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Home My WebLink About04-2020 APR 25 2018 MINUTES Deschutes County Health Services Public Health Advisory Board MINUTES MINUTES April 25, 2018 12:00 – 1:30pm Stan Owen, DCHS Building 2577 NE Courtney Drive, Bend Facilitator Kate Wells, Chair Staff Coordinator Tom Kuhn, Community Health Manager Scribe Lisa Michael Next Meeting May 23, 2018 - Health Services – Stan Owen Conference Room Topic and Lead Introductions & Approval of March Meeting Minutes The Board went around the room and introduced themselves to guests. Approval of the minutes was postponed due to lack of a quorum. Brief Announcements & Unfinished Business Tom said they have been unable to schedule an interview at this time with Dr. Boehm. Janice Bowers, the other applicant, had to step away from the board for a few months, but will come back as soon as she is able. Tom gave a follow-up on the Health Hero candidates and announced the winners: Maria McClane-Madden for the individual award and St. Charles PEDALS program won the th organization award. The plaques will be presented at the May 7 BOCC meeting at 10:00 a.m. and Tom will send out an invite to all members. He will also coordinate with Heather to contact the media to cover the event. Brief priority workgroup updates: Keith has been working with the Smoke and Public Health Collaborative on creating a website and media campaign to educate the public on the importance of prescribed fires. He explained that prescribed fires are a necessity in order to reduce out of control wildfires. The west side of Bend is one of the most susceptible areas in the entire state for a massive wildfire. Keith will be attending another meeting next month and give a presentation to PHAB about the website they are working on called centraloregonfire.com. A soft roll out of the website will take place next week. Keith mentioned there are only 6 to 9 days per year where the weather conditions are perfect to conduct a prescribed burn so authorities must take advantage of these conditions. He also mentioned on some occasions that smoke drifts into the area from fires located elsewhere and sometimes even from overseas. Rob and Dave are waiting for the BOCC to finish the budge process to give a presentation on immunization legislation. “To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.” Updated 8/4/20 Kate, who is working with Rebeckah and Morgan Feld, spoke about climate change and attempts to mitigate its effects. Their project will be two-pronged: general awareness and sustainability. They will investigate what other jurisdictions are doing and take tangible steps to follow in the same direction. Pamela gave an update on their project and mentioned her team hasn’t met again lately but is working on birth control at the La Pine SBHC and will be working their way towards Bend. They have joined forces with COHC, COIPA and Pacific Source. School Safety Julianne Repman, Director of Safety and Communication, gave a presentation, along with two of her colleagues, Jim Bowen and Sean Reinhart, on the school’s policy addressing safety. First off, Julianne explained the difference between a lockout and a lockdown. A lockout is when all the doors to a school are locked so no one gets in or out because of an immediate threat in the vicinity of the school. A lockdown is a threat inside the school prompting students and staff to react by securing classrooms and creating barricades. The schools perform several drills throughout the school year so everyone is well prepared for any kind of situation. There are at least 2 bus evacuations, 10 fire drills and one lockdown conducted each year. Reverse evacuations are also conducted meaning if there is a threat on or around school grounds outside such as a hatch of bees on the playground, kids are then evacuated from the area and brought back into the school. Julianne trains all staff on any and all situations that may arise. She mentioned that anyone can initiate a lockdown and can also take place when a noncustodial parent tries to take their child. BLPS district teams up with the Safe School Alliance to provide a portal for students to chat about student related issues and safety concerns. There are 31 schools in the BLPS district with armed school resource officers on hand. BLPS is th the 5 largest school district in the state with over 18,000 students and 5,000 plus staff. Data has been collected showing 82% of teachers having a master’s degree with an average of 7 years on the job experience and an average annual salary of $61k. Julianne spoke about the influx of newcomers stating they anticipate more than 1,100 new kindergarten age kids to enter the school system next year alone. She also spoke about the graduation rates and how many kids actually graduate within the 4 year timeframe (85% graduate “on time”); however the Class of 2017 earned 9,000 college quarter hours and were 57 points above the state average on SAT scores. th A new high school on SE 15 St. is due to be built and finished by 2022 with a future middle school to be developed right next door. A new elementary school will be going in on Cooley Rd. and will be the same prototype as Silver Rail Elementary. They will be breaking ground next month. Julianne said that after the Sandy Hook and Marjory Stoneman Douglas school incidents, the school district is now taking extra safety measures to secure lobbies and perimeters, reduce visibility barriers, install fencing where needed, and requiring all staff to have ID badges and all visitors to check in. They also have a new system that checks for sex offenders. Work is also continuing on shooter drills and suicide prevention measures with help on the mental health piece from Jessica Jacks. Currently there are 30 school counselors, 16 psychologists and 3 therapists. “To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.” Updated 8/4/20 Julianne also spoke about the number of issues among students becoming a trend like on line social media rumors/bullying and “jeweling”, which is better known as vaping (using Ecigarettes) and marijuana/drinking. Jeweling is becoming quite popular in the high schools and starting to grow in the middle schools. Vaping one cartridge is like smoking a whole pack of cigarettes. Whitney Schumacher is the new county suicide prevention specialist and a new wrap around service for mental health, domestic violence and after school activities will be rolling out in September for kids in need. The RHIP awarded a sizeable grant for trauma informed care training and will roll out a 3 year program, which will teach staff to work with kids dealing with divorce, violence, sexual orientation, bullying, etc. All high schools have LGBTQ clubs available through the school YAC and Human Dignity Coalition. eReferrals to the Tobacco Quit Line project The eReferrals program started in 2015 and has since experienced a 4000% increase in referrals to the tobacco quit line. Research in Wisconsin, where ereferrals have been a huge success, showed that the percentage of adult tobacco users utilizing the quit line service had increased from .3% to almost 14%. A grant for this program was written and approved for $45,000 through 2017 as part of a quality improvement measure (cigarette smoking prevalence). The QIM budget funds staff time and a 5 year contract for OCHIN maintenance fees. DCHS partnered with key central Oregon providers, OCHIN, OHA, other local health departments and Optum to come up with a projected timeline rollout that went live in August 2017. The interface is now a closed-loop referral system, meaning the outcome of the referral is communicated back to the referring provider to address any further follow-up. The next steps are to provide technical support to other jurisdictions who want to make ereferrals to their clients and provide support to Central Oregon partners to ensure that ereferrals increase. We will also continue to work with OHA to promote the use of the quit line. The new DCHS st tobacco coordinator will be starting May 1 and will give an update sometime around the end of summer. Adjourn at 1:32 p.m. Action Items:  Interview Dr. Boehm  See if Smoke Management website is up and running Board Members Present: Kate Wells, Keith Winsor, Steve Strang, Robert Ross, Sharity Ludwig, Stacey Witte Staff Members Present: Tom Kuhn, Pamela Ferguson, Lisa Michael Guest speakers: Julianne Repman (BLPS), Sean Reinhart (BLPS), Jim Bowen (BLPS) BOCC – Board of County Commissioners PHAB – Public Health Advisory Board SBHC – School Based Health Center COHC – Central Oregon Health Council COIPA – Central Oregon Independent Practice Assn BLPS – Bend La Pine Schools SAT – Scholastic Aptitude Test ID – identification RHIP – Regional Health Improvement Plan YAC – Youth Advisory Council QIM – Quality Improvement Measure OHA – Oregon Health Authority DCHS – Deschutes County Health Services PEDAL – Programs of Evaluation, Development And Learning LGBTQ –Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning/Queer OCHIN – Oregon Community Health Information Network “To promote and protect the health and safety of our community.” Updated 8/4/20