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33 <br /> our communities. FSA is dedicated to building a comprehensive system of engagement on education and <br /> health, with built-in family and community support. It is staffed by the Orange County Health <br /> Department and supported by work groups made up of staff members of participating advisory council <br /> organizations. Initial funding for FSA was awarded by the Orange County Board of County <br /> Commissioners through the Social Justice Fund. <br /> FSA's 2019-2022 Strategic Plan outlines three goals: (1) children are healthy and prepared for school, (2) <br /> children and youth are healthy and succeed in school, and (3)families, neighborhoods, and institutions <br /> support the healthy development of children.These goals are approached through four strategic areas. <br /> The first is family empowerment. Over the 2019-2022 period, FSA is evolving its current "navigator" <br /> model, in which peer leaders build trusting relationships with families living in poverty, into a more <br /> comprehensive family empowerment model that will bring families together to learn, build on strengths <br /> and knowledge, and together work to better navigate systems and to uncover their personal and <br /> collective power to affect systems change.The second strategic area is partnership. FSA collaborates <br /> with cross-sector agencies to center parent expertise and priorities and aims to shift more power into <br /> the hands of parents to co-create programs and initiatives in the community.The third area is systems <br /> change, by involving community members whose lives are most directly and deeply affected by poverty <br /> in leadership and decision making in order to dismantle institutionalized racism and other oppressive <br /> systems.The final strategy area is foundational work.This means building internal infrastructure in FSA <br /> to support strategic goals. <br /> Actions planned to develop institutional structure <br /> OCPEH has thoroughly analyzed the institutional structure and service delivery system for homelessness <br /> in Orange County, identified ten gaps in the system, and calculated the costs of filling those gaps. OCPEH <br /> has either identified existing programs and partners, or worked to set up the necessary infrastructure, <br /> through which to fill most of these gaps, and some funding has already been secured. Of the estimated <br /> $1.7 million yet to be secured, OCPEH has approached Orange County and the Towns of Carrboro, <br /> Chapel Hill, and Hillsborough to ask each jurisdiction to contribute a portion of the funds. In addition to <br /> filling the homeless system gaps, OCPEH also aims to improve existing projects and processes and <br /> improve the quality of homeless service delivery. <br /> AP-90 Program Specific Requirements <br /> Introduction <br /> The Orange County HOME Consortium receives an annual allocation of HOME funds.The questions <br /> below related to the HOME program are applicable to the Consortium. Questions related to the CDBG <br /> program are applicable only to the Town of Chapel Hill and are addressed separately in Chapel Hill's <br /> Annual Action Plan 29 <br /> FY 2022-2023 <br />