Story County Quality of Life Alliance Meeting

Feb 26, 2013

March 26, 2013

Agenda Welcome - Eileen Mullan Review - Eileen Mullan

◦SCQLC Mission◦History of Health Improvement Plan

Goals ◦County Health Rankings (

www.countyhealthrankings.org/iowa )Group Exercise – Ron Smith  Website – Greg Welk  Wrap – up

OVERVIEW AND VISION

Story County Quality of Life Alliance

“Building on the collective power of community initiatives to improve the quality of life for the people of Story County”

PURPOSE Alliance will serve as

communication point for various groups and coalitions in Story County◦ Share information ◦ Share ideas ◦ Share resources

Alliance will focus on addressing health and human service needs in Story County

Alliance will combine efforts and collaborate on community health grants

Alliance will take systematic aim at addressing community goals and identify new or emerging needs/gaps

STRUCTURE Alliance is envisioned as a

“coalition of coalitions”. Representatives from the

Story County Community Coalition will provide support and direction:

Alliance will include representation from health and human service coalitions and other interested stakeholders

Quarterly Meetings ◦ February◦ May◦ Aug◦ Nov

Overview of Existing Health Improvement Plan (HIP) for Story County Community Health Improvement Plan Goals

Promote Healthy Behaviors

·Promote healthy lifestyles in the community to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity.·Decrease negative consequences and outcomes of high risk alcohol use.·Increase access to adequate behavioral health care.

Prevent Injury

·Increase reporting of sexual assault and decrease sexual violence.

Strengthen the Public Health Infrastructure

·Increase access to behavioral health, oral health care and prenatal care services to low income residents by establishing one Community Health Center by 2013.

Prepare for, Respond to, and Recover from Public Health Emergencies

·Increase the number of available Special Needs Shelters to 3 in 2012 from a baseline of zero in 2010.

Components of RWJF County Health Rankings Model

A conceptual way to

categorize factors

influencing health

Story County Data

Robert Woods Johnson County Health Rankings

StoryCounty

2010Rank

(of 99)

2011Rank

(of 99)

2012Rank

(of 99)

2013 Rank

(of 99)

Overall Ranking 6 3 7 7

Health Outcomes 6 3 7 7

- Mortality 8 5 10 10

- Morbidity 8 8 10 11

Health Factors 2 2 2 2

- Health Behaviors 4 2 2 3

- Clinical Care 64 58 2 4

- Social & Economic Factors 1 1 4 4

- Physical Environment 56 33 73 72

http://www.countyhealthrankings.com

Rationale for Expanded Goals and Action Plans for Story County

GROUP DISCUSSION ON EXPANDED GOALS

Ron Smith

Taking Collective ActionMaking Progress Toward Goals

◦How can we work together most effectively to take systematic efforts to reach goals?

Consideration of Additional Goals◦What other goals could be pursued?

UPDATE ON WEBSITE AND PLANS

Greg Welk

Wrap Up and Next Steps?

Next MeetingsDates for Next Meetings (4th

Tuesday):◦May 28th (2013)◦August 27th (2013)◦November 26 (2013)

Location: TBD

Time: ◦3:00-4:30 pm

THANKS FOR YOUR COMMITTMENT!

Story County Quality of Life Alliance

Building on the collective power of community initiatives to improve the quality of life for the people of Story

County

Access to Health CareGoal: Increase access to

behavioral health, oral health care & prenatal care services to low income residents by establishing one Community Health Center by 2013. (SCQOL)

Strategies:1) Develop community Alliance to spearhead project

2) Submit grant to establish Federally Qualified Health Center in Story County recognizing this is a competitive process that may require several attempts 3) Creat joint effort between Primary Health Care, Inc & Alliance to establish a satelite access point in Story Co.

Negative Alcohol OutcomesGoal: Decrease negative

consequences and outcomes of high risk alcohol use (ISU Theilen Student Health Center)

Strategies:Collaborate with ISU Student Health on Strategy

Schedule & conduct series of eduational/informational sessions with Story Co youth

Prevention Poicy Board Alcohol Task Force (PPBD) working with public officials will be created to develop action plans

Implement PPBD action plan

Baseline: 38% of students report doing something they regret after alcohol. 14% of youth 12-18 consumed alcohol in last 30 days

Sexual Assault and ViolenceGoal: Increase reporting of

sexual assault and decrease sexual violence. (ISU Theilen Student Health Center)

Strategies:

Baseline data indicates that 4% of women and 2% of men have been forced to have sex after overconsuming alcohol.

Create a team to make an action plan

Increase awareness of the Sexual Assault Task Force

Behavioral Health CareGoal: Increase access to

adequate behavioral health care (Subcommittee of Criminal Justice Mental Health Task Force)

Strategies:Mental Health task force will explore creation of Mental Health Assessment Center

Baseline: 78% of residents do not believe behavioral health care is adequate in Story County

Healthy LifestylesGoal: Promote healthy lifestyles

in the community to reduce the prevalence of overweight and obesity (Healthy Story County Coalition)

Strategies: Establish a healthy lifestyle coalition to guide county health promotion programming

Develop service learning partnerships to enable ISU students to promote healthy lifestyles in the community

Increase programming opportunites in the community by securing funding for continued programming

Baseline: From 2005 to 2010, 6% more resident have a BMI over 25.