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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: August 19, 2003 <br />Action Agen a <br />Item No. _~ <br />SUBJECT: NACo 2003 Achievement Awards <br />DEPARTMENT: County Manager PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Sharron Hinton, ext. 2300 <br />Award Notification Letters and Awards <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To officially acknowledge and present the National Association of Counties 2003 <br />Achievement Awards to staff responsible for the development and implementation of the Child <br />Health Awareness Program, Orange County Farms Program, and the Wheels for Work <br />Program. <br />BACKGROUND: For the past 34 years, the National Association of Counties (NACo) has <br />sponsored its annual Achievement Awards Program to recognize effective and creative <br />programs throughout the nation. <br />Orange County has received three awards for this year for the following programs: <br />(1) Child Health Awareness Program -The Child Health Awareness Program (CHAP) <br />improves the health awareness and behaviors of families with young children in Orange <br />County through innovative health promotion efforts and by linking families to needed <br />services. CHAP has trained 29 Hispanic/Latino lay community women as volunteer Child <br />Health promoters who, in turn, educate and connect hundreds of previously "hard-to- <br />reach" families to local resources. In addition, this community-based model worked with <br />the Child Health Promoters to design, field test and produce two bilingual low literacy <br />photo-story booklets that are used to educate Spanish-and English-speaking families <br />about child safety. These "fotonovelas" are one-of-a-kind, culturally appropriate tools <br />that the Promoters and other agencies use to promote child safety in the kitchen and <br />poisoning prevention. Rosemary Summers, Orange County Health Director, and Susan <br />Clifford, Senior Public Health Educator, will be present to receive the award. <br />(2) Orange County Farms Program - As a result of increased urbanization in this area, <br />many Orange County farmers have experienced difficulties in sustaining profitable <br />businesses. The farmers' lack of access to markets and lack of knowledae of <br />