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I$ <br />Nursing, Pharmacy and Public Health). The Coordinator has also established relationships with <br />representatives from the Orange County Chapter of the American Red Cross, local Citizen Corps <br />representative and Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) coordinator (Eric Griffin), <br />and the Public Health Regional Surveillance Team. In conjunction with bioterrorism planning <br />efforts, the Coordinator has met with local emergency management, law enforcement, University <br />public safety, mental health profes:;ionals, school representatives, and water and sewer authority <br />representatives. All community partners are supportive of the establishment of a Medical <br />Reserve Corps in Orange County, ;end letters of support have been provided by the Orange <br />County Department of Emergency Management (Appendix G), the Orange County Chapter of <br />the American Red Cross (Appendix H), University of North Carolina 'School of Nursing <br />(Appendix >), and the Orange County Board of Health (Appendix ~. <br />To date, more than 150 nw-ses and at least 10 pharmacists have expressed an interest in <br />attending an information session on the Orange County Health Department's volunteer MRC. <br />These information sessions have teen scheduled for late August and early September of this <br />year. Other key partnerships include the UNC School of Public Health and the North Carolina <br />Center for Public Health PrepareCness who have offered to assist in disaster planning and <br />response by providing discipline-specific contacts at the School of Public Health and to sign a <br />Memorandum of Agreement outlining this relationship. The UNC School of Nursing is also <br />willing to sign a Memorandum oi~Agreement and has offered to provide faculty, staff, and <br />student volunteers and to assist v~~ith MRC training. <br />Orange County community partners and linkages currently have the capability of <br />providing tactical support and technical expertise, but the County lacks sufficient trained <br />manpower to respond to local emergency events or to provide services for unmet public health <br />7 <br />