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2000 HSAC Toruin .1.) 1 i .:1 F, I., <br />0 <br />Young Adults Facilitator: David Thompson <br />➢ Need for affordable housing, including single room <br />occupancy housing. <br />➢ Improvement of flexibility in which County administers <br />services and increases local funding. <br />➢ Support services for mentally -ill young adults who want <br />to live independently. <br />➢ Educate community about what it can do to help. <br />➢ Education and publicity about available services <br />(especially for newcomers to the system). <br />Mid -Life Facilitator: Dee Gamble <br />Some clipart on this page <br />➢ Increase in supportive, safe, and affordable housing, including single room occupancy <br />housing. <br />➢ Need for an increase in unrestricted funding. <br />➢ There should be a full range of mental health services for domestic violence and sexual <br />assault survivors and their children. <br />➢ Improve transportation alternatives for the mentally ill. <br />➢ Need for developing community crisis teams. <br />Elderly Facilitator: Debbie Kinert <br />➢ Sufficiency and accessibility of Mental Health Services. <br />➢ Respite care for the caregivers. <br />➢ Availability of resources that are not "means tested" (need for Universal Coverage). <br />➢ Fragmentation of services in County Senior Centers, i.e., need to use an interdisciplinary <br />wellness model. <br />➢ Inequality of Orange County Services in the different regions of the County (i.e., northern <br />Orange versus Chapel Hill). <br />CONCLUSION <br />