Kalispel Tribe Chronic Care Accessibility
FPHS funding allowed the Kalispel Tribe to hire a chronic care nurse, increasing their ability to provide public health services to elders and homebound patients.
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Tracking Progress Towards Full Availability of Services
FPHS funding helps protect our communities by increasing the ability of local, tribal and state agencies to deliver foundational public health services. This happens across different public health subject areas, and it all contributes to a statewide public health system that is greater than the sum of its parts.
Making sense of the data dashboard
In the Data Dashboard, you’ll see four main categories: Capacity, Expertise, Allocations, and Spending.
Capacity & Expertise are what the FPHS System tracks to identify where needs are and what the ability of the FPHS System to deliver FPHS everywhere is in Washington. These numbers are tracked for the individual agencies and organizations in the FPHS System, and are collectively applied to the whole. They are not a measure of performance; they are a measure of need, intended to identify where resources would be most impactfully directed, and to measure progress made toward that end.
Capacity
Capacity is a term used to measure whether an organization has enough resources to fully deliver a service area. This is typically characterized by staff, equipment, and infrastructure.
Expertise
Expertise represents the level of training, experience, and education present in an organization to deliver a particular service area.
For example:
An organization that reports high expertise and low capacity might have one person who is a master at an activity, but the activity requires three full-time staff to deliver effectively. An organization that reports high capacity and low expertise might have many staff who could work on an activity, but they’re all new to the work and haven’t been trained.
Funding: Allocations and Spending
Funding amounts are recorded for individual State Fiscal Years (SFYs), which run from July 1st to June 30th of the following year (ex., SFY 2024 went from July 1st 2023 to June 30th, 2024). Fund recipients are required to spend funds allocated within a SFY during that same SFY.
When the FPHS Steering Committee allocates funding, they identify the recipient(s), the amount, and the scope of work. This can be anywhere from a small amount to one organization for a very specific body of work to a large funding amount split amongst many organizations, with a broad range of FPHS activities it could be used for.
Unless otherwise specified, all funding is ongoing, meaning it will continue at the same funding level for the same scope of work in following fiscal years until the allocation is altered by the FPHS Steering Committee.
Allocations
Allocations describe portions of funding that the FPHS Steering Committee issues. The categories for Allocations mirror the foundational program areas and the foundational capabilities as described in the FPHS Definitions
Spending
Spending describes where funds have been directed by the organizations utilizing allocated FPHS funds. The categories for Spending, while similar, are different from allocations and tend to be more specific.
Allocation and spending categories do not align perfectly to each other because some allocations are broad and flexible, allowing individual organizations to focus their funds where they are most needed in the specific communities they serve. The spending categories capture a more specific level of what focus areas organizations end up spending the funds they receive (within the scope of the FPHS Definitions and particular allocations). This may be most evident when it comes to Foundational Capabilities funding, which may be applied towards supporting any and all foundational program areas.
FPHS Stories
See the difference FPHS makes in your community.
Foundational Public Health Services funds are benefiting communities across the state. These stories represent some of the impacts of systemwide collaboration and funding for governmental public health. You can look up stories by topic and location at the FPHS In Action page.
Healing Without Judgment: Normalizing Sexual Health and Expanding STI Care
Skagit County Public Health has been able to provide STI testing, treatment, and outreach to communities living in remote areas, experiencing homeless, or facing other barriers to accessing care.
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Tacoma-Pierce County Lead Prevention Program
Families who have a child with an elevated blood lead level tell us how grateful they are for the education and assistance the Lead Prevention program provides. Overwhelmed staff at medical clinics also express gratitude for our lead prevention program and the support we provide to families. Lead poisoning is preventable, and with FPHS dollars, we are making a difference for families in Pierce County.
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