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Meeting Minutes - Date
7/22/2002
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Board of Commissioners
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Home and Community Care Block Grant for Older Adults <br /> County Funding Plan <br /> <br />DOA-733 <br /> <br />Methodology to Address Service Needs of Low-income Minority Elderly and Rural Eldedy <br /> (Older American Act, Section 306 (a) (5) (A) (ii) <br /> <br />Community Service ProvicE Department' of Aging <br />County: Cabarrus <br /> <br />July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2003 <br /> <br />The Older Americans Act requires that the service provider attempt to provide services to Iow-income <br />minority individusla in accordance to their need for aging services. The community service provider <br />shall specify, how the service needs of Iow-income minority elderly and rural eldedy will be met through <br />the services identified on the Provider Services Summary (DOA-732). This narrative shall address <br />outreach and service delivery methodologies that will ensure that this target population is adequately <br />served and conform to specific objectives established by the Area Agency on Aging for providing <br />services to Iow-income minority individuals. Additional pages may be used as necessary. <br /> <br />GOAL: <br />To ensure the participation in services provided through the Cabarrus County Department of Aging of the Iow <br />income minority older adults in the community. <br /> <br />The Cabarrus County Department of Aging provides services to all older adult residents regardless of race or <br />economic status. Brochures are distributed throughout the community that promote the services provided by our <br />agency. Services are also promoted through local churches and through speaking presentations to senior <br />citizens and local civic groups, <br /> <br />Our current client base includes a substantial number of minority clients and some of our LunchPlus Club sites <br />are located in minority and rural areas. Transportation is provided to all LunchPlus Club programs. We will <br />continue to distribute information in predominately minodty and/or Iow income neighborhoods, promote our <br />services through local churches, make personal presentations to groups, and place informational brochures <br />in local medical offices/facilities. <br /> <br />Our local newspaper, The Independent Tdbune, pdnts and distributes our Sunset Outlook newsletter bi-monthly <br />to 27,000 subscribers. A second newsletter (Senior Savvy) is distributed monthly. This publication is distributed <br />on counter tops throughout the rural areas of Cabarrus county. We also have started producing a twice weekly <br />Television Show (Forever Young) that addresses Aging issues and is available on local Cable TV. <br />This~allows publicity of our programs and services to reach the entire county. We also coordinate service <br />referrals with other human service agenciesand receive referrals for services from vadous local service <br />providers. <br /> <br /> <br />
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