Regional Coalitions

The Northern Utah Every Child by Two Immunization Coalition
The Every Child by Two Immunization Coalition of the Greater Salt Lake Area

The Northern Utah Every Child by Two Immunization Coalition
The Northern Utah Every Child by Two Immunization Coalition was formed in 1993 to address the low immunization among two-year-olds in the northern counties of Weber, Morgan, and Davis. The Coalition's mission is to promote early childhood immunizations and educate the community through effective action and leadership. It is comprised of a chairpers on and individuals representing county/city schools, pediatrician's offices, child care centers, the Ogden Junior League, the PTA, the local health department and the local hospital.

Strategies Implemented by the Northern Utah Every Child by Two Coalition include:

• Two statewide Every Child by Two immunization conferences in October, 1993 and 1995. The conferences were organized, planned, and implemented by members of the Coalition and primarily the Ogden Junior League. The conferences were coordinated with the statewide Every Child by Two Immunization Task Force and the State Immunization Program. Rosalynn Carter and Betty Bumpers attended both conferences and were keynote speakers.
• A school based immunization clinic. The Coalition in conjunction with a Community Health center and volunteers from the PTA and Ogden City Schools implemented the immunization clinic at an elementary school in a low income area of Ogden City in 1996. This area of the city was also identified as having low immunization levels.
• Support of Utah Infant Immunization Week (UIIW). Activities include: awards and recognition to key immunization providers throughout the Coalition region, participating in a Parent Education Night at a local school and coordinating a physician's dinner for local pediatricians. Dr. John Christensen from Primary Children's Medical Center was the keynote speaker at both activities.
• Collaborated with the USIIS in a community outreach project to promote USIIS in private provider clinics.

Interfacing with the Local and State Health Department in using Immunization Assessment Tools
The Coalition has interfaced with the local and State Health Department by using Clinic Assessment Software Application (CASA) data to identify areas in the counties with lower immunization rates. Strategies such as special immunization clinics, mobile immunization clinics, and a school-based clinic have been implemented accordingly, in these lower immunization level areas. The Coalition has also interacted with the local health department to identify ways the Coalition can assist the local health department with their immunization efforts.

The Utah Every Child by Two Immunization Coalition of the Greater Salt Lake Area
The Every Child by Two Immunization Coalition of the Greater Salt Lake Area was organized at the end of 1994 by the Salt Lake Valley Health Department and the United Way in response to low immunization levels in the county. The Coalition became operational in 1995. The membership is comprised of individuals representing community and volunteer agencies, church organizations, a children's hospital, a managed care organization, pharmaceutical organizations, the Association for Utah Community Health Centers, the Salt Lake Valley Health Department and the Utah Immunization Program.

The Coalition's mission is to work as a community coalition and to actively participate in raising immunization awareness and immunization levels of toddlers.

Strategies Implemented by the Every Child by Two Coalition of the Greater Salt Lake Area include:

• An immunization clinic day at Utah's Hogle Zoo in 1995 and 1996.
• Support of Utah Infant Immunization Week (UIIW). The Coalition coordinated special immunization clinics with the Salt Lake Community Health Centers.
• Coalition re-organization and prioritization of immunization projects.
• Development of a logo to help promote awareness of the Coalition.
• Support of the county and state health department with on-going immunization educational efforts and activities for the general public and private providers such as participating in community health fairs, immunization training for health care providers, conferences targeted to the medical community, the statewide media campaign, and the Utah Statewide Immunization Information System (USIIS).
• Development and distribution of a flip chart illustrating vaccine preventable diseases.
• Parent education at the South Towne Expo Center with keynote speaker, Dr. Peter Moskowitz, and at the E-Center with Dr. Richard Haupt.
• Collaboration with the USIIS and the University of Utah in an outreach pilot project to establish a community model of enrolling providers in USIIS and develop a preceptorship program for University of Utah pharmacy and public health students.
• Current projects include the development of a Legislative Fact Sheet on current immunization issues and collaborating with IHC to conduct an immunization survey in IHC InstaCare Centers in Salt Lake County.

Interfacing with the Local and State Health Department in using Immunization Assessment Tools
The Coalition has interfaced with the local health department and the State Health Department by using Clinic Assessment Software Application (CASA) data to identify baseline immunization levels and areas throughout the county to concentrate their efforts. The Salt Lake Valley Health Department also used retrospective survey data of kindergarten students in elementary schools to assess the immunization levels of two-year-olds in their county. This retrospective survey data was broken down by zip code and census tract areas within the county to better reveal where the lowest immunization areas were located. Data from this survey sparked the formation of the Every Child by Two Immunization Coalition of the Greater Salt Lake Area.

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