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Quarterly LHJ Report
Months of Service: October, November, December 2023
Jefferson County
Organizations Partnering with
Care-a-Van Location # of Events Dates
Jefferson County Public Health
Chimacum
Port Townsend
Quilcene
4
10/07/23
10/14/23
10/21/23
12/27/23
Vaccine & Screening Totals
Total Childhood Vaccines
44
Flu DTap DTaP/IPV DTaP-IPV-
Hib-HepB Hep A Hep B MenB MenACWY-TT
(MenQuadfi)
18 1 1 2
MCV4
(Menactra) MMR MMRV Varicella Tdap Hib HPV9 IPV Pneumococcal
(PCV13)
2 1 11 5 3
Total
COVID-19 Vaccines Total Adult Flu Vaccines Total MPV Vaccines
17 5 0
Total Blood Sugar Screenings Total Blood Pressure Screenings
0 0
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you have any additional questions, comments, or concerns, please reach out to the Care-a-Van
team at 360-918-6530 or email care-a-van@doh.wa.gov.
Thank you for your commitment to keeping our communities healthy!
Notable Updates and Services Requested
• Updates:
o Care-a-Van is fully booked through January 2024! If you request our services,
please choose a date in February or beyond.
o Care-a-Van can accept one clinic request per requester per quarter.
• Care-a-Van Info: https://doh.wa.gov/you-and-your-family/care-van-mobile-health-services
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The “Washington Way” is Alive and Well:
Salmon Recovery as a Partner and Model to
Address Our Climate Challenges
Tami Pokorny, Natural Resources Program Coordinator
tpokorny@co.jefferson.wa.us
Jefferson County (most frequently JCPH and PW) is working to restore salmon habitat and ecosystem
functions within the much broader context of watersheds, marine shorelines, communities, agriculture,
transportation and more. This work overlaps with climate adaptation. By building floodplain soils,
enhancing wetlands, and growing trees, for example, it also contributes to climate mitigation. JCPH
develops projects in partnership with Olympic Peninsula’s “salmon habitat restoration” community.
Regional groups (Coast Salmon Partnership, Strait Ecosystem Recovery Network (straitern.org), and
Hood Canal Coordinating Council) and Lead Entities (North Pacific Coast LE, North Olympic Peninsula LE,
and Hood Canal LE) meet in a public setting usually monthly or quarterly, and maintain strategy
documents and annual workplans of well-vetted project concepts to help ascertain and respond to
salmon habitat deficiencies within the context of human needs and values and existing and projected
climate challenges.
Since the early 2000s, Jefferson County has participated in numerous grant-funded planning, acquisition,
design and construction projects in most of the major stream and river valleys and along marine
shorelines. The purpose of these projects is to expand or enhance habitat for ESA-listed fish such as
Hood Canal Summer-run Salmon and Puget Sound Chinook salmon, by supporting or restoring the
natural processes and watershed or shoreline attributes that once made Washington’s salmon runs so
productive. The structure and review processes for this effort became known years ago as the
“Washington Way”:
In every community, all across Washington, people are joining together to help protect and recover
salmon. School children, civic leaders, tribal members, farmers, businesses, lawmakers, landowners, local
governments, nonprofits, and neighbors are working together to reverse the problems that have brought
many wild salmon runs to the brink of extinction. Serving at the hub are lead entities, which are
watershed-based groups that develop strategies to restore salmon habitat and then recruit
organizations to do the work. – Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office
Board of Health members may already be familiar with, or be participating in, one or more project
sponsor organizations such as the North Olympic Salmon Coalition, NOSC. Like NOSC, Jefferson County is
a project sponsor as is the Jefferson Land Trust, Trout Unlimited, Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement
Group, Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe, the Jefferson Conservation District and others. There is a lot of work
to do, and we do our best to share the load. Typically, more than one group is involved in developing
and implementing large or complex projects as each Tribe, agency, or NGO has a particular focus,
expertise and/or geography.
On the Olympic Peninsula, lead entities and their project sponsors have become experienced across a
wide spectrum of ecosystem recovery practices. They work directly with communities on a voluntary
basis to plan, design, and implement green infrastructure projects, especially engineered log jams
created to repair disrupted “large wood cycles” that both create habitat for salmon and improve
channel characteristics for people.
Salmon recovery depends upon both ecosystem and community resilience. Often over the course of
many months or years, communities and key landowners, together with salmon groups, come to see
watershed and shoreline processes in a shared light, where struggles between competing interests
become productive partnerships working to create a desired, more self-sustaining future.
The Washington Way is alive and well in Jefferson County. The salmon habitat restoration community,
including the County itself, is an essential part of this thriving network. We’re assessing watersheds
through hydrologic, geomorphic, land use, and habitat lenses. We’re planning, designing and
constructing projects. Please consider connecting with Lead Entities and speaking with the coordinators
about project concepts and project development. Attend a meeting. Ask to be on the agenda.
The need for climate action is great. The salmon habitat restoration community can be an invaluable
resource as climate projects are considered and the options are weighed. Other citizen advisory groups
can also be helpful to your process. Jefferson County has two Marine Resources Committees (Jefferson
County MRC) one focused towards the Strait and one concerned with watersheds and shorelines tied to
the Pacific Ocean (North Pacific Coast MRC) and these, in turn, are part of regional networks.