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ema will screen its first film of the
New Year, the full-length docu-
mentary, "Food Matters," in the
Thursday PUD No. 3 Auditorium, 307 W.
Cota Street, Shelton. The film is
9 a.m Jan. 6, the regular being shown as a benefit for SOCK
meeting of the Housing Authority youth programs in Shelton.
of" Mason County Board of Cam-
missioners is be held at the Mason
County Commission Chambers
located at 411 North 5th Street,
Shelton.
Sunday
2 p.m Shelton Spiritual Cin-
Monday
6:30 - 8 p.m January 10, Ma-
son County Republican Central
Committee will hold its January
meeting at Alpine Way Retire-
ment Apartments located at 900
W. Alpine Way. For more informa-
tion contact the Mason County Re-
publicans at (360) 432-1111, go on-
line at masoncountyrepublicans.
org or stop by the Mason County
Republican office at 1620 N. Olym-
pic Hwy in Shelton.
Tuesday
11:3o a.m January 11, month-
ly meeting for the Mason County
Multiple Sclerosis Support Group
will be held at Route 66 Grill lo-
cated at 506 W. Railroad Ave. The
meeting is open to those that are
interested.
4 p.m. January 11 the regu-
lar meeting of the Mason County
Transportation Authority Board
will be at Mason Transit's Busi-
ness Office located at 790 E. Johns
Prairie Road, Shelton.
7 p.m every Tuesday, De-
pressed Anonymous 12 Step Self
Help meets at Mason general Hos-
pital. Depression self-help group
is an international program. Meet
with those who understand de-
pression or severe blues. No pre-
tending.
Wednesday
1 - 3 p.m January 12, the
regular meeting for Chronic pain
and other "invisible" disabilities
will meet. This support group
meets twice monthly in the confer-
ence room in the Shelton Public
Library on the corner of 7th and
Alder downtown Shelton.
For additional information
please call 360-426-0900.
Christmas Fund
The 64th Journal-40 et 8 Christmas fund has received a
total of $30,350, with $55 coming in during the last week.
Tanya Nolte gave $50 and there was one $5 anony-
mous donation.
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Grant allows public health program to thrive
By NATALIE JOHNSON
in prevention mode."
The program, what Bu-
cheit called an "upstream
program" works with first-
time parents, connecting
them with public health
nurses who meet with them
regularly to provide knowl-
edge and skills that allow
them to be better parents
and citizens.
"It's education, its not just
physical, teaching the mom
about pregnancy," Bucheit
said. "It's also about self suf-
Mason County Public
Health received a $100,000
grant in December, which
will allow them to maintain
and even expand their Nurse
Family Partnership pro-
gram.
"By touching these fami-
lies, we literally are making
a shift in what's happening
for our future," Lydia Bu-
cheit, the program's nurse
home supervisor said. "We're
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ficiency helping them get
back to school and through
school, helping them get a
profession so they become a
productive member of soci-
ety, and their children will
also follow suit with that.
We're trying to break the
cycle of poverty."
The nurses follow each
family for two years and
are available for questions
by phone as well as through
regular visits.
The program is based on
studies that link problems at
home in early childhood with
later delinquency and crime,
and showed that home vis-
its from nurses for first time
parents gave real, measur-
able results.
' they did three studies
over the course of 30 years
this is the number one evi-
dence based program in the
United States," Bucheit said.
'q3ais program is actually
helping to reduce the number
of kids in jail or on drugs, it
helps families become more
productive."
Currently, the program
only has nine children en-
rolled, but because of the
grant, the program will soon
be able to support up to 25
families, Bucheit said.
The $100,000 grant, a
2010 Home Visiting Service
Account Grant, overseen by
the Thrive by Five program.
This program gets no di-
rect funding from Mason
County; only grant funding,
Bucheit said.
Since 2001, 23 families
have graduated from the
program and 75 have been
enrolled. Some people either
quit the program, move out
of the area, or are trans-
ferred to another program in
a different region.
The two home visiting
nurses in the program, Eliza-
beth Custis and Linda Bull-
ock, both only work part time
in this program, while spend-
ing the rest of their time in
other public health depart-
"1 feel fike it's my
best fife's work
outside my family."
ments.
"Honestly I feel like it's
my best life's work outside
my family because the cli-
ents are so grateful to have
a nurse that they can ask
questions of that knows the
right answer," Custis said.
Custis and Bullock visit
their clients regularly, do-
ing everything from checking
to see if their home is prop-
erly baby-proofed, to helping
them navigate child-support
systems and do health checks
for their baby.
The nurses said they pull
double and triple duty, serv-
ing as not only nurses, but
also social workers, legal ad-
visers and much Inore.
"We work across multi-
ple domains," Bullock said.
"Sometimes I f~el like I'm
everything - I'm a realtor, a
paralegal, a social worker, a
nutritionist, whatever it is."
Bullock said that visits
often include games, which
at first seem like just a fun
distraction, but always carry
a message meant to guide
their clients.
"We ,do one called 'Love is
a Rocky Road'," and we bring
all the ingredients to make
ice-cream for them," she said.
"I'm actually doing this talk
on relationships and toler-
ance."
While they do have some
dropouts in the program
the nurses said they also see
some amazing success sto-
ries. Custis talked about one
woman in particular.
"I'm so proud of her," Cus-
tis said. '%Ve set up some
goals and she met all of them
in a year - huge goals, like
getting her G.E.D get her
drivers license and get a job."
First time, low-income
parents can enroll in the pro-
gram before their 28th week
in the pregnancy.
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