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10/28/2020 <br /> 4 <br />Family Success <br />Alliance <br />Social <br />Determinants <br />• Navigator team completed Community Health Worker <br />certificate program at Durham Tech. <br />• Pandemic focus on family navigators working with <br />families to meet basic needs: housing/rental <br />assistance, utilities, and food. Coordination with other <br />local government agencies and nonprofits to meet these <br />needs. Also significant work with families and school <br />district staff to support virtual learning for children. <br />Assisted YMCA in promoting their scholastic learning <br />centers in both Orange County school districts. <br />• All FSA staff have worked closely on OCHD COVID <br />response efforts including communications, health <br />education, outreach and contact tracing, case <br />monitoring and case investigation. Staff have worked up <br />to 50% on these tasks. <br />• FSA partner network continues to meet monthly with a <br />current priority on meeting COVID-related family and <br />community needs. Six partners received Rapid <br />Response Funds from the United Way to meet these <br />expanded and unexpected needs. <br />• Completed end of year reporting for the United Way <br />Changing Generations grant in July and conducted a <br />virtual site visit with United Way staff in September. <br />• FSA Advisory Council continues to meet quarterly to <br />guide the work. Council elected Charolos Banks of <br />CHCCS as chair for 2020-2021. <br />Justice Advisory <br />Council – <br />Jail/Mental Health <br />Workgroup <br />Substance <br />Abuse & Mental <br />Health <br />• The Familiar Faces group is working to create a consent <br />form for participants and a Data Sharing Agreement <br />between agencies to track participant contact with <br />multiple agencies. <br />• Jail psychiatry has continued during COVID-19. 113 <br />people have been seen since November 2018 when <br />residents began seeing jail detainees. <br />• During COVID there have been fewer people in the jail, <br />many of those coming out have gone to programs so the <br />transitions have been smooth. A lack of housing is a big <br />concern. With Community Empowerment Fund being <br />closed and the Shelter not accepting new people, <br />housing connections have been harder to make. <br />• The Criminal Justice Resource Department will have a <br />temporary position from July to December funded by the <br />CARES Act to help those involved with the justice system <br />make connections. This position will be located in the <br />courthouse and will be available to help make <br />connections for COVID-19 resources as well as mental <br />health, domestic violence, housing, or other needs.