Goals and Strategies

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Strategies

• Strategy 1:Continue to promote and expand the network of providers to meet regularly and provide better coordination of services and leveraging of resources.
• Strategy 2: Increase access to recovery and crisis services and increase capacity of service providers to provide for those who lack resources.
• Strategy 3: Advocate for expanded, high quality transitional care management services to help residents with behavioral health illnesses successfully re-enter the community.
• Strategy 4: Integrate behavioral health screening with primary care assessments and services.
• Strategy 5: Enhance accessibility to behavioral health services by developing community-based and school-based behavioral health/counseling centers that operate on a sliding fee scale.
• Strategy 6: Identify an organization with a steward who will create and maintain an online resource directory specific to behavioral health services.  
• Strategy 7: Increase employer and employee awareness and training regarding health insurance coverage to facilitate a broader understanding of the benefits of behavioral health services and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) resources.
• Strategy 8: Increase suicide prevention efforts to include safety and resilience training.

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Strategies

• Strategy 1: Expand community access, knowledge, and availability to preventative services including physical activity, nutrition, and tele-health to integrate behavioral health care with primary health care.  
• Strategy 2: Increase funding for and improve knowledge of how to access and enroll in affordable health insurance and connection with primary care providers.
• Strategy 3: Network with healthcare providers and patients with programming for successful implementation of current clinical and nutritional guidelines to prevent and manage chronic illness; including but not limited to mental illness, cancer, diabetes, weight management, heart disease, asthma and other significant community illnesses and diseases. 
• Strategy 4: Provide consumer preventive education programs free (participatory education) including tele-medicine programs at school-based health centers.
• Strategy 5: Create systemic ways to provide the community with success stories in behavioral health and primary care.

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Strategies

• Strategy 1: Provide health and wellness educational programming specific to adolescents to promote healthy behaviors.
• Strategy 2: Implement 30 minutes a day of physical exercise that fosters leadership, sportsmanship, and social skills for students of all abilities in their learning environment.
• Strategy 3: Encourage district and school administrators to provide health enrichment and wellness programs to all staff.
• Strategy 4: Increase healthy snack options at public and private school events.
• Strategy 5: Increase the proportion of public schools with at least 1 full-time or part-time counselor, social worker or psychologist to provide mental health services to students.

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Strategies

• Strategy 1: Consistently explore policy and funding mechanisms to eliminate food apartheid areas. 
• Strategy 2: Create farmer and grower support programs to expand all types of gardens, rural and urban farms, food systems, and associated educational programs.
• Strategy 3: Provide culturally appropriate educational programming and nutritional counseling specific to healthy cooking and eating habits.
• Strategy 4: Advocate and create incentives with local grocery and corner/convenience stores regarding product placement of healthy food options.
• Strategy 5: Encourage local institutions to examine their procurement policies to create a current and long-range plan for buying and using local Georgia-grown produce.