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psychologist, a residential coordinator for Goldsborough House (the group home for retarded women in Culpeper) and one social worker. —Mental health, including five clinics staffed in each of the Planning District’s member counties and a substance abuse program with four full-time positions.
—Special projects division, including five nutrition sites that serve an estimated 32,000 meals a year, a Retired Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) and transportation under a Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) with nine vans and one station wagon.
Utilization Study
Lieberman noted that the Chapter 10 staff had begun a three month’s study on utilization by individual counties of Chapter 10 services. “The amount of funds that we get from the counties is not always equal to the services received,” he said.
“We try to integrate programs across as much as we can,” Lieberman said. He noted that RSVP participants are used in other programs while mental health clinic staffers visit the nutrition sites. He added that vehicles are also shared between the three “separate but equal” divisions.
$1 For $10
Every dollar of the $130,000 in local tax money in the programs generates about $10 in state and federal funds, according to Lieberman. “Our ratio (of local to federal and state dollars) is as good as any in the state,” he added.
Out of 11,000 Planning District 9 residents identified as needing some type of Chapter 10 service, 3,100 or one out of six families, are currently being helped. "We really serve a great number of people for the kind of rural poverty area that this is,” said Lieberman.
Lieberman told the Commissioners that approximately 75 people are employed by Chapter 10 including 52 full-time positions. He estimated that
92.3%