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BOARD OF HEALTH 2 NOVEMBER 21, 1996 4. 2 Family Resource Center Proposal Ms. Kugler informed the Board that funding for a network of family resource centers in Orange County has been provided for 2 1/2 years by the Orange County Partnership for Young Children (OCPYC) the local Smart Start agency and the North Carolina Department of Human Resources (DHR). The HEARTH Family and Community Resource Center served as the central administrator until October 15, 1996. OCPYC in collaboration with DHR recently initiated a bid process for the continued operation of these centers for the remainder of the fiscal year with a possibility of further funding. The Family Resource Centers are currently located in the Pine Knolls and Trinity Court/Pritchard Park neighborhoods in Chapel Hill and in the Northern Orange Human Services Center in Cedar Grove serving the communities of Cedar Grove, Efland and Perry Hills. OCHD has had a very close relationship with the Northern Orange Family Resource Center since the initial grantwriting stage. Chapel Hill Training and Outreach Program originally established the center in Pine Knolls. When the Health Department learned that CHTOP was also interested in bidding on the FRC’s, staff approached them about a partnership arrangement whereby they would be the fiscal agent responsible for hiring the staff and the overall administrative aspects of the program and OCHD would have primary, but not exclusive, responsibility for the programming aspects. $12,876 would be reserved in the this year’s budget for OCHD. This money would be used to hire a temporary, part time health educator to serve as liaison to the project and for supplies and professional services rendered by the department. The contract will go to CHTOP as fiscal agent and the OCHD as partners with others as agreed upon. Dr. Klein motioned to authorize the Health Department to participate in this partnership arrangement with Chapel Hill Training Outreach Project, Inc. as fiscal agent to administer and develop family resource centers in Orange County and accept funding in the amount of $12,876. The motion was seconded by Dr. Foster and passed unanimously. 5. HEALTH DIRECTOR’S REPORT 5.1 Healthy Carolinians Task Force Report Mr. Reimer reviewed preliminary priorities of the Healthy Carolinians Task Force. The task force ranked the pressing health issues in Orange County first by impact on the health of the community. Then, they ranked the issues again based upon their personal willingness to act on each issue. The next step is for the task force to meet again to chose which items from the priority list the task force would like to pursue. Mr. Reimer also reviewed health status problems submitted by each Orange County Health Department division for the community diagnosis in January of 1996. Attachment four in the Board packet is an attempt to show how the Healthy Carolinians priority health issues relate to the community diagnosis health status problems identified by the health department staff. The task force at this date has not chosen which priorities to purse and have not developed action plans. Therefore, it is difficult to formulate goals for the Commissioners Retreat. It is clear that issues chosen by the Healthy Carolinians Task Force will require the Health Department to focus more of its efforts into outreach and partnering with other organizations. This item will be discussed again in conjunction with Item 5.3. 5.2 Human Services Advisory Commission Report Dr. Foster informed the Board that the HSAC met on November 18th and reached an agreement on recommendations, but the draft report is not ready for publication yet. There will be several recommendations that look at the County and the United Way joining forces in a collaborative effort to provide both funding, collaboration, training and the use of outcomes for funding and the use of outcomes for evaluations purposes, with organizations that are funded by the County and United Way. This will be done through several strategies that the HSAC will recommend; one is the use of a resource person to assist with training and a model that was used in Wake County as a mentor program of developing agencies and their skills that are further along in the process, to serve as mentors for agencies that are in the development process. Dr. Foster also informed the Board that an additional page has been added to the United Way funding application grant and the County application. The additional page asks for information regarding the agencies goals for the previous year and what the agency did towards achieving those goals; and what the agencies proposed to do in the next funding year.