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Adopt and present a resolution and plaque of appreciation honoring Felicia Flores-Workman, Supervising Health Education Specialist, upon her retirement from the Department of Health and Social Services, Public Health Division with over 27 years of dedicated public service to Solano County (Supervisor Thomson)
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DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:
The Department of Health & Social Services (H&SS) recommends that the Board of Supervisors adopt and present a resolution and plaque of appreciation honoring Felicia Flores-Workman upon her retirement from the Public Health Division with over 27 years of dedicated public service to Solano County.
SUMMARY/DISCUSSION:
Ms. Flores-Workman began her career with Solano County in December 1990 as a Health Information Specialist with the Child Health and Disability Prevention Program. She was reclassified to a Health Education Specialist II in 1991 and was promoted to Supervising Health Education Specialist in 1997. Ms. Flores-Workman has served as the Project Director for the Tobacco Prevention and Education Program since 1997 and as the supervisor of the Substance Abuse Prevention Program since 2012.
Ms. Flores-Workman has been instrumental in reducing the exposure of residents to secondhand smoke both through providing technical assistance and education to local jurisdictions to adopt smoke-free policies and by overseeing and creating opportunities to provide cessation services to diverse populations including pregnant women, those with mental health disorders and mono-lingual Spanish speakers. Ms. Flores-Workman, along with the Tobacco Education Coalition, was instrumental in the City of Vacaville's adoption of Solano's first smoke-free parks ordinance in 1993 and, more recently, in assisting the City of Benicia in making their parks and trails smoke-free. In between, Ms. Flores-Workman assisted Touro University i...
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