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CONCLUSIONS
The entire group of participants was called back together and each group made 2-minute reports on what they had collected.
Next Steps
Next Steps: Education/Media
- Assemble steering committee, advisory group
- Develop message(s)
- Develop marketing campaign
- Distribute to places where people pay attention
- Evaluation of impact
Next Steps: Cultural Bias
- A cultural/experimental awareness for policymakers (TX Alliance on Human Needs)
- Moving funds (extra $) to organizations that are doing this - CAN/HP 2010
- Having data analysis unbiased such as teen pregnancies - look at whole picture
- Health Partnership 2010 - expand past physical health
- Include MHMR
- Consumers, more education, in addition to AISD, Business
- Have organization similar to El Buen involved in subcommittee work that gives input
- Bring in CAN's work with social equity-economic development in low income areas
- Have leaders go through this process
- Watchdog (program) that raises issues within agencies/individuals in leadership
- What's done wrong/right
- A piece of CAN
Next Steps: Accessibility
Find out:
- How much of the state public policy are changeable?
- How much policy can we change in other regional governments (eg. Williamson, Hays, Caldwell, Bastrop)?
- Educate the community at large/the broad populace in a culturally sensitive way. (Engage the media to help). Ways to use some of your dollars for health care. Educate those who have insurance how to use it appropriately. Educate re: preventative health care.
- Come up with a model of coordinated care.
- Address mental health funding. Change system so it's easier to integrate the health systems.
- Lobby with the Legislature (eg CPPP). *What can providers do to help the CPPP?
- Must be a community and human services lobbying effort (eg engage chamber of commerce)
Next Steps: Public Policy
- Broaden concept to a regional approach
- Establishing an endowment (Beginning with tobacco fund)
- Education/strong voice around advocating for HHS budget money
- Establish a small core group
- Educating organizations to be effective advocates
- Collaboration yields needs for mechanisms to distribute dollars (Community needs assessment)
- Determine policies which are barriers to access
- How do we impact staff decision making?
- Shift in thinking: Money to 'consumer' rather than agency
- Look at prolongation of provider methods
Root causes: individuals and agency specific
- Insure customer/consumer input
- Re-educate community (remove fear factor)
- Determine how to get community to collaborate around advocacy efforts
Next Steps: Isolation/Community
Definition - Philosophy
- People get well because they connect (join) with a healthy group
- A healthy group is a community
- Healthy = mutual respect; empowerment; personal responsibility; service
Providers/Caretakers
- Need to take care of themselves in body, mind, spirit before they reach out to others
- Collaborate and form healthy groups with: medical, spiritual, mental health, fitness, faith communities, parents/families, schools
Next Steps:
- Practice what we preach (model)
- Examine agencies' programs to see if they meet these standards
- Encourage agencies to adopt this philosophy or approach
- Collaborate through building on this philosophical foundation
Next Steps: Family Support, Structure and Values
- Resources - existing programs, people with access to families, and policy and decision-makers, people that affect their lives daily
- Broaden involvement
- Grass roots efforts
- Support networks and outreach for those without family structures
- More accountability
- Increase access to resources
- Impacting health habits and lifestyle decisions and choices
- Make mental health resources available
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