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Jefferson County Public Health – Planned Performance Measurers 2012
POPULATION & PREVENTION
PROGRAMS: Drug and Alcohol prevention, School Health and Tobacco prevention
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.
GOALS FOR FY 2012:
1. Improve identified social and health indicators for school-age youth.
2. Reduce favorable attitudes toward problem behavior within the youth and adult communities.
3. Enhance the overall health & safety of Jefferson County children.
4. Improve overall health of Jefferson County residents.
OBJECTIVES FOR FY 2012:
1. Convene Prevention Coalition with Jefferson County Community Network to identify interventions
to address drug and alcohol prevention in community.
2. Increase the perception of risk for youth regarding alcohol and marijuana use, especially for 6th, 8th,
and 10th grade students. (source Healthy Youth Survey)
3. Maintain delivery of school in-service/trainings, student health screenings, student health consults,
student health care referrals by the School Nurse.
4. Provide education and enforcement of the Clean-indoor Act preventing tobacco smoke exposure in
workplaces
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: 2010
Actual
2011
Actual/
planned
2012
Planned
Prevention Coalition – Completion of Strategic Plan Fall 2012 *
Number of classroom presentation/interventions (Drug and Alcohol
preventions) School year**
116 120 112
Number of students served in the class room presentations (Project
Alert and TATU)**
382 350 398
Number of student health screenings** 1034 1400 1200
Number of school Care Plans for students with health needs. ** 120 120
Number of human growth and development classes ** 243 240 225
Number of students served in the school health classes** 1,102 1105 1000
Smoking in Public Places awareness education to Businesses 17 15 5
*Strategic Plan from Communities That Care process ** data based on school year Sept. 2011 – June 2012
SUMMARY OF KEY FUNDING/SERVICE ISSUES:
Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) delivers programs that promote healthier communities and
individuals. The above programs provide universal prevention for all youth in the community. Nationally
preventing substance abuse and tobacco use have proven to be cost effective. The results of the 2010
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Washington State Healthy Youth Survey were released in the spring of 2011 and are being used to
determine community needs and prioritize services based on funds available.
Drug and Alcohol Prevention program continues to provide integrated prevention services that promote
healthy behaviors, prevent harm and support youth and family in the community and in the schools. Starting
July 1, 2011 the Division of Behavioral Health and Recovery (DBHR) changed the contract for alcohol/drug
prevention. DBHR funds are now to be used for a part-time staff to assist the Jeff. Co. Comm. Network
(JCCN) in prevention policy development, environmental changes, capacity building and direct service
delivery of prevention programs in the school (if funds are available for direct services).Tasks to be
accomplished by June, 2012 are JCCN completion of: 1) Communities that Cares training; 2) community
assessment; 3) development of community strategic prevention plan; 4) implementation of the plan; 5)
evaluation and reporting of implementation of the plan. Tasks #2 through #5 are on-going.
At this time funding is available to complete Project Alert (Drug and Alcohol Prevention Classes) through
the 2011-2012 School Year. Local funding through the City of Port Townsend supporting JCPH Drug and
Alcohol Activities is anticipated to end in 2012. State DBHR funds will be focused on community coalition
building. Drug and Alcohol Prevention classes for the 2012-2013 school year will be cut as funding is
reduced.
School Health funding is based on State School Nurse Corp through the Educational Service District and
contracts with school districts. The School Nurse Corp funds pay to provide a School Nurse to insure
Student Health Plans are in place for students with health problems. School Nurse Corp Nurse also trains
school staff to support students with health problems, monitor student immunization and provide
information on healthy school environments. State funding has been limited but School Districts have been
willing to contribute funding to maintain the same level of services as last year. JCPH contracts separately
with the school districts to provide required Health Education Classes and Health Screening. Those
contracts remain the same in 2012.
State Tobacco Prevention funding ended in 2011. JCPH is still responsible to enforce Washington State’s
Clean Indoor Air Act. JCPH will continue to provide education and enforcement so businesses comply with
the state law.
State funding for Oral Health outreach and education ended December 2010. For the first 6 months of 2011
JCPH continued providing Oral Health services through WIC and the School Based clinics anticipating
Medical Assistance fee for service revenue to cover cost. Assessment in July 2011shows Medical
Assistance revenue was not covering cost and Oral Health services will end October 2011.
August 10, 2011