LBPHD Visioning

The visioning process occurred both in the Service Array Prevention and Early Intervention System planning process and was revisited and expanded at the May 2006 meeting.

Important Characteristics of a Healthy Community

• A clean environment in which to live, work and play.
• People are connected, there is interaction and face to face conversation.
• Healthy communities are growth-oriented, they seek new businesses and people.
• Working to improve workforce and training opportunities.
• Viable quality school systems which provide diverse educational opportunities.
• Focus on safety.
• Have a competent, equitable justice system.
• Are made up of healthy families and individuals who have the skills to resolve conflicts.

Our Vision for Loup Basin Public Health in 2011

• The local public health system, including residents, will have a better understanding of the major concepts of public health.
• There will be more collaboration for the mutual benefit of all and no competition.
• Reduction of “turf” between agencies.
• Integrated services and resources which cut through system silos.
• There will have been successes which will be duplicated.
• People will be empowered to make change.
• Recognition of benefits of public health will be able to be demonstrated.
• People will make healthy choices.
• Cooperation outside of LBPHD jurisdiction; collaboration, networking statewide.

  Attributes and Behaviors of the Local Public Health System
In order to achieve the vision the  participants of the local public health system believe the following key behaviors are required of local public health system partners:

• Open, honest, trustworthy
• Resilient, hopeful
• Caring, Supportive, compassionate
• Motivated, energetic
• Non judgmental, open to change

Guiding Principles
(From Service Array Assessment for Prevention and Early Intervention Systems) Some of these  Guiding Principles  are directly related to the human services sector but all pertain to the overall view of a system.

• Prevention must be locally accessible, and sustained within each county.
• Prevention is an integrated system of services and resources.
• Prevention is an array of community wide resources and individual services.
• Prevention is broad based and assists families and individuals in identifying the causal factors of concerns which place people at risk.
• Prevention systems require a common assessment process for identifying strengths (resilience) and risk factors to assure that needs are appropriately met.
• Prevention systems are strengthened and sustained through cross training of staff and volunteers to assure similar skill sets and fidelity of services.
• Locally accessible prevention systems also serve as early intervention resources, particularly for youth demonstrating risk behaviors and families in early crisis.