Assessing and Improving Community Health in Wisconsin
Essentia Health St. Mary's Hospital-Superior
Implementation Approaches
Goal: Decrease the negative impact of alcohol on priority populations, specifically, alcohol use in youth.
Strategy #1: Collaborate with partners and stakeholders in Douglas County to increase awareness of dangers of alcohol abuse and behaviors associated with legal and responsible alcohol use
-Objective #1: Meet with Douglas County Public School Districts and other key partners to learn about current programming related to alcohol use for area youth.
-Objective #2: Identify evidence based best practices related to promoting a healthy attitude towards alcohol in youth, determine if programs overlap with other CHNA priority areas.
-Objective #3: Identify key partners and stakeholders related to alcohol use in youth.
-Objective #4: Implement programming collaboratively with community partners and stakeholders as able and necessary.
Tactics:
- Review and/or collect baseline data on behaviors in Douglas County youth related to binge drinking
- Increase community education on responsible alcohol use
- Increase community awareness on dangers of youth alcohol use
- Implement programming if gaps exist for area youth on responsible behaviors related to alcohol
Goal: Increase physical activity and support healthy-weight promoting behaviors in Douglas County.
Strategy #1: Collaborate with partners and stakeholders within Douglas County to increase opportunities for physical activity and healthy-weight promoting behaviors.
-Objective #1: Identify priority populations based on community data and focus groups.
-Objective #2: Review current physical activity and healthy-weight promoting opportunities in Douglas County.
-Objective #3: Review evidence based best practices on increasing physical activity and healthy-weight promoting behaviors.
-Objective #4: Increase community awareness of physical activity and healthy weight promoting opportunities through active partnerships.
Tactics:
- Collect baseline data on current physical activity minutes in Douglas County as well as other supporting data points
- Increase physical activity offerings at local YMCA for seniors
- Partner with City of Superior on Active Transportation Planning
- Explore feasibility and necessary partnerships to launch Safe Routes to School Program in Douglas County in 2018
- Expand Diabetes Prevention Program offering through key partnerships
- Review current public school policies on active recess
- Determine if through key partnerships, physical activity minutes at Douglas County Public Schools can be increased
- Work with partners to promote healthy-weight behaviors throughout Douglas County
- Review current information related to access to fresh and healthy food within Douglas County
Goal: Decrease the negative impact of other drugs on adults in Douglas County.
Strategy #1: Update and reform prescribing practices related to opiates.
-Objective #1: Share updated prescribing practices with local partners and stakeholders.
-Objective #2: Review additional evidence based best practices related to drug use in adults.
-Objective #3: Collaborate with community partners and stakeholders on efforts focused on decreasing drug use and abuse.
Tactics:
- Continued work on Essentia Health initiatives on opiates
- Increase community awareness of Essentia Health initiatives on opiates
- Strategically partner in the community to decrease drug use
Goal: Decrease impact of tobacco on priority populations.
Strategy #1: Increase community awareness of the negative health effects of tobacco.
-Objective #1: Increase community capacity to address tobacco use.
-Objective #2: Increase community educational opportunities to learn of the negative health effects of tobacco in youth and pregnancy.
-Objective #3: Increase community and media based outreach on the negative health effects of tobacco in youth and pregnancy.
Tactics:
- Increase access to tobacco treatment specialists
- Promote opportunities for pregnant women and post-natal women to quit smoking
- Increase education of the negative health effects of e-cigarettes in youth
- Work with partners and stakeholders to identify opportunities to raise community awareness of the negative health effects of tobacco, including e-cigarettes
Goal: Continue to work to improve access to mental health resources and care.
Strategy #1: Increase awareness of current mental health resources within Douglas County.
-Objective #1: Identify gaps in seeking mental health care in Douglas County.
-Objective #2: Work with partners and stakeholders to promote current mental health resources within Douglas County.
Tactics:
- Increase visibility of mental health resources in Douglas County.
- Promote current resources through active partnerships and communication channels.
- Increase providers’ knowledge of current mental health resources within Douglas County.
Goal #1: Improve mental health and well being in Douglas County.
Strategy #1: Increase awareness about what creates mental well-being and resilience.
-Objective #1: Review evidence based best practices on increasing awareness of mental well-being.
-Objective #2: Identify community partners and stakeholders.
-Objective #3: Identify resources needed for community-wide campaign or efforts.
Tactics:
- Review baseline data on current perception of mental health and well being for Douglas County.
- Work with partners and stakeholders on community wide campaign related to resiliency.
- Work with partners and stakeholders on community wide campaign related to mental well being.
Goal #2: Continue to work to improve access to mental health resources and care.
Strategy #1: Increase awareness of current mental health resources within Douglas County.
-Objective #1: Identify gaps in seeking mental health care in Douglas County.
-Objective #2: Work with partners and stakeholders to promote current mental health resources within Douglas County.
Tactics:
- Increase visibility of mental health resources in Douglas County.
- Promote current resources through active partnerships and communication channels.
- Increase providers’ knowledge of current mental health resources within Douglas County.