Goal:
Build Healthy & Resilient Communities
STRATEGIC STATEMENT: Maintain well-being of residents, focusing on the availability of accessible health services
for families, the aging population, and other populations in need.
Strategy: Emphasize prevention in the delivery of health and
human services and enhance access to clinical and
community prevention programs for vulnerable populations.
Action A: Enhance clinical and community prevention programs that
promote health and wellness. Support those efforts by providing
leadership and encouraging partnerships and seeking new funding
sources where available.
Action B: Coordinate services, particularly educational outreach, across
the spectrum of health and human services (both public and private) to
targeted populations.
Action C: Target outreach messages toward personal preparedness,
living well, preventing and managing chronic diseases, and adopting
healthy lifestyles.
Strategy: Foster partnerships and teamwork among
stakeholders and leverage resources to address the evolving
demand for health and human services.
Action A: Foster collaboration among service providers using new and
existing assessment data to address service needs for vulnerable
populations.
Action B: Enhance effective service provision across the community.
Action C: Continue to develop and promote ServicePoint,
www.FindHelpLakeCounty.org and other communication tools that
provide information & referral services to government and non-profit
partners.
Action D: Empower case managers to use ServicePoint and other
available referral tools to direct clients to most appropriate services.
Strategy: Encourage the preservation and development of
affordable housing near existing employment centers and
public transportation.
Action A: Create partnerships and resources to preserve and improve
the existing affordable housing stock in conjunction with the Lake
County Preservation Initiative.
Action B: Increase access to capital resources for affordable housing.
Action C: Promote and encourage financial resources and planning
principles that provide for diversified and affordable housing in
conjunction with local units of government.
Action D: Develop a structural framework for an Affordable Housing
Trust Fund in conjunction with the Affordable Housing Commission that
will be used to preserve and create affordable housing that meets
County economic development and land use priorities, and other
strategic goals, with implementation pending a funding mechanism.
About 400 volunteers, including 100 staff members from the Lake
County Health Department, helped get more than 800 children from
low-income families ready for school during this year's Kids 1st
Health Fair.
The annual event includes dental and physical exams as well as
immunizations and foot exams. The fair is organized by the Health
Department, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science
and United Way of Lake County.