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JUN-12-19~5 0~:4~ FROF'] C~B, CTY. SOC. SERU. TO 788~820 P.01 <br /> <br />John T. Blair. Prgsidenl <br />RO. Box t0 <br />Oas:onia. NC 28053 <br />(704) 8f~-3912 / Fax (TGi.) 866-3884. <br /> <br />Roy Young, 1st Vicc President <br />Sammy Haiti~ock~ 2nd ~qce FYe. sident <br /> <br />Cart Daughtry.. Treasurer <br /> <br />Press Release <br /> <br />May 10,1995 <br /> <br />For more information: <br />Sharon FFur~h, Executive Director <br />(919) 833-8020 <br /> <br />Jim Cook named Director of the Year <br /> <br />JRmes F. Cook, Director of the Cabanas County. Department of Social Services, was selected <br />Director of the Year by his peers in the North Carolina Association of Couaty Directors of Social <br />Services on May 4, 1995. <br /> <br />Cithag his advocacy for ftmd~ng critical child welfare services, Mr. Cook was nominated by <br />w,merous peers for this award. He has chaixed the Assoziation's Fiscal Committee for the las~ <br />seven years and is respons~le for pushing the state to develop funding for a variety ofprogram~ <br />helping children and famih'es including Medicaid Case Management, IV-E admini~rative funds <br />and WA-Emergency Assurance funding, which will particularly provide an enormous boost to <br />funding for child welfare services. The funding under WA-Emergency As.4stance will bring <br />much-needed funding to child prot~five services, matched by state appropriations, with the <br />potential for doubliag the state's CPS efforts. The lives ofohildren vdll be saved and the lives of <br />countless children ~ill be changed for the better. This alone is a sign½ficaat aecompli6ment, <br />perhaps a career acco~hpli~hment. But that is not all <br /> <br />Jkn Cook "embodies the best of creativky, tenacity, fiscal responsibility, and ability to navigate <br />the morass ofpeopb who have said ~ve caal do that'," according to Assodation President Jolm <br />Blair of Gaston Count3. ~:hJle ma~y have said that it was hapossqble to ~/,~,:~lify the state's <br />40-page application for benefit progr~m~, Trna reduced the form to one' 14 pages and, as a result, <br />the entire state is now benefiting ~om Cabarrus Count:y/s rankle applicatio~ proceg& <br /> <br />AFFILI~XTE MEMBER: NORTH CAROLINA ASSOCIATION OF <br />COUNTY COMMISSIONERS RECOGN~T~_ON CERE)IONY <br /> <br /> <br />