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"Pathways 2020 will promote and improve the health and well
being of Cowlitz County by fostering community partnerships that
provide the fabric and support each person needs to be a healthy
and contributing member of the community."
Current ongoing projects include:
- Increasing access to prenatal care
- Reducing tobacco use
- Designing a countywide domestic violence law enforcement unit
- Supporting afterschool programs for children and teens
- Developing training for the future workforce.
- Substance abuse prevention
Another group working on issues from the Community Report Card
are Champions.
Champions are individuals or
organizations who have stepped forward to develop strategies to
improve one of the indicators. For example, Dr Travis Cavens and
Parents Place created a locally designed project called 100% Immunizations
to raise the percentage of children under two years who complete
their series of immunizations. Their work as Champions moved that
level from 55 percent to 93 percent of children being immunized.
Pathways 2020 and its community partners have undertaken two
significant projects.
MAPP - Mobilizing for Action through Planning
and Partnership
Pathways 2020 has partnered with the Cowlitz County Health Department
to take a long term and strategic look at public health issues.
MAPP is a community process to look at current public health services,
missing or deficient services, community perceptions on the quality
of life, and planning with action steps to address these public
health issues. Pathways 2020 has been conducting a countywide survey
on people's perceptions on the quality of life in Cowlitz County.
This report will be distributed in the summer of 2002 and is one
of the milestones for the MAPP process. The overarching goal for
Pathways 2020 is to address public health issues that impact economic
development in Cowlitz County.
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