10 Years: Lane County Health Promotion & Prevention Program
Date: 01/30/23
Trillium is proud to celebrate our 10-year partnership with the Lane County Health Promotion and Prevention program! Over the past decade, this innovative program has shown a strong track record of improving health outcomes through investments in primary prevention.
The Lane Community Advisory Council (CAC) Prevention sub-committee provides guidance and oversight of the Prevention program. The Prevention sub-committee, which consists of Oregon Health Plan (OHP) members from each of the two Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs) serving Lane County, as well as community representatives from education, public health, and community-based organizations serving OHP members, plays a key role in shaping the initiatives of the Health Promotion and Prevention program. During the last 10 years, its CAC Prevention Workgroup has developed 10 health promotion and prevention plans, implemented over 27 prevention programs and projects, provided internships to six students, and pivoted to meet virtually and tackle emergent needs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The key focus areas for the Health Promotion and Prevention program are tobacco use reduction, mental health promotion and empowering kids to be healthy. To provide sustainable funding for the many primary prevention initiatives within these focus areas, Trillium and our collaborative partner CCO in Lane County each contribute a “per member, per month” payment proportional to their Oregon Health Plan member enrollment. Trillium has participated since 2012 and our collaborative partner CCO joined in 2020 during the Oregon Health Authority CCO statewide expansion that year (“CCO 2.0”).
Throughout the decade, community members and their lived experiences, input from community partners, and new research findings helped inform the program’s priorities. As one community partner noted, “One of the things I’ve really appreciated over the years is the way [LCPH staff] is genuinely interested in getting feedback from the community…I have felt like my input has been taken into account and appreciated. It’s clear that they’re interested in letting me help shape how the work gets done.”
According to the Lane County Public Health Prevention Outcome Data report, some of the long-term outcomes observed in the key focus areas include:
Tobacco use reduction
- Rates of cigarette smoking among adults and pregnant people are decreasing
- Low birth weight and preterm birth rates have remained stable among Lane County OHP members while state and national rates have increased
- Tobacco-related mortality is decreasing
Mental health promotion
- Depression diagnosis among Lane County adults at or below the federal poverty level have not increased as much as those above the poverty level
- Rates of heavy drinking among adults at or below the poverty level have decreased while rates for those above the poverty level have increased
- Empowering kids to be healthy
- Despite increases in the number of youth experiencing poor mental health, there has been a decline in tobacco and alcohol use
- Lane County 8th graders continue to report a high rate of “good to excellent” physical health
Trillium is looking forward to continuing our partnership with the Lane County Community Advisory Council (CAC) and Health Promotion and Prevention program in the next decade!
View the full Lane County CAC “10 Years of Health Promotion and Prevention” Report (PDF)