Strategic Prevention in Kings County JOIN THE TEAM! Organizational Partnership

WHO WE ARE Kings Partnership for Prevention (KPFP) is a local coalition whose partners come from throughout the

community representing a wide variety of interests. The VISION of KPFP is to create an environment of

wellness throughout our communities. The MISSION of KPFP is 'to proactively engage our

communities by supporting, participating in and creating opportunities for healthy life choices for all

county residents.’ KPFP has an overarching focus on HOLISTIC health – understanding that the

comprehension of the parts of something is intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to

the whole.

WHAT WE DO Using the National Prevention Strategy, KPFP has developed seven active workgroups that cover all

priority areas: Kings County Tobacco Free Partnership, Kings Coalition for Wellness and Awareness,

Reproductive and Sexual Health Workgroup,

HEAL (Healthy Living Active Living) Workgroup,

Mental and Emotional Well-being Workgroup,

Kings County Asthma Coalition, and Substance

Use Prevention Workgroup. In addition, KPFP

has helped lead the charge in the following

initiatives:

•   County-­‐wide  Data  Driven  Website  

•   County-­‐wide  Community  Needs  Assessment  

•   Community  Engagement  Project  

KPFP is continually working to build a healthier

Kings County by:

•   Promoting  a  Trauma-­‐Informed  Approach  to  Prevention  

•   Building  Capacity  through  all  sectors  of  the  community  

•   Focusing  on  Collective  Impact  

WHY WE SERVE Using public data and our own Community Needs Assessment, KPFP understands that Kings County

residents suffer within all of seven priority areas of prevention. The 2018 SocioNeeds Index by Healthy

Communities Institute is a measure of socioeconomic

need that is correlated with poor health outcomes. All zip

codes and counties are given an Index Value from 0 (low

need) to 100 (high need), and the selected locations are

ranked from 1 (low need) to 5 (high need) based on their

Index Value. In Kings County, the highest community of

need (by zip code) is Stratford, ranking at 99. Four other

zip codes rank between 94 and 98 (Avenal, Corcoran,

Kettleman City, and Armona), Hanford ranks at 82, and

the lowest community of need is Lemoore ranking at 68,

which is still significantly higher than most American

communities. A coordinated and collective approach is necessary to create positive change. KPFP uses

strategies that move the prevention effort further ‘upstream,’ targeting factors that create early childhood

experiences that in later life manifest in unhealthy behaviors and outcomes.

DATA DRIVEN KPFP partners with the Healthy Communities Institute (HCI) to offer a county-wide data driven website.

HCI’s web-based information systems are designed to empower communities to make a true difference

by tracking health and quality of life indicators and supplying over 2,000 community-level interventions

and policy models. The HCI systems provide local communities with a range of features that support

health improvement planning and evaluation. This includes a dashboard of 150+ data indicators (many

down to the zip code and census tract) that are continuously updated to help identify areas of need with

up-to-date views of community health. The systems provide the community with a “living” and publicly

accessible source for the most currently available health and quality of life indicators.

BE A HERO Did you know that you can be a KPFP Hero? Contract with us! Let KPFP help further your goals and

objectives. Through contracting with KPFP your organization will work directly with the KPFP

Coordinator to ensure your needs are met!

JOIN THE TEAM Why join the KPFP team? Because YOUR voice is needed at the table! Your organization plays a unique

role in this community. Without you there would be a void of services and unmet needs for Kings County

citizens. Building healthier communities can only be achieved by working together toward common

goals. In doing this, your organization’s individual mission will be pushed forward in ways you may not

have even thought possible. Together we can achieve more!

PLATINUM $15,000 Annual

Partnership

DIAMOND $10,000 Annual

Partnership

GOLD $5,000 Annual

Partnership

RUBY $1,000 Annual

Partnership

SILVER $500 Annual Partnership

BRONZE $100 Annual Partnership

GET INVOLVED The goal of the Healthy Eating/Active Living workgroup (HEAL) works to empower community partners with knowledge

and skills to advocate about healthy living, thereby helping to create

an environment where the healthier choice is the easy choice.

The Kings Coalition for Wellness Awareness (KCWA) works to foster a

comprehensive, participatory, and collective effort to eliminate violence in Kings County.

Awareness initiatives include Human Trafficking, Victim’s Rights, Elder Abuse, and

Domestic Violence.

The Substance Use Prevention workgroup works collaboratively with other local

organizations to provide education to Kings County students through interactive booths

at Red Ribbon events held annually in October.

The Mental & Emotional Wellbeing works to reduce the stigma of Mental Illness in

Kings County. A major initiative of the workgroup is training teachers and providing the

skills to identify, understand and support their students with social and emotional issues.

The Reproductive & Sexual Health workgroup collaborates with school districts

to ensure their existing sex education programs are providing students with the tools

and information they need and are including a focus on healthy relationships.

The Kings County Tobacco-Free Partnership is committed to promoting a tobacco-

free environment through prevention, education, encouragement of public policy, and

broad-based community support for tobacco control activities.

The Kings County Asthma Coalition through community

engagement and patient empowerment, provides education, raises awareness and

supports policies that decrease the impact of asthma in our communities.

ON THE HORIZON Fall 2018 will be an exciting time for KPFP as the Strategic Planning process begins. With such a rapid

growth over the last four years, it would be easy for KPFP to slow down and ride the waves, but that’s not

how positive change takes place. KPFP understands that there is no such thing as standing still. An

organization is either moving forward or it’s moving backward, and KPFP is driven to keep pushing! If

funding allows, here are some of the many things on the horizon:

§   Got  needs?  2019  – The first county-wide Community Needs Assessment was extremely successful

in 2017, and all of the data has been added to the KPFP website as local indicators. Created to be

conducted bi-annually, 2019 will include random survey administration from all community

partners, public forums, and focus groups. With a unique focus on community perception versus

reality, this endeavor provides valuable insight into the residents of Kings County.

§   Youth  Award  –  KPFP would like to expand the annual ‘Youth Award’ to include scholarships for

youth doing exceptional work in the areas of Prevention in Kings County.

§   Community  Engagement  Project  – KPFP is planning to continue its work with the Home Garden

Neighborhood Association, empowering them to create positive change. This partnership has been

extremely successful, and the hope is to create more self-sustaining community driven entities to

ensure vulnerable population voices are heard.

§   Local  Data  Indicators  –  KPFP is excited to launch the next phase of the website: adding local

data! Although it is understandable that not all data is shareable, KPFP believes that organizations

can help one another by sharing what is possible. By layering local data to the 150+ regularly

updated indicators on the website, the whole picture of Kings County will begin to be painted.

§   ACEs  Task  Force  – Data is only valuable when it is being used. KPFP is prepared to take data to

the next level by implementing an ACEs Task Force to disect the existing data surrounding adverse

childhood experiences in Kings County.

§   Communities  of  Excellence-­‐ KPFP has partnered with Adventist Health to engage in the

Communities of Excellence project, using the Baldrige Excellence Builder to achieve optimal

performance in ‘health, education, economy, and quality of life.’ By envisioning the community as a

set of systems that all must function together in order to achieve greatness, Kings County will work

across sectors and generations to enhance community performance.

§   School  Resource  Guide-­‐ KPFP has partnered with Kings County Office of Education to develop a

resource guide for all schools in Kings County to be housed on the KPFP website. The goal of this

project is to bridge the gap between service providers and school districts, making it easy to

connect to one another! Through the guide, schools will be able to showcase what they do outside

of the classroom. Providers will be able to see gaps to address, who to contact, and how to reach

audiences. Schools will be able to reach providers and learn best practices from one another.