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4 <br /> for operations support including cell phone, mileage, supplies and other vaccine and <br /> tracing supporting activities. This grant runs through May 31, 2023. <br /> • Regional Prevention Support Teams -- The Health Department has received <br /> $313,393 in additional funding from a federal pass-through grant to support the <br /> COVID-19 pandemic response with Orange County as the fiscal agent. Funding will <br /> be used to support 1 full-time (1.0 FTE) time-limited staff person (through May 30, <br /> 2023) to coordinate the regional team of temporary workers providing infection <br /> control education in congregate living facilities across Orange, Alamance, Caswell, <br /> Chatham, Durham, Guilford, Person, Randolph, and Rockingham counties, <br /> including family care and behavioral care facilities. It will also be used for additional <br /> temporary personnel salaries, training and operating expenses for the program. <br /> • Communicable Disease Pandemic Recovery — On June 21, 2022 the Board of <br /> County Commissioners approved appropriations of $215,667 in funding from a <br /> federal pass through grant to support the COVID-19 pandemic recovery. As of June <br /> 30, 2022 none of this funding was spent and the North Carolina Department of <br /> Health and Human Services closed the FY2021-22 grant and re-issued the funds <br /> for FY2022-23. Funding will be used for two existing time-limited Public Health <br /> Nurse (PHN) II positions through May 31, 2023. The PHN IIs will be full time <br /> employees trained in all communicable disease areas. One PHN II will focus on <br /> COVID-19, pandemic preparedness, and assist with integration of COVID-19 <br /> vaccination into the medical clinic. The second PHN II will focus on immunization <br /> and the Vaccines for Children (VFC) program. Funds will be used for salary, <br /> benefits, operating expenses and laptops for the two time-limited staff. <br /> • NC CARE 360 — The Health Department has received a NCCARE360 Community <br /> Organization Health Equity Grant totaling $94,521 from the Foundation for Health <br /> Leadership & Innovation. These grant funds will cover a full time (1.0 FTE) time- <br /> limited Community Outreach Specialist position and 0.2 FTE time-limited Office <br /> Assistant through June 30, 2023. The grant will support Diabetes Self-Management <br /> Education and Medical Nutrition Therapy to income eligible clients that would not <br /> typically be served because of an inability to pay. This grant also covers technology <br /> that will allow the Health Department and partner agencies to lend clients tablets <br /> and hotspots to use in telehealth appointments and group instruction in order to <br /> overcome this barrier to treatment. <br /> • UNC FIT — The Health Department was awarded $60,000 from the University of <br /> North Carolina Chapel Hill to support an additional Community Health Aide for the <br /> Formerly Incarcerated Transition (FIT) program. These funds will cover a full time <br /> (1.0 FTE) time-limited position through June 30, 2023. <br /> SOCIAL JUSTICE IMPACT: The following Orange County Social Justice Goal is <br /> applicable to this item: <br /> • GOAL: ENSURE ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY <br /> The creation and preservation of infrastructure, policies, programs and funding <br /> necessary for residents to provide shelter, food, clothing and medical care for <br /> themselves and their dependents. <br /> Emergency Services <br /> 4. On October 15, 2019 the Board of County Commissioners approved a resolution for the <br /> Hazard Mitigation Grants Program application to North Carolina Emergency Management <br />