Health Care Crisis in Sonoma County, a campus-community initiative and dialogue at SSU

 

A Collaborative Prevention Project - Priorities
  1. Specific collaboration on reducing childhood obesity - schools, public jurisdictions and their public health departments, families, places of worship, media, providers
  2. How to significantly support development of a "five year wellness campaign" being discussed by the Sonoma Health Alliance and others
  3. How to develop collaboration and consider coordination on certain prevention projects among a number of local organizations, employers, provider groups, media - aimed at mutually reinforcing and synergizing prevention effects
  4. How to significantly support the Children's Health Initiative
  5. Study methods of significantly and inclusively expanding children's dental care access. Support creating Family Action Dental Surgery Center(s)
  6. Find "model" funding to provide Southwest Health Clinic with bi-lingual Interns for "promotora de salud" - utilizing skills of Community Public Health workers after their graduation from the SRJC community health worker certificate program
  7. Develop other efforts to help Southwest erase long waits for an appointment and to increase outreach
  8. Explore efforts to reinstate recently cut outpatient mental health benefits in the County, including travel access
  9. Explore priority health travel access needs and remedies
  10. Please read the prevention section from "What We Can Do Locally - Ideas From the SSU Initiative Conferences", page 1 begins Section I. Items A through I - A number of methods listed and most briefly described.
  11. Environmental impact/toxins perspective needed - Collaborate with existing organizations to acknowledge and plan
  12. New second dinner meeting participants (who went to the Latino health event the same night, Oct. 6th) may have important Latino health conference health care recommendations to share
  13. Support work on 'healthy aging' - Study of changing demographics, how to stimulate and support significant increases in elder health - to prepare for senior economic needs and the doubling of percentage over next 10-20 years
  14. How to significantly support "amazing collaboration" going on in the schools
  15. Explore how to get at "a lot of specialized, deep knowledge that isn't shared". Consider stakeholder communication improvement, the Press Democrat, KRCB evening news; widen distribution in everyday ways. What would a better, wider local health and health care stakeholder communication system look like?