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Assessment • Data collection and analysis—MacKenzie Carter,our Assessment Coordinator, is planning or finishing the following surveys.You should see how much work goes into planning, creating, and launching a survey! o Behavioral Health Needs Assessment o Air Quality o Veterans o Developmental Disabilities Advisory Committee-Access to Activities and Recreation • Strategic plan -despite many competing priorities,we continue to plug away and make progress with strategic planning.Workgroups should be starting to be more active in the coming months. • Behavioral Health Needs Assessment-working on coding and compiling focus group data and working on elements of final report • Process documentation for Assessment functions—Assessment and the other PHI roles support projects and programs across the entire department and we are working hard to outline some of those functions and available services. Emergency Preparedness • Integrated Preparedness Plan (IPP)for the County- Kelly is completing this plan,which outlines priorities,training, and preparedness activities for the county to respond to public health emergencies. • Reviving the Medical Reserve Corps(MRC)—the Kittitas County MRC is a network of local volunteers that support public health emergency response, including both medical and non- medical individuals. Kelly is reaching out to registered volunteers to see if they want to continue.We have updated the handbook and training requirements, and are working to update other MRC documents in hopes to start recruiting new members. • We are hosting two FEMA Emergency Response Section Chief Trainings locally: Safety Officer and Operations Section Chief.This is an opportunity for countywide staff, local partners, and regional partners to train in these functions, and helps build additional capacity for emergency response. • Staff attended both Ellensburg and Cle Elum Roslyn High School career fairs to promote local public health career opportunities. • Kelly planned and conducted our recent measles tabletop exercise in partnership with Lianne. • Finally, Kelly is working to complete our numerous end of the year grant deliverables for our DOH emergency response funding. Human Services Kittitas County Human Services currently oversees over thirty subcontractors with the addition of three more contracts in the near future. Additionally,work with opioid settlement funding will increase that number in the future as well. Homelessness and Affordable Housing Advisory Committee(HAHC) • The committee voted to recommend projects for the most recent RFP that was submitted, which included both HopeSource and Habitat for Humanity. Because of the funding offer 24