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1 ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS Action Agenda A Item No. �LJ n ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT Meeting Date: April 21, 1992' SUBJECT: Community health Advocacy Program (CHAP): Kellogg Grant Application PUBLIC HEARING: _ Yes X No DEPARTMENT: HEALTH ATTACHN(ENT (S) : A Report INFORMATION CONTACT: HEALTH DIRECTOR'S OFFICE X2411 TELEPHONE NUMBER: Hillsborough - 732 -8181 Chapel Hill - 968 -4501 Mebane - 227 -2031 Durham - 688 -7331 PURPOSE: To inform the commissioners of the development of the Community Health Advocacy Program (CHAP) and to seek the Commissioners' approval for the Health Department and Cooperative Extension service to be included in a UNC School of Public Health application to the Kellogg Foundation for the funding of the CHAP program. BACKGROUND: The Health Department and the Cooperative Extension service jointly proposed CHAP to the Board of Commissioners for the annual goals retreat. The Commissioners authorized the Manager to consider the CHAP program during the budgeting process for FY 92 -93. Eileen Kugler and Belinda Jones from the Health Department accompanied Sharon Jenus from cooperative Extension to a regional training program for the planning and implementation of CHAP sponsored by the Division of Health Services, Cooperative Extension service, and East Carolina University. CHAP has been adopted by 16 counties in North Carolina and is under consideration by at least that many more. The program is designed to recruit, train, and support community health advocates who serve as volunteers to aid communities to identify and solve their own health problems. At the same time, the health director became involved in a consortium of four county health departments, several community - based organizations, the orange Chatham comprehensive Health Service (occHS), and the UNC - school of Public Health which was designed to apply for a Kellogg Grant to establish a community - based public health initiative.