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Health Director’s Report <br />June 28, 2017 <br /> <br />• On Wednesday, May 17, twenty‐one lead and healthy homes professionals met at the <br />UNC Institute for the Environment for the quarterly NC Healthy Homes Outreach Task <br />Force meeting. Attendees provided brief program updates and participated in a <br />discussion about current lead guidelines. April Richard, the Senior Public Health <br />Educator from the Orange County Health Department presented on Smoke‐free Multi‐ <br />unit Housing and the new HUD Rule. <br />• Victoria Hudson has been promoted to Environmental Health Supervisor. She will begin <br />her new role 6/26/17. Jeff Jones is retiring effective 6/30/17. Jeff is an Environmental <br />Health Program Specialist with his primary function being restaurant plan review and <br />inspections. Environmental Health will be filling the 2 vacancies in the food and lodging <br />program as soon as possible. <br />• Empowerment, Inc., a Family Success Alliance partner, has been selected as a finalist for <br />the GSK Impact Award! A site visit will occur in the next few weeks! ($40,000 award, if <br />selected). <br />• Staff and Board of Health members are continuing to advance efforts to promote racial <br />equity within the department. Two BOH members and 30 staff have completed <br />Organizing Against Racism’s 2‐day racial equity workshop, and a consultant has <br />facilitated “Leading for Equity” trainings and discussions with most of those staff. The <br />clinic is exploring grant opportunities to support training and coaching for their staff as <br />well. <br /> <br />