DUNN COUNTY (WQOW) — The 2022 Dunn County Group Well being Wants Evaluation is full, and it has confirmed 5 key areas of well being which can be a high precedence for the county well being division shifting ahead.
The final evaluation was carried out in 2019, and this yr’s research confirmed the 5 areas recognized as regarding will proceed to be a precedence shifting ahead.
The 5 areas are:
- Psychological Well being and Wellness
- Environmental Well being
- Secure and High quality Housing
- Power Illness
- Alcohol, Nicotine and Medicine
Now that the evaluation is full, the county well being division is difficult at work placing collectively their Group Well being Enchancment Plan (CHIP). They’re encouraging residents to achieve out and provides their enter for the way the county can get higher.
“It will be significant that folks’s lived expertise, their context experience, be shared in these boards,” Dunn County Well being Division Director KT Gallagher mentioned. “There’s a place for people with lived expertise, both round housing, perhaps somebody who has had some housing insecurity, or a enterprise proprietor that’s actually struggling to herald certified staff as a result of housing is a problem for them. We wish them each on the desk.”
Gallagher added that the CHIP normally takes anyplace from six months to a yr to be prepared, however she’s hopeful the division could have one thing able to share with the neighborhood in as early as this summer time.
For more information on how one can get entangled, or to take a look at the assets accessible, go to healthdunnright.org.
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