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31 <br /> County through the American Rescue Plan Act. <br /> Actions planned to foster and maintain affordable housing <br /> Using FY 2023-2024 HOME funds, the Consortium will help local nonprofit agencies build affordable <br /> housing;there are no plans to foster or maintain current affordable housing using FY 2023-2024 HOME <br /> funds. <br /> Actions planned to reduce lead-based paint hazards <br /> The Consortium ensures that County rehabilitation staff and the contractors they work with are <br /> knowledgeable and up-to-date on lead-based paint(LBP) requirements of all federal housing programs, <br /> distributes information on LBP hazards to all households that participate in County housing programs, <br /> conducts LBP inspections and assessments as necessary, and implements environmental control or <br /> abatement measures for LBP hazards as applicable in all federally-funded projects.This strategy allows <br /> Orange County to: be in full compliance with all applicable LBP regulations; control or reduce, to the <br /> extent feasible, all LBP hazards in housing rehabilitated with federal funds; and reduce the number of <br /> incidences of elevated blood lead levels in children. <br /> Actions planned to reduce the number of poverty-level families <br /> The Orange County Family Success Alliance (FSA), modeled after proven national programs such as the <br /> Harlem Children's Zone and the Promise Neighborhoods Institute, is founded on the understanding that <br /> no one organization or individual can single-handedly change the way poverty harms our children and <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 /> Annual Action Plan 27 <br /> FY 2023-2024 <br />