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Proposed Goals (As Approved by Board of Directors) HUMAN RESOURCES 1. Advisory Committees Seek legislation authorizing boards of county commissioners to appoint Rest Home and Nursing Home Advisory Committee members sufficient to equal one committee member per 50 nursing home and rest home beds. (New Hanover) G.S. 131E-128(b)(1), provides "In a county which has one, two, or three nursing homes, the committee shall have five members. In a county with four or more nursing homes, the committee shall have one additional member for each nursing home in excess of three." Similar language which applies to Adult Care Home Community advisory Committees is found at G.S. 131D-31. The proposed change would delete this language and substitute, "The committee shall have one member for every 50 nursing home beds in the county" in both statutes. Community Advisory Committees work to maintain the intent of the "Resident's Bill of Rights" and to promote community involvement and cooperation with long term care facilities to ensure quality care for elderly and disabled residents. The current statutes set the maximum number of community advisory committee members based on the number of nursing homes or adult care homes in a given county. The proposed changes would allow the maximum number of community advisory committee members to be expanded at the discretion of individual counties to meet local needs. The size of long term care facilities in many counties has increased over the years. Consequently, in some counties there are many more residents per facility. In order to provide adequate coverage by the community advisory committees, counties should be given the discretion to increase the committee census to meet the county needs. 2. Automation of Human Services Seek funding to provide counties with computer hardware and software to accomplish the following purposes: Ce implementation of the child welfare information system, electronic sharing of records, unit of service processing, and payme~ between service facilities for area mental health programs; and consolidation/automation of the client interview process in county departments of social services. (Cabarrus & 1995 Goal) This goal represents the recommendation of the Human Services Automation Policy Planning Council, an effort undertaken by the Department of Human Resources and Association of County Commissioners and directed at improving human service deliw.,~ through automation. The anticipated state cost is $29 million.