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Health department outlines school wellness, overdose review and screening activity
Summary
Health department staff reported on K–12 and school‑based programs, including teen pregnancy prevention classes, formation of an overdose fatality review team, an expanded health resource advocate program, and the Concord school wellness program (165 unduplicated students, 522 visits in Q1). The department also reported school hearing and vision
A health department presenter updated the committee on multiple public health initiatives. The teen pregnancy prevention program is operating in area middle and high schools and includes community service learning elements; staff said high school students created care kits for an interfaith shelter.
The department is forming an overdose fatality review team and will begin interest meetings next week to assemble stakeholders and identify prevention priorities. The health resource advocate program, initiated during the COVID response, has broadened to include vaping education, nutrition and communicable disease education in schools.
The Concord school wellness program, now in its first full year, places a nurse and a mental‑health provider at Concord schools; staff reported 165 unduplicated students and 522 formal visits in the first quarter. The hearing and vision screening team reported 4,043 vision screenings with a 19% referral rate and roughly 2,000 hearing screens with a 4% referral rate; the oral health assessment team performed 386 assessments with a decay rate around 25% and an urgent treatment rate under 1%.
Staff also noted outreach efforts, social media engagement and preparations for kindergarten roundup immunizations and spring environmental inspections. The committee moved and approved receipt of the health department report.
