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Jefferson County Public Health – Planned Performance Measurers 2013
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 2013:
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 2013:
1. Convene Port Townsend Coalition to follow through with prevention strategic plan.
2. Support Jefferson County Community Network to identify interventions to address drug and alcohol
prevention in county.
3. Increase the perception of risk for youth regarding alcohol and marijuana use, especially for 6th, 8th,
and 10th grade students countywide. (source Healthy Youth Survey)
4. Maintain delivery of school in-service/trainings, student health screenings, student health consults
student health care referrals by the School Nurse.
5. Continue Human Growth and Development, and HIV AIDS education in all school districts.
6. Provide education regarding the Clean-indoor Act preventing tobacco smoke exposure in workplaces
and tobacco prevention education to youth.
PERFORMANCE INDICATORS: 2011
Actual
2012
Actual/
planned
2013
Planned
Port Townsend Coalition – continue implementation Prevention
Strategic Plan - # of meeting per year 2013
* * 8
Number of student health screenings** 1040 987 1050
Number of school Care Plans for students with health needs. ** 103 143 120
Number of human growth and development classes ** 228 214 210
Number of students served in the school health classes** 1,105 1092 1050
Smoking in Public Places awareness education to Businesses 33 5 5
*Strategic Plan from Communities That Care process 2011-2012
** data based on school year 2010-2011 and. 2011–2012
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
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. The next Healthy Youth
Survey will be done Fall 2012 with results available Spring 2013.
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The Drug and Alcohol Prevention program continues to provide integrated prevention services that promote
healthy behaviors, prevent harm and support youth and families 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 used to support a part-time (.5 FTE) Prevention Coordinator
to assist the Port Townsend Coalition (PTC) in prevention policy development, environmental changes and
capacity building. Direct service delivery of prevention programs in the school and/or community will
depend on additional funding if available. Over the next few months the Port Townsend Coalition will
complete “Communities that Cares” trainings that were started January 2012. Part of the “Community that
Cares” process includes a community assessment. By October 2012 the Coalition will have a community
strategic prevention plan. In 2013 the Coalition will implement the plan and set up a process to evaluate and
report on of implementation of the plan.
JCPH completed Project Alert (Drug and Alcohol Prevention Classes) through the 2011-2012 School Year,
and is discontinuing for Project Alert in the 2012-2013 School year due to lack of funding and staff.
For over 30 years JCPH contracts directly with school districts to provide required health education classes
and health screening. Those contracts remain the same in 2013. There has been a slight reduction in Health
Education classes and students served due to declining student enrollment. The cost to provide the these
services has increased and the contracts for the 2013-2014 will need to be evaluated.
Since 1999, additional funding for school health services has been achieved through the State funded ESD
School Nurse Corp Program. Children and adolescents spend nearly half their waking hours at school for 13
critical years of development. Many adult health disorders and chronic diseases begin in childhood and
adolescence as a result of unhealthy behaviors. Reaching students is a key component for achieving success
in public health’s efforts to reduce the future burden of chronic disease and to support healthy communities
today. Public health nurses work in schools to help support health and safety needs of all students, with a
special focus on students with chronic health issues. The school nurse provides: staff training to help
schools meet health and safety needs of students; creates school health care plans for children with chronic
health conditions; provide consultation for communicable disease and immunizations; coordinates annual
hearing and vision screening; provides information for healthy school environments; and provides
individual student health education as needed. State funds have remained level since 1999 and cost to
provide the services has increased causing a need to reduced the number of hours provided in the ESD
contract.
State Tobacco Prevention funding was drastically reduced in 2011 from .5 FTE to a few hours a week for
Youth Tobacco Prevention. One of the goals of the Youth Tobacco prevention fund is to prevent sales of
Tobacco to youth under 18 by educating retailers of the consequences of not following the law. JCPH is
also responsible to enforce Washington State’s Clean Indoor Air Act. Environmental Health staff will
follow up on any enforcement. Community Health staff will continue to provide education to help
businesses comply with the state law.
State funding for Oral Health outreach and education ended December 2010. Oral Health services in WIC
end October 2011. The Washington Dental Foundation Smile Mobile, providing dental services to children,
came to Jefferson County in the Fall of 2011 and the Spring of 2012. JCPH supports the Smile Mobile
coming to the community by providing staff to schedule appointments and space to park the van.
August 29, 2012