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Home My WebLink About20042787.tiff RESOLUTION RE: APPROVE APPLICATION FOR PREVENTIVE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES BLOCK GRANT AND LETTER OF SUPPORT AND AUTHORIZE CHAIR TO SIGN WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, pursuant to Colorado statute and the Weld County Home Rule Charter, is vested with the authority of administering the affairs of Weld County, Colorado, and WHEREAS, the Board has been presented with an Application for the Preventive Health and Human Services Block Grant and Letter of Support from the County of Weld, State of Colorado, by and through the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, on behalf of the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment, to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, commencing October 1, 2004, and ending September 30, 2005, and WHEREAS, after review, the Board deems it advisable to approve said application, a copy of which is attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, Colorado, that the Application and Letter of Support for the Preventive Health and Human Services Block Grant from the County of Weld, State of Colorado, by and through the Board of County Commissioners of Weld County, on behalf of the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment, to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment be, and hereby is, approved. BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED by the Board that the Chair be, and hereby is, authorized to sign said application and letter of support. The above and foregoing Resolution was, on motion duly made and seconded, adopted by the following vote on the 20th day of September, A.D., 2004. �� BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS .44 / �//u W LD COUNTY, C ORADO ieLT: ,!, ism '4, `;�t �' Robert D. Masden, Chair erk to the Board els William H erke, Pro-Tem Deputy Clerk t• the Board 2 ' APP AS M: M H &."x David E. Long ou Attor ey EXCUSED Glenn Vaad Date of signature: _Q4grY' �/ 2004-2787 H L0030 trC o°i „zrs a/ �1 a MEMORANDUM TO: ROB MASDEN / FROM: MARK WALLACE SUBJECT: PREVENTIVE HEALTH BLOCK GRANT �( � � 0 DATE: SEPTEMBER 16, 2004 �� COLORADO CC: LINDA HENRY, PATRICIA MCCLAIN V� Enclosed for Board review and approval is the application for the Preventive Health Block Grant. The contract would be from October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005. The grant request is for $16,365.24 Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment will use this funding to provide education to physicians' office staff and clinic staff about a variety of immunization topics and to co-host at least three Spanish language radio health talk shows about immunizations. This should help to increase the number of children in Weld County who have an adequate number of immunizations. • I recommend your approval. Enclosure 2004-2787 Kits �, DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH & ENVIRONMENT 1555 N. 17th Avenue Greeley, CO 80631 WEBSITE: www.co.weld.co.us ADMINISTRATION: (970) 304-6410 WI I C FAX: (970) 304-6412 PUBLIC HEALTH EDUCATION & NURSING: (970) 304-6420 Q FAX: (970) 304-6416 ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SERVICES: (970) 304-6415 COLORADO FAX: (970) 304-6411 Granting Agency: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Applicant's Name: Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment Applicant's Address: 1555 N. 17th Avenue Greeley, CO 80631 Applicant's Phone: (970) 304-6420, ext 2302 Applicant's Fax: (970) 304-6416 Project Title: Weld County Community Provider Education Contact Person: Patricia McClain, Child Health Supervisor Amount of Request: $16,365.24 Time Period of Request: October 1, 2004 to September 30, 2005 Weld County Department of Weld County Board of Commissioners Public health and Environment kt 51.kkV SEP 2 0 2011a Mark E. Wallace, MD, MPH, Director Robert D. Masden, Chair Date l Iasi e �a A fii {elan ounty Clerk to thBoard YY Deputy Clerk to the Board boy-c2147 Preventive Health and Human Services Block Grant Application 2004-2005 Weld County Colorado 1) Program/Project Title: Community Provider Education 2) Program/Project Strategy: During 2003-2004 the Preventive Health Block Grant helped establish the Alliance for Latino Health and Education of Weld County. This group has met monthly during the grant year. The leaders of the Alliance have worked to increase the immunization rates in Weld County by assisting at community events where immunizations were offered, such as the Children's Festival and ajoint car seat/immunization day in September. Health education has also been provided to the Spanish speaking population through half-hour talk shows co-hosted by health professionals on a local Spanish language radio station on Saturdays at 1 p.m. The Alliance will continue to meet and give direction to health and educational outreach projects in Weld County. For the 2004-2005 Preventive Health Block Grant, we propose a project that will address the health care providers in Weld County. A public health nurse who coordinates the immunization program at Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment will provide four in-service trainings about immunizations for office staff in physicians' offices and clinics in at least four sites throughout the county during the grant year. The trainings will be held during lunch hours, with pharmaceutical companies providing the food and beverages. Topics that will be covered during these in-services include how to read the immunization schedule, why some shots are given intermuscular(IM) and others are subcutaneous (SQ), how to address parental concerns about the safety of immunizations, proper storage of vaccines, new combination vaccines, reactions and allergies to vaccines, etc. Each attendee will receive a three-ring binder to hold handouts from each in-service for easy reference, which will result in a resource binder about immunizations at the end of the year. This binder will also contain contact information for staff at the Health Department, as well as websites for additional information about vaccines and immunizations. Books addressing some of the related issues will also be purchased and given for references to each physicians' office and/or clinic that is represented at the in- services. Due to the frequent staff turnover in physicians' offices and clinics, many employees will benefit from these educational events. These in-services should help reduce the number of frequently missed opportunities for immunizations at offices and clinics. The end result will be improved immunization rates for Weld County children. In addition, a portion of the grant funds will be used to aid in the continuation of the successful health talk show on the local Spanish language radio station on Saturdays at 1 p.m. A bilingual health professional will co-host the programs and present information about the importance of immunizations, highlight immunization events and answer questions called in by listeners. 3) National Health Objective(s): The following objectives from the Healthy People 2010 health objectives will be addressed by this project: 14-1: Reduce or eliminate indigenous cases of vaccine-preventable diseases 14.22: Achieve and maintain effective vaccination coverage levels for universally recommended vaccines among young children. 14.24: Increase the proportion of young children who receive all vaccines that have been recommended for universal administration for at least 5 years. 14.25: Increase the proportion of providers who have measured the vaccination coverage levels among children in their practice population within the past two years. 4) State Health Objective(s)— 5) Health Problem: Currently, only 67.2% of children in Weld County under the age of three have received the recommended number of vaccinations. This low rate of immunizations for vaccine preventable diseases place entire communities at a higher risk. 6) Target Population: The direct target population will be staff meinbers who work in eight to ten physician offices and clinics that treat children in Weld County. The indirect population will be the children who receive their care at these clinics and offices. The Spanish speaking residents of Weld County and surrounding counties are the target for the health talk radio programs. 7) Disparate Population: 42,000 (20.4%) of Weld County residents live in a family with an income below 200% of poverty level. 26,263 (12.7%) of Weld County residents were without health insurance in 2003. The Vaccine for Children(VFC)program is available to provide immunizations for many of these children. This educational program will make office staff aware of VFC and other services available to this medically underserved population. The Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment currently has a very successful partnership with the local Spanish language radio station. Bilingual health professionals co-host the half-hour radio talk shows during prime time, Saturdays at 1 p.m. A variety of topics have been covered: diabetes, back to school health preparedness, food safety, West Nile virus, etc. The number of listeners and called-in questions has increased markedly during the four months the program has been in existence. A small amount of funding has been included in this grant to be able to continue this programming. Bilingual public health nurses will co-host the radio program at least three times during the next year to explain the importance of immunizations, highlight immunization events, and answer call-in questions from listeners. 8) Essential Service Areas: • Essential Service#3 —Inform and educate • Impact Objective—By 2010 90% of Weld County children under the age of 3 will have up-to-date immunization records • Annual Objective—By October 2005 at least four immunization in-services will be provided to eight to ten doctors' office and clinic staff. (a total of at least 16) and at least three Spanish language radio programs about immunizations will be presented. 9) Local Support—None of the Preventive Health and Human Services Grant funding will be distributed to other local agencies 10) FTE - 0.2 FTE for a public health nurse will be funded with these dollars. 11) Block Grant Role— • No other funds—Only source of funding available 12) Percent of PHHS Funds — • 11%-49% - Partial source of funding 13) New Request/Renewal - This is the second year that PHHS funds have been requested for an immunization project. This is a decrease in funding from the previous year's grant due to a re-direction in programming and project objectives. The project funded last year(establishment of a Latino Health Alliance) is up and running and will be maintained through other income sources. 14) Other funding sources —County funds will be used to pay the salaries of other staff members (office technician and supervisors)who will work on this project. ($9,516.37) Pharmaceutical companies will also help fund this project when they provide the food and beverages for the participants during the lunch-time trainings. (estimated: $2,400) Other grants and funding help pay for most of the health talk show time slot, as well as small stipends for bilingual health professionals from the community who serve as co- hosts to discuss their area of expertise. 15) Budget— Personnel Services Salaries FTE Total Amount Other Amount Required Funds Requested Program Coordinator 0.20 $8,860.71 $0 $8,860.71 Director of Health Ed&Nursing 0.03 $2,269.46 $2,269.46 $0_ Child Health Supervisor 0.05 $2,652.53 $2,652.53 $0 Office Technician 0.10 $2,289.02 $2,289.02 f $0 Subtotal 0.38 $16,071.71 $7,211.01 $8,860.71 Fringe Benefits Total for Weld County $5,138.13 $2,305.36 $2,832.77 Totals $21,209.85 $9,516.37 $11,693.48 i Operating , . Supplies Amt Required Amount Requested _ 60 3-ring binders $132.00 $132.00 Sheet Protectors&Dividers $10.00 $10.00: Printing $160.00 $160.00 Books $224.00 $224.00 Flip Charts $50.00 $50.00 Total $576.00 $576.00 Travel _ Amount Required Other Funds Amount Requested 1 Travel $400 $200 $200 ! Contractual: Contractual Amount Required Other Funds 1 Amount Requested Contract with KGRE radio. $7,500 $6,500 $1,000 Contract with bilingual cohosts $1,000 $500 $500 Total $8,500 $7,000 i $1,500 Other: Administrative Indirect Administrative Indirect ' Amt Required Other Funds Amount Requested 17.15% $5262.62 , $2866.86 $2,395.76 I TOTAL GRANT AMOUNT REQUESTED S16,365.24 • Preventive Block Grant Questions 16-18 County 16a—With a 25% 16b—for 16a, identify 17a—With a 50% 17b —For 17a, ° 18. If Preventive Block budget reduction, potential FTE impacts budget reduction, identify grant funds were identify programmatic of 25% reduction ' identify programmatic potential FTE drastically cut or reductions and impact reductions and impact impacts of a eliminated, what options on citizens 50% reduction would your program have — in restoring these funds Weld A 25%budget reduction The public health nurse's -( A 50% decrease in grant The public If this Community Outreach would mean the time would be reduced to funding would result in health nurse's Project is not funded by Community Provider 0.15 or 6 hours a week, less information time would be Preventive Block Grant Education would be compared with the provided to the reduced to 0.10 funds, it will not happen. reduced by 25%. Either amount requested— 0.20 participating or 4 hours a Instead of the Health the number of or 8 hours per week. offices/clinics. Fewer week. Department taking the offices/clinics included in training sessions would information out to the the in-services would be result in fewer office physicians' offices and more limited, or only staff members clinics, we would only be three trainings would be knowledgeable about able to respond to questions provided during the year. immunizations. There when they come to us, would be more missed which might not happen. At opportunities for some point we might request providing needed funding from a local vaccinations and more foundation for this project. situations where children Possibly the radio health talk would not receive show could be funded from immunizations other grants and program appropriately. budgets. BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS PHONE (970) 336-7204, Ext. 4200 FAX: (970) 352-0242 P. O. BOX 758 WI I D GREELEY, COLORADO 80632 C. COLORADO September 20, 2004 Douglas Benevento, Executive Director Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment 4300 Cherry Creek Drive South Denver, CO 80246-1530 Dear Mr. Benevento, The Weld County Board of Commissioners is pleased to provide this letter of support for the application for the Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant made by the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment. The amount of the request is for $16,365.24 for the 2004-2005 funding cycle. The Health Department has effectively used these funds in previous years for a wide range of programs in our community. The Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant funds will be used to provide education about immunizations to community health providers in Weld County. This will be accomplished by a series of trainings held in several locations for physicians' office staff and clinic staff members. During the course of the trainings, participants will learn about and create resource books with information about safe vaccine storage, the immunization schedule, how to address parental concerns regarding the safety of immunizations, allergies and reactions to vaccines, etc This should help prevent missed opportunities for needed immunizations. A small part of the grant funding will also be used to continue the successful weekly health talk program on the local Spanish language radio station. Radio has proven to be an effective way to reach the Spanish speaking population of the county, and will be used to educate Latinos about required immunizations and available resources. The Health Department has always been a leader in the implementation of new and innovative strategies to protect the health of the residents of Weld County. The Board of County Commissioners supports the Weld County Department of Public Health and Environment in its goal to improve childhood immunization rates in Weld County. Very Truly Yours, Robert D. Masden Chair, Weld County Board of County Commissioners Hello