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Public Healt consent agenda
April 18, 2018
JEFFERSON COUNTY
BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
AGENDA REQUEST
TO: Board of County Commissioners
Philip Morley, County Administrator
FROM: Philip Morley, County Administrator
Vicki Kirkpatrick, Director, JCPH
DATE: t{ f a3 J301 e
SUBJECT: Agenda — Authorization to engage in Social Media to meet Grant
Requirements.
STATEMENT OF ISSUE:
Jefferson County Public Health requests authorization to engage in social media outreach meet grant
requirements.
ANALYSIS/ STRATEGIC GOALS/ PRO'S and CON'S:
Based on a projected March 31, 2018 date for completion, approval and implementation of the County
Social Media Policy, the health department applied for grant funding from the State Department of Health.
Part of that request for funding included social media outreach for the Family Planning Clinical services
program. The purpose of using social media is to reach our most vulnerable population who live in remote
areas of Jefferson County and increase the clients we reach. Our clients are primarily of the age group that
obtains information through social media platforms such as Facebook as opposed to traditional print media.
The State Department of Health uses social media extensively (in addition to traditional media), as do other
local health departments, to ensure that information is easily available to the broadest constituency.
Therefore, the State Department of Health supported the social media outreach by providing grant funding
for the health department to use.
It is important that the health department have the tools to effectively communicate information to those
folks most likely to use our services. The grant from the State Department of Health provides us with
funding to establish a presence on Facebook and to -utilize Facebook to get information out to potential
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FISCAL IMPACT/COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS:
The grant funding that the health department received must be spent by June 30, 2018. The State
Department of Health granted $5,000 to Public Health. We will be unable to reapply because these funds
came from unspent state Family Planning funding that has been reallocated on a one-time basis.
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RECOMMENDATIONS: We request authorization to utilize social media for outreach to those Jefferson
County residents using social media as their primary source of information about health department family
planning clinical services.
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Community Health Environmental Health
Developmental Disabilities Water Quality
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360-385-9401 (f) Always working for a safer and healthier community (f) 360-379-4487