Aging Advisory Board Minutes 021015

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2 Mary Fraser noted the following activities for the Master Aging Plan: • The Aging Well Together Faith Based Community Outreach Symposium will be held on March 5. • The UNC School of Public Health -Health Behavior Health Education Capstone Team proposal for Aging Preparedness was submitted for academic year 2105-16. • Requests have been submitted for four UNC School of Public Health – Health Behavior summer internships. • The Aging Transitions division is reviving its One-Stop Shop for Community Living Clinic similar to the assessment clinic co-sponsored with UNC in the past. • The Long Term Care Learning Collaborative is sponsoring Direct Care Worker Awards with nominations being accepted from February 14 – March 31. Award recipients will be determined by Project EngAGE volunteers but all nominees will be honored at the May 6 ceremony. • The Aging In Community series will continue on March 25 with a Tiny Houses information session at the Seymour Center. The Town of Chapel Hill is hosting three public meetings on affordable housing: February 10, 24 and March 10. Lauren Clark is the Town’s designee for this issue. Due to the time the Acting Chair suggested Committee Progress Reports be distributed with the monthly Advisory Board meeting notice. If the Director received these reports the week prior to the meeting it would allow for this distribution. Keith Cook also requested including information on upcoming events in the mailing. In her Director’s Report Janice Tyler announced that Orange County has hired Audrey Spencer- Horsley, as the new Housing, Human Rights and Community Development Director. It was suggested that she should be invited to meet with the Advisory Board in the near future. Mrs. Tyler recently attended the Board of County Commissioners annual retreat where the upcoming bond was discussed. The primary purpose will be funds for school facilities and affordable housing although senior center expansion has been mentioned by a couple county commissioners. She stated that the Department is continuing its efforts to redesign its volunteer services division and will utilize Project EngAGE Coordinator Yvette Missri as staff support for this effort. The NC Coalition on Aging, an organization representing 40 aging organizations across the State, is sponsoring an Aging Advocacy Week in late February. One of the primary legislative goals is to preserving funding for the Home and Community Care Block Grant. NC State Representative Graig Meyer has been invited to visit the Department on February 26. Ms. Tyler announced that Triangle J Area Agency on Aging will be monitoring the Department’s utilization of its Home and Community Care Block Grant funding on February 19 and 20. Mary Fraser distributed the newly-printed Community Resource Guide for 2015. There being no further business the meeting was adjourned. Respectfully submitted, Janice Tyler, Secretary