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7 E. How does your program demonstrate innovation at the community, county, or regional level? Include information on the integration of the program with existing services, partnering organizations, and community support in planning and implementation. The collaboration between two school systems and the local health department to combine efforts to implement this program is challenging due to different policies and programs within the two separate school systems. The health department as the lead agency allows for these differences to be accommodated and for the program to operate from neutral ground. We also hope to combine tobacco prevention with drug prevention. Our YRBS data shows we have as many students smoking marijuana as tobacco In our county so we are planning strategies that will not only address tobacco use prevention, but smoking of all substances in order to protect the lungs of young people. Our component that will address teen mothers partners with the Adolescent Parenting Program and is unique. Because most of our teen mothers do not currently smoke,.we are developing a program to target the smoking grandparents with a second -hand smoke campaign that wit train the teen moms how to advocate for the health of their babies. II. Program Description A. Background of applying organizations. 1. Mission Statement of lead applicant. The Mission of the Orange County Health Department is to enhance the quality of life, promote health, and preserve the environment for all people in the Orange County community. 2. Describe current programs and accomplishments of lead applicant. The OCHD offers a variety of public health services to all residents of Orange County. Services Include surveillance activities such as verifying birth and death registrations, maintaining a communicable disease surveillance system, a systematic community assessment process; environmental health service's such as food, lodging, and institutional inspections, and enforcement of wastewater and well construction and sNing standards; animal control services such as rabies investigation and protection, animal protection, and nuisance abatement clinical services such as dental services for children and adults, women's health, adolescent health, and immunization services; community -based services such as family home visiting, injury prevention education, health and nutrition education, and school health. Annually, the department provides more than 10,000 clinic encounters, about 600 children have regular home visits, and more than 4,000 adults and children receive dental clinical services. Health education staff reach out to more than 2,000 residents each year, and environmental health protects the entire population through its inspection program with more than 250 restaurants. Animal control staff respond to over 5,000 calls from the public on various matters. Page 5