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3• ORANGE COUNTY HUMAN SERVICES ADVISORY COMMISSION HSAC HUMAN SERVICES POLICY FORUM, 1991 Work Shop Purpose The manner of how the County will deal with human service needs in the immediate and long -range future will require a coordinated and purposeful effort by all human service stakeholders. The 1990 HSAC-Fall Workshop Report recommended that the County initiate a strategic planning process for human services and identified many of the factors which would be impacting needs in the upcoming decade. Since then the County has initiated a planning process. Rather than continue to address the needs of citizenry and resources, the HSAC felt it important this year to formulate a desired image of what an Orange County Human Service "System" should look like as an initial step in strategic planning. This 1991 report suggests a vision of what key stakeholders would like to see in a community human system. Included is the image which was formulated by human service stakeholders in a forum at the UNC Friday Center on Sept. 18, 1991. The stakeholders participating in the forum included those persons who had attended the 1990 forum and additional persons identified by the Board and county manager's office. Developing a vision of a community human service system and its performance characteristics is important in planning because it provides a standard against which quality and quantity may be measured. Increasingly communities are realizing that in order to assess the performance of its resource structures and processes, some image is needed of the desired goal of those structures and processes. Resource planning therefore becomes an assessment of where the community is in relation to the desired community goal. Visions of a desired community human service system further offer roadways for selecting priorities, taking new initiatives, and rationing scarce resources. Work Shop.Design A letter of invitation was sent to prospective participants announcing the 1991 Policy Forum. The forum was planned, through group work, to facilitate community leaders from public and private sectors in a dialogue related to human services in Orange County, to develop an operational vision of the future of human services, to provide input to a county philosophy to guide human services delivery, and to provide guidance and focus for on -going human service planning. In preparation for the forum, all participants were sent pre - readings which included'summary results of the 1990 Forum, articles describing "visioning ", and a brief questionnaire for them to complete on their vision for Orange County and the unique