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Thurston County Public Health and Social Services Department, WA

During the Round One pilot phase of PPHR (winter 2004), NWCPHP participated as a partner with the Thurston County Public Health and Social Services Department (DPHSS), in Washington State.

  • Worked with Thurston County DPHSS and Washington State Department of Health translate and link the Bioterrorism and Emergency Readiness Competencies into useful training and planning projects.
  • Provided an emergency preparedness needs assessment tool to support an assessment of the training needs of Thurston County's public health employees. The tool was also used by 5 of the 12 Project Public Health ready pilot sites across the US.
  • Provided a preliminary outline for mapping the emergency preparedness and bioterrorism competencies to the categories in the assessment tool.
  • Provided the final mapping tool for mapping the competencies to the assessment questions.
  • Analyzed needs assessment data.
  • Developed a report on the findings.
  • Assisted in developing a Thurston County DPHSS Emergency Preparedness Training Plan based on this Training Plan Template.

Read additional information about the Public Health Ready Project in Thurston County in this article: 

  • Fraser, MR and McDonald S. Public Health Prepares Agencies for Emergency Responses, Northwest Public Health, Fall 2003.
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