Orange County Organizes to Improve Human Services

An example of the kind of organization that Mr. Guffey is proposing can be found in Orange County, North Carolina. This group, called the Human Services Advisory Commission (HSAC), includes the directors of all the county's public services agencies and the voluntary funding bodies. David Kiel and William Woodward served as consultants to the group during its development stages and during large projects like last years county-wide needs assessment. They presented a paper at the 1981 Urban Affairs Conference at the University of North Carolina describing the development of the HSAC, from which much of the information that follows was taken