Community Health Division 1270 Natividad Road Salinas, CA 93906 (831) 755-4536 Division Chief: Vacant

COMMUNITY HEALTH DIVISION: Is defined as activities that promote a healthy community by empowering individuals, groups and organizations to take responsibility for adopting healthy behaviors and supporting social and environmental policy that promotes health.

PHILOSOPHY: Health Promotion is about getting in front of the problem. It is more than health information or health education. It is about empowering and involving individuals and communities in taking responsibility for health. Health Promotion fits within the medical model of disease prevention, the more holistic model of wellness and the community development models of social planning and community empowerment.

STRATEGIES:  We strengthen individual knowledge and skills, provide community awareness and education, train and increase capacity of providers, foster coalition building, change organizational practices and influence policy
and legislation.

• Improve health status of Monterey County Residents
• Reduce disability caused by chronic conditions
• Increase years of healthy life
• Increase life expectancy
• Decrease disparity in life expectancy between population groups

• Children's Medical Services Branch
• California Children's Services
• Child Health Disability Prevention (CHDP)
• Children's Lead Poisoning Prevention Program
• Community Nursing
• Health Promotion Services Branch
• Healthy Lifestyles

-  Nutrition Network
-  Regional Nutrition Network
-  Nutrition Network Local Incentive Award
-  Steps to a Healthier Salinas
-  Tobacco Control Program

• Maternal Child and Adolescent Health

-  Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program (CPSP)
-  POSTPONE - Teen Pregnancy
-  Immunization Program

• Prevention Services

-  Employee Wellness
-  HIV/AIDS
-  Injury Prevention

• Women, Infants, and Children Branch