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Kendall County surveys community to determine 5-year health improvement plan · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Kendall County survey's community to determine five year health improvement plan.
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  Written by Eric Shelkoff. This article is being read by
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  an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. The Kendall
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  County Health Department is asking those who live or work
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  in the county to help determine what the department's health
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  priority should be. The department will share the results of
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  a recent community health improvement survey at its Community Health
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  Summit breakfast on January twenty ninth. Registration for the event
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  is full. Close to five hundred people took the survey,
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  said Kendall County Health Department Executive Director ray Anne van Gundy.
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  That was our goal. Van Gundy said, we wish we
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  could have exceeded that. The department has been gathering information
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  from everyone that it works with. In July, the department
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  met with local leaders and organizations as part of its
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  Community Partner Assessment event. At the event, a variety of
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  issues were addressed, including what actions could be taken to
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  address health inequities. About eighty people attended the event. Kendall
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  County Health Department staff has analyzed the information that was
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  gleaned from the community survey and the survey that was
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  conducted at the Community Partner Assessment event. The data will
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  be revealed at the upcoming breakfast. We've looked at all
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  the data, Van Gundhi said, We've pulled out the salient themes.
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  Those who attend the upcoming community breakfast will also help
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  the department to identify its top three health priorities to
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  guide its five year community health improvement plan. Every certified
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  health department has a three to five year community Health
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  Improvement Plan, which outlines how the health department and community
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  will address top health priorities. In Illinois, this plan is
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  called an I plan, which stands for Illinois Project for
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  Local Area Needs. The department's Community Health Improvement Plan twenty
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  twenty one twenty twenty six priorities include connecting the most
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  vulnerable to assets that reduce socioeconomic duress, supporting mental health,
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  and increasing community awareness to protect against vector borne diseases.
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  Ticks and mosquitoes can transmit vector borne diseases such as
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  lime disease and West Nile virus. This is probably the
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  best way a resident or someone who works in Kendall
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  County can make an actionable impact on their future health,
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  said Rachel Hendrickson, Assistant executive director of the Kendall County
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  Health Department, in talking about the upcoming community breakfast. At
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  the end of this event, we're going to have an
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  idea of what our top three health priorities are. People
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  attending this event are going to help us pick what
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  we're working on for the next five years. I say
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  that's a pretty meaningful impact to have on your community.