Assessing and Improving Community Health in Wisconsin
Door County Health Department
421 Nebraska Street
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235-0670
Door County
Time Frame: 2016-2020
Implementation Approaches
Goal: Improve access to and consumption of healthy, safe and affordable foods.
Strategies:
- Work with community partners to collaborate, plan, develop, and implement nutrition goals.
- Utilize public education and outreach strategies to increase awareness and education regarding healthy eating.
- Support and promote existing nutrition programs administered by agencies throughout the county.
- Work collaboratively with other agencies to develop programming that addresses gaps and barriers.
- Investigate funding opportunities for program development.
Goal: Increase access to dental care for all citizens of Door County.
Strategies:
- Promote and support the Dental Health Coalition.
- Utilize public education & outreach strategies to increase awareness and education regarding oral health issues.
- Investigate funding opportunities such as United Way, grants, and fundraising activities.
- Increase access to dental care for adults with no dental insurance or Medicaid by evaluating Dental Clinic #’s.
- Improve overall statistics for dental visits in Door County by evaluating County Statistics.
- Assess community’s concerns and/or needs for oral health education/encouragement.
- Provide community education in multiple formats.
- Assess oral health programs at schools by talking to school officials.
- Explore relationships between oral health and other health behaviors at coalition meetings.
- Promote and Support the Door County Medical Center Dental Clinic.
Goal: To support healthy growth and development through family-centered, community-based, culturally competent, coordinated care and support throughout the life span.
Strategies:
- Maintain and support the Door County Partnership for Children and Families.
- Promote the social-emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5.
- Provide a uniform child and parent primary prevention education program to develop interpersonal skills, through a variety of county agencies.
- Develop and distribute information about the Door County Partnership for Children and Families.
- Improve the knowledge of provider organizations regarding available resources in community.
- Improve the knowledge of families regarding available resources in community.
- Work to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and build resilience in families.
- Seek funding opportunities to sustain this collaborative effort.
Goal: Improve mental health by promoting prevention programs, and by ensuring access to appropriate, quality mental health services.
Strategies:
- Update the Door County Mental Health & Crisis Prevention Resource Guide annually.
- Continue to promote and support the suicide prevention efforts of “Prevent Suicide Door County Nathan Wilson Coalition”.
- Promote and support the QPR (Question, Persuade, Refer) education.
- Decrease the stigma of mental illness through education.
- Continue to expand wellness initiatives and education.
Goal: To support healthy growth and development through family-centered, community-based, culturally competent, coordinated care and support throughout the life span.
Strategies:
- Maintain and support the Door County Partnership for Children and Families.
- Promote the social-emotional development and school readiness of young children birth to age 5.
- Provide a uniform child and parent primary prevention education program to develop interpersonal skills, through a variety of county agencies.
- Develop and distribute information about the Door County Partnership for Children and Families.
- Improve the knowledge of provider organizations regarding available resources in community.
- Improve the knowledge of families regarding available resources in community.
- Work to prevent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACES) and build resilience in families.
- Seek funding opportunities to sustain this collaborative effort.