2018-411-E Finance - Compass Center outside agency agreement

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DocuSign Envelope ID: FOFFD659- 4159- 4D4C- 82FD- FF8E51A5A7E4 EXHIBIT A: PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION addressing credit issues. We have also expanded our support group offerings to regularly offer a financial support group for domestic violence survivors. Career Exploration and ,Preparedness: individual career advising (60 min. sessions), and career development workshops. Topics include, but are not limited to, resume and cover letter writing, addressing gaps in employment, interview confidence skills, and networking strategies. We have also expanded our support group offerings to regularly offer a career support group for domestic violence survivors. We have been partnering with the Institute for Consumer Money Management to revamp our financial services and to ensure they are trauma - informed since spring 2017; this work is on -going with new program piloting and research to begin in winter /spring 2018. We partnered with Inspiring Capital in summer 2017 to research general and trauma- informed career counseling program models and make programmatic recommendations with planning and implementation of these changes expected throughout 2018. Financial and Career services make up part of what we call our Self - Sufficiency Services that are available to anyone in our community, regardless of experience with domestic violence. For all clients we see, we want to grow the number of repeat clients by creating a less a -la -cart and more systematic approach to coaching that encourages participants to access additional financial education beyond their initial information needs. Many of these services are offered by professional volunteers so this will mean major programmatic system changes and training of these volunteers. We have also had difficulty in getting a significant number of our domestic violence crisis clients to engage in financial and career services even after the acute crisis phase has passed. We really want to change this and believe that additional Orange County Human Services funding would enable us to add the staffing capacity we need to help us grow these services and make them more trauma - informed. e) Describe the community need or problem to be addressed in relation to the Chapel Hill ACC Goals and Priorities, Town of Human Services Needs Assessment, Orange Count Chapel Hill Council Goals, Carrboro Board Priorities, or other community priorities (i.e. Council /Board Goals). Reference local data (using the provided links, i.e. Chapel Hill Human Services Needs Assessment) to support the need for this program. Legal Information: There is significant unmet legal need in our community, primarily because of the cost of representation. In North Carolina, there is only one Legal Aid attorney for every 11,000 low- income individuals while there is one private attorney for every 362 people in North Carolina; an estimated 80% of the civil legal needs of low - income families go unmet every year (NC Equal Access to Justice Commission 2018). These legal needs may be related to "domestic violence, divorce, child custody, housing, consumer protection, employment, veterans' benefits, and health ", which are all areas that have a major impact on peoples' lives and in which legal expertise is crucial (NC Equal Access to Justice Commission 2018). Financial Literacy Education: In Orange County between 2012 and 2016, 12,8% of the population was living in poverty. In NC 40.4% of women - headed households are living in poverty (Nati. Women's Law Center, "Poverty Rates By State 2016 "). Contributing to poverty among women is the reality of gender pay disparities that continue to be a problem in the United States. In 2016 North Carolina women earned just 82% of their male counterparts, and the wage gap is significantly larger for women of color ( "State PROGRAM INFORMATION 1/2312018 10.28:52 AM Page 26 of 47