Vision:
"A Healthy Ashe County shows value for all by providing a social, physical, economic, emotional and spiritual environment that supports health, healing, and happiness through open, active, collaborative communication with all its people.”
Mission Statement:
Joining hands for health, healing, and happiness.
Guiding Goals:
- join public and private resources in solutions to health care problems.
- involve the community in community health-care planning.
- target education to meet needs.
- address total health, not just disease.
- identify and focus on preventive health care needs.
General Strategies:
- Provide a forum for citizens, community agencies, groups and business to identify the health issues of Ashe County and to seek solutions for these needs.
- Promote collaboration and involvement of consortium members and the community at large in health-related projects.
- Serve as a resource for community agencies, groups and businesses in the implementation of health related topics.
- Implement and facilitate programs designed by the ACHC committees that address Healthy Carolinians Objectives.
- Encourage an open membership to promote agency, business, community, and student organizational interest in identified health issues.
- Serve as a resource for community grant proposal development.
- Seek funding for the ACHC and its projects.
- Provide for ongoing evaluation of the ACHC goals and objectives.
Membership Criteria:
- Inclusive membership, anyone living or working in Ashe County, who agrees withthe ACHC Mission Statement and is committed to work toward that mission.
- Members may commit to serve as resource persons available to disseminate information and contribute their expertise when needed or help with one time projects.
- Members may commit to continue to receive information on activities which they will communicate to their neighbors.
- The "open door" membership policy includes the understanding that anyone who comes to a meeting may vote.
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