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- 3 - The Department is thus proposing the following: 1. The Child Victimization Council bE organized into three Sub-Committees, Public Awareness/Professional Training, Resource Development and Coordination, and the Child Protection Team. 2. Sub-committees have the following functions and responsibilities.: Public Awareness/Professional Training: Assess and prioriti~ public awareness and public information needs of the community; plan and undertake public awareness and public information efforts (eg., development and distribution of information brochures, holding a community meeting); assist other organizations in carrying out public information and awareness efforts (eg., N. C. Chapter of .the National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse State Conference, Governor's Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect); assess and prioritize professional training needs in the community; sponsor and organize appropriate professional training events (eg., workshops for physicians, teachers, social workers, etc.) Resource Development and Coordination: Assess and prioritize service and other resource gaps and needs in the community; (e.g., through conducting surveys) develop services and other resources where practical (eg., develop a resource for providing volunteer services in some area of need); identify potential grant funding for needed services; advocate for needed resources with policy makers; identify and prioritize service coordination needs in the community and develop appropriate coordination mechanisms; identify programs in place in other communities which might be successfully replicated in Cabarrus. Child Protection Team: Carry out the case review responsibilities assigned to community child protection teams by the Governor's Executive Order and State policies in accordance with the Cabarrus'County Child Protection Team Operating Procedures, staffing individual cases to aid Protective Services staff on a case by case basis in assessing case situations, doing case planning, 'identifying available resources, coordinating services, identifying service needs and resource gaps, and bringing these to the attention of the Council. 3. Membership on the Child Protection Team be in accordance with guidelines provided by the State and with the Cabarrus County Child Protection Team Operating Procedures. Each sub-committee be organized to the maximum extent possible, however, based upon the priority interest of individual Council members. Council members would be polled to identify priority interests and would be assigned to sub-committees with their approval. 4. Each sub-committee have a chairperson selected by its membership (with the exception of the Child Protection Team where the Board of Commissioners in effect selects the Chairperson.) 5. The Council as a whole meet once each month. Sub-committees meet concurrently during the first portion of the Council meeting. The Council as a whole meet at the conclusion of each monthly meeting to receive reports from sub-committees, to take appropriate action and to undertake any other Council business. 6. The chairperson of the Council and the chairperson for each sub-committee serve as an executive committee for the Council. This group have responsibility for developing further policies and operating procedures for the Council itself which would be proposed to the Council for its consideration and approval. 7. This organization be effected by April 1992.