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DocuSign Envelope ID: DlA09OF6-2A4E-4FOB-9FB7-92FFFC9El3D2 XHIBIT A: <br /> PROVIDER'S OUTSIDE AGENCY APPLICATION <br /> Our programming aligns with the following community goals: <br /> • Orange County BOCC Goals and Priorities <br /> Applies to all goals: <br /> • Social Justice Values: <br /> • Foster a community culture that rejects oppression and inequity. <br /> • Ensure economic self-sufficiency. <br /> • Create a safe community. <br /> • Enable full civic participation. <br /> Goal 1: Ensure a community network of basic human services and <br /> infrastructure that maintains, protects, and promotes the well-being of all <br /> county residents. <br /> Boomerang is a community member of Family Success Alliance (FSA); our work falls <br /> under the following goals of FSA's Strategic Plan 2016-2018: <br /> - Goal 2: Children and youth are healthy and succeed in school <br /> - Goal 3: Youth graduate from high school and college. <br /> Goal 6: Ensure a high quality of life and lifelong learning that champions <br /> diversity, education at all levels, libraries, parks, recreation, and animal <br /> welfare. <br /> Specifically, EDUCATION: AT-RISK CHILDREN <br /> Continue to close the achievement gaps and end the school to <br /> prison pipeline. <br /> CONNECT STUDENTS TO COMMUNITY COLLEGES <br /> • Chapel Hill Human Services Needs Assessment <br /> Education & Family Resources are identified as an important community need. <br /> According to one stakeholder, with the "tremendous spike in our number of <br /> homeless students, free and reduced lunch numbers and English language <br /> learners," many students still need help. <br /> Quality, equitable education for everyone One stakeholder explained, "The public <br /> school system is not adequately preparing [students] for successful independent <br /> living after high school." <br /> Within this category, Youth Support and Activities are highlighted with many <br /> participants agreeing "Chapel Hill lacks sufficient low-cost/free activities that <br /> positively engage children and youth, especially those from at-risk and low-income <br /> households". Among the responses to this Assessment, participants specifically <br /> cited the need to support [for] at-risk children and teens. <br /> • Town of Chapel Hill Council Goals, 2016-18 <br /> Community Prosperity: Develop a strategy for creating vocational classes and career <br /> development for youth with the school system, Durham Tech and other non-profit <br /> organizations. This builds on the 2016 Council Goal (2014-2016 Council Goals <br /> Status Report), under Nurture Our Community: Create a strategy to impact out of <br /> school time, ESL, and vocational classes for youth with non-profit organizations <br /> (2016 Goal) <br /> • Chapel Hill 2020 -Theme 1: A Place for Everyone states "Chapel Hill is a place for <br /> PROGRAM INFORMATION Page 11 of 20 <br />