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MINUTES ORANGE COUNTY BOARD OF HEALTH April 23, 2009 Board of Health Minutes Transcription completed by Anne Miles Cassell 6 April 23, 2009 enforcement. Rosemary Summers explained that the Department does not charge for some services, therefore this policy would not apply to those services. Motion to adopt the Orange County Red Flag Policy was made by Sharon Freeland, seconded by Anissa Vines, and carried without dissent. E. Review Draft Re-Certification Application for Healthy Carolinians The Governor’s Task Force on Healthy Carolinians awards certification to communities who have broad-based community partnerships which represent the needs of the disadvantaged and whose mission is prevention based. To be recertified the following criteria must be met: • Must have planned and implemented activities that work toward achieving at least two different 2010 objectives from two different focus areas • Action plans/objectives/interventions must target populations with health disparities • Must have long term (10 year) objectives and short-term (5 year) objectives that are measurable and have a baseline. The strategies must have multiple levels of interventions and be effective in achieving the desired outcomes stated in the objectives. Strategies/objectives should have evaluation plans that include impact and/or outcomes. • HC Partnership must have diversity represented in leadership committee and full partnership. Membership must represent race/ethnicity of community, a wide variety of agencies, businesses, churches, schools, gender, sex, geographic, community members and community leaders. Community members must participate in the decision making process. • Must demonstrate collaborative leadership. The Partnership should not be the work of a sole agency. HC Partnership applying for recertification must demonstrate that leadership is shared and has evolved to include others beyond the original lead agencies and have influential community leaders supporting its work. • Must demonstrate that the HC Partnership has conducted or used a recent community assessment to determine priorities and identify priority populations. Community members should help decide priorities. • HC Partnership must report to the community and make presentations to various boards and commissions about its work. HC Partnership must have a communication plan that includes media and/or a marketing campaign. The Partnership must be working toward high visibility in the community. • Letters of support demonstrate commitment to HC Partnership and actions plans clearly demonstrate wide variety of agencies/organizations have roles and responsibilities for the strategies. • HC Partnership should have some ongoing financial support or a financial plan to seek funding. Support is both in-kind from member agencies and funds that underwrite the work of the HC Partnership.