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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: Renewal Agreement Between Chapel Hill Training and Outreach, Inc. and <br />Health Department for Social Worker II <br />DEPARTMENT: Health <br />PUBLIC HEARING: (Y/N) No <br />ATTACHMENT(S): <br />Agreement <br />INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />Rosemary Summers, ext 2411 <br />TELEPHONE NUMBERS: <br />Hillsborough 732-8181 <br />Chapel Hill 968-4501 <br />Durham 688-7331 <br />Mebane 336-227-2031 <br />PURPOSE: To consider approving an agreement renewal between Chapel Hill Training <br />Outreach, Inc. and the Health Department for the support of a Social Worker II position for the <br />Early Head Start Program. <br />BACKGROUND: Since 1999, the Health Department has contracted with Chapel Hill Training <br />and Outreach to provide a Social Worker II to that agency to provide services to Early Head <br />Start children in Chapel Hill. The contract provides for payment for salary, benefits, travel, <br />office space, and training costs for a Social Worker II employed by the Health Department to <br />provide child service coordination services to children enrolled in Early Head Start (0-3 year <br />olds). The Social Worker earns some Medicaid revenue that is utilized to defray operational <br />costs of the position and program. This arrangement has been one way to coordinate services <br />across agency lines to families that qualify for services. The caseload of the Social Worker is <br />30 families. Outcomes of the program include children from 0-3 years of age with development <br />delays receiving services from appropriate agencies so that the children can reduce or mitigate <br />the impacts of the delays. Another outcome of the program is to reduce the number of <br />caseworkers assigned to families that qualify for multiple programs (health department and <br />early head start). <br />The contract time period does not correspond to the County fiscal year because the funding to <br />Chapel Hill Training and Outreach is federal funding. The amount of the contract is for $4,124 <br />per month for the period May 1, 2003 through December 31, 2004. The federal grant year will <br />be changing to a calendar year for this project as of January 2005, which dictates the time <br />period of this contract extending through December 2004. <br />FINANCIAL IMPACT: The contract pays for all personnel and operating costs associated with <br />the position itself and Medicaid revenues help defray the administrative costs of supporting the <br />