{"id":259610,"date":"2026-04-09T16:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259610\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T16:43:07","slug":"kern-county-public-health-works-to-help-the-community-thrive-like-a-poppy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/259610\/","title":{"rendered":"Kern County Public Health works to help the community thrive like a poppy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County Public Health has launched their &#8220;Thrive like a Poppy&#8221; campaign aimed at educating young people and their families about their health.<\/p>\n<p>The focus of the campaign uses the lifecycle of a poppy to show how people have different health needs throughout their lives.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage of the campaign focused on infants and children.<\/p>\n<p>Now in the second quarter, the campaign is focusing on teen health.<\/p>\n<p>KCPH Program Manager and Public Relations Officer Brynn Carrigan joined ARC Bakersfield to share more details.<\/p>\n<p>Carrigan says one of the biggest health risks currently facing teens is tobacco use.<\/p>\n<p>She says Kern County Public Health is working to empower youth in our community to make healthier choices when they are around tobacco products.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the &#8220;Thrive like a Poppy&#8221; campaign can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kernpublichealth.com\/healthy-community\/annual-campaigns\/thrive-like-a-poppy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kernpublichealth.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Kern County Public Health has launched their &#8220;Thrive like a Poppy&#8221; campaign aimed at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-259610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}