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Our focus is on fighting the stigma around mental health and substance use disorders while providing opportunities for connection.
Our focus is on fighting the stigma around mental health and substance use disorders while providing opportunities for connection.
Pop Up Events
Pop Up Events
For right now we are limited to doing popup events through attending other community happenings. At our booth we are open to making connections with people who are in need and creating a safe and welcoming space to be heard and seen.
For specific information about the various events please click the link below.
Why it's important
Community Health Needs Assessment
Q: What is a community health need assessment?
A: According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) a community health needs assessment (CHNA) is "a comprehensive picture of a community's current health status, factors contributing to higher health risks or poorer health outcomes, and community resources available to improve health."
Q: What happens once the community health needs assessment is completed?
A: A community health improvement plan (CHIP) is developed; noted by the CDC, the CHIP "is a long-term, systematic effort to address public health problems based on the results of community health assessment activities and the community health improvement process. A plan is typically updated every three to five years."
For more information visit the CDC's website:
With all that being said, here is what Kayla has found with the community health needs assessments for Washburn and surrounding counties...
The state of Wisconsin has five priority areas in the Wisconsin State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) 2023-2027.
Social and community conditions, including:
a. Economic well-being
b. Supportive systems of care
c. Healthy housing
Physical, mental, and systemic safety
Person and community-centered health care
Social connectedness and belonging
Mental and emotional health and well-being
Washburn County has three main focus areas in their implementation plan:
Healthy Living
Mental Health
Substance Misuse
The Implementation Plan (Strategy 3) for Mental Health states:
Education and encouragement regarding healthy habits, positive mental health strategies, and stigma reduction.
The Implementation Plan (Strategy 2) for Substance Misuse states:
Promote and/or participate in drug and alcohol-free community events.
Sawyer County 3 of the top 4 needs include:
Drug Use
Alcohol Use
Mental Health
Sawyer County’s Health Need Assessment states: “23.7% feel they or someone in their household was treated unfairly in their community in the past year.”
Barron County's top 3 listed needs to address include:
Alcohol and Substance Use
Behavioral Health
Healthy Equity
For more information for these specific counties and their health needs assessments & plans visit the corresponding county link.
Center for Disease Control. (15 May 2024). Health Effects of Social Isolation and Loneliness. CDC.
Risk Factors:
Having a mental or physical challenge (i.e. chronic disease/condition, psychiatric or depression condition, and long-term disability)
Being marginalized or discriminated against
Living in rural areas
Limited transportation
Language barriers
Being a victim of violence or abuse
Facing divorce, unemployment, or the loss of a loved one
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