as not achieving is multi-lingual and cultural sensitive areas of the website and their guide, Tlris is essential and needs attention. Also, they would like to get a campaign going whereby the University, private businesses, County government and the schools would donate computers to the Senior Centers when they are upgrading their computers so they will have plenty of them, Another objective we need to work on is to provide quarterly training courses for internet access at the Senior Centers so the seniors can use the internet and be aware of what is there. We still have a ways to go on this training. An assessment of community awareness -evaluating how effective we are in reaching all seniors with information needs to be done. Florence Soltys discussed urunet facility access objectives. Again a community survey that will evaluate the effectiveness of the senior centers and outreach programs is needed. This has been partially done, but is something they need to look at. The questions aze (1) are we doing what we need to be doing and (2) are we reaching the people we need to reach, etc. A new Central Orange Center facility has been approved and we need to look at the satellite outreach program spaces and they relate centers. Committee waited to discuss transportation issues at this point in the agenda until AI Terry, O.P.T Manager arrives, Florence Soltys feels transportation is one of the big issues for seniors. Goal Two (1B) is to have each older person in Orange Countxperceived for their value and uniqueness. According to Florence Soltys we have done some things to achieve this goal (In Praise of Age TV Show, newspapers), but still have a ways to go. We need to work on obtaining commitment from three counties or State education or aging institutions to provide training and continued education for programs to educate service providers about the strengths and the tremendous assets of elders and maximize their contributions to the community, Another one is the need to increase the number of intergenerational volunteer programs, We need to do more of this with UNC, youth civic organizations, the schools and RSVP in utilizing the talents of seniors as a two-way street with an intergenerational program. Page 1 of 8