Introduced by the Human Services, Administrative Services/Personnel and Finance Committees of the:

INGHAM COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS

WHEREAS, the Health Department has for many years operated a Maternal and Infant Outreach Program, as a part of Women= s Health Services, intended to facilitate access to care for low-income pregnant women and infants, through home based paraprofessional services; and

WHEREAS, in 1998 the Department began to administer a JumpStart Program, as a part of the Public Health Nursing Bureau, focused on the prevention of child abuse and neglect through home based paraprofessional services that promote positive parenting; and

WHEREAS, Women= s Health Services has assumed primary care responsibility for about 3,200 women enrolled in the Ingham Health Plan, and this has resulted in a shortage of nursing staff; and

WHEREAS, the Department implemented a temporary reorganization in October, 1999 to merge the two paraprofessional outreach activities under one coordinator and within one unit of the Department and assigned the MIHAS Coordinator as a Clinic Nurse in Women= s Health Services; and

WHEREAS, the Health Officer has recommended that the reorganization of paraprofessional outreach services be made permanent.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Ingham County Board of Commissioners authorizes a reorganization of the paraprofessional outreach programs operated within the Health Department (Maternal and Infant Outreach and JumpStart) effective February 28, 2000.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the two programs shall operate under a single coordinator position and that position number HLHNUR035 (JumpStart Project Coordinator, ICEA P5) shall be classified as a JumpStart/Family Outreach Coordinator at the ICEA P6 level.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that position number HLHMHA001 (Maternal and Infant Outreach Coordinator, ICEA N4) shall be classified as a Clinic Nurse at the ICEA N1 level, and that the incumbent shall be red-lined at the N4 level.

HUMAN SERVICES: Yeas: Czarnecki, Grebner, Severino

Nays: None Absent: Smiley, Schmidt Approved 3/6/00

ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES/PERSONNEL: Yeas: McDonald, Lynch, Pratt, Minter, Severino

Nays: None Absent: None Approved 3/7/00

FINANCE: Yeas: Bernero, Grebner, Czarnecki, McDonald, Schafer, Minter, Juall

Nays: None Absent: None Approved 3/8/00