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3. Staff will develop potential interventions to disrupt existing inequities and impact the ways in which race operates in the clinic, including possible changes in resource allocation, policies, communications, and roles. • Youth Tobacco Prevention Funding The Health Department has received state funding for the next two years to expand Youth Tobacco Prevention efforts in the county and assist with a regional approach to prevention of initiation of tobacco use by young people. Some examples of how funds may be used include providing training on emerging tobacco products to youth role models and paying for registration and travel for students to youth empowerment and advocacy trainings and conferences. • Mobile Home Parks Survey For many years, there has been interest in addressing the vulnerability of residents living in mobile home parks in Orange County. The Board of Commissioners allocated funds in the FY2015-16 and FY16-17 budgets to address land banking of mobile homes parks and/or to assist in the acquisition of property for future residential development as an affordable housing alternative. An ad hoc committee of local housing partners and the Planning Department began meeting last fiscal year to discuss and evaluate the opportunities and obstacles. The voices of mobile home residents have not yet been a part of this process, and the committee recognized the need for their input. Navigators with the Family Success Alliance, who have personal and programmatic connections to mobile home park residents, are partnering with the county manager’s office to visit various mobile home parks in the coming weeks to conduct a survey and will share the results of this survey with the County to help inform what actions can be taken. We anticipate that results will be available in late September. • Adolescent Health Services Dr. Mike Steiner, Chair of the Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine at UNC, is interested in collaborating with the health department to expand comprehensive health and wellness services for underserved adolescents and young adults in the county. An initial meeting was held to discuss unmet needs particularly in the areas of substance abuse and mental health services. A follow-up meeting is being scheduled to include other partners, such as Piedmont Health Services, to see if there is interest and demand for a program similar to the JustTeens initiative in Guilford County.