Partnered with the Rockford Park District, the YMCA of Rock River Valley, and the Boys and Girls Club of Rockford, this initiative is designed to invest in the social and emotional well-being of our youth, with measurements in place to ensure the efficacy of our efforts.
This initiative fosters multi-sector collaboration in order to support kids and families by providing access to services within disinvested neighborhoods to improve health outcomes.
Creating a robust data infrastructure underpins all of our system-impacting-systems projects, which involves developing common sets of goals and objectives, aligning data across all partners and ensuring well-defined measurable objectives, and creating a dashboard to show change over time.
This partnership with the Medical Residency programs in our local health systems will gather data related to the Social Determinants of Health, with a focus on identifying the most significant community health concerns in our community and how to address them.
"Young people are dynamic and full of promise, with many different pathways to success." This is a quote directly from the homepage of an organization called HelloInsight. It encompasses the purpose of their program: helping youth development programs better...
Our triannual Health Community Study is well underway as of June 2023. The Health Council completed the Community Analysis portion in May, a summary of data collected through various sources and will be publicly available along with the survey results. In...
The Health Council presented RockfordReady, the health literacy and covid vaccination grant we serve as a part of, with the idea of involving our youth in the health literacy conversation by engaging them through TikTok. This came to fruition April 2023-May 2023 for...
The Youth Mental Health System of Care (YMHSOC) initiative is facilitating the pilot implementation of the Integrated Referral and Intake System (IRIS). IRIS is a web-based referral application that improves communication among partners by streamlining the referral...
The Rockford Summit on Racism was hosted by Eliminate Racism 815 on Thursday, May 4th, 2023 at the UW Health Sports Factory. Over 400 people attended this gathering of interested community organizations, businesses, and concerned individuals. Included in the several...
Click Here for the full 2023 CHR Report Introduction County Health Rankings & Roadmaps (CHR&R) brings actionable data, evidence, guidance and stories to support community-led efforts to grow community power and improve health equity. The University of...