For more information on this project, contact Frank Kruppa, Environmental Health Director, or Emerita Denefield, PACE EH Coordinator at the Highlands County Health Department.
HIGHLANDS COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
March, 2007 PACE EH Progress Report
Date: March 25, 2007
To: Daniel Parker, MSP
Assistant Division Director, Division of Environmental Health
From: Emerita Denefield
PACE-EH Coordinator
Through: Frank Kruppa
Environmental Health Director
Subject: Highway Park PACE EH Project
The validation of the Baseline Community Survey conducted in January was completed this month. Fifteen (15) community issues surfaced during the survey. Total of 9 issues were rated as first priority items, leaving 6 in the second priority category.
The First Priority Issues or Concerns are: Water Safety, Cleanliness of Air, Septic System & Sewage, Alcohol & Substance Abuse, Recreational Equipment & Facilities, Health Insurance, Roads & Sidewalk, Housing, and Multi-purpose Center. The issues classified as second priority items are as follows: Food Handling, Need for Diet Information, Presence of Stray Animals, Burglary and Theft, Domestic Violence, and certain Health Conditions. All issues and concerns were clarified and defined by the volunteers. During the community meeting, the priority and urgency of issues changed as follows:
Priority 1: Urgent Concerns
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Housing
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Roads & Sidewalk
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Health Insurance
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Recreational Facilities
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Multi-purpose Center
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Septic System
Priority 1: Very Important Concerns
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Alcohol & Substance Abuse
Priority 1: Important Concerns:
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Water Safety
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Cleanliness of Air
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Health Conditions
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Stray Animals
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Diet Information
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Burglary & Theft
Priority 2 Concerns:
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Domestic Violence
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Food handling
The PACE-EH volunteers are now ready to plan for the programs needed to resolve the identified issues and concerns.
2. Work Plan and Process Update |
| EH Tasks |
Action |
Outcome |
Target Date |
| Task 1: Determine Community Capacity |
1. Continuing effort to invite residents and organized groups to become PACE-EH volunteers |
Additional 19 residents signed up, total volunteers=48 |
On-going |
| 2. Continue to attend meetings of various organizations like the Highway Park Enhancement and Preservation Council, to have an update on what is going on in the community, what specific organizations do. |
Enhanced Credibility, Understanding & Influence |
On-going |
| 3. Do an inventory of programs available being sponsored by the different organizations in Highway Park. |
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April, 2007 |
| 4. Training of volunteers on basic skills/ processes like brainstorming, problem analysis, leading, organizing, planning and monitoring |
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May 2007 |
| Task 2: Define and Characterize the Community |
1. Validation of Survey Results; Volunteer Level |
Refer to Newsletter item, front page |
Completed |
| 2. Validation of Survey Results, Community level |
Refer to Newsletter item, front page |
Completed |
| 3. Prioritize Environmental Health Issues and Concerns |
Refer to the above summary |
Completed |
| Task 3: Assemble a Community-based environmental health assessment team |
1. Discussion of PACE-EH Volunteer Commitments |
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April, 2007 |
| 2. Sub-Grouping of the Volunteers into smaller work teams based on their personal interest |
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April 2007 |
| 3. Summarize external resources needed and establish working relations and formal representation |
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May 2007 |
| Task 4: Define the Goals, Objectives and Scope of the Assessment |
1. Facilitate the visioning process |
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May 2007 |
| 2. Definition of Goals, objectives and Scope of the different work team |
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June 2007 |
3. Outstanding Issues/Concerns |
None Significant, the project going on as planned, with very minor issues.
3.1 The second issue of the Highway Park Newsletter done. Copies cannot be mailed to all households because of mailing and production costs. Considering that the Newsletter carries the project update, copies are distributed as follows:
3.2. Developed the Highway Park Set of Volunteer Commitments. This is for discussion during the scheduled general meeting of volunteers.
View the Highway Park Newsletter (pdf <1mb)
February, 2007
January, 2007
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