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Budget Amendment - Local Infrastructure and Workforce Support Funding
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INFORMATION CONTACT:
Traci Colley, Human Services - Public Health, Director, 704-296-4801
ACTION REQUESTED:
1) Recognize, receive, and appropriate $13,481 of FY2025 Agreement Addendum 123 funding from the NC Division of Public Health for investment in performance management to the Human Services Agency, Department of Public Health and 2) approve Budget Amendment # 26.
PRIOR BOARD ACTIONS:
None.
BACKGROUND:
This Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding, awarded to the North Carolina Division of Public Health (DPH), recognizes underinvestment in the public health system and the foundational services it provides. This funding supports core infrastructure improvements that include, but are not limited to workforce, foundational capabilities, and data infrastructure.
The Foundational Public Health Services (FPHS) framework was developed by the Public Health Accreditation Board Center for Innovation in 2013, revised in 2022, to define a minimum package of core public health services areas that no public health jurisdiction can be without. The FPHS framework outlines the unique responsibilities of governmental public health and the vital role of governmental public health in a thriving community. One of the DPH PHIG strategies focuses on Foundational Capabilities within the FPHS framework. Foundational Capabilities are the cross-cutting skills, knowledge, and practice needed to support and provide core public health functions, programs, and activities which are key to ensuring opportunities for health, promoting wellbeing and achieving health outcomes across a community.
This Agreement Addendum (AA123- Investment in Performance Management) provides one-time funds for Union County Public Health to invest and support its capacity and expertise specific to Foundational Capability Accountability and Performance Management. Capacity is defined as having the tools, t...
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