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Jefferson County Public Health – Report 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 (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.
4. Provide information and education regarding the Clean-indoor Act regarding preventing tobacco
smoke exposure in workplaces
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: 2009
Actual
2010
Actual
2011
Actual
2012
Planned
2012
Actual
Prevention Coalition – Completion of
Strategic Plan
Completed Dec.
2012
Number of classroom
presentation/interventions (Drug and
Alcohol preventions) School year*
116 117 101 112 112**
Number of students served in the class
room presentations (Project Alert and
TATU)*
382 493 387 398 398
Number of State mandated hearing and
vision screenings facilitated by the school
nurse for students in grades KG, 1, 2, 3,5
and 7,*
1034 1040 1040 1200 987 initially
screened
305 rescreened
132 referred for
further evaluation
Number of individual health care plans for
students with chronic health conditions in
all 4 school districts that were written by or
facilitated by the JCPH school nurse*
106 112 120 144
Number of school health classes (2010-
2011 school year)*
233.5 243 228 255 213.5
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Number of students served in the school
health classes*
1,145 1,102 1105 1000 1092
Smoking in Public Places awareness
education to Businesses
17 15 33 5 Monthly
Newsletter to 31
business, 5 in
person visits
* Data based on school year Sept. 2011–June 2012, ** Project Alert discontinued 2012-2013 school year
Study Analysis 2012 Results and Funding Issues:
Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) delivers programs that promote healthier communities and
individuals. The above programs provide universal prevention programs available to everyone in the
community. Preventing problems such as substance abuse and tobacco use have proven to be cost
effective. The results of the 2012 Washington State Healthy Youth Survey (HYS) for Jefferson County
schools were released in the spring of 2013 and results are posted on Jefferson County Public Health
Web page under, Publications and Data, Health of Jefferson County, Part 5, Jefferson County Youth
(updated 3/28/13), http://jeffersoncountypublichealth.org/pdf/HealthyYouth0313.pdf . 2012 HYS data
will be used for community planning in 2013.
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 June 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 Port
Townsend Prevention Coalition in prevention policy development, environmental changes, and capacity
building.
January 2012 JCPH, under the direction of DBHR Prevention Redesign, initiated a community process to
develop a Strategic Plan. DBHR provided the facilitation for an Evidenced Based Practiced called
“Communities that Care” (CTC). CTC created a broad–based coalition of key stakeholders who used
data (Healthy Youth Survey) to prioritize risk and protective factors in the community. The Port
Townsend Prevention Coalition with the help of Public Health Prevention staff created a Strategic plan
with identified intervention programs to address identified needs. See completed Strategic Plan at JCPH
website, http://jeffersoncountypublichealth.org/pdf/StrategicPlanPrevention.pdf
April 2012, for the 5th consecutive year, JCPH worked along with community partners on the “Our Kids:
Our Business” Social Awareness Campaign.
Project Alert (Drug and Alcohol Prevention Classes) were completed through the 2011-2012 School
Year. Local funding through the City of Port Townsend supporting JCPH Project Alert ended the
beginning of 2012. State DBHR funds will be focused on community coalition building. Drug and
Alcohol Prevention classes for the 2012-2013 school year were cut as funding ended.
The Port Townsend Prevention Coalition and the Port Townsend School District through the Prevention
Strategic Planning process started new Drug and Alcohol prevention classes at Blue Heron Middle
school January 2013. The Evidence Base program is called “Life Skills” and it is being facilitated by
3 of 3
officers from the Port Townsend Police department, Jefferson Mental Health staff and a community
volunteer through the Community Network.
Funding for JCPH to provide limited school nursing services for Port Townsend, Chimacum, Quilcene
and Brinnon school districts was based on contracts with Educational Service District 114.
Responsibilities of the school nurse include: 1) writing health care and emergency response plans for
students with chronic health conditions; 2) providing staff training to support student health and safety;
3) monitoring medication administration needed for students at school; 4) providing consultation on
communicable diseases that may affect students and staff, and annual immunization reporting to
Washington State Department of Health. JCPH contracts separately with school districts to provide
required health education classes and annual hearing/vision screening. Those contracts remained 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 support for business to
comply with the state law as needed.
April 4, 2013