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Jefferson County Public Health – 2009 Report Performance Measurers
POPULATION & PREVENTION
PROGRAMS: Tobacco (TP/C), School Health (S/H), Childcare health and Safety (CC), Peer-In (PI), Oral
Health (OH), and Drug and Alcohol prevention (DA)
MISSION: The purpose of the Population & Prevention Programs is to provide health education and public
health interventions to county residents in order to promote a healthier community, prevent disease and
unintentional injury, improve the quality of life and reduce disparities in health.
GOALS FOR FY 2009:
1. Improve identified social and health indicators for school-age youth (S/H)
2. Improve overall health of Jefferson County residents.(TP/C)
3. Enhance the quality of child care provided in Jefferson County (CC)
4. Enhance the overall health & safety of Jefferson County children (PI) and (OH)
5. Reduce favorable attitudes toward problem behavior within the youth and adult communities. (DA)
6. Delay age of initiation of problem behavior. (DA)
7. Reduce adverse childhood experience as measures by reduced CPS referrals (DA)
OBJECTIVES FOR FY 2009:
1. Maintain delivery of school in-service/trainings, student health screenings, student health consults,
student health care referrals (S/H)
2. Provide tobacco specific education and resources to employers to support employee cessation (TP/C)
3. Maintain child care provider consultation re: health, immunizations, safety and child development
(CC)
4. Peer educators will provide school health classes to middle & high school students (PI); health
education classes will be provided to elementary, middle & high school students; and increase Oral
Health prevention interventions.
5. Increase the perception of risk for youth regarding alcohol and marijuana use, especially for 6th, 8th,
and 10th grade students.(DA)
6. Increase access to adults with healthy beliefs and clear standards for 4th through 6th grade students in
Jefferson county.(DA)
7. Provide Early Intervention services to at risk families to prevent adverse childhood experiences.
(DA) See Felitti study showing how adults who had reported greater than 2 Adverse Childhood
Experiences had increased health problems including tobacco, drug and alcohol use. See Family
Support services program performance measures.
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: 2006
Actual
2007
Actual
2008
Actual
2009
Planned
2009
Actual
Number of student health screenings 1398 1135 1124 1400 1034
Number of employers receiving tobacco specific technical
assistance (TP/C)
* 3 4 5 17
Number of Peer-In educational presentations 50 60 44 50 48
Number of school health classes*** 200 200 218 200 233.5
Number of phone calls to WA State Tobacco Quit line from
Jefferson Co.
75 63 93* 75 170 ☼
Number of classroom presentation/interventions (Drug and
Alcohol preventions)
140 144 134 140 116
Number of students served in the class room presentations
( Project Alert + TATU)
350 475 404 350 382
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* New in 2007 ** July 2007 to June 2008
***For 2008-2009 school year
☼ Increase in tobacco sales tax could be a factor
PROJECTIONS for 2009, WRITTEN IN JULY, 2008.
SUMMARY OF KEY FUNDING/SERVICE ISSUES: Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) delivers
programs that promote healthier communities and individuals. Focusing public funds on prevention
programs have proven to be cost effective. JCPH hopes to continue in 2009 to collect Assessment data to
assist in determining community needs and prioritize services (access to health care, substance abuse,
domestic violence, child abuse and neglect, teen pregnancy and STD rates.).
The above programs provide universal prevention programs available to all in the community. State
prevention health services monies come with extensive evaluation components. Tobacco and Healthy
Communities funding have community specific goals and measures that must be met to maintain funding.
School funding is based on State School Nurse corp. funds and contracts with school districts which should
remain the same in 2009. Decreasing enrollment may decrease the number of classroom presentation and
the number of students served.
Drug and Alcohol prevention program continues to work with Community Health programs providing
integrated prevention services. In 2007 the Drug and Alcohol Prevention program wrote a 6 year strategic
plan to address the identified prevention needs in the community. In 2008 the Substance Abuse Advisory
Board is working with the community and agencies assessing the progress of the plan and set priorities.
State and local funds are utilized primarily through the school based Best Practice education programs.
These funds allow Health Educators to provide prevention education classes to middle school students in the
community. In addition JCPH staff is working with community partners to identify other resources to
increase capacity of prevention programs for example; Jefferson County Sheriffs Departments is using
“Protecting You Protecting Me” a Best Practice instead of the “Dare” curriculum in the 5th grade classes and
Port Townsend Police are planning to be trained in the curriculum.
In April 2008 JCPH Prevention Staff spearheaded a community wide social awareness and prevention
program called “Our Kids Our Business”. There were at least 50 Business, Services Clubs and other
organizations, as well as all City and County Departments involved in the campaign. In 2009 we have plans
to do it again. Currently there are discussions at the State level of this media campaign being state wide.
STUDY/ANALYSIS RESULTS 2009
Jefferson County School enrollment continues to slightly decrease reflecting a decrease in the number of
2009 Hearing/Vision screenings. Of those 1034 students screened 85 were referred for further hearing or
vision evaluations. School Nursing contracts continue with all 4 school districts to provide this service.
Tobacco Coordinator is doing more outreach to businesses to encourage cessation resources for employees.
Advertising of Washington States Quit line has increased Jefferson County residents’ use of Tobacco
Cessation resources identified with an increase use of the number. Washington State funding has been
reduced for Tobacco Prevention. At this time JCPH has been able to maintain a half time position with the
State funds.
The contract with the University of Washington “Take It Serious: Sex and Media” (TSIAM) program ended
in 2009 and was not renewed. Without this contract funds JCPH was unable to sustain staffing for Peer-in.
Drug and Alcohol Prevention staff continues to use Project Alert in the school. Staff would like to find a
new Best Practice program for school interventions but have been limited in their choices of other
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curriculums that will fit with the school’s schedules. December 2009 the City of Port Townsend considered
reallocating funds it provides for Drug and Alcohol prevention services through JCPH that pay for Project
Alert and other prevention interventions. It is unclear at this time what future funding with be received from
the City of Port Townsend. Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department continued to facilitate the Best Practice
“Protecting You/Protecting Me.” The Port Townsend Police Department were trained in the curriculum and
will be facilitating it in the 5th grades in Port Townsend in 2010.
April 2009 JCPH staff facilitated, along with Community partners, the “Our Kids Our Business” Campaign.
Sixty-seven local businesses, organizations, agencies, service clubs as well as all City of Port Townsend
Departments and all Jefferson County Departments collaborated on “Our Kids: Our Business.” This was
the second year of this social awareness and prevention campaign addressing child abuse prevention and
sexual assault awareness.
March 2, 2010