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Skagit County Board of Health proclaims support for Population Health Trust after 10 years of collective-impact work
Summary
The Board of Health received a 10-year anniversary presentation on the Population Health Trust's work across housing, opioids, maternal-child health and food security, and moved/seconded a proclamation recognizing the Trust. The proclamation was approved unanimously.
Representatives of Skagit County's Population Health Trust presented accomplishments at the Board of Health meeting on Feb. 11 and the board passed a proclamation recognizing the trust's 10-year anniversary and contributions to county public health.
Kristen (presenter) and trust members described the Population Health Trust as a collective-impact effort launched after a 2015 resolution to increase coordination of community health activities. Bill Henkel, executive director of Community Action in Skagit County, traced the Trust's origins to earlier local initiatives and credited the county for establishing backbone staffing that enabled multi-sector coordination across hospitals, public health, social services, funders and other partners.
Trust members summarized four primary issue areas and accomplishments: expanding medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) providers, housing and homelessness work including a housing consortium, the "first thousand days" (maternal and early-childhood) work that led to a Help Me Grow implementation and expanded referral and newborn outreach, and a food security plan that helped attract additional funding. Presenters said the Trust has produced community health assessments and improvement plans, resource guides on health equity and other analytical products to inform local action.
The Board concluded the presentation with a formal proclamation. The transcript records a motion and second and the clerk noted "All in favor, say aye" followed by "It is unanimous." The proclamation text in the record thanked Trust members and endorsed the Trust's priorities and contributions to population health in Skagit County.
Key program details presented by Trust members included: - Help Me Grow and family resource navigation: coordinators reported pregnancy connections, family resource navigation and newborn outreach numbers (example figures: Pregnancy Connections served 48 pregnant people in the year reported; family resource navigator made an estimated 465 referrals; newborn outreach at the birthing center conducted 293 visits). Presenters used a visual analogy that translated service counts into "school buses" to illustrate reach. - Housing and opioid strategies: presenters credited the Trust with two local policy successes (making overdose a notifiable condition and establishing secure medicine return) and with helping expand MOUD services by additional providers in the community. - Food security: presenters said a systems gaps analysis and a food policy council emerged from Trust planning and that the Trust's work helped secure roughly $25,000 in additional funding for food security initiatives.
Motion (Proclamation recognizing the Population Health Trust): The transcript records the motion was moved and seconded; the vote was recorded as unanimous. The record does not identify the mover or seconder by name in the transcript excerpt. Earlier in the meeting the Board also moved and seconded to approve the Jan. 14 minutes; that motion likewise passed unanimously.
The proclamation and the public presentations were informational and commemorative; no binding new policy or budget appropriation was adopted at the meeting.
