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MAIN APPLICATION Community Education: Offered as requested throughout the year. Generally offer 6 -15 presentations monthly. Professional Workshops: Offered as requested throughout the year. Generally offer 2 -4 presentations monthly. Women's History Month: March is national Women's History Month. Staff, community partners and volunteers begin planning events, constructing a community calendar, and outlining marketing for the month the previous December, and then meet monthly to coordinate plans. Equal Pay Day: held on a Tuesday in April each year, created by the National Committee on Pay Equity in 1996 to raise awareness about the difference in men's and women's wages. Tuesday was selected to represent how far into the work week women must work to earn what men earned the previous week. Staff, community partners and volunteers begin planning an event and outlining marketing for the day in the previous January, and then meet monthly to coordinate plans. Domestic Violence Awareness Month: October is national Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Staff, community partners and volunteers begin planning events, constructing a community calendar, and outlining marketing for the month the previous July /August, and then meet monthly to coordinate plans. Volunteer Training: Compass Center conducts in -depth volunteer trainings for our Domestic Violence and Information and Referral volunteers. Domestic Violence Hotline trainings consist of 42 total hours and First Response volunteers for the Information and Referral Line consist of 17 hours; both occur in the fall and spring. g) Provide a bulleted list of other agencies, if any, with which your agency coordinates /collaborates to accomplish or enhance the Projected Results in the Program(s) to be funded. For each, give specific examples of the coordinated /collaborative efforts. • Chapel Hill - Carrboro City Schools: We deliver youth interpersonal violence prevention education (Start Strong) in health classes. • Orange County Rape Crisis Center: Collaborative partner in providing Start Strong curricula for 6`h through 9`h grade. We work with youth in 6th and 8`h grade and OCRCC works with them in 7`h and 9`h. We created a fluid curricula and evaluate the program together. • University if North Carolina's Department of Women and Gender Studies: collaborate on Women's History Month and Domestic Violence Awareness Month events. • North Carolina Coalition Against Domestic Violence: Collaborate to offer professional trainings on interpersonal violence and provide staff training on evidence -based practices. • Johnson Service Corps: Provide infrastructure to support an Information and Referral Specialist position. • Numerous non - profit and government agencies and community groups request our professional and community education programming for their constituents to be able to better respond to their own clients or situations. h) Describe what would happen if requested funding is not awarded at all or if a reduced allocation is recommended. Since the majority of the cost of these programs is personnel expenses to deliver services and train and supervise volunteers, if this funding was reduced we would likely not restructure by adding an Johnson Service Corps. intern position and possibly be in a situation of reducing our current force. This would mean fewer clients being served and fewer youth and adult education presentations. It would inhibit us from maintaining our agreements with Chapel Hill - Carrboro City schools to deliver youth education in compliance with the Healthy Youth Act. There are few funding sources for interpersonal violence prevention work with youth and adults at this time so we rely heavily on Orange County to meet this vital need. i) Include any other pertinent information. Main Application 1/24/2016 2:59:42 PM Page 36 of 58