Health Priority #2: Behavioral Health
Working harder to prevent, support, and treat mental health problems. | ||||
Action Plan | ||||
Goal: Improve mental health through prevention and by ensuring access to appropriate, quality mental health services. | ||||
Objective 1: By 2017, provide community awareness and education events targeted to reach at least 25% of the Williamson County population. | Objective 2: By 2017, increase the number of Williamson County prevention and outreach activities in five intervention strategies by 20%. | Objective 3: By 2017, increase the number of opportunities for screening and early detection of mental health conditions by 10 organizations or practices. | ||
Objective 4: By 2017, establish early intervention and treatment resources that are publically available. | Objective 5: By 2017, focus on integration and expansion of treatment options for intensive mental health care and care transitions. | Objective 6: By 2017, actively support integration of primary care and behavioral health care, as evidenced by increased use of standard referral protocols by 30% over baseline. | ||
Objective 7: By 2017, increase the collection and use of consistent mental health data by three data elements and 20% more users.
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First Year Progress
These indicators are used to track the county's first year progress in meeting the objectives for Behavioral Health as outlined in the 2014-2016 Williamson County Community Health Improvement Plan (CHIP).