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Kendall County sets community health priorities for next 5 years · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Kendall County sets community health priorities for next five years.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Eric Shelkopf, This article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. The Kendall
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  Speaker 1: County Health Department will focus on behavioral health, substance abuse,
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  Speaker 1: food security, and maternal and child health as its health
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  Speaker 1: priorities for the next five years. Health Department officials gathered
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  Speaker 1: information from the public, including sending out a community survey
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  Speaker 1: to those who work or live in Kendall County to
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  Speaker 1: help identify its top health priorities for its five year
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  Speaker 1: community health improvement plan. Every certified health department has a
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  Speaker 1: three to five year community health Improvement Plan, which outlines
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  Speaker 1: how the department and community will address top health priorities.
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  Speaker 1: In Illinois, this plan is called an I plan, which
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  Speaker 1: stands for Illinois Project for Local Areas and needs. The
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  Speaker 1: Kendall County Health Department recently shared the results of the
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  Speaker 1: community survey at its Community Health Summit breakfast. Close to
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  Speaker 1: five hundred people took the survey, said Executive Director ray
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  Speaker 1: An van Gundy. That was our goal, she said, We
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  Speaker 1: wish we could have exceeded that. The department met with
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  Speaker 1: local leaders and organizations in July as part of its
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  Speaker 1: Community Partner Assessment event, at which a variety of issues
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  Speaker 1: were discussed, including what actions could be taken to address
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  Speaker 1: health inequities. About eighty people attended the event. Health Department
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  Speaker 1: staff analyzed information that was gleaned from the community survey
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  Speaker 1: and the survey that was conducted at the Community Partner
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  Speaker 1: Assessment event. The Community Health Improvement Plan twenty twenty one
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  Speaker 1: to twenty twenty six. Priorities include connecting the most vulnerable
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  Speaker 1: to assets that reduce socioeconomic duress, supporting mental health, and
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  Speaker 1: increasing community awareness to protect against vector borne diseases. Haartman
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  Speaker 1: said ticks and mosquitoes can transmit vector borne diseases such
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  Speaker 1: as Lyme disease and West Nile virus